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Or what has been your go to lately? I'm usually a whiskey and ginger kinda guy but I'm trying to branch out a little these days. What're you drinking?

Currently sipping on a Paloma:

  • 1.5 oz Tequila (blanco)
  • .5oz lime juice
  • 4 oz Grapefruit soda (Jarritos today)
  • Pinch of salt
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

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I love a Paloma and agree, Jarritos and fresh lime, absolutely.

My current favorite is an adjusted Paper Plane

2 parts bourbon

1 part Aperol

1 part Amaro Nonino

1 part fresh lemon juice

Shaken with ice, served up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The Drunk Uncle

  • 1 oz blended scotch
  • 1/2 oz islay scotch
  • 3/4 oz cynar
  • 3/4 oz dry vermouth
[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Tie between Pisco Sour and Bloody Mary. Usually a night drinking the former will lead to the latter the next day.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Sub "Caesar" for "Bloody Mary" and I'm down.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Caipirinha. Made with cachaça, sugar, and lime. The drink is prepared by pounding the fruit and the sugar together, then adding the liquor.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I'm a big fan of a Malt Neat.

The ingredients are:

-3oz Islay malt

That's it! It's so easy and simple, and it's impossible to mess up!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

i love fruity drinks, pina colada is my favorite but bartenders hate making it so i just go for whatever cocktail has coconut or pineapple flavor

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Pineapple juice, whiskey, and a squeeze of lime is so much better than it should be.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Why do bartenders hate making piña colada? (I feel guilty now)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

some places may only have 1 blender and they have to clean it out after every use

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Other than cheap domestic beer when im trying to get drunk, I stick to Old-fashions. Great drink to sip as the liquor slowly mixes with the water from the melting ice, smoothing out the flavors.

1.5 ounce whisky

.5 ounce of simple syrup (I like mine extra sweet)

A couple dashes of Angostura bitters

1 fat chunk of ice

(Basil Hayden is my bourbon of choice)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I like a Canadian Old Fashioned.

Bourbon

Maple syrup

Angostura bitters

Ice

Orange peel if you have them

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Agreed on Old Fashioneds. We make them with bourbon, sometimes rye to change it up, and throw in some orange bitters

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I'll twist an orange peel over my bourbon to get some of the oils! My buddy does the same with lemon peel and rye

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Good whisky, neat

Decent whisky, bitters, club soda, ice in a short glass.

Gin, flavored fizzy (LaCroix etc), splash of lime juice, ice

Gin shaken with ice, small rinse of dry vermouth in glass, 3-4 blue cheese olives

4:3:3:4 añejo tequila, grand Marnier, key west lime juice, honey simple (50/50 honey and water) shaken or blended with ice. (Could sub honey for sugar free sweetener to be "healthy")

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

My favorite margarita is just 2oz tequila (yes añejo or reposado), 1oz orange liqueur, juice of one lime. No sweetener, the liqueur provides enough sweetness.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

99,9% Ethanol, for cleaning and extracting shit.

I dont drink poison lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I’m a big IPA guy. Especially at 99% great to clean 3D printer bed and flux from PCBs.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

And for extracting Terpenes and Cannabinoids ;D

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

A white russian or a raspberry or mango mojito

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

A gin and tonic with Squirt

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

If I have to pick one drink to take to a desert island, it's the classic Sazerac.

That is what I will want most of the time when I want a cocktail. However, I will allow a few others to enter rotation, depending on mood, time/temperature, and place:

  1. Margarita.
  2. Vesper.
  3. Pastis.

And, finally, my embarrassing guilty pleasure (which I never order except when I am in company I know well or I am on a Caribbean island): piña colada.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Monte Carlo

1.5oz Bourbon, 0.5 Benedictine, 2 dashes Angostura

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I drink beer in the summer, bourbon whiskey in the winter. But I have a holiday tradition, on the solstice I buy myself a bottle of Lairds and spend the rest of the week mixing Jack Roses.

Jack Rose:

  • 1 1/2 ounces applejack or apple brandy
  • 3/4 ounces lemon or lime juice
  • 1/2 ounce grenadine

Shake all ingredients until chilled, double strain into a coupe glass, garnish with lemon twist.

You'll basically never find a bar that stocks applejack, so if you want one you'll have to mix your own.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Old Fashioned, when the bar is stocked enough and the barman knows, then Smoke & Cigars

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

The Dude was on to something, white russian all the way.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Black Russian is my thing most of the time. Also gin sour without egg is great.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Anything spicy or peppery. I'm pretty basic. Jalapeños are enough, but if you're creative about it, so much the better.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Ive been adding Jalapenos to margaritas and using tajin for the glass rim. Very nice change.

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