/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>19564282
Gin & Tonic
Bourbon Mule
Negroni

>>19564282
I'm currently enjoying 1½ oz. High proof vodka, Cane sugar apple soda with a splash of jarritos tamarindo soda on top.
I'm also a big fan of the only drink recipe I've ever seen in a porno: The Taco:
>1 beer
>1 Bloody Mary/Maria
>another beer
Drink a sip in that order.

Sadly I can no longer make the Cap'n Jack Sorrow, or the Johnny Deposition, since ZOA energy drinks are POZZED now.

>>19564282
My favorite cocktail is called "sex with your mom"
Its where I put my cock in your mom's tail

>>19564301
>>19564287
Reddit
>>19564308
Based

>>19564312
Suck it FAGGOT.
I've never even BEEN to Pl*bbit
>Imagine typing that out and triggering the 80Tz
Get OUT newfag.

>post classic cocktails that are easy to make at home
>HUuuRrRR dduUuRRrRRRu le rEddiT
Dumb zoomers.

Some favs
>Last Word
>Martinez
>Noble Beast (The best flip and best espresso drink by a mile, desu. Idk if it's a YTer meme drink)
>Greenpoint
>Bitter Guiseppe variation using Montenegro
>Beatriz

Some hot takes
>Nonino is too subtle, Paper Planes are better with Montenegro and a dash of Ango
>dry vermouth is shit, quinquina blancs tend to work better, for example, in a Martini
>if it has more than 4 ingredients + maybe bitters, it's probably mediocre
>tequila is mid, sotol variations of tequila drinks tens to be more compelling

>>19564282
None of the places around me carry absinthe. And the bars don't even know what I'm asking for most of the time. Sucks.

>>19564329
We already know you drink CUM off the ROCKS.
What NAO FAGIT?
Poast Sumthin, you uncultured Cretin...

>>19564282
whiskey sour

>>19564339
Next time you're on vacation, go to a liquor store before you leave. Every time I leave the state I come back with liquor. Alabama is a fucking desert of anything good because of the ABC bullshit.

>>19564334
Oh, another fav is Repo and Sfumato. Its probably the only cocktail with Sfumato that's any good. Works well with Sotol as well. You definitely need a grassy liquor to pair up with the Sfumato. I find Espolon Repo is nice and grassy, but Desert Door Sotol is even more so. It ends up tasting like a fine cigar made more palatable with some grapey sweetness.

>>19564397
This Faggot, KNOWS his liquors.
>looks up the shit
>it's Tequila
Ohhhhhh..
Based anyway.

>>19564282
for me, it's jack and coke

>>19564282
I'm a big fan of the humble margarita or the humble daiquiri. Keep it simple, smooth and flavorful.

>>19564334
I once had an allergic reaction to a margarita that was so shit that I'm now allergic to tequila. God is sending me a message.

Mojito.

For me it's a Margarito.

>>19564282
for me is rum & cola

>>19564282
Bloody Mary

>>19564287
>Gin & Tonic
>>19564348
>whiskey sour
>>19565042
>for me, it's jack and coke
>>19565245
>for me is rum & cola

None of those are cocktails. Those are all mixed drinks.

painkiller

>>19565228
Shaken by a Filipino

>>19564339
Same bro.
I love me a Sazarc.

I hate ordering it because you sound like a snob but a perfect Manhattan is my go to.

>>19567084
>Those are all mixed drinks
I order all of them shaken. I'm a man of prestige.

>>19567084
Whiskey sour is a cocktail. Three ingredients and maybe an egg white, and it must be shaken? Yeah, cocktail. The rest are highballs.

Of course, the term "cocktail" is kinda bullshit. There used to be clearly defined categories of mixed drinks, but it's all dumped into the bucket of "cocktail" now.

>>19564282
Sailor's Riot Juice
>2-3oz Sailor Jerry
>1oz 100 proof mint liqueur
>6-8oz cold brew coffee concentrate
Pour over ice and drink for a night to regret

>>19564282
>What's your favorite cocktail

>>19567170

Also, I've been looking all over for this but can't find it anywhere.

>>19567170
>>19567175

Kamikazes are also tasty.

I guess it's a good thing I didn't buy one.

