drinking a Little Italy, thankful for this thread
― sleeve, Monday, 30 March 2020 02:23 (four years ago) link
Made a Campari Americano yesterday, and an Old Fashioned today
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 30 March 2020 02:38 (four years ago) link
Made my wife a Martinez tonight (I've been cycling through recipes).
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 30 March 2020 03:14 (four years ago) link
The great Chicago tiki bar Lost Lake is doing a twice-weekly newsletter for donors to its (COVID-related) GoFundMe, and each installment has a couple of cocktail recipes. Tonight I made the bar's Something from Nothing, a delightful mix of bourbon, aged rum, lemon juice, coffee *and* coffee syrup, cinnamon syrup, and coconut cream.
― jaymc, Monday, 30 March 2020 03:17 (four years ago) link
re Italicus, I just mix it with Prosecco and squeeze half a lemon into it. 3:1 Prosecco, not 1:1 as the recipe on the bottle suggests.
― Josefa, Monday, 30 March 2020 05:05 (four years ago) link
Great warm weather drink:
Take 32 oz Cynar3⁄4 oz Elderflower liqueur, St. Germain3⁄4 oz Lemon juice2 oz Seltzer water1 wdg Orange (as garnish)InstructionsShake all but seltzer and orange wedge, strain over fresh ice into a highball, top with seltzer, garnish with orange wedge.
It ends up tasting like the coldest, most refreshing Coca Cola on the hottest day of the year (and I don't really like Coke).
― Fetch the Bolt Thrower (PBKR), Friday, 1 May 2020 13:18 (three years ago) link
would tonic water work as a seltzer substitute?
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 1 May 2020 13:27 (three years ago) link
ooh I love Cynar-based drinks, I'd probably cut the lemon to 1/2 like I usually do
― epicenter of the fieri universe (sleeve), Friday, 1 May 2020 14:15 (three years ago) link
Just got some Cynar last week. No elderflower liqueur though, which is a shame as that sounds good.
― brain (krakow), Friday, 1 May 2020 14:21 (three years ago) link
I often put a drop or two of St. Germain in my martinis.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 1 May 2020 14:29 (three years ago) link
Gonna try this now! It's Friday, last day of the semestser, 72 degrees, etc.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 1 May 2020 15:48 (three years ago) link
How was it Alfred? Tonic is not a direct sub for seltzer (club soda better sub), but in this drink might not matter much.
What I like so much about this cocktail is that it doesn't really taste like any of its constituent parts; they combine into a distinctive blend.
― Fetch the Bolt Thrower (PBKR), Saturday, 2 May 2020 14:37 (three years ago) link
yo PBKR I made a Paper Plane (two actually) last night, eternal thanks again!
― epicenter of the fieri universe (sleeve), Saturday, 2 May 2020 14:58 (three years ago) link
I got a sack of lemons the other day. Going to juice a bunch of them for paper planes and shaddocks (genever, aperol, elderflower, lemon) later today.
― herds of unmasked cletuses (WmC), Saturday, 2 May 2020 15:23 (three years ago) link
― Fetch the Bolt Thrower (PBKR),
Fine! I used club soda. I wouldn't mix one late afternoon before dinner, but as a light lunch cocktail it was tasty.
From the taste it looks like I can substitute Fernet-Branca.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 2 May 2020 15:25 (three years ago) link
Made an equal parts Old Pal with Irish whiskey (which probably means it's called something else), definitely one I'll have again: 1oz dry vermouth, 1oz Campari, 1oz whiskey; stir.
― coptic feels (seandalai), Friday, 8 May 2020 23:29 (three years ago) link
Another drink I really love is the Bijou, which is a Negroni variant: 1/1/1 Gin, sweet vermouth, and green chartreuse, with orange bitters, lemon peel and maraschino cherry (if you got them).
― Pissed Jeans Genie C. Riley (PBKR), Saturday, 9 May 2020 01:51 (three years ago) link
i love bijous but for any of the curious i'd recommend trying the dead rabbit modified bijou proportions:
1.5 oz. gin1.5 oz. vermouth.5 oz. chartreuse2 dashes orange bitters2 dashes angostura bitters2 dashes absintheorange peel
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 9 May 2020 02:06 (three years ago) link
It's been a while since I made a Bijou, but that modification makes sense to me. I love Green Chartreuse, but more than a little can be cloying, especially mixed with another sweet ingredient. (Also reminds me of Dead Rabbit's recipe for the Tipperary, which is Irish whiskey, sweet vermouth, and Green Chartreuse.)
― jaymc, Saturday, 9 May 2020 02:31 (three years ago) link
Today I made an oleo saccharum for the first time, so I could make a Quoit Punch. (I have a bottle of Madeira in the fridge that I don't use enough, and I recently acquired Smith & Cross rum for the first time in a while.)
I started with David Wondrich's recipe, which makes about 24 servings, and scaled it down to 2. That meant 2 oz each of rum, cognac, and Madeira, and 1 1/3 oz each of sugar (to mix with lemon peels) and lemon juice. I think it turned out pretty well, though it was a little sweet, so maybe I'll use less sugar next time. Or else just dilute it more to start (I didn't shake it, just added ice as though my glass were a punch bowl and stirred a bit).
― jaymc, Saturday, 9 May 2020 02:40 (three years ago) link
yeah that modified bijou is a more structured, thought-out drink. i think there's a few equal-parts cocktails that could benefit from not being equal parts but have stayed that way for ease of transmission.
re: green chartreuse, my wife spent a college year in grenoble, france not far from where they make chartreuse. when we went there together 5 years later we met up with one of her friends who met a local guy while in the program and wound up going back and marrying him. we went out with them one night and dude ordered a neat green chartreuse just to sip on. i chalked it up to being a local thing.
