Cocktail Recipes Tonight

[voyager]

Too much gimlets make me sick.  

[Sneakeater]

12 minutes ago, small h said:

Too much gin makes me angry.

Not just you!

[voyager]

It's not the gin or vodka; it's the lime juice!  

[small h]

2 hours ago, Sneakeater said:

Not just you!

That sounds more like the lack of gin makes people angry.

49 minutes ago, voyager said:

It's not the gin or vodka; it's the lime juice!  

I'll switch to lemon juice!

[Sneakeater]

I am sitting at the bar of a restaurant where I have just had an all-Piemontese dinner.

For my nightcap, I had the bartender make me a sort of Piemontese Boulevardier, with Cardamaro swapped in for Campari and Cocchi Americano Rosso swapped in for sweet Vermouth (Bourbon remains Bourbon, and Angostura remains Angostura).

Boy is it good. 

[Sneakeater]

On 9/6/2021 at 9:37 PM, small h said:

[delete] [technically ill-considered]

[small h]

That doesn't sound like me at all.

[bloviatrix]

Space Gin Smash. 

[Evelyn]

I've made Gin Smashes. But what is in the Space version?

[bloviatrix]

Space Gin Smash -

6 mint leaves

2 seedless green grapes

1 green apple slice

1 lemon wedge

1/2 ounce simple syrup

1 1/4 ounces Gin

Garnish: apple slice fan

Garnish: mint sprig

Garnish: green grape

Muddle mint, grapes, apple slice, lemon, and simple syrup. Add gin. Shake vigorously over ice. Double strain into a rocks glass filled with cracked ice. Garnish with an apple fan, grape and mint sprig.

[Evelyn]

Thank you!

[StephanieL]

We had dinner with some old friends from college yesterday.  The husband has a large whiskey/bourbon collection, and when he was offering to make me a cocktail I noticed he had a bottle of Drambuie.  Turns out he hadn't opened it yet, so I suggested we have Rusty Nails.  Basically, it's 1 1/2 oz. of Scotch mixed with 3/4 oz. Drambuie in a rocks glass with ice.

Between that and the 2 glasses of Pinot Noir, I had a very mellow evening.  (It was a long week.)

[Sneakeater]

Not to be too obsessive, but thinking back to my Piemontese Boulevardier, I can’t help but reflect on how the substitution of Cardamaro for Campari turns an aperitif cocktail into a digestivo. 

(I’m very proud of this one.)

[Sneakeater]

Wait a minute.  Now I’m thinking, going with the digestