Aperol Spritz: C or D

Oops, I meant to link this instead, which is the recipe I use. I also just realized that it's Punt e Mes and not ordinary sweet vermouth, but I'm sure it'd be good with whatever.

Anyway, I like spritzes a lot, but agree that more bitter amari make them more interesting.

tory irn-bru

still great but

Campari is also Tory Tizer do not @ me.

Aperol Spritz is fine when you're on holiday and it's a blazing hot early evening but I can't imagine either ordering or making one in this country. Subbing out the Campari for Aperol in a negroni on a hot day is beyond classic.

Paper Plane >>>> any other drink on this thread.

Subbing it in for simple syrup in an Old Fashioned is also classic if you whack some orange bitters in there as well.

Paper Plane is the first thing I made when I found Nonino and looked up cocktails that used it. Top drink.

https://pagesix.com/2019/08/05/even-mick-jagger-enjoys-an-aperol-spritz/

mick otm

Coincidentally saw this thread last night as we were making aperol spritzes, first of the year. With the addition of some homemade ginger syrup.

The NYT published a hot take last year titled "The Aperol Spritz Is Not a Good Drink":
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/09/dining/drinks/aperol-spritz.html

I'll drink one if offered but that fishbowl-sized goblet has always bugged me. Serve it in a regular tumbler like a Negroni.

Highball glass, IMO

oh i remember when that nyt article came out and it was controversial. I agree with it though. aperol spritzes can be good but they got trashed down like mimosas.

As referenced in The Definitive Basic Bitch Handbook:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D7RXtw8WkAcT2D8?format=jpg&name=900x900

articles like that aren't wrong but they crack me up. who the fuck is opening a $30 bottle of pet nat to make a spritz?

yeah i don't know why they went with pet nat. They should've just stuck with make sure the sparkling wine bottle says nature or brut.

ah, she wrote a book about apertifs.

Tastes like Irn Bru, not a patch on Campari.

I just ordered a bottle of campari because of this thread, to mix things up.

Campari and aperol are so much cheaper in chile than the US. ~$10-12 a bottle.

so the Take 3 wasn't bad! I'm glad I drank it now -- it doesn't strike me as a late evening drink.

the new york times is not a good newspaper

classic when you're in Italy and they're c. €5

dud when you're in Dublin and they're €10+

in Venice you should drink Spriss, Wine Aperol/campari and soda. Should cost €0.50 at most.
― Ed (dali) wrote this on thread RFI: Italy on board I Love Everything on Jun 12, 2003

RIP

the best thing i drank in venice was probably sparkling wine on tap, €2 a glass. served with big basket of cheap potato chips.

similarly, the best thing I ate in Italy was a small bowl of assorted olives, probably €3

The best thing I ate in Italy was a small piece of bread, slightly toasted. They served it for free.

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"tory irn-bru"

mr zebra made me feel better about not having a clue what the devil this concoction is!

Good morning!

Did the Aperol Spritz help kill the crap-cider-and-ice market? That shit was everywhere a decade ago.