Post your cocktails and wines!

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We have beer threads, scotch threads, etc. Time for a cocktail and wine thread. Post up your cocktails and wines. There's a time and a place for them, and big time enthusiasts across the wide spectrum of cocktails and wines.

Here's the first contribution. Embellished, lol. Just tonight, I actually have for the first time made a truly old-school purist old fashioned cocktail here (according to my research of recipes). In a cocktail glass.... add one sugar cube dashed twice with Angostura bitters and a bit of water, muddled and then two oz rye whisky (or bourbon added). Stir and add a cocktail cherry (in my case Amarena Fabbri Italian wild cherries :agave::agave::agave:).
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Plus an orange twist. I never actually knew what an orange twist literally and most accurately was until I looked it up today in making this cocktail :) In this case (picture) it's very fresh mandarin orange rind. It prepped beautifully as defined. So excellent :agave:.

Serve with a big ol' ice cube typical of old school cocktails.
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You can see the mandarin orange rind and one of those Italian wild cherries in syrup. :)

Cheers!
 
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kwtoxman said:
We have beer threads, wine threads, scotch threads, etc., time for a cocktail thread. Post up your cocktails. There's a time and a place for them, and big time enthusiasts within what is a vast collection.

Here's the first contribution. Embellished, lol. Just tonight, I actually have for the first time made a truly old-school purist old fashioned cocktail here, according to the most honest-to-the-enthusiast bartender recipes I find. In a cocktail glass.... add one sugar cube dashed twice with Angostura bitters and a bit of water, muddled and then two oz rye whisky (or bourbon added). Stir and add a cocktail cherry (in my case Amarena Fabbri Italian wild cherries :agave::agave::agave:).

Plus an orange twist. I never actually knew what an orange twist literally and most accurately was until I looked it up today in making this cocktail :) In this case (picture) it's very fresh mandarin orange rind. It prepped beautifully as defined. So excellent :agave:.

Serve with a big old ice cube typical of old school cocktails.


You can see the mandarin orange rind and one of those Italian wild cherries in syrup. :)

Cheers!
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Damn that looks good, my go to cocktail. Shame too many bars butcher it.
 
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freshly made mojito
the taste of the islands for me
 

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Haven't had one of these since the sixties:
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I got the idea from here:
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I'll probably settle for a Rusty Nail tomorrow night. Pics to follow.
 
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JavaFan said:
freshly made mojito
the taste of the islands for me
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The only reason I grow mint in my garden.

Fresh margaritas made with freshly squeezed lime juice and grand marnier with a decent tequila too.
 
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Not really what I would call a cocktail but a take on Bananas Foster

2 medium bananas, ripe +
½ cup vanilla yogurt
1 healthy pinch of cinnamon
¾ oz banana liqueur
¾ oz spiced rum
7-8 pecan halves
1 Skor candy bar with chocolate rinsed off (Under hot water works)
Blend the above and then add the ice according to your blender instructions.
If you want a bit more texture put the pecans and Skor bar in for a shorter duration.
 
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nobbie48 said:
Not really what I would call a cocktail but a take on Bananas Foster

2 medium bananas, ripe +
½ cup vanilla yogurt
1 healthy pinch of cinnamon
¾ oz banana liqueur
¾ oz spiced rum
7-8 pecan halves
1 Skor candy bar with chocolate rinsed off (Under hot water works)
Blend the above and then add the ice according to your blender instructions.
If you want a bit more texture put the pecans and Skor bar in for a shorter duration.
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covers all major food groups!
 
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Kentucky Lemonade.
 
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scotch old fashioned - gotta use a sweeter single malt tho, like a 15 yo Glenfiddich

Mojito - i also grow mint in the garden just for that reason

Aperol Spritz - ice, 1 part Aperol, 3 parts Prosecco, squeeze in an slice of orange, dash of club soda - great before dinner
 
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If I'm in the mood for a sugary drink (i.e. Not beer) my go to drinks are;

Moscow Mule- preferably with The Great Jamaican Spicy Ginger Beer, 2 oz Vodka, and half a lime

Gin and Juice- My "juice" is lemon San Pellegrino, and I've always used Bombay Sapphire gin.
 
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Gin & Tonic, tall glass no ice. Hendricks gin, fever tree Indian tonic.

if 2/3rds of your drink is mix, use the best mix available, could be more important than the booze grade.
 
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crankcall said:
Gin & Tonic, tall glass no ice. Hendricks gin, fever tree Indian tonic.

if 2/3rds of your drink is mix, use the best mix available, could be more important than the booze grade.
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sounds good

also can be used to fend off malaria in the tropics
but drinking GT's all day can complicate other things
 
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Anyone tried this Gin and lived to tell about it?

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I had an Irish beer earlier, now for another aspect of my heritage.
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FullMotoJacket said:
You're Canadian?
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ust on my parents' side, as were their parents, and their parents and their parents. But I heard that there's English, Irish, Scottish, and a wee bit of Italian somewhere way back.

Although, I did think of using the single malt, but gave it a pass. Came out very smooth. aka a Donald Sutherland.
 
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For the purists:
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I think my wife was having a wine spritzer here. Possibly one of those little italian bottles of sweet stuff that you add to wine...

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