Cocktails

[Ralif Redhammer]

Making a cocktail out of 18-year old Suntory Hakushu is sufficient to consign your soul to the 9th Circle of Hell.

I've made cocktails with a 16-year bottle of Highland Park, so I imagine that consigns me there as well.

I've never understood how a shot or three of gin is a martini, and not, you know, a shot or three of gin......

Agreed. Without the vermouth (.25 oz at the least), it's just a glass full of chilled gin or vodka, not a martini. Still, when most vermouth is just cheap stuff that's been sitting out at room temperature for weeks, I get why people might not be fans.

 

[Clint_L]

I was a bartender from second year university until I got my first full-time teaching gig. I started the year the movie Cocktail came out, and I spent hours and hours practicing the various tricks, with zero sense of irony. So I have loved watching the rise of the cocktail in recent years.

When I bartended, 75% of alcoholic orders were:
1. beer
2. highballs
3. wine
4. Shooters, mostly sambuca, tequila, jagermeister, B52s, or the stag/stagette party triumvirate: orgasm, sex on the beach, blowjob.

Of the remaining 25% that could reasonably be called "cocktails," almost all of them were:
1. Caesars (the Canadian Bloody Mary)
2. Margaritas/Daquiris, almost always blended
3. Chi-chis/Pina Coladas, almost always blended
4. Long Island Iced Tea.
5. Fruit Punch variant (Tequila Sunrise, Planter's Punch, Mai Tai, etc.)
6. Martini variant
7. White/Black Russians

Every so often you might have to get out the little cocktail book for something else, but honestly you could work for weeks just knowing how to do the drinks listed above.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

2. Margaritas/Daquiris, almost always blended
3. Chi-chis/Pina Coladas, almost always blended

If you drink frozen blended drinks, expect that I will be there the next day telling you about your inadequacies as a person and a human being AT MAXIMUM VOLUME while you nurse your well-deserved hangover.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I feel badly about using $89 tequila (the only anejo I've got in the house) to make a cocktail for me and my wife the other night, but on the other hand, it was an excuse to drink some extremely nice anejo tequila.

 

[payn]

Every so often you might have to get out the little cocktail book for something else, but honestly you could work for weeks just knowing how to do the drinks listed above.

I remember just out of college I had a friend who fancied himself a high class society type. We went to this bar that is known for sports TV and its employees being only women wearing outfits worse than Hooters. We saddle up to the bar and order drinks.

He decides he is going to ask this 20 year old to make him a Rob Roy in a beer and shot joint. She says she will "check the book" and starts rummaging around in some cabinets. I tell him, "dude order something else" but he insists its what he wants. She pulls out this huge binder and drops it on the counter and a massive plumb of dust rises. I again, try and persuade him to change course but he is determined. Finally, she mixes it up and serves it over to him. He does a spit-take and screams, "its awful!".

 

[Zaukrie]

As a member at westward whiskey, I'm always amazed people make cocktails with their stuff..... So expensive.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

As a member at westward whiskey, I'm always amazed people make cocktails with their stuff..... So expensive.

I only make my Paper Planes with Pappy Van Winkle 15 year Family Reserve. Isn't that how you do it?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

As a member at westward whiskey, I'm always amazed people make cocktails with their stuff..... So expensive.

Yeah, most of my bottles are in the $20-$30 range, unless there's an excellent reason to do otherwise. I only have that pricy anejo because I bought it early on in my cocktail era and got overly excited, as I think a lot of people do with a new hobby.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

If you drink frozen blended drinks, expect that I will be there the next day telling you about your inadequacies as a person and a human being AT MAXIMUM VOLUME while you nurse your well-deserved hangover.

Joke’s on you: I don’t get hangovers.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Joke’s on you: I don’t get hangovers.

A person who doesn't get hangovers is a person who hasn't fully tested their own boundaries.

Work is the scourge of the drinking class.