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 9 May 2020 02:56 (three years ago) link
A bar I used to live near (now defunct) had a neon Chartreuse sign in the window, which I always liked.
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― jaymc, Saturday, 9 May 2020 04:59 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/ZbrpbWX.jpg
― jaymc, Saturday, 9 May 2020 05:01 (three years ago) link
We're very proud of our jeroboam of green chartreuse in my work. Eventually a staff member will win the lottery and buy it.
Here it is standing guard over its 70cl and 5cl wee buddies...
https://i.imgur.com/q34il4P.jpg
― brain (krakow), Saturday, 9 May 2020 10:10 (three years ago) link
I will definitely try that modified Bijou tonight.
Have you ever had a Sixth Borough?
https://kindredcocktails.com/cocktail/the-sixth-borough
2 oz Rye1 oz Amaro Nonino1⁄2 oz Green Chartreuse1 ds Orange bitters, Regans' orange bitters
Pretty good drink.
― Pissed Jeans Genie C. Riley (PBKR), Saturday, 9 May 2020 13:04 (three years ago) link
I would drink all of these chartreuse variations
― sleeve, Saturday, 9 May 2020 13:37 (three years ago) link
I don't own chartreuse, but I guess I should.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 9 May 2020 14:00 (three years ago) link
I wish my local stores carried 5cl bottles so I could try it before I drop $50.
― herds of unmasked cletuses (WmC), Saturday, 9 May 2020 14:07 (three years ago) link
Yeah, the cost has made me pause. I know it's not a liqueur you just guzzle, though. I've had a bottle of St. Germain almost five years.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 9 May 2020 14:10 (three years ago) link
the big bottles are $65 here in Oregon, I've had a few of the half-size ones but yeah it is an investment
― sleeve, Saturday, 9 May 2020 14:11 (three years ago) link
i'd like to try that 6th borough, but my bottle of nonino is gone and i'm not sure i can replace it easily in lockdown.
you guys should all buy green chartreuse though. you won't regret it.
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 9 May 2020 14:13 (three years ago) link
There's a daiquiri I like (it's from a bar here in Chicago) with 2 oz rhum agricole blanc, 1 oz lime juice, 0.75 oz simple syrup, and 0.25 oz Green Chartreuse.
― jaymc, Saturday, 9 May 2020 17:05 (three years ago) link
that sounds great, may try later
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 9 May 2020 18:04 (three years ago) link
cad and jaymc, you were right upthread: that modified Bijou is better.
― Pissed Jeans Genie C. Riley (PBKR), Saturday, 9 May 2020 21:21 (three years ago) link
glad it worked for you!
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 10 May 2020 03:42 (three years ago) link
I found a case of Irn Bru that my brother sent me as a birthday present years ago. It's gone flat so I plan to boil it down into a syrup. I was hoping one of the many British people on this board might be able to suggest a better use for this than Google, which hasn't turned up anything more exciting than an irn bru flavored aperol spritz.
― Deflatormouse, Saturday, 16 May 2020 02:09 (three years ago) link
i admire the resourcefulness but fear that you've painted yourself into an artificial orange corner
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 16 May 2020 02:13 (three years ago) link
Hot tip: they sell chartreuse bottles in half sizes, 375ml.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 16 May 2020 04:19 (three years ago) link
Not where I live, they don't.
― herds of unmasked cletuses (WmC), Saturday, 16 May 2020 11:14 (three years ago) link
Whack it in with some gin, lemon and bitters and use it like a liqueur.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 16 May 2020 11:18 (three years ago) link
Take it to the gay thread, sailor.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 16 May 2020 12:07 (three years ago) link
Making a liqueur out of IRN BRU cannae be the gayest thing on i love cocktails? To a British person it's about equivalent to making a liqueur out of Mountain Dew.
― Deflatormouse, Monday, 18 May 2020 03:01 (three years ago) link
I did get a 375ml bottle of chartreuse, as well as Luxardo Sour Cherry Gin, so I made a modified Last Word:
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I'm calling it a Flag Post.
― (show hidden tics) (WmC), Monday, 5 October 2020 23:03 (three years ago) link
hahah
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 6 October 2020 00:07 (three years ago) link
Ran across a simple enough recipe for something called an Italian Gentleman and tried it Friday at home, and again last night at the bar, and it is a treat.
1.5 oz. bourbon1.5 oz. Campari.75 oz. lemon juice.25 oz. simple syrup1 dash orange bitters
Shake, strain, up if you want to go fancy, but I had mine on one large cube and it works very well that way. The combination somehow brings the flavor of vanilla to the front, I assume from the bourbon. This was true both times with 2 different bourbons, so I don't think it was a trick of the light.
― Motoroller Scampotron (WmC), Sunday, 3 January 2021 16:48 (three years ago) link
ooh I can make that, will try
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Sunday, 3 January 2021 16:50 (three years ago) link
That looks like a great one. Orange and bourbon is a good, underrated mix. I used to have a bottle of wild turkey 101 that I infused with orange peel and vanilla bean.
Made a couple of drinks lately that mixed bourbon and apple brandy, one of which also mixed in cinnamon simple syrup (which I fudged by just adding a dash of cinnamon). Not bad! Bourbon I often find a tough spirit to mix with, as is tequila, imo. Perhaps not coincidentally that those are the two spirits best straight (to my taste). So when I find one that works with either (beyond the obvious) I get pretty excited.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 3 January 2021 17:13 (three years ago) link
Drink is good! I might make it with half as much Campari, though.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 4 January 2021 00:49 (three years ago) link
Next time.
i did 2:1 bourbon to campari on the italian gentleman tonight. nice little bracer before dinner.
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 5 January 2021 01:45 (three years ago) link