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[Sneakeater]

Obviously taking off from something I read in the Times food section this week, this is a very pretty cocktail I call (for obvious reasons) the "American Beauty":

1 oz. Gin
1 oz. Campari
1 oz. Crispen's Rose Liqueur

VERY pretty.

[helena]

Sneak - this sounds great - incidentally i have some homemade apple/rose infusion that looks like a natural for this drink!

Speaking of spirits in search of a good cocktail i have a bunch of obscure baltic/russian spirits/infusions.
tonight i finally used one of them, a lithuanian honey based spirit, to a pretty decent result. Other ingredients included apple and lemon juices and a touch of honey.
It was created as an apres ski drink for somebody who's originally from lithuania, and i called the drink a Baltic Downhill.

[helena]

pretty good after dinner drink: muddled sage sprig, 1oz of ST Germain, 1.5oz Cio Ciaro amaro. Frozen blackberries.

[splinky]

vodka iced mocha.

[Sneakeater]

I had most of the makings of a Moonlight Cocktail -- but no Cointreau or Triple Sec.

I figured I'd swap in some Aperol (another, but very different, orange-based liqueur). Since Aperol tends to dominate, I lessened the amount of Aperol I used in favor of more Creme de Violette. First try, didn't reduce the Aperol enough. Second try, there.

1.5 oz. Gin

0.25 oz. Aperol

0.75 oz. Creme de Violette

0.5 oz. lime juice

[joethefoodie]

...but no Cointreau or Triple Sec.

Heathen.

[Sneakeater]

Just lazy.

[Sneakeater]

Hurricane Sandy Edition

It seemed like a good idea to start with something tropical.

2 parts White Rum (I didn't have dark)

1 part Velvet Falernum (all I had left)

1/2 part Guavaberry Liqueur (I'm not kidding. The stuff that creeps into your closet is truly amazing.)

Juice of 1/2 lime

A few dashes Peychaud's (interestingly, this sucked before the addition of the bitters, which made all the difference)

Not terrible.

Although sitting in your apartment with the world coming to an end outside, how bad would anything seem?

[Wilfrid]

I just improvised a glass of bourbon. Only to be told "It's only 6.30."

[Nathan]

I realized last night that I had a bottle of wild turkey honey that I hadn't used in years (with reason)....casting around for ideas while watching the Big Bang Theory and eating leftover carbonara, I came up with something really tasty:  2 bourbon (used Old Weller), 1 WT Honey, 1 Campari, 1 lime juice, .5 rich simple, orange bitters.  Up, no twist (a lime wheel would be fine). 

 

tentative name: The Yana.

[hollywood]

I realized last night that I had a bottle of wild turkey honey that I hadn't used in years (with reason)....casting around for ideas while watching the Big Bang Theory and eating leftover carbonara, I came up with something really tasty:  2 bourbon (used Old Weller), 1 WT Honey, 1 Campari, 1 lime juice, .5 rich simple, orange bitters.  Up, no twist (a lime wheel would be fine). 

 

tentative name: The Yana.

How about The Big Bang?

[Sneakeater]

Turkeys make honey?

[Nathan]

oooh, I like both The Big Bang and Turkeys Make Honey? as cocktail titles....(I've realized that good cocktail names are exactly like good band names)

[splinky]

is this anything?

limeade, orange vodka, & tonic with a muddled strawberry in a tall glass over ice