Cocktails, the libationary art!

Has anyone here tried aloe liqueur? The rest of this I have, but aloe juice is so yucky, like the idea of mezcal and raspberry.

The 1600 cocktail. The website hosting the recipe seems to be offline but it's from East Imperial Tonic Water.

50ml / 1 ¾ oz Premium Aged Rum.

5ml / ⅙ oz Orgeat.

15ml / ½ oz Cold Brew Coffee.

150ml / 5 oz East Imperial Grapefruit Tonic.

Fresh Orange Slice.

Stirred everything but the soda (I used a spoonful of tonic syrup and 150ml of Fever Tree grapefruit soda) and no I can't measure 5ml of orgeat, just poured as little as I could.

It's a lot better than it sounds, honestly. The coffee makes it. And hello to the 1,600 of you!

I was feeling tropical

• 2 ounces white rum (Bacardi)

• 1/2 ounce maraschino liqueur (Luxardo)

• 3/4 ounce lime juice, freshly squeezed

• 1/2 ounce grapefruit juice, freshly squeezed

• Garnish: lime wheel

Light shake then strained into a coup glass

Salud

This is a weird one. I was feeling experimental today, made one drink that went straight down the drain (fresh OJ & lemon, vodka, absinthe, St. Germaine, don't ask) but this I am enjoying, tart, smoky, bitter. Sort of a margarita variation.

1.5oz blanco tequila

.5 each of

Tawny port

Mezcal

Aperol

Lemon juice

Shaken with not too much ice, served over big ice. I think next time no lemon (port tart enough), stir not shake and crushed ice, but the flavors are working.

Sorry for the fuzzy picture, the cat says hi!

And does anyone have a good absinthe orange flavor cocktail? I don't think the fresh juice works with it.

• 1 ½ oz mezcal Cupreata
• ¾ oz sloe gin
• ¾ oz Cynar

Stir with ice and strain into a Nick & Nora glass.

On the tin, it seems like this would be way too much, between the aggressive smokiness of the mezcal and the herbal bitterness of the Cynar, but the fruit in the slow gin is enough to balance all that out. It’s still pretty spirit-forward, but super palatable.

I'm having a margarita with Gonzales Reposado. Yum.

• 1 whole yellow peach
• Limoncello
• quarter of a lime worth of juice
• ice

I really just eyeballed the amounts here, but the nice thing is that it's pretty easy to make a tasty cocktail with these ingredients!

Not July anymore, I'm having a drink before dinner, just thrown together with what looked good.

3 big sweet blackberries

2oz bourbon

1 oz orange liqueur

1/2 oz vanilla liqueur

1/2 oz lemon juice

Muddled then shook with ice.

Honestly could be a little sweeter. Blackberries are never as sweet as they seem. It's a one and done but if trying again, would muddle the fruit with sugar and then halve the orange liqueur, to get a more vanilla flavor. I was afraid of overdoing it.

Interesting!

• 1.5 oz St Germain elderflower liqueur
• 3 oz sparking wine
• 1 oz soda water

Not sure what differentiates the two, does it need a candied lemon to be a hummingbird? Good either way

Pausing dry July for one drink, streets are too flooded to get to yoga and it's been an eventful month.

1.5 oz bourbon (any whiskey would be good)

.75 oz Amaro Toscano (would not substitute another)

.75 lemon juice

Shake together then stir in

3 oz dry or sweet full flavored ginger beer (mine is home fermented, spicy and dry but a strong and sweet one would also work)

Really hitting the spot, the Toscana and ginger reminds me of gingerbread. An aperitif before supper then back to none for another week. Usually my one drink of July is historically on the 15th so made it an extra week!

I have introduced my downtown PNW city dive to malort, got my distributor to pick it up, and most people love/hate malort. We usually have rows of 6 different flavors of jello shots. Whatevs, they sell. We've been joking for 3 years now for April fools day doing malort, unflavored, food coloring shots and sneaking them into the actual peach/lime/orange/whatevs. I finally brought it unflavored gelatin and made the malort jello shots. Tonight is a test run.