> Keurig launched Drinkworks Home Bar in late 2018, developed by Keurig Dr Pepper and AB InBev. The machine creates cocktails, beers and ciders through 24 different pods. The device launched to the general public in 2019.[67][68] In December 2021 Keurig announced it was discontinuing the platform and offered refunds for the machines to purchasers.[69]

>>19564287

Recently made myself a negroni fizz - the usual equal parts campari, sweet vermouth, gin, but with the addition of an egg white and ~1/4 oz of simple syrup. Shaken excessively. It was one of the best drinks I've ever had, and I normally rate negronis as maybe a B-tier cocktail - good, but not great. But this was great, and I don't know why it's not famous on its own terms.

>>19567104
>perfect manhattan
Absolutely based-tier cocktail. But, I agree, hard to order in any bar where they charge less than $15 a drink.

>>19564282

>>19567175
hangover in a glass

Put ice in a glass. Pour 2-3 Oz of good gin in, I like beefeater. Stir aprox 20x times to chill and dilute a small amount.
Take a separate glass, and pour a small amount of chilled vermouth in it, swirl it, then pour it out.
Strain the gin in.
Good enough to throw your life away for it.
Put a twist in it if you're a faggot or trying to impress a woman.

Just out of curiosity but what's a drink cocktail that can fuck you up really good just from one glass.

>>19567301
A rum old fashioned made with overproof rum.

How do we get the guy who's posting like a schizo retard out of here?

>>19567301
Tiki drinks are a shortcut to getting fucked up. Navy Grog and Zombie from pic related are two that immediately come to mind.

Ginger ale and whiskey

>>19567170
1.5 CL meaning 1 oz? Centiliter?

>>19567298
Absolutely retarded.

>2 oz gin, preferably Plymouth
>1 oz Quinquina Blanc, preferably Cap Corse
>2 dashes orange bitters
>stir
>no garnishes, especially not olives, wtf

>>19567275
I'm craving a cheap case of macros to demolish now

>>19567234
I remember Barfly shilling this thing.

Is it okay to ask for beginner help in this thread? I want to get into cocktails and I looked at the r/cocktails beginner guide and so far I'm looking at this
>beginner set including a shaker, measuring cup (jiggaboo?), long spoon and strainer
>angostura bitters
and since i'm a slav and we only drink rakia i need to get a solid collection of drinks all at once
>bourbon (maker's mark or jim beam)
>beefeater gin
>dry vermouth
>sweet vermouth
>rum (bacardi)
also, would appreciate recs for dry and sweet vermouth brands, based on what i can get in my cunt
https://www.meik98wines.com/%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BC%D1%83%D1%82__94

so far this is everything the reddit thing said to get. but i'm also partial to
>metaxa
>cointreau

but i don't know if there's a point in getting them at this point because idk if those two yield any new cocktail combinations with the rest of what I'm planning on getting

>tl;dr

1) Is what I'm looking at alright for a beginner or am I missing something important
2) Is there any point in adding metaxa and cointreau to the selection I'm already looking at

Old Fashioned, my beloved

>>19567885
Stuck on break at work right now so I'll put a more detailed answer later but try some easier stuff first like highballs, white russians, or old fashioned. After a bit, you can adjust the amount of ginger ale/whiskey/whatever to your liking if you want it more boozy or not. But to begin with, just try out cocktails that have maybe only two or three needed ingredients. For instance, a white russian is pretty easy with vodka, kahlua, and cream.

>>19564301
based hamm’s (the beer refreshing) appreciator

>>19567903
Cool, I'd appreciate any help.
But yeah, lomng story short, most budget version I'm looking at is just getting the bitters and a nice bourbon (maybe knob creek if i'm not buying anything else) and making old fashioneds to start with

But I'm thinking of getting the colleagues to chip in on the rest of the booze so we can have le fun office cocktail party and I can use that for a chance to taste more different things at once and get in more practice.

>>19564282
>Drinking alcohol
Alcoholics are disgusting. I can't even count how many family members I had to cut from my life because of their alcoholism.

>>19567905
So I'd hamms really good? I can't find it anywhere but it says it's cheap online.

>>19567916
>discarding kin like trash when they need help
you're someone i wouldn't trust, and i doubt you're a saint yourself

>>19567369
what's up with that guy?

Boulevardier
1 part Campari
1 part Sweet red vermouth
1-1.5 part rye whisky or bourbon

>>19567931
t. Assmad alchy
Other people's sobriety isn't my responsibility. I don't care who they are, if they want to hurt themselves and those around them I'm not going to associate with them. Im not obligated to deal with drunks just because I'm related to them.

>>19567931
you don't think the guy who goes around looking for 4chan threads to shitpost in isn't a saint?
judgmental much?

>>19564282
Dark N Stormy with Pineapple juice.
I thought it just had pineapple juice in it - it does not. It's better with.

