What is your favorite alcoholic cocktail?
What is your favorite alcoholic cocktail?
Or what has been your go to lately? I'm usually a whiskey and ginger kinda guy but I'm trying to branch out a little these days. What're you drinking?
Currently sipping on a Paloma:
- 1.5 oz Tequila (blanco)
- .5oz lime juice
- 4 oz Grapefruit soda (Jarritos today)
- Pinch of salt
French 75 (use good champagne)
French 76 (use good champagne)
Old fashioned (use expensive cherries)
Side car (use orange brandy instead of orange liqueur)
Manhattan (don't skimp on bitters)
Cosmopolitan (throw the used lime into the shaker)
Whiskey sour (use egg white)
Gimlet (add a cedar leaf for more flavor)Fresh fruit is a must to make the best drinks.
If you’re ok with bitter flavors, I’m a big fan of the Negroni.
I prefer mine straight up so it doesn’t dilute too much.
The Dude was on to something, white russian all the way.
Rarely drink cocktails, but Long Island Ice Tea is probably my go-to.
I like tiki drinks.
Painkillers are incredible. I'll take 12.
measurements:
- 2 oz Dark Rum (preferably Pusser's Rum, as it's the traditional choice)
- 4 oz Pineapple Juice
- 1 oz Orange Juice
- 1 oz Cream of Coconut *Garnish: Grated Nutmeg and optionally a pineapple wedge or cherry
Instructions:
- Combine Ingredients: In a shaker, add the dark rum, pineapple juice, orange juice, and cream of coconut with ice.
- Shake Well: Shake vigorously until well chilled.
- Strain: Strain the mixture into a hurricane glass or large snifter filled with ice.
- Garnish: Generously grate fresh nutmeg on top of the drink and, if you like, add a pineapple wedge or cherry for decoration.
Mai Tai. All the joy of vacationing on a beach, without the beach.
I dunno about favorite, but my go-tos are an Old Fashioned in the fall and winter, and a Tom Collins in spring and summer.
Those become a Manhattan or an Aviation if I’m feeling fancy or just want to mix it up.
I'm sober now, but back when I drank I always loved a martini made with equal parts gin and sweet vermouth with a splash of grenadine and a maraschino cherry.
Dark, unspiced rum and any of the fruit juice monsters mixed 1:1 in a big gulp.
Keeps my heart on it's toes.
Replace the Grapefruit from your Paloma with some Japaleno brine and it's my current go to
I don't drink hard liquor any more, but even when I did, I didn't drink cocktails, but did get a tiny bit fancy on straight whiskey.
Rye, mid or top shelf. Chilled glass with a whiskey stone. Sometimes with a beer.
An Old Pal - which is a minor variation of a Boulevardier
- 1 ounce Rye
- 1 ounce Campari
- 1 ounce dry Vermouth
- Served straight up garnished with a twist of lemon
If I can find it, Time Release is fantastic and should be on everyone's must try list
- 1.5 ounces Dry Gin
- 1 ounce White Port
- 0.5 ounce Sloe Gin
- 0.25 ounce Yellow Chartreuse
- Stirred not shaken, served straight up, garnished with a cherry
Great sipper that changes in flavor significantly as it warms up. Most places don't have White Port on hand and few have Sloe Gin on hand so can be difficult to get at a bar.
Caipiroska, a Caipirinha variant with Vodka instead of cachaça
Negronis, I love campari and gin
I also love coming up with cocktails so I'd love to share one of my favorites, the Fire Eater
- Dried whole chili peppers, broken in half
- Fireball
- Maraschino cherries and syrup
- Fill with coke and serve over ice, alternatively use cherry coke
The drink gets spicier as you drink. For the full fire eater experience eat the chilis at the end.
My favourite drink is 0.000% alcohol water.
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I'm a big fan of a Malt Neat.
The ingredients are:
-3oz Islay malt
That's it! It's so easy and simple, and it's impossible to mess up!
Sazerac - basically a Louisiana old fashioned
- 2 oz Rye whiskey
- 1/4 oz dark simple syrup ( like Turbinado, Demerara, etc)
- 5ish dashes of Peychaud’s bitters
- rinse glass with absinthe (I swear it doesn’t taste like anise/licorice at all in the end)
- lemon twist
- serve straight up
Division Bell! It's punchy and tart with the citrus and slightly bitter aperol, and the mezcal gives a really welcome smoky flavor. I add just a quarter oz simple to the standard recipe, otherwise I find it a little dry.
