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A Greyhound is one of my favorites, followed closely by that 70's favorite, Tequila Sunrise. Gin and lemonaid (or collins mix) is good too. Prefer Tanqueray, probably because the bottles are so cool. But I'm a pretty light drinker, and prefer to keep it that way. Life is confusing enough as is, without getting blasted.
I don't drink anymore, but when I did, mine was Bombay Sapphire Gin and still water. With lots of ice. Yum.
Spirits!
I was cleaning out the pantry today and found a half full bottle of Tanqueray in there. Now if I can find some Schweps Bitter Lemon, it makes a wonderful drink. There's a British store around the corner from me, I'll have to see if they carry it.
I was cleaning out the pantry today and found a half full bottle of Tanqueray in there. Now if I can find some Schweps Bitter Lemon, it makes a wonderful drink. There's a British store around the corner from me, I'll have to see if they carry it.
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Gin...
Smells and tastes exactly like Aftershave.
Then again they say to each his own.
I love a good Whisky Sour. (my boss gifted me with two bottles of Canadian Club older than I am for helping him move -and daaaaammmnn the stuff is smooth!)
Smells and tastes exactly like Aftershave.
Then again they say to each his own.
I love a good Whisky Sour. (my boss gifted me with two bottles of Canadian Club older than I am for helping him move -and daaaaammmnn the stuff is smooth!)
rocketeer500
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Vodka...
Martini, that is....
Very dry, double olive
(I never met a martini I didn't like!) Happy Days!!
Martini, that is....
Very dry, double olive
(I never met a martini I didn't like!) Happy Days!!
YUMMY
I've been recently turned onto Lemon Drop martinis, I never like martinis until I tried this. It's good and gets the job done of making me tipsy real fast LOL!
I've been recently turned onto Lemon Drop martinis, I never like martinis until I tried this. It's good and gets the job done of making me tipsy real fast LOL!
hooverwheelaway
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Mmmmm.
Lemon drop martinis are indeed fabulous..
I'd say that is my favorite variety of the martini. The Cosmopolitan is a close second! Yay for things being pink!
~Fred
Lemon drop martinis are indeed fabulous..
I'd say that is my favorite variety of the martini. The Cosmopolitan is a close second! Yay for things being pink!
~Fred
Lemon Drop Martinis
I'd say that is my favorite variety of the martini.
Me too Fred, I couldn't agree more! Now I will have to go out and look for a vintage chrome cocktail shaker at the estate sales and then learn how to make those.
I'd say that is my favorite variety of the martini.
Me too Fred, I couldn't agree more! Now I will have to go out and look for a vintage chrome cocktail shaker at the estate sales and then learn how to make those.
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Ooooh.
Vintage martini shakers... never thought about that one. I bet there are some pretty nifty ones out there to be had.
Here's a fairly easy recipe for one!
**Shake, shake, shake**
~Fred
Vintage martini shakers... never thought about that one. I bet there are some pretty nifty ones out there to be had.
Here's a fairly easy recipe for one!
**Shake, shake, shake**
~Fred
polkanut
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I prefer 2 shots of rye whiskey over ice with water. Nothing fancy, and it gets the job done in a hurry!
I mostly keep it simple with Wild Turkey neat, it tastes so good and I don't like ice diluting it.
I do enjoy a good cocktail. My dad built a wet bar and it was well-stocked with everything imaginable. Cocktails were a regular thing for him and my mom after work.
I like a good old fashion Old Fashion. During the summer months I like gin & tonics and gimlets. Usually vodka gimlets but I'm trying to figure out a recipe for a gin gimlet. I used to go visit a friend back in the 70's and it became a tradition to kick things off with one of her mom's gimlets. She used a blender and I think gin and a little powdered sugar along with ice and Rose's Lime. Her one-speed Osterizer reduced the ice to little beads and then she'd pour the drinks into stemmed whiskey sour type glasses. Does anybody have a gin gimlet recipe that's similar? I've tried to reproduce this drink and think I'm close but would like to know the real recipe.
