A place for conversation about cocktails, ingredients, home mixology, the bar industry or liquor industry, glassware - this is not an exhaustive list. If you think it's in some way related to cocktails it's probably fine.
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I'm having a whiskey sour. Delicious.
What are you drinking, be it cocktail, wine, coffee, whatever! Anything interesting?
And wrapping up the weekend with a fancy vodka soda - muddled blackberries and sugar, half oz green Chartreuse, 2 oz vodka, hand squeezed a lemon in there. Shook with ice. Strained once, added soda water, Strained again over crushed ice in the glass.
Husband having the end of the bottle of The Judge High and Wicked bourbon.
Pomegranate Cocktail, I have a pomegranate tree, and this is my favorite way to consume them. My recipe: 2 oz Bourbon ½ oz Triple Sec ½ oz Maple Syrup 4 oz Pomegranate Juice
So everything's fair game? :) I'm having mead at the Drinking Horn Meadery in Flagstaff, AZ! Quite delicious. There's not much mead around where I live, so this is a nice treat.
Moving this weekend so we’ve been drinking whatever bottle is closest to empty and working our way up. Everything is some sort of Negroni.
I've been drinking a mix of oude genever, dry vermouth, peychaud's bitter, simple syrup and lime disk (like in a Ti'Punch). A mix between Old Fashioned, Martini and (ti')punch, and somehow it actually goes together quite well (or at least much better than some other experiments I did in the past). I'll have to try this recipe with other spirits, but I'm partial to genever and I think it's what makes the mix of Old Fashioned and Martini work, since genever itself is something like a mix between whisky and gin.
Chasing it down with chamomille tea, because I'm too old to be drinking alcohol all evening and I've grown bored of pure water lately.
Coureur des Bois maple whiskey (not the cream one) on ice.
Water
La mejor bebida! Nothing is better.
Made a pitcher of margaritas for a party today, so had one of those. Yum. Now coffee, also a yum.
I'm boring - every night is Crown and 7-up over chewy ice (I LOVE chewy ice). After my 12-oz 7-up is empty I transition to Coors Banquet bottles.
Smoked old fashioned from a touristy restaurant that was pretty dang good.
Just decided a batch of homemade ginger ale is ready to transfer into a keg for carbonation; suggestions?
I like using the ginger beer to ferment grapefruit juice. (I use ginger bug to make mine.) Dark & stormy is a delicious cocktail with ginger beer, or I also like it with coconut rum, lime, and cilantro :)
Bourbon straight and Baijiu also straight
Taco night, so a Tommy Marg. 3 parts tequila, 2 parts lime, agave syrup, little pinch of salt.