-1 ounce mezcal -3/4 ounce Aperol -1/4 ounce Luxardo maraschino liqueur -3/4 ounce lime juice, freshly squeezed -1/4 ounce simple syrup
-Add ingredients to a shaker with ice, shake well before straining into a coupe and garnishing with a grapefruit twist
A Right Hand.
You have to make it yourself though because unfortunately no one knows what the hell this delicious drink is.
If I have to pick one drink to take to a desert island, it's the classic Sazerac.
That is what I will want most of the time when I want a cocktail. However, I will allow a few others to enter rotation, depending on mood, time/temperature, and place:
- Margarita.
- Vesper.
- Pastis.
And, finally, my embarrassing guilty pleasure (which I never order except when I am in company I know well or I am on a Caribbean island): piña colada.
A white russian or a raspberry or mango mojito
I'm partial to the New Orleans cocktails. If I'm making a Sazerac, I like this variation.
On the whole, though, my favorite has to be the Vieux Carré
- 3/4 oz rye
- 3/4 oz cognac
- 3/4 oz sweet vermouth
- 1/3 oz Bénédictine D.O.M
- 2 dashes Peychaud's bitters
- 1 dash Angostura bitters
- Optional absinthe rinse (I usually keep some absinthe in an atomizer because I refuse to throw out perfectly good absinthe)
Serve in a rocks glass with a lemon twist
At the same time, though, my love for bitter sometimes draws me to a Bonsoni:
- 2 oz Carpano Antica vermouth
- 1/2 oz Fernet Branca
Painkiller, which is piña colada for grown-ups
Whiskey Sour, skip the egg
Classic Daiquiri (not the slush one)
Old Fashioned, when the bar is stocked enough and the barman knows, then Smoke & Cigars
I don't do cocktails much, mostly because I don't really have the ingredients around. One I like to do now and then is whisky (around half the drink, preferably spicy rye) and the rest about equal proportions of apple juice and ginger ale, poured over a chunk of ice.
Black Russian is my thing most of the time. Also gin sour without egg is great.
Monte Carlo
1.5oz Bourbon, 0.5 Benedictine, 2 dashes Angostura
Dark & Stormy is my favorite, from what I've tried
I normally like my liquor with just a splash of water, but I do make a mean mojito. The secret, which I discovered by accident, is adding a bit of catnip along with the mint. It has a smoother minty flavor which compliments the lime juice really well
Also, catnip tea is commonly used to help people sleep, so you get nice and relaxed without drinking too much.
All time favorite: Jungle Bird. The perfect mix of tiki drink in spirit but with a punch and grown up flavors!
Also love me a Bee's Knees with some high quality gin and honey. There's a fantastic New England distillery called Barr Hill that makes gin from honey, which makes for an extra amazing one.
I've really been enjoying the "Sour" format lately, too. Very versatile with all the random liquors or lower-proof alcohols I've collected over the past few years making random drinks.
Personally a fan of the Sonic Screwdriver, because I like my drinks like I like my ladies: sweet, bubbly, geeky as hell, and able to knock my ass out.
2 parts Sprite
2 parts orange juice
1 part vanilla vodka
1 part Blue Curaçao
Combine and serve in a highball glass on the rocks.
Well,
Scotch and soda.
Gimlets with homemade lime cordial if I'm trying to get hammered. Alternatively: death in the afternoon to black out
Dark n stormy with lemon hart 151 and a couple dashes of ango if I'm feeling lazy
Old fashioneds with a nice barrel proof bourbon to unwind
Amaretto sour for something sweet
Vieux carre if I want vermouth
There's a whole wide world of fancy booze out there, I couldn't pick just one favorite lol
An Ethicurean. I genuinely believe it's the perfect cocktail but I've only ever come across it in a single bar in all my life.
- Serves 1
- ice cubes
- lemon ¼
- thyme 2 sprigs plus 1 to serve
- honey 1 tsp
- vodka 25ml
- apple juice 100ml
I've invited one based on my taste for palomas and pisco sour. El Condor:
- 1oz of Tequila or Mezcal
- 1oz of Pisco (Peruvian)
- 0.5oz Syrup Agave (you can find it in the muesli section) or simple syrup
- 2oz Lime juice
- 2oz grapefruit juice
- 1 Eggwhite to shake if you like it more smooth
- chili salt rim or chilistring garnish
Probably the best cocktail I did so far.
Lots of good cocktails in here. Going to plug !cocktails@lemmy.world for everyone to check out and contribute these cocktails, too.