Thanks,
Ralph
I do enjoy a good cocktail. My dad built a wet bar and it was well-stocked with everything imaginable. Cocktails were a regular thing for him and my mom after work.
I like a good old fashion Old Fashion. During the summer months I like gin & tonics and gimlets. Usually vodka gimlets but I'm trying to figure out a recipe for a gin gimlet. I used to go visit a friend back in the 70's and it became a tradition to kick things off with one of her mom's gimlets. She used a blender and I think gin and a little powdered sugar along with ice and Rose's Lime. Her one-speed Osterizer reduced the ice to little beads and then she'd pour the drinks into stemmed whiskey sour type glasses. Does anybody have a gin gimlet recipe that's similar? I've tried to reproduce this drink and think I'm close but would like to know the real recipe.
Thanks,
Ralph
Hmmmm, let me think for a moment or two . . .
I heartily agree with Launderess’s Gin & Tonic, although my gin of choice is Boodles. Tanqueray is a close second. Other drinks I like are: Gimlet, Gibson (this being a Martini with a cocktail onion and a bit of onion juice in lieu of the traditional olive), Green Hornet (two parts gin to one part green creme de menthe . . . beautiful iridescent green in the glass and oh so good), Grasshopper, Martini (gin and vermouth only), and of course the Manhattan.
Tropical drinks are a whole ‘nother category. My favorite cocktail lounge of all time is Tiki-Ti on Sunset in Hollywood. It’s a tiny, tiny place operated by the same family since 1961. Many of the drinks there were originated by Ray Buhen, father and grandfather of the current bartenders Mike Sr. and Mike Jr. Ray's bartending experience before he opened the Ti went all the back to working for the original Trader Vic in the '30s. The interior finish out is just as tastefully Polynesian as it was in ‘61, although they may need to replace some of the hanging blowfish now and then to keep them perky looking. Drinks I love there include the Blood and Sand (with bourbon, not tequila), Pain Killer, Hong Kong, Black Widow, Top Secret, Milky Way and Halley’s Comet. The Ti isn’t cheap, doesn’t take credit cards, and usually has a line after 8:00 . . . there is a reason! They have a website too: tiki-ti.com.
I heartily agree with Launderess’s Gin & Tonic, although my gin of choice is Boodles. Tanqueray is a close second. Other drinks I like are: Gimlet, Gibson (this being a Martini with a cocktail onion and a bit of onion juice in lieu of the traditional olive), Green Hornet (two parts gin to one part green creme de menthe . . . beautiful iridescent green in the glass and oh so good), Grasshopper, Martini (gin and vermouth only), and of course the Manhattan.
Tropical drinks are a whole ‘nother category. My favorite cocktail lounge of all time is Tiki-Ti on Sunset in Hollywood. It’s a tiny, tiny place operated by the same family since 1961. Many of the drinks there were originated by Ray Buhen, father and grandfather of the current bartenders Mike Sr. and Mike Jr. Ray's bartending experience before he opened the Ti went all the back to working for the original Trader Vic in the '30s. The interior finish out is just as tastefully Polynesian as it was in ‘61, although they may need to replace some of the hanging blowfish now and then to keep them perky looking. Drinks I love there include the Blood and Sand (with bourbon, not tequila), Pain Killer, Hong Kong, Black Widow, Top Secret, Milky Way and Halley’s Comet. The Ti isn’t cheap, doesn’t take credit cards, and usually has a line after 8:00 . . . there is a reason! They have a website too: tiki-ti.com.
Bourbon, on the rocks, with a diet Pepsi chaser. Jim Beam being the bourbon of choice. I've been known to indulge in whiskey sours on occasion. Canadian Club is good, but if I'm drinking Canadian, it's a whiskey called Pendleton. Much smmmmooooottthhheerr....
