Cocktail Recipes Tonight

[bloviatrix]

Bought myself a new bottle of gin. The juniper is overlaid by apricots, plums, and honey. It kind of reminds me of a fruit soured beer. Excellent mixed with seltzer. Not sure how it will work in a cocktail.

Summer gin.

 

[plattetude]

Yesterday's cocktail...

Rhubarb Gimlet

2 oz gin (Greenhoook American Dry)
3/4 oz lime
3/4 oz rhubarb syrup*

Shake, strain into coupe

* Rhubarb syrup (easy-peasy Morgenthaler method)
equal parts chopped rhubarb, sugar, warm water, whizzed in a blender for a few minutes to a puree and strained through a fine strainer (and cheesecloth/chinoise/whatever, as you like)

[bloviatrix]

Do you have the Dorothy Parker gin? Try it with that.

[StephanieL]

16 hours ago, bloviatrix said:

Bought myself a new bottle of gin. The juniper is overlaid by apricots, plums, and honey. It kind of reminds me of a fruit soured beer. Excellent mixed with seltzer. Not sure how it will work in a cocktail.

Summer gin.

 

It might not be too bad in a fitty-fitty, as long as you're using good tonic.

[MitchW]

11 minutes ago, StephanieL said:

It might not be too bad in a fitty-fitty, as long as you're using good tonic.

Isn’t a fitty-fitty made with dry vermouth?

[plattetude]

4 hours ago, bloviatrix said:

Do you have the Dorothy Parker gin? Try it with that.

I do and I shall!

Meanwhile, just now, a modified Sun King (fka my own submission in the Fruit Bat series)

2 oz rye (Old Overhold bonded)
1/2 oz Cocchi Americano + 1/4 oz yellow Chartreuse (replacing 3/4 oz blanc vermouth)
1/4 oz Suze
1/4 oz maraschino
2 dashes orange bitters

It's a little richer but stilllll good.

Edited May 28, 2024 by plattetude
posted unfinished!

[StephanieL]

21 hours ago, MitchW said:

Isn’t a fitty-fitty made with dry vermouth?

Right.  Somehow my brain conflated a martini with a G&T. 

[bloviatrix]

Free-poured, but the Grand Cabaret pairs nicely with rhubarb syrup and some seltzer. Tastes like a grown up fruit punch.

[small h]

The baroness has arrived.

[StephanieL]

On 11/29/2023 at 12:52 PM, MitchW said:

Here's how it was made at Pegu:

2 oz. gin

1 oz. sweet vermouth

1 barspoon Luxardo

2 dashs Ango

Garnish - lemon peel

I used a Martinez recipe from an SF cocktails book I got a few months ago. Note the ratio of vermouth to gin--I'm not complaining.

• 1 1/2 oz. sweet vermouth (Carparo Antica in my case)
• 1 oz. gin
• 1 barspoon maraschino liqueur
• 1 dash Angostura
• 2 dashes orange bitters
• Lemon slice garnish

[bloviatrix]

My newest purchase. It can be used a substitute for Green Chartreuse (and is kosher). They also make several amaros. Will probably have a Last Word tonight.

 

[Sneakeater]

On 6/11/2024 at 4:17 PM, StephanieL said:

I used a Martinez recipe from an SF cocktails book I got a few months ago. Note the ratio of vermouth to gin--I'm not complaining.

• 1 1/2 oz. sweet vermouth (Carparo Antica in my case)
• 1 oz. gin
• 1 barspoon maraschino liqueur
• 1 dash Angostura
• 2 dashes orange bitters
• Lemon slice garnish

I’ma make this (you care).  

Edited June 22, 2024 by Sneakeater

[StephanieL]

What did you think?

[small h]

I had a Last Word with a brandied cherry, and it might've been a little TOO brandied, whoo!

[Wilfrid]

I ran out of limes and made a Last Word with lemon juice and I am now standing in the corner guilty. 

[small h]

Make an offering to the citrus gods posthaste, if you know what's good for you.

[Sneakeater]

The Lime God is not gonna be pleased. 

[Wilfrid]

Lime god is a cheap dude on the corner I just need to have small enough change for him.

[MitchW]

13 hours ago, Wilfrid said:

I ran out of limes and made a Last Word with lemon juice and I am now standing in the corner guilty. 

What would you call it, as it's not a Last Word?  Penultimate Word?  Last Ward?

20 Variations on The Last Word

[small h]

Secret Word. Oh, wait, I already used that for another drink. How 'bout Password?

Edited June 23, 2024 by small h

[MitchW]

58 minutes ago, small h said:

Secret Word. Oh, wait, I already used that for another drink. How 'bout Password?

I like Password!

[Evelyn]

The Ninth Ward

1 1/2 oz. Bourbon

1/2 oz. Elderflower liqueur

1/3 oz. Lime juice

1/6 oz. Falernum liqueur

1/4 oz. Simple syrup

2 dashes Peychaud's bitters

[small h]

A Manhattan, which is why I brandied the cherries in the first place. 
 

[small h]

SXSW. Lemon juice, simple syrup, strawberry syrup, mint, gin.

[Wilfrid]

Am I the only person who didn't know about putting balsamic vinegar in a negroni?

I was at an event last night featuring the produce of Emilia-Romagna including fancy, aged balsamics. I was surprised to see bartenders dripping the vinegar into glasses before mixing negronis. Tasted good to me, so I risked doing it myself (with a less fancy, aged balsamic) when I got home.

It's great. Then I went online and apparently it's not a new discovery. Anyway, recommended.