Amaretto sour with a bit of gingerale.

>>19567104
Manhattans are alright. I feel like a snob whenever I ask for something like a Sazerac or Corpse Reviver #2 since the bartender usually gives me a blank, glassed-over look and I tend to roll my eyes a bit. I guess they only see margs and Cuba libres all day.

>>19565245
>Catharine
I remember my teenage goonbait days

>>19567170
Too sweet for my tastes. Not bad though.

Y'all fags had an Irish wake before?

>>19567242
You know, I'd like to see a dry red vermouth one of these days. I only ever see sweet red and dry white.

>>19567301

>>19567938
Grasshopper phenotype

>>19564287
>>19567242
Made a Negroni with Aperol instead of Campari and split the vermouth into half sweet and half dry, did I bring shame upon Italy?

>>19567931
Only you are responsible for your drinking and only you can stop drinking. It's never someone else's fault that you drink.
t. family of alcohols

>>19568332
the other guy already said that. and where do you get both get the idea that im drinking because of someone else? that must be projection. it's because i want to.

>>19568364
You were sounding like classic alchy cope to blame others when you said "they need help" like its my job to dig you out of the hole you dug yourself into.

If we're in agreement, no harm no foul. I was just resentful by the language.

>>19568378
i wasn't referring to myself by that part. i don't need help nor would I want it, but you can be damn sure that if someone close to me dug themselves into a hole of course id do what I could to help them out, because that's just part of being close to them in my eyes.

>>19564282
The necromancer. It's a corpse reviver with double absinthe. Very tasty.

>>19568378
>>19568387
You're both idiots. Do you know what it's like to work your fingers to the bone, stick your neck out, and cover for people rife with insufficiencies and pathologies just for them to take one little glance at the demon inside you beside they cried for you to open up a little to them, only for them to throw you in the garbage like trash? To watch them constantly hurt others and have no shame in exhibiting their narcissistic tendencies for decades, and then a slip up means they make the grandiose decision that you're the irredeemable one?

Do you know what that feels like? It's rage inducing, and you think it shouldn't be because you'd be better off without someone like that, and they did you a favor by cutting you out and maybe you get a little ego pat because it's their weakness not yours, but you don't feel that way when it's your own brother. The one you've pulled out of the mud and stood with even when you knew he was wrong, and stood by when he was hurting people with literally one foot in the grave just to satisfy his self absorbed delusions; in the end all the suffering was for nothing because when you have one strong of misfortunes, even if self induced, you find yourself alone in the darkness, and you find yourself feeling like an idiot because you should've seen what only amounts to a betrayal all along.

Do you not see how much bitter anger that would cause in one's heart? When you two talk each other I see him talking to me, and if you want to discount me as irredeemable despite everything than go ahead, because maybe I'll just because the monster you want to be, and believe me there's no shortage of mayhem and destruction a bitter, resentful monster can cause when he puts his mind to it. So go ahead and tell me my whole existence is for nothing because even those I thought were closest to me will discard me on a whim. It's only a powerful argument as to why existence itself should be destroyed.

>>19568469
Oh woe is me.
You either fix your problems and stop whining or die in some hole with the world's tiniest violin playing for you. Faggot.

>>19568480
>>19568469
enough from the redditors

>>19568469
i think it's about time you went to bed buddy

>>19568480
>>19568483
>>19568486
The jannies won't stop me. Nor are your soyjaks and one liners a sufficient response.

>>19568527
>>19568483
Pathetic. In time you will realize your mistakes. Except you won't because your a dumb nigger who doesn't listen to reason or anyone.

>>19568527
so what, are you going to kill yourself, or are you going to kill other people? if you're so hurt by betrayal than why don't you just remove your attachments so you can't be betrayed? if you think existence is so horrible then just live for yourself and carve out the best life you can without concerning yourself with others. i think that's a much better solution than becoming suicidal or homicidal. maybe you'll find there's a place in the world you belong and things that you enjoy, even if you can't trust people or get over how rotten some of them can be. but i don't think you can claim all of the world is rotten just because one person in your life is. you have to be able to see that at least

>>19568527
Ah yes the protagonist of the worlds worst tragedy. Get help, buddy, you won't find happiness at the bottom of the liquor bottle you're crying into.

Fucks sake, I leave this thread for not even half an hour and already there's some sort of weird schizo shit going down.
I can't trust you fags with anything, now can I?