This sounds delicious and right up my alley, but a Paloma is so simple and easy and perfect, and with only an oz of grapefruit soda I'm not sure this is even a Paloma variation.

• 2 oz rum
• 1 oz banana liqueur
• 1 oz coffee liqueur
• 2 oz half and half
• 1 whole banana
• ice

Had one of these on vacation and decided to try it at home but wanted to cut back on the ice. This one was considerably more boozy than the previous so I suspect the bar was cutting back considerably on the rum or the ice does more to mellow it than I expected. Either way I still enjoyed it and recommend it especially if you have some extra ripe bananas to use and don't feel like making banana bread

From Punch.

I am making ginger beer this week and sort of dreaming about what to do with it after my Dry July. I don't have the minty Fernet, but may aquire it to try this.

• 4cl gin
• 2.5cl lemon juice
• 3cl cream
• 1cl galliano
• 1.5cl rhubarb&strawberry syrup

Recipe is in the non alcoholic pinned post.

Funny looking but really good. Made a half batch of the Verdita syrup, my jalapeno was not spicy but I guess that's better than too spicy. Mojito Mint.

Next one I may use tepache, not tonic, and spicy it with some fire tincture. But it's very good.

What are you, some kind of loser? What are you doing sipping that GONSTER? Don't you know that's a child's drink? What you need is a nice chilled (but not cold) Black Pennuiss in your mouth. You will never regret a Black Pennuiss.

So easy to make, even YOU can do it!

You will need:

• 1 can Pepsi Nitro (chilled)

• 1 Guinness (room-temperature)

• Bacardi Black

How to make a Black Pennuiss

In a chilled pint glass, add one half shot (1oz) of Bacardi Black (No liquor = Pennuiss Basic; Double Shot = Big Black Pennuiss).

Pour approx. 7oz of chilled Pepsi Nitro to the glass.

Finish by pouring approx. 7oz of Guinness into the glass. (Tip: pour the beer over a spoon to keep the layers separated (hard to see in this pic, but it's definitely there)).

This post is styled as a shitpost but these things are legitimately delicious. I've been drinking them all week. The acidity of the Pepsi is a great chaser to the richness of the Guinness, but the Bacardi in the bottom layer keeps things interesting even after you've finished your beer.

The July contest is a non-alcoholic cocktail, must contain at least 3 ingredients. Non-alcoholic for purposes of this challenge is defined as non-intoxicating, not absolute absence of ethanol so a squirt of a tincture, splash of bitters, a base of kombucha or fermented ginger beer is allowed, also caffeine at reasonable level but a THC cocktail would be disallowed.

Happy July!

This is lovely, and pretty much right what it says on the tin. Delicious! The smokiness of the mezcal goes nicely with the flamed orange twist.

• 1 oz mezcal
• 1 oz sweet vermouth
• 1 oz Campari
• flamed orange twist garnish

Stir with ice, strain into the glass, then flame the orange twist over the cocktail and discard the orange.

I made today a pineapple margarita with mezcal, tequila, lime, and the fresh pineapple juice. One more day before I start Dry July and I would like a banger, this is good but not great.

Any suggestions for this weekend, also anything interesting and pineapple not alcoholic would also be most welcome. I am making tepache, but it's not done will make ginger beer, have mint in the garden, have tonic water, will probably buy some Chinotto soda too.

Apparently we were a bitter bunch in June!

This is delicious. Fruity, tart, round in flavor.

2oz cognac

1oz Giffard Abricot

1oz Heirloom Pineapple Amaro

1oz lemon (a little more than an ounce, lemon was juicy)

Shake everything, a coupe would be ideal but it's too hot now to have an outdoor drink without ice. I wouldn't make any substitutions or corrections so it should probably have a name, but I can't think of one. The cognac and apricot are French, the Amaro is American Hipster, the flavor smooth as hell, feel this should be easy but my brain is fried from work.