Cocktails

you need to look into the old fashioned

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/old_fashioned

close to this but just muddled cherries and ice added to bourbon... Nice

muddled cherries ?!?!?!?!

Pisco Sour, you'll have to google the recipe,

Jack Daniels and Coke with Vodka shot chasers, cocktail of sorts but you drink them seperately ;o))

muddled cherries ?!?!?!?!

yup add a couple of cherries to ice and mix for a long time... that's muddling apparently... I was drunk and the cocktail guy was talking a lot. I had time for a tactical beer while he made it

Bloody Mary the Emilié way.

V8 (8the vegetable fun) (2 parts)
Bison Grass Vodka (1 part)
Mixed Tropical Pepper Corns (generally black, white, green and pink - Look for Schwartz)
1 large hot Chili (Scotch Bonnet for preference)
Wholegrain Mustard
Tobasco sauce
Crushed ice
Celery

Cut the chilli as finely as possible and add (with or without seeds, your call) to the fridge chilled V8, add half a tea spoon of wholegrain mustard and 2 teaspoons of tobasco, shake thoroughly.
Add the freezer stored bison grass vodka and a generous helping of the now ground mixed pepper to the mix. shake well.
Chop the celery into small pieces (no more than 1cm long) and add to the liquid
Take a thermos flask and 1/2 fill with crushed ice filling the rest with the now completed cocktail.
Place Thermos flask in messenger bag for later use.
Repeat as often as necessary from srping though to early autumn.

It's a classic but has been serving me well for 4 years straight.

^ that sounds real nice

yup add a couple of cherries to ice and mix for a long time... that's muddling apparently... I was drunk and the cocktail guy was talking a lot. I had time for a tactical beer while he made it

what i meant was WTF MUDDLED CHERRIES. why would someone do that.

Ingredients for a [B]Gin Lime Rickey[/B]

• Gin
  
• Tonic Water
  
• Rose's® Lime Juice
  
• Lemons
  
  

**Quantities for one drink: **

• 1 1/2 oz Gin
  
• Fill With Tonic Water
  
• 1 Splash Rose's® Lime Juice
  
• 2 Lemons Wedges
  
  

**Blending Instructions: **

• Mix the gin and tonic in a highball glass over ice and pour the lime juice
  
• Drop two lemon wedges into the glass and serve
  
  

(Add pear to it and it's awesome too)

Pimm's and Ginger Ale with cucumber and pineapple is schweet ;)

Clefty's Chocolate Orange Delight

2 teaspoons cocoa, mixed with a little milk to form a paste
2 shots baileys
2 shots cointreau
few drops good vanilla essence
Top up with milk
ice

Shake the fuck out of it all, serve
cointreau can be subbed for amarretto for an almondy kick

yummy.

Im rehashing this older thread coz its cocktail weekend coming up... anyone want to add any new or personal favs- nows your chance.

Let's be clear. There are no muddled cherries in an Old Fashioned. They MIGHT be served as a garnish but the only muddling that's going to happen is to a sugar cube in the bottom of the glass with 2 dashes of angostura bitters. Perhaps a dash of soda if you have some on tap. Grind it all into a thick paste with your spoon, then add your ice, continue to stir the heck out of it for a minute or so and then add the whiskey. Stir a little longer. If you want to garnish with fruit, now's your chance - a pair of maraschino cherries or a thick wedge of orange are common ones but I find they overpower it and make it a bit too sweet.

Try it with a half measure of absinthe added at the same time as the bitters.
Probably the manliest drink available. Even more so than the Vespa....:

Six parts Tanqueray Ten
2 parts Stoli
1 part Dry Vermouth and a dash of Angostura (because who has Kina Lillet... Seriously...)
Stir with lots of ice.
Serve very cold and with a large slice of lemon peel

A cocktail I used to make when I worked at Koba in Brighton went a little like this:

2 parts good brandy,
2 parts Chambord,
Shake
Fill a glass to the top with ice and fresh raspberries and grated chocolate, give it a bit of a stir.
Pour in the mixture and top up with soda
Grate a little more dark chocolate over it. Serve with a long bar fork or cocktail stick so you can pick out the raspberries..

There's nothing to it in terms of ingredients so I never bothered with a name but it's a nice intimate drink and good for hot summer evenings.

is absinthe that 75% proof "green fairy" lethal stuff? i think I had it once before

thanks CYOA,I'll add them to my list

Negroni.

Equal measure of Gin, Sweet Vermouth and Campari.

Old school 70's vibe, bitter and refreshing, fucks you up. Ticks all my boxes and will be getting a couple down me tomorrow.

It is indeed... It's odd stuff, you can seep sugar cubes in the stuff and set fire to them, then blow them out once it's caramelised slightly and then pop 'em in your mouth as crunchy shots. Purists frown upon those that do but I reckon it's the best way to have the stuff - certainly the most fun. Otherwise you can have some cold water, a sugar cube and a measure of it, stir it all together and drink it. Some people have it neat at room temperature which I think is revolting.
For me I think it's great as an ingredient for more intricate drinks like the earlier variation on the Old Fashioned.
We had a range of absinthe shooters which went down very well. Try things like layering it with different coloured liqueurs. A bit fiddly but great fun to do and satisfying to look at if done well!

