in the 2k10 i am learning to make cocktails. this is my mixology thread

Or rather the combination of Campari & sweet vermouth

cosmopolitans are classic

One of my favorite summer cocktails is similar:

Take 3 by Zachary Gelnaw-Rubin
2 oz Cynar
.75 oz St-Germain
.75 oz lemon juice
seltzer to top

Add the Cynar, St-Germain and lemon juice to a shaker with ice. Shake to chill, then strain into an ice-filled Collins glass. Top with club soda and garnish with an orange wedge.

It tastes like the best iced coca-cola you have ever had on a hot summer day.

Love a sbagliato.

My favorite spritz is a half-half combo of Aperol and Campari, cuts the sweetness but not as bitter as a Campari spritz. (I like all these spritzes tho.)

Tonight we made French 75s with cognac, a house favorite.

A couple of successes from Punch this week: banana peel "oleosaccharum" subbed in for most of the simple syrup in a Daiquiri. Probably going to have another one later today with all the simple subbed out. The banana peel syrup is banana-y but also tannic, really delicious.

Second was an Alpine Negroni, a riff I prefer over the original. Equal parts standard Negroni ingredients plus Amaro Braulio, plus 1/4 oz. of "champagne acid," a solution of tartaric and lactic acids in water. It really makes the vermouth pop, so use a good one.

A friend of mine was looking for a bottle of something I've never encountered: China-China. Is this an amaro? Is it used in any drinks? I'm not even sure where it's made, or why it's called that.

Technically, it's an amer (French amaro):
https://www.giffard.com/en/bigallet-liqueurs/546-bigallet-china-china.html

I think it's a common substitute for Amer Picon, which isn't available in the U.S.

Here are some recipes that use it:
https://kindredcocktails.com/cocktail?scope=0&index_type=2&output_type=1&ingredient%5B0%5D=Bigallet%20China-China

I had a Soleggiato last week, which is a spritz with Amaro Angeleno, dry vermouth, Manzanilla sherry, and soda. I love anything with dry sherry in it, but this was one refreshing cocktail. Need to find a bottle of Amaro Angeleno.

I am very excited that I have gathered all the ingredients to duplicate local foodie bar cocktail "THE BRAIN", the bartender kindly gave me the recipe

1 oz dry gin
1 oz Angostura Amaro
1/4 oz cocchi di torino
1/4 oz Cruzan Black Strap rum

stir w/ice in glass

add orange AND lemon peel, float with clear overproof rum (Wray & Sons)

only one mention of the boulevardier itt. for shame

― cozen, Monday, 18 November 2013 03:55 (ten years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Bumping those numbers rn. Currently trying everything Negroni adjacent after having a cocktail awakening. Never been a straight spirits guy, never been down for all the fruity nonsense most of those around me drink (just give me beer!). But the Negroni, Manhattan, Old Fashioned, Brooklyn and now the Boulevardier have been an awakening. Please recommend more in this category to a mixology novice

little italian:

2 oz rye
1/2 oz red vermouth
1/2 oz cynar (cynar 70 is best but regular will do)

stire w/ice, orange peel garnish

not campari-related, but delicious

sazerac? vieux carre? martinez?

there’s such a deep well of drinks in the space you’re in, possibly only limited by the amount of amari you can acquire.

Made a martinez, had a little italian at a pizzeria around the corner but, the other two haven't heard of, cheers!

vieux carre is def a go-to of mine

One great sub is to mister-potatohead Laird's Straight Apple Brandy (BIB, 100 proof) into any whiskey recipe.
Also, every new aged rum I get I try out in a rum Old Fashioned.

I'm looking at two clairins (Haitian rhum agricole) on the shelf and wondering why I haven't subbed those into Negroni versions before. A job for tomorrow or Saturday.

oh man I never even considered a rum old fashioned

btw WmC, if you really need that Cruzan Black Strap there is tons here and it's like $15 a bottle, you know how to reach me ;)

One of my liquor stops* in Memphis has it and I'm going up early next month so I'll grab a bottle then. Thank you though!

*Buster's is legit one of the top 20 liquor stores in the country imo, and they just opened a 2nd, even bigger, location today.

Love a good stirred rum drink.

A few I like are the 100 Year Old Cigar, Ash Tray Heart, Black Prince, Bye Bye Batista, Desk Job, Drunken Dodo, and Rum River Mystic.

There's also the Kingston Negroni (subbing Smith & Cross for gin), which seems to have become somewhat popular, though it's not one of my favorites.

Oops, messed up one of those links; try Black Prince.

Rebennack variant
1.5 oz Rye
.75 oz Averna
.25 oz Cointreau
2 dashes Peychaud's Bitters
orange peel for garnish

Oooh -- Averna and Cointreau!

It's got a really nice orange/chocolate/whiskey thing going on.

ooh gonna get some Averna and try that one

xps Love the 100 Year Old Cigar. Gonna have to try an Ash Tray Heart.