>>19568531
>>19568527
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>>19568542
Pitiful worms. You cannot imagine the depths to which I am willing to go to avenge my honor. You have been notified

>>19568531
And just what mistake might that be, and who deemed you to be the arbiter of mistakes?

>>19568549
okay, so this is a LARP. whatever good one dude. get a life

>>19568531
>>19568551
I had said what mistakes might that be, and who made you the arbiter of mistakes?
>>19568549
>>19568556
Go kill yourselves.

>>19568565
you're ignoring my post >>19568537

>>19568332
>>19568364
>>19568378
>>19568387
>>19568390
>>19568480
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>>19568531
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>>19568537
>>19568542
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>>19568568
>I'm having le epic battle of good vs evil! I'll totally show him with my super cool argument!
>Am I winning you over with my ultra intelligence yet?
>Look how edgy I am! XD
>Super reddit tranny cut my dick off attack! This is just like Dragon Ball!
Stop talking to yourself schizo

please stop, i want to get an answer to my question before the mods delet thread

>>19568580
Kys

>>19567885
Seattle based bartender here :3
I would get the Dolin stuff, as far as vermouths go. Lustau is probably good too, I've had there sherry wine and liked it a lot. Don't get martini, it tastes the cheapest in my opinion. And get the cointreau, it's a staple. Never heard of metaxa but if your heart says yes, do it.

if i were you, I'd get a small mesh strainer, literally refines your cocktails and will make everything you make smoother. Get a citrus peeler (either channel or a potato peeler) and some bourbon cherries (this is my regeional variant of preserved cherries in syrup, use what you have on hand) since old fashions, the drink you mentioned later, gets half of it's appeal from the orange peel in it and the cherry at the end. Also get a citrus juicer and some bottles. Learn to make simple syrup (as implied it's not complicated) and maybe keep some olives, and citrus for other garnishes.

with this set up and everything you've listed you can make full fledged:

>gimlets
>martinis
>manhattans
>whiskey sours
>daquiris
>kamikazes
>lemon drops
>tom collins (but you'll need soda)
>moscow mules (you'll need ginger beer)
>others probably

then pick up other bottles as you go. Kahlua, St. germaine, campari, maraschino, chartreuse, and aperol and nice places to start. it will open a lot of other cocktails down the road. My bar at home is usually set up to make Manhattans, White Linens, and Negronis since thats what I like.

also get the makers over the jim bean. There is a popular phrase that goes "Dont party with Jim Jack or Jose" which means dont drink Jim Bean Jack Daniels or Jose Cuervo because they taste bad and give you worse hangovers.

also also I racistly assumed you have vodka and didn't mention it. Sorry

also also also I found this image on /b/ in like 2012 or something. Dont use it for date rape but it sounds like it would be good idk

>>19568597
>Seattle based bartender here :3
Do you like Frasier?
>I would get the Dolin stuff, as far as vermouths go
thanks, will do
>get the cointreau, it's a staple
thanks will do
>metaxa
It's greek 'cognac'. Tastes alright but I've mostly used it for cooking until now. Are there any simple cognac cocktails?
>if i were you, I'd get a small mesh strainer
I already use one for juicing lemons, straining cloves and allspice and orange peel out of tea/mulled wine etc. Is there a reason to get the one that comes in cocktail kits over the one I already have?
>bourbon cherries
Not available here but I know where to get mindblowing cherries and I can make my own. for argument's sake, can I use cheaper bourbon for that? Do I drink the liquid after it's done soaking?
>also get the makers over the jim bean
will do
>then pick up other bottles as you go. Kahlua, St. germaine, campari, maraschino, chartreuse, and aperol
I think of those I've just seen Campari and Aperol here, will be on the lookout for others, thanks,
>also also I racistly assumed you have vodka and didn't mention it. Sorry
Vodka is for Eastern Slavs, we're Southern Slavs here and we drink rakia. but vodka is dirt cheap so who cares. it was my understanding vodka is there to give non-alcoholic things a kick without imparting flavor and I'm not interested in that just now.
>image
we don't have dr. pep here

>>19568597
>>19568847
Wait, hol up about the cherries. When I googled "bourbon cherries" the little blurb google gives you that explains the term says they're cherries soaked in burbon. But when I go to youtube to look for the recipes, most are cherries soaked in a spiced simple syrup.

>>19567301
An 8% or higher cider and a shot of overproof rum.

is it possible to make ice cubes with alcohol, so it pours refill and doesn't dilute

>>19569020

>>19566572
My man. Saturday evening, cooking dinner with an extra spicy while idly talking about nothing with my wife and daughter. It's one of the things I look forward to.