Try layering it with Baileys, Amaretto, and maybe grenadine for colour - (layer in order of viscosity i.e. how "heavy" the liquid is)
I'd definitely give the raspberry drink a go though. If only because it means buying a bottle of chambord which A. comes in an amazingly intricate bottle and B. is one of the best ingredients in the world ever. Fact. It's very sweet but it just goes with anything!

Ed

you like preparing the presentation of the drink by sounds of it, Im similar, I like not only the taste but the aesthetics of a good cocktail.

thats great info and I'll def check out the raspberry drink, anything with chocolate in it has got to be a win.

Ill let you know the verdict after the weekend, thanks Ed

I love a Caipirinhaas a summer tipple! :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNjYzMm8kWQ

Epic dredge!
London cocktail week 7th - 16th October. Drinking/Trying cocktails awaits.

On the iPhone at this moment so will post up a couple of cocktail recipes when I get a moment..

Best cocktail menu I've seen for a while:

During a conversation at South's on Monday about my inability/unwillingness to go on the Guinness Ride,
http://www.lfgss.com/thread67761.html
since I don't drink Guinness, or in actuality even like the stuff.

All Praise to ItsBruce for thinking of an alternative that I can actually do.
London Cocktail Week is coming up, 7-16th October
http://www.diffordsguide.com/london-cocktail-week

It seems they have a bus which takes registered members from venue to venue, to delight in the tasting of various cocktails, registration is free and a wristband is worn. ItsBruce came up with the idea of a Cocktail Ride, along the same route, all registered and legal, but riding our bikes instead of taking the bus.

I for one am up for this and will be doing it, and ItsBruce has to come since it's his idea. Who else is in? List?

anyway, my favourite cocktail of the moment is a Polish Bullet, which I tried first at a Revolution somewhere, maybe Manchester, maybe London. Anyways a Polish Bullet is
2 parts Zubrowka Bison Grass Vodka http://www.zubrowka.com/
and 1 parts Krupnik Honey Vodka Liquer http://www.thedrinkshop.com/products/nlpdetail.php?prodid=1155
over ice in a long glass and then mixed with Pressed Apple Juice, it must be the cloudy stuff, not the amber liquid, which doesn't have a robust enough taste.

It is superb, love it to death, and it tingles my sweet tooth...

I have a few new cocktails on the menu for Saturday big man... Be prepared!

Haven't made this for a while, but all the talk of Zubrowka...

Melon. Any kind will do, but the ones with green flesh make for a better colour.
Ice. Not to much, but enough to chill the melon.
Zubrowka. Any Vodka will do, but the slight vanilla flavour of the grass makes this the best.
Mint. Not too much that it over-powers the melon and vodka.
Fresh cherries.

Blitz the melon, ice and mint. The mixture should be creamy, not watery.
Add the Vodka until it tastes right.
Serve in a tall glass with 2 cherries dangling over the rim by their stalks.

Sit in a deck chair in the sun and drink.

Or you could just take the Zubrowka out of the freezer and drink it a shot at a time.

I put basil (instead of mint) in my mojito last night. It was shit, don't pick ingredients in the dark.

Tonight is sage and onion Mai Tai...

To join the leagues of other booze related threads.
Feel free to post your cocktail recipes or experiences.

Last night I knocked up an espresso martini that was rather tasty.

Espresso Martini
1 part Smirnoff Espresso vodka
1 part Tia Maria
1 part Espresso
1 part Milk
Little vanilla syrup

All put in a Boston shaker, half filled with ice, shaken violently.
Strained into a martini glass.

Was tasty, would easily handle more booze though, incredibly easy to drink.

Going to try it with vanilla vodka tonight.

This works well enough with just espresso, vanilla vodka and a dash of sugar syrup. Tia Maria taints the flavour of the espreso imo

Negroni - cocktail of the Gods.

Campari, Gin, Red Vermouth. No prissy mixers.

Will keep an eye on this thread - Fri night is cocktail night chez ru so always interested in something new, though mostly default to Negronis and Martinis.

Chocolate orange bourbon flip

1 Egg Yolk
1 Bourbon (Woodford Reserve)
1/2 Mozart Dark Chocolate Liqueur
1/2 Grand Marnier
1/2 sugar syrup
2 half and half or whole milk
Dash of orange bitters

Egg in first, then alcohol, followed by the other ingredients. Shake with ice and double strain into a martini glass, serve with flamed orange twist.

2 Bourbon
3/4 agave syrup
dash Angostura bitters
2 dry cider
dash lemon juice
Slice of apple, peeled.

Muddle the apple, add everything else then shake with ice. Strain and serve. Can't decide what glass this works best in. Want to try it with Calvados in as well but I haven't got any.