Cocktails

Interesting Goslings only got a trademark after 100 years.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/will-the-real-dark-n-stormy-please-stand-up
https://freakonomics.com/2010/12/23/the-creative-cocktail-a-guest-post/

Bundy ftw
https://www.bundabergrum.com.au/explore/the-bundaberg-rum-dark-and-stormy

You'll be hearing from my lawyers.

Kahlua was £12 in Waitrose so it's been White Russians in the sun for me.

Do like. I made 'homemade Kahlua' when I was in school using food essence (maybe coffee and chicory essence? $6AUD for a litre of Kahlua was winning!). I mean before it was banned when all those kiddies started ending up in hospital because they couldn't handle it.

Nowadays my Kahlua is either in espresso martinis which are awesome - caffeine and booze! or it's just on the rocks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Mary_(cocktail)

Mate was making them so I got on board in a cheating way with one of those big premix bottles. Not bad. Slightly healthier way to get rid of some excess vodka :)

Howdy all - not much of a cocktail drinker but have accepted the challenge to get a mate to make three drinks from what he has in his cupboard on a zoom call later this evening - anyone see any good options I could suggest? Here’s a list of what he has -
Vermouth
Whiskey
Gin
Brand white rum
Malibu
Creme de cacao
Amarula
Sloe gin
Sherry
Vodka
Limoncello
Apple brandy
Benedictine
Cherry brandy
Angustine bitters
Pernod
Corintreau
Grenadine

Cheers in advance!!

An apple brandy sidecar would be interesting. Manhattan ingredients there too, though the vermouth is probably off if it's been opened. Then some disgusting rum and grenadine syrupy monstrosity?

Big Tom is a good base for Bloody Mary, its already a little spicy.
I tend to use that, whatever vodka my mates leave after a barbecue and a little Cox's Bloody Mary spicer
Get it nice and spicy.

Pour Vermouth and Gins down the sink, pour everything else into a large glass and drink.

My offie also has a Bloody Mary mixer from "The Pickle House". I'll use up the Big Tom I have and then try it.

I'd do a Chocolate Martini with the vodka / cacao - because they look cool and girls like chocolate and I've made them before. #player4lyf

Cointreau (check your spelling to make sure it is what I think it is), Limoncello and Prosecco.

No Blue Curacao? If you had that and combined Vodka, Lemonade, grenadine you'd have a Fruit Tingle. I've never been able to recreate the ones we used to get in Melbourne that actually tasted like Fruit Tingle sweets though.

Malibu + Grenadine + pineapple juice for a Malibu Sunrise or Sunset or whichever fucking drink those cretins that drink Malibu call it.

Does it have to look cool or taste good? My cocktail party trick is to layer shit using the back of a spoon into disgusting combinations of brightly coloured shots of doom. The best is pouring any kind of cream like baileys onto other shit so it congeals like those "brain" shots.

Got lemon juice? eggs? Make sours

Benedictine and hot water (known as a Bene and 'ot) is a traditional drink. Equal measures of benedictine and hot water.

Also Benedictine and Brandy, equal measures of each.

his spelling, but yeah - it is what you think it is...

Awesome cheers folks! loads of options!

Dry or sweet vermouth?
If dry, all the martinis - gin or vodka, or add a flavour from sloe gin or limoncello etc
You could combine a fair few of those and only be moderately revolting.

yes and yes... any particular recipe - I'll see how I get on googling! cheers again!

I like whisky sours but I'd probabyl do gin, etc sour to get rid of spirits I don't like :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiskey_sour

Actually, since we're doing this...

I have full bottles of white rum, strawberry liquer and lime gin that I will never drink unless they can be cocktailified... any suggestions?

Scratch the white rum, the missus can do mojitos with it.

So, the lime gin, what about a fruit cup, like this thing:
https://makemeacocktail.com/cocktail/7241/sapphire-summer-cup/

How important is vermouth in this? I hate that shit but I have a bottle of lime gin to use up.

he's not sure... neither am I...

how would you do this then?