>>19569020
The freezing point of alcohol is extremely low. It would be neither feasible without lab equipment nor would it be safe.

>>19569020
Use stones you retard. if you don't have them, just pour your drink 1/2oz stronger

>>19567900
Based Wisconsonian. With or without the cinnamon stick?

>>19569020
>>19569039
What if we made hollow cup ice cubes, then filled in the cup with alcohol, then found a way to join a flat piece with the rest so the alcohol is sealed inside? Like those moulds that make little ice shot cups. You could have cups within your cups

>>19567916
imagine being a prohibitionist and still willingly going into a thread about cocktails just to bitch like a woman.

>>19569093
Oh with those sphere ice molds, since they freeze from the outside in, if you let an outside sphere develop in a short freeze you can use a food syringe and gently drill a hole, suck out the water and freeze the remaining holiday ornament shape solid, then funnel in some spirit and find a way to seal it. Though if the sphere already fits your glass tightly and won't roll in it, the bottom would probably pop a hole first. That's neat.

>>19569093
I don't think storing brown liquor in freezing temps is good for the taste or else everyone would do it like they do with vodka.

>>19569137
the idea I had was that you would have the two ice piecess and find a way to quickly fill and seal them and serve, by running some water around the rim of the ice cup and a circle of water on the flat 'lid' piece, then quickly out them together in the freezer to seal them. Perhaps there could be some other substance that could work as a quick-set "ice glue" like sugar water or something. But I'm not a chemist.

>>19568597
>get blasted on 6oz of 80 proof rum
>4 shots
bruh we drank harder then that in middle school

I LOVE KEKTAILS

>2 ounces rye whiskey
>3/4 ounce nocino
>2 dashes angostura bitters

Build in testicles-shaped glass with a couple ice cubes i call it the BLACK BULL

>>19568390
Nice nice. What brands do you prefer?

Corpse Reviver #2, the absinthe really elevates it

>>19565245
Upgrade to Crown + Pepsi

For me? It's the Manhattan with Dickel or Old Overholt. Delicious, simple.

>>19564282

>Corpse reviver #2
Really any variation of this as i love the combination of Absinthe and citrus

>Old fashioned
Specifically with rye based whiskey, I'm partial to High West Double Rye

>"Bananarama"
I dont know the exact ingredients, but a local bar makes it. Whiskey base with some kind of banana liquor, it's fucking delicious

>Any combination of coffee and alcohol, "espresso martini", "irish coffee", etc.

>>19564282
>What's your favorite cocktail to make
Long island iced tea, or a 'Tokyo' iced tea which is similar but with some substitutions
>to drink
pic related, an Americano

i like to keep it simple, gin and tonic with lime

>>19569020
short answer, no

>>19569020
>American education

>>19564282
Boulevardier, take a Negroni but replace the gin with whiskey.

2 parts whiskey
1 part sweet vermouth
1 part campari

>>19570185
freezing point of booze is not mentioned in school at all, and if it was it would be a single sentence in the 8th grade that is quickly forgotten due to not being included on any test ever

>>19570197
>skipped Chemistry class
>it needs to be spelled out for me and on a test otherwise I forget common knowledge
I'm surprised you're even capable of using a computer

>>19570204
>hears something once while doodling in notebook and flirting with class skank
>dedicates it to memory for life
sure you do bro

>>19570210
>hears something once while doodling in notebook
>implying I had to be explicitly told
pic related should tell you exactly why it freezes at a much lower temperature

and if it doesn't, there are tons of other common sense reasons.
For example, have you ever used hand sanitizer? If so, then you could realize alcohol obviously evaporates way easier than water, meaning it evaporates at a lower temperature, so it wouldn't be a stretch to deduce it probably freezes at a much lower temperature too.
Also plenty of places and people literally store alcohol like vodka in the freezer.

>flirting with class skank
I wish, now you're giving me too much credit

>>19564282
Gold Rush.
Whiskey, honey (syrup), and lemon juice. Basically a whiskey sour but better. Or, alternately, it's a Bee's Knees with whiskey instead of gin.

>>19568597
>dont party with jim, jack or jose
makers is good, can confirm. what would be the equivalent step up for the other two? I mix cuervo and shoot jack, in case that matters. brandy is my fav though, and courvoisier is not better than e&j, so what would be a good step up from e&j?