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Brandy Old-Fashioned, Sweet for me.
I'm not a big fan of gin. Oh, I'll gladly take a Salty Dog or a Tom Collins, or a Gin Sour, but i'd rather have brandy. It's a Wisconsin thing.
As for these new-fangled variations on established themes, I don't hold with them.
A Martini is Gin and Vermouth. Nothing else qualifies. If you put a pearl onion into it instead of an olive, it's a Gibson. I'll even allow that a Vodka Martini might be valid (especially since I like vodka better than gin), but any of these modern concoctions have no right to call themselves Martinis. Or Manhattans.
I'm not saying that these new drinks aren't good and tasty and perfectly valid in their own right, I just don't see why people insist on naming them something that they're not. If somebody invents a delicious new drink, give it a delicious new name.
Enough ranting. Back to my Brandy Old-Fashioned (Sweet).
-kevin
I'm not a big fan of gin. Oh, I'll gladly take a Salty Dog or a Tom Collins, or a Gin Sour, but i'd rather have brandy. It's a Wisconsin thing.
As for these new-fangled variations on established themes, I don't hold with them.
A Martini is Gin and Vermouth. Nothing else qualifies. If you put a pearl onion into it instead of an olive, it's a Gibson. I'll even allow that a Vodka Martini might be valid (especially since I like vodka better than gin), but any of these modern concoctions have no right to call themselves Martinis. Or Manhattans.
I'm not saying that these new drinks aren't good and tasty and perfectly valid in their own right, I just don't see why people insist on naming them something that they're not. If somebody invents a delicious new drink, give it a delicious new name.
Enough ranting. Back to my Brandy Old-Fashioned (Sweet).
-kevin
When I drank....
I liked big French red wines, or certain Italian reds..Bordeaux or Valpolicella to name two types.
However, when I drank spirits, I drank gin. From the freezer. Neat.
However, I started to get into trouble, so I stopped drinking, and I don't miss it any more.
I have a whole bunch of non-drinking buddies now, and they are good friends.
Lawrence/Maytagbear
I liked big French red wines, or certain Italian reds..Bordeaux or Valpolicella to name two types.
However, when I drank spirits, I drank gin. From the freezer. Neat.
However, I started to get into trouble, so I stopped drinking, and I don't miss it any more.
I have a whole bunch of non-drinking buddies now, and they are good friends.
Lawrence/Maytagbear
Appletini
On the TV show "Scrubs" one of the characters is a bit embarrassed that his favorite drink is called the appletini. Apparently it's considered a less than manly drink. I am imagining this is some combinatio of gin and apple juice. Maybe with a stick of cinnamon as a swizzle stick. Am I warm?
I'm too lazy to wiki it.
Don't know if I want to try it.
One think I'll never try again: alternating swigs of Molson with peppermint schnapps. That gave me one of the worst hangovers of my life. Another bad experiment: double shots of tequila washing down too many corn chips. I blame the stripper for that one.
On the TV show "Scrubs" one of the characters is a bit embarrassed that his favorite drink is called the appletini. Apparently it's considered a less than manly drink. I am imagining this is some combinatio of gin and apple juice. Maybe with a stick of cinnamon as a swizzle stick. Am I warm?
I'm too lazy to wiki it.
Don't know if I want to try it.
One think I'll never try again: alternating swigs of Molson with peppermint schnapps. That gave me one of the worst hangovers of my life. Another bad experiment: double shots of tequila washing down too many corn chips. I blame the stripper for that one.
pturo
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I would say mostly I drink wine, and spend for the better stuff, Pinots and Chardonnays from Californa and Chile or Australia. New York state wine in ghastly, and I live in the state, about an hour from major vineyards.
We do have pretty good pinots and dessert wines.
When things are going well financially, I love Cakebread Chardonnay, it is sublime.
We do have pretty good pinots and dessert wines.
When things are going well financially, I love Cakebread Chardonnay, it is sublime.
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