Other than cheap domestic beer when im trying to get drunk, I stick to Old-fashions. Great drink to sip as the liquor slowly mixes with the water from the melting ice, smoothing out the flavors.
1.5 ounce whisky
.5 ounce of simple syrup (I like mine extra sweet)
A couple dashes of Angostura bitters
1 fat chunk of ice
(Basil Hayden is my bourbon of choice)
Visit us at !cocktails@lemmy.world
I love a Paloma and agree, Jarritos and fresh lime, absolutely.
My current favorite is an adjusted Paper Plane
2 parts bourbon
1 part Aperol
1 part Amaro Nonino
1 part fresh lemon juice
Shaken with ice, served up.
I quit drinking a while ago, but before I did I was exploring quite a few different things. Kind of amazing how much different alcohol there is.
Some highlights:
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Belgian beers. Trappist stand out in this field but it is very difficult to go wrong. This encompasses very high quality beers (best in the world, IMHO) of dizzying variety. Sour (NOT bitter like an IPA...SOUR), fruit beers (lambic), wheat, doubles, triples, reds, browns, and more. Here is a nice guide.
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Rye whiskey. several varieties exist and most of them very unique tasting. Search enough and you'll find some very unusual ones.
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Vodka martinis. The drunk's drink.
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Sipping tequila. Costco had some sort of house brand that was amazing. I only recommend agave but there are less good varieties.
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Bloody Marys. Some places make these with so much food in them they could be a meal. I like spicy.
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Ouzo chased by Coke is an amazing taste. Try it sometime if you never have.
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Pepper vodka. I had some I bought in Ukraine (years ago) that was amazing. Pepper meaning spicy pepper not black pepper. Do not buy the absolut version it is shit.
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Caipirinha. Made with cachaça, sugar, and lime. The drink is prepared by pounding the fruit and the sugar together, then adding the liquor.
The Drunk Uncle
- 1 oz blended scotch
- 1/2 oz islay scotch
- 3/4 oz cynar
- 3/4 oz dry vermouth
Good whisky, neat
Decent whisky, bitters, club soda, ice in a short glass.
Gin, flavored fizzy (LaCroix etc), splash of lime juice, ice
Gin shaken with ice, small rinse of dry vermouth in glass, 3-4 blue cheese olives
4:3:3:4 añejo tequila, grand Marnier, key west lime juice, honey simple (50/50 honey and water) shaken or blended with ice. (Could sub honey for sugar free sweetener to be "healthy")
I drink beer in the summer, bourbon whiskey in the winter. But I have a holiday tradition, on the solstice I buy myself a bottle of Lairds and spend the rest of the week mixing Jack Roses.
Jack Rose:
- 1 1/2 ounces applejack or apple brandy
- 3/4 ounces lemon or lime juice
- 1/2 ounce grenadine
Shake all ingredients until chilled, double strain into a coupe glass, garnish with lemon twist.
You'll basically never find a bar that stocks applejack, so if you want one you'll have to mix your own.
- French Martini
- Whisky Mac
back when i drank, mint julep.
Jameson Whiskey
Ginger Ale
Ice
Squeeze of lime
Lime slices
Not a specific drink suggestion, but I really love “vector bar”. It’s an app where you can track the ingredients you have on hand, and it will give you recipes based on what you have. It has a lot of other great features, too.
Aviation. I like gin and I don’t care for bitter much.
My usuals are the Black Russian and the Gin and Tonic.
Black Russian = 1 jigger vodka, 1 jigger kahlua and coke, in a tall glass.
G&T = 2 jigger gin, a splash of Rose's lemon squash and tonic water, in a tall glass.
A gin and tonic with Squirt
Gin hass!
Dubonnet Manhattan
I've been experimenting with my own, and this one is my new fave.
Jelly Baby
2 oz peach Eddies
0.5 oz aperol
3 oz pineapple juice
2 oz Squirt soda
Splash peach syrupI love fruity strong cocktails and this one tastes just like jelly babies. It's so good!
The paloma sounds amazing. Thank you.
I'm revisiting the classic Old Fashion. I love it.
Depending on how much money I've got, either rum and soda or vodka-martini.
That's for drinking at home, getting pantsdrunk.
Basil smash is my house specialty but I'll experiment with it, had a big phase of getting into mixology this year though it's currently a lot less due to following a strict calorie planning.
I don't usually go for cocktails, but when I do I really like a peaty whiskey sour, or a boilermaker with Guinness or a session IPA and again a peaty whiskey.