>>19570404
a step up from Jack could be Four Roses. the way I define bourbon is "do I ever see it as a well at a bar?" and of that category, Four Roses blows Jack out of the Water. You should try Remy Martin for congac, it's popular (maybe overly so) or just look out for the VSOP versions of what you already drink since they're usually the better congac. I went to Mexico once and they old me Jose Cuervo is almost not even tequila since it strayed from its recipe years ago to make more money. I don't drink a lot of tequila so no recs here. Don Julio and Patron come to mind, but I think you pay more for the name at this point.

>>19568847
You probably don't need another juicer in that case. as far as congac cocktails, side cars are pretty popular and you can usually sub it into a whiskey cocktail with good results.

>>19568302
Yes. Try it with something like Averna - it's not just good, it'll fuck you up for life! Plus you can call it a Black Negroni.

>>19569041
>Stones
Please don't take this as a personal attack, it's more an attack on my friends and family who keep giving me whiskey stones.
... Ice doesn't just cool your drink because it's cold. The process of melting is endothermic - it steals heat from the surrounding drink to become cold water. The near-freezing water will drop the temperature of the drink faster and more evenly than any solid of similar temperature... and the dilution usually makes for a greater feeling of refreshment.

So yeah, if you want a stronger drink, make a stronger drink. Chill the liquor and mix first. Frozen soapstone's more likely to lead to chipped teeth than an ice cold drink.

>>19567393
>1.5 CL meaning 1 oz? Centiliter?

1.5 cl = 1/2 oz

Gin, elderflower, grapefruit juice

>>19570629
>elderflower
Direct, or as St. Germain?

>>19570197
>>19570210
there's a bunch of practical reasons why you might learn that alchohol has a much lower freezing temperature than water, and some of those you would have learned organically if you were the John Hughes cool kid archetype you're pretending to be instead of just a garden variety dumbcunt

>>19570653
Chilled ethanol has its use in keeping nitrations cold, but generally, dry ice is safer and more practical.

>>19570663
you trying to be funny because I wrote "organic(ally)" and "practical"? you used practical in the same sense too dummy

>>19570652
Sorry, the liqueur like st germain

Honestly never bought a bougie drink at a bar as good as a rum & coke or a vodka redbull.

>>19564282
Rusty Nail
Mizuwari( 1 part whisky 1 part water)

>>19567938
he has backwards legs

>>19564282
A can of beer or a shot of vodka.

>>19570625
Honestly, this is so gay how they don't cleanly line up.

Let's instead say the alcoholic part of the standard drink is split into 12 parts. We can decide whatever the total volume of the standard drink in later. For example, a 3oz standard drink means each part js 1/4oz. A 60ml standard drink means each part is 5ml. Every recipe can then be translated using relative ratios.

Boulevadier
>4 parts whiskey
>4 parts sweet vermouth
>4 parts campari

Last Word
>3 parts gin
>3 parts Luxardo
>3 parts lime juice
>3 parts Green Chartreuse

Hemingway Daquiri
>8 parts white rum
>2 parts Luxardo
>3 parts lime juice
>2 parts grapefruit juice

>>19564282
>What's your favorite cocktail
Gin and ginger beer with some lemon juice, people calls it London mule or something,
The gin botanicals go really well with the spiciness of ginger beer.

Hey everyone. Just broke up with my fiancee and the girl I've been dating for 10 years. She had BPD and just fell into a deep fucking depression and cut everything off with me after exploding at me about some shit. What's something that will fuck me up and make me forget this. I haven't left my room in a week. El Oh El.

>>19571339
You wanna get fucked up? Get some magic mushrooms - about 5 grams dry. Soak your mushrooms in about 6 shots of vodka for a day in the fridge after getting them into small bits.
>1 part Chambord
>2 part vodka after being strained
>3 part gold rum
>2 lime juice
>1 part maple syrup
>Ice
Add ice to glass. Strain in vodka. Add Chambord and lime juice, stir well. In a separate glass, mix rum and maple syrup. Carefully pour rum onto vodka portion. Drink, then eat the strained mushroom bits 5 minutes later.

>>19571372
I fucked up a little bit: mushrooms are better extracted in lime juice. They don't give as nice a color though.

>>19571372
There's a drink called Green Dragon, where you soak like an ounce of weed in a bottle of absinthe for at least a week, and shake the bottle every once in a while. It gets you high and drunk.
It's basically an ultimate fast pass to ride the blackout train.

>>19571431
I suspect that would taste kinda wack since grass has all those other flavors to it. Sounds neat.

