Cocktails, the libationary art!

I didn't get a picture but it's not a looker, between the dark rum and reposado tequila.

Tequila reposado 3/4 oz

Mezcal joven 1/4 oz

Dark rum, Pref. Puerto Rican 1 oz

Galliano L'autentico 1/2 oz

Absinthe- heavy dash

Lime juice - 1 oz

Agave syrup, undiluted 3/4 oz

Tiki bitters - dash

Shake everything, pour over one big ice cube in a rocks glass.

I didn't sweeten it (didn't have agave) and think the 3/4 oz would be too much. None was fine, Galliano and absinthe are both so sweet, rum is kind of sweet, I would try 1/4 oz sweetener.

My first impression was that this was interesting, more than good. But that first sip, the aftertaste was really nice. I drank it slowly over an hour and enjoyed it.

Recently tried singani for the first time, it's super unique.

I brought a bottle home with me, and you can buy one brand in the USA/UK, Singani63, which is the main brand in Bolivia just relabeled for international sale.

So far I like it straight, and also I've made what is essentially a Tom Collins with it, brings out a lot of the flavors.

Out and about I had a singani sour, but I didn't look into the details of what was in it, and I'm not a mixologist 😬

From Last Call by Brad Thomas Parsons

2 oz bourbon (I used my favorite mixing bourbon, Evan Williams Bottled-in-Bond)

3/4 oz St. Germain

1/2 oz lime (I went a little heavy because I'm using canned ginger beer not homemade. Maybe 3/4 oz)

2 oz ginger beer

Shake the first 3 ingredients with ice, add the ginger beer, strain over a lot of ice. He floated it instead but combined tastes better to me.

I am a whiskey person but like a dark & stormy, this is like a platonic ideal of a drink for me. People use the word "balanced" a lot but this really is. It's not obviously fruity or boozy or spicy, it is a balanced combination of all that.

Will try it with homemade ginger beer when I home make some but fantastic use of a can, I used Reed's. Definitely use at least that level of ginger beer in this - sweet is fine but it needs the punch of real ginger

1 oz cognac

1 oz bourbon

1/2 oz Green Chartreuse

1/2 oz vanilla syrup

1/2 oz lemon juice (I used 3/4 oz because when I testing before shaking way too sweet)

Cardamom bitters (I don't have this but put a shake of cardamom, and wished I had pods instead)

Shake all, pour into chilled coupe.

This is good but I wouldn't say great. If doing again without the cardamom bitters I would absinthe rinse the glass instead. In fact, I think I would absinthe rinse anyway. And less syrup, though it's hard to measure smaller than half an ounce.

Hope it’s allowed lol. At a random bar in The Hague, Netherlands. Noice!

1.5oz tequila

0.5oz lime

0.5oz passion fruit (I used liqueur)

0.5oz vanilla syrup

0.5oz Ancho Reyes Verde

Recipe shows a jalapeno floating in the drink and recommends a squirt of habanero tincture, I did neither and it's perfectly spicy to my spice-tolerant palate with just the Ancho Reyes. I do think the tajin rim would be great though, it's a little sweet.

Use an ad blocker if you click the link but the article was good.

This is a slight modification of a drink I found called The Lighter Side (inappropriate name, it's boozy) which was 2oz bourbon, 1/2oz Aperol and 1/4oz peach liqueur with a twist of lemon.

1oz bourbon

1oz rye

1/2 oz Aperol

1/2 oz Apricot liqueur

1/2 oz lemon juice

Shake all, with ice. Served over a big ice, but in a chilled coupe would be better I think.

Starting the weekend with a bee's knees!

• 2 oz Roku gin
• 1 oz Honey syrup (2:1)
• 1 oz lemon juice

Shaken with ice.

Starting my cocktail journey, and I really like the gin/honey combination. I need to try a 3:1 ratio for the honey syrup next time though!

I like the idea of raspberry and ginger beer but less sure about raspberry and gin. Has anyone tried this?

Boring picture but delicious drink.

2 oz bourbon

2 oz tepache

1 oz lime

1 oz orgeat

Shake all with ice.

I have yet to find any permutation of whiskey and pineapple that I don't like. I'm sure one exists but anything from a splash of pineapple in whiskey to a splash of whiskey in pineapple is good.

This was a nice and diverse list! I will try the Rome With a View, I think.

1.5 oz rum (dark Hawaiian)

1.5 oz fresh pineapple juice (I threw a mango in when juicing it so it's pineapple mango)

0.75 oz Campari

0.5 oz fresh lime juice

0.5 oz simple syrup

I hesitated to put the simple since pineapple juice is so sweet but it's not too sweet. This is good, it's like a grown up pineapple juice. I always thought I didn't like Campari because I don't like Negroni and on its own it's most foul. But in fruity drinks it rocks.

1.5 oz Esme gin

.5 oz Campari

.5oz Tangelo juice

.5oz lemon juice

Shaken, poured over ice.

I wanted something bitter, but not insanely boozy. This is it. Like the grapefruit of old, that you had to put sugar on make palatable. I like it.

A Whiskey Ditch is just whiskey and water. Montana legend says people used to use slushy snow from the edge of a ditch. I don't know how sanitary that is, but I like using fresh snow.

It's pretty neat how insanely fast the snow melts when you add the whiskey (bourbon for me tonight). Like cotton candy in water.

Should be no sediment in the drink - if there is then your snow isn't clean enough. And never use lemon snow!

I'm very excited for summer, but every season has something nice that the others don't. Though I suppose I could use a shaved ice machine or something...

The best review I read of this was "a mezcal sour with enough character to make it shine"

1 oz mezcal joven

3/4 oz Cynar

3/4 oz lemon juice

1/2 oz honey syrup 1:2

1/4 oz (I used a little more) Ancho Reyes Rojo

Shake all together with ice, serve with orange slices sprinkled with chile salt, I used Tajin, don't do that, they were so sour!

I sometimes struggle trying to find a good drink recipe and filter out the "that's not a real xyz, my buddy adds ___ to his" posts online. It seems like everyone has their own take on every named cocktail that it's hard finding what the real one is and what's just somebody (or something AI's) take on it. It's hard to trust that what you see is an authentic recipe or not.

While looking for something like an industry bartenders recipe book today, I found something even better: a free list on the International Bartender's Association's website.

(Humble brag of all my Rubik's cubes)

Hey all, so I'm an ex-mormon who made it through college without a sip of alcohol. I've been trying to play catch-up but my wife and I are scared of bars and all my friends' recommendations have been <some_juice> with vodka.

I've been trying to learn how to drink for a couple years now. I've built up a medium collection of bottles (some of which I have no idea what to do with...). I feel like I've gone through most of the classic cocktails, but recently went back through my starting drinks because I think my pallet has opened up as I've gone along. Among the first cocktails I made myself were an old fashioned and a Manhattan and I know I didn't like either, but I'm having a Manhattan right now and really enjoying it (planning on trying an old fashioned again sometime soon).

Anyway, I've frequently wished for an expert to chat with who could give me recommendations. So drop yours below!

Some of the drinks I love:

• Negroni - so far, if there were only one drink I could have the rest of my life, this would be it.
• Sazerac - A close second. I think I'd love some whiskey cocktail recommendations if you have them!
• Jungle Bird - couldn't tell you why I love it
• French 75 - one of my favorites to show new drinkers, but a bit high-proof
• Hot Toddy - not my go-to, but winters are cold where I live and this drink is super fun

Honorable mentions:

• Whiskey sour - I usually make one alongside a prairie oyster, even though I hate those, so that I can use the whole egg
• Mai Tai - a bit sweet to be on my list of favorites
• I really like tequila but I haven't tried many cocktails with it

I think anything less sweet, maybe bitter is gonna jive really well with me

Edit:

Very excited about the recommendations! It'll update the list below over the weeks with what I like

Recommendation High-Scores:

1. Tommy's Margarita - yeah, wow this drink was made for me. Did it with half Mezcal, which I'd never tried until today, and it's awesome. And my wife loves smokey drinks so it's way up high on her list as well.
2. Paper Plane - Super great, wife loves bourbon so she was a fan. I think I added too much lemon juice because it was a bit sour. Excited to try again.
3. Gimlet - a bit basic but it's a starting point I'm excited to riff off of. I used lime juice but How-to-drink has a video where he makes his own lime-cordial and I kinda want to try it. I guess it's bitter and fruity and that sounds like something I'd love. I've seen a bunch of modified recipes too so I'll be looking around for ones that speak to me.
4. Black Manhattan - It's just nice. A slow sipper. Intense and boozy, bitter, long evolution - and I'm sure fun to switch out the whiskey in. I used a rye and I immediately want to try my bourbon, but I have a lot of suggestions to try so it'll have to wait...
5. Teresa - super similar to the Negroni - so I really like it. Maybe it's so similar though that I don't know that I need it... Definitely will be drinking them 'til I run out of Creme de Casis though.
6. Old Fashioned - liked it more than the first time I had one, I think I'd prefer it more diluted. Towards the end once more ice had melted I was really enjoying it. I think next time I'll stir it in ice and then add it to my bitters-saturated sugar (might use simple next time, or maple/agave as some have recommended).
7. Monkey Gland - Really cool. Like dressed up orange juice in a way. The Absinthe doesn't over-power and instead shines (or lengthens?). Unfortunately, I hate the name and hate the history of the drink (it is interesting though, so look it up!) so I doubt I'll be making again. I know the name shouldn't matter, but since it already isn't a favorite I don't think I'll be adding it to my home-bar menu.

I'm aware of a few different ways to make perfectly clear ice, but each has its own tradeoffs.

I'm also aware of a whole bunch of different ways people claim to be able to make clear ice, but I've been unable to replicate.

What are you doing? Does it require special equipment? Do you recommend it?

2 oz cask strength rye (Redwood Empire Emerald Giant, so good)

Juice of one lemon

Demitasse spoonful of sugar

10 leaves homegrown mojito mint

3-4 oz topo chico

Muddle mint with sugar, squeeze in lemon, muddle more. Add whiskey, shake with ice, add the sparkling mineral water, strain through mesh over fresh crushed ice, garnish with mint sprig.

This is delicious. Not much sugar at all, mostly lemon so the water does help, the mint comes through, and the whiskey does too - it's a tart fizzy mint whiskey lemonade.

So, what are you drinking this month? Cocktail or coffee, wine, water? Anything interesting?

I kicked it off today with a Paper Plane, first mixed up a Bitters and Smoke and that was a no for me. So nothing interesting yet.

About a year ago, @RBWells@lemmy.world posted a link to some cocktails with Asian flavors. I had some friends over for mapo tofu tonight and tried this smoky, fruity one. It was really nice! I couldn’t find dragon fruit juice, just a purée, so it was a little close to a smoothie… but still tasty. And goofy photogenic.

• 1 oz mezcal
• ½ oz Baiju
• 1 oz John. D. Taylor's Velvet Falernum liqueur
• ½ oz coconut milk
• 2 oz dragon fruit juice
• toasted coconut

Shake with ice. Garnish with the toasted coconut.

2 oz blended Scotch

1 oz Amaretto Adriatico (yes it has to be this one, see note)

3 oz fresh Valencia orange juice

Fresh lemon to adjust (not sure how much, it needed a little brightness)

2 oz club soda

I built this in a measuring cup then poured it over crushed ice.

Note: it took a moment for my palate to adjust to this Frankenstein's Monster mashup but it's very good, not just interesting. That Amaretto Adriatico is not very sweet and has a salty note - any other amaretto will be too sweet with the orange juice, you might be able to make it work but too much lemon would change this.

We visited San Antonio Texas and my friend had said she got the best margarita of her life. While we enjoyed seeing the city, I think I need to make her a margarita because they were trash.

2 oz Tequila Ocho Blanco

1 oz fresh lime

1 oz orange liqueur

1/2 ounce Ancho Reyes (el rojo)

Shake shake with ice, pour over fresh ice of any variety.

Related - if anyone on here lives near there, where are these great margaritas or was she just drunk.