>>19564282
dry martini
4 oz. gin
1/4 oz dry vermouth
2-5 drops limoncello

pour into ice filled shaker, put cap on
shake until your hands hurt from cold
pour into martini glass

>>19571522
Ew. Dry vermouth is gross in any quantity, which is probably why retards put it in as low a ratio as possible instead of just embracing a better secondary base: quinquina blanc.

>>19571475
Is absinthe and weed, let's just say you're not drinking it for the flavor kek
besides, a quarter of a shot will put you at a good level. one full shot and you're pretty fucked up, so you don't need to worry about taste much.
Allegedly.

>>19571548
>Dry vermouth is gross in any quantity

Fucking idiot

>>19567885
follow up. just made my first old fashioned. unfortunately it just tastes like bourbon to me but i didn't measure the exact amount so it's very likely i overpoured. i'll make another one tomorrow using my scale as i don't have a jiggaboo to measure with yet

>>19571721
I heard nitro charging it into mezcal tastes way better since that liquor has more of the smoky, deep flavors that match grass.

>>19564282
>simple one (when lazy)
Shandy
equal parts beer and lemon soda

>intermediate
1 oz. Campari
1 oz. gin
1 oz. sweet vermouth
Orange peel, for garnish

>Favorite (if I'm really in the mood)

Sazerac

Absinthe, to rinse
1 sugar cube
1/2 teaspoon cold water
4 dashes Peychaud’s bitters
2 1/2 ounces rye whiskey
Garnish: lemon peel

>>19564282
Rum and Coke.

>>19564282
boulevardier
>>19564287
good taste

>>19572603
I'd believe that. I wonder if it's strong enough to infuse the THC though or if that's just a matter of time

>>19572650
>not adding lime to make it a cuba libre

Lychee French 75 is a nice cocktail. Spent your money on the bubbles, not the gin.

>>19571721
I disagree, absinthe prepared as it should be is a really nice and refreshing drink, mixing it with weed is typical degen behavior.

>>19564282
Negroni
Espresso Negroni
Daiquiri
Moscow Mule
Margarita
Gin & Tonic

>>19573226
I didn't say anything about absinthe in general, just that it's obviously gross drinking it straight with weed mixed in, and it's obviously a drink people make to get fucked up not to enjoy.

>>19571995
yep just did it with less bourbon and it definitely tastes like a different drink now. i could get used to enjoying this

My favourite cocktail is where I take a swig of vodka directly from the bottle followed by a swig of Dr. Pepper to wash it down

this is from a greentext story on /trv/ and it was so good I have to share it with you
>brother gets a whisky sour
>fuck i hate sour shit

>>19572631

My quick and easy summertime weekday afterwork drink is half a can of Arizona watermelon with a shot of Luksusowa vodka.

>>19574607
>with a shot of Luksusowa vodka.

>>19567361

I went to that bar last year with an industry friend and got to go in the back room downstairs and see all the rum, that place is fucking incredible.

>>19564282
I'm trying to reverse engineer a cocktail I had at a restaurant. It was rye whiskey, fermet and cappeletti. I can't find cappeletti anywhere so I subbed it for campari and simple syrup. Still not nailing the campari ratio tho. My regular go-tos are mint julep and the godfather.

>>19567885
Really listen to >>19568597 on not getting Martini brand vermouth, or anything made by Gallo. It's just trash stuff and if you get bad vermouth you are destined to "ruin" around a third of the classic cocktails. Vermouth is tricky since we really only drink it mixed.
Vermouth might not go bad but I think its taste will change over time and it should be stored cool after opening, so buy appropriate sized bottles.
The same general principle applies to most of cocktails, that a weak component can ruin the drink, I just think vermouth and any other herbal really stand out when they are weak.
The standards are Noilly Prat for dry and Carpano for sweet. On your link the dolin or cinzano should be good, and I buy punt e mes (a carpano) sometimes.
Also in general watch for outliers within groups, like for example makers is bourbon but it's a very sweet and light profile and quite different from 'standard' bourbon flavors.
Get what you like though, it's likker so it's not going bad, just taking up space. Last thought on that is cocktails can have a 2+2=5 effect where the end product really is its own thing, long Islands come to mind.

>>19564282
Vodka tonic because it's short and simple, and I like the bitterness of tonic water. It's not necessarily filled with a ton of sugar and I can use the vodka I personally distill since that stuff should be mixed.

>>19574607
sounds good

I only drink the blood of Christ on Sunday

>>19575650
>I can use the vodka I personally distill since that stuff should be mixed
my sugar wash never ferments to dryness. always sweet. but my ciders ferment to dryness. why is that?

>>19567113
except for the sour, shaking everything else is a meme. you’re incorporating nothing to the drink

I've been having a lot of success growing various mint plants in my greenhouse this year. Any recommendations for good drinks to make with mint?

>>19576949
Are you just overloading the wash with too much sugar? Or using a tolerant enough yeast? One of the "secrets" to making a good wash is to target a low ABV compared to the yeast's tolerance so it isn't stressed at all (and low here is relative, like 8%)- the cost is water and a longer boil or more runs. Sugar wash stalling could also be a nutrition issue, though cider has similar nutrition problems. Turbo yeasts should have little problem but I wouldn't use them because they make weird flavors and are resilient enough to come back to life on subsequent batches like an infection.

I do a TPW: I use 12 to 14 pounds of white sugar and lemon juice (or other acid) to create 5ish gallons of invert sugar and add 170g of tomato paste and a yeast (4g packet) with a good tolerance like a champagne or cider yeast, rs premier blanc for example. Target is around 1.06 og and should end at .990 to 1 for about 9% ABV. I make the invert sugar in my still boiler which is electric and convenient and with just enough water to get all sugar to dissolve, and is probably a skippable step.

Anyway more water, adequate nutrients.

>>19567170
>vodka outshines everything else

>>19567298
>good gin
>beefeater
pick one

>>19569046
without

It's hard for me to pick a favorite because enough booze to make the recipes in my books is expensive and so is randomly ordering stuff at bars without knowing how good it'll be. I've recently tried a dark and stormy that was pretty good if you can find ginger beer but my go-to is a gibson because i love onions. Once again slightly unlikely to find a place that has the pearl onions but always worth a shot.

>>19567938
He's a truth seeking wandering shaman champion of justice

>>19577046
Can't go wrong with a nice mojito

>>19567903
I can second this as solid advice. This is pretty much how I started a few months back. My way in was white russians. They're still one of my favourite drinks to make because they're easy and are really nice. Another easy to make, but nice drink is another stirred drink called a Revolver.
All it is is 2oz bourbon (goes in a lot of drinks and a good one is typically inexpensive, I use Buffalo Trace or Woodford Reserve. Understand I'm a bong, so our off the shelf choices of bourbon aren't what Burgers have) 1/2oz of coffee liqueur (I use Mr Black, but use whatever is better for you) and 2 dashes of angostura orange bitters. Mix with ice in a mixing glass or just a pint glass if you've not got a mixing glass, and then strain into a Martini glass or whatever coupe you may or may not have.
Spritz a orange disc over the glass and drop on the surface of the drink. I've served these to multiple people I've had over now and they enjoy them. Super easy to make, better to drink.
That is, of course, if you like coffee liqueur and bourbon.
Pic unrelated, a blackberry and bourbon smash I made a month or two ago.

>>19565123
ywnbaw

>>19564329
Good job responding to them and letting them know they scored a hit, thus encouraging them to do it more in the future.

In fact, I'm going to follow your example and give (You)s to every zoomer in this thread, just to shit up its overall quality and ensure future threads are equally full of baiting zoomers. Accelerate the downfall of the board and make it unusable.

>>19567084
>None of those are cocktails. Those are all mixed drinks.
I exclusively read 1960s novels. All of those drinks are "cocktails". No matter the genre, everyone in that era engaged in what was called "cocktail hour" and stopped what they were doing to drink alcohol, including many of the drinks named in this thread. The whiskey highball is the usual leader of the pack.

I make mocktails now but I like using pea flower tea, thyme, basil, jalapeno, mint, lemon, lime, different pops teas or waters I buy and shaking em up and seeing what tastes good together. I really like thyme iced tea with lemon or ginger, mint watermelon with sparkling water, when i was still drinking i'd make mojitos and moscow mules and gin/whatevers constantly

>>19578468
Let's see them titties

>>19568847
I had a Metaxa Martini at Greek restaurant one time. It was really nice. Espresso and Metaxa go hand in hand. An idea for you if you did decide to buy some metaxa. I may well pick up a bottle myself.

>>19568597
Man I'm retarded. I picked up a Jose Cuervo Reposado because that was the only rep they had in Tesco at the time. Didn't know it sucked. I got some Olmeca Altos Plata, which I think is alright, so it wasn't a total loss. Going to have to look online for a good Reposado. Anyone have any good recommendations?

Texas Sunrise:
2oz tequila
2oz OJ
1 splash of liquid smoke
1 squirt lime

shake with 2 giant cubes of ice, serve in skull of dead nigger

>>19564282
Its hot so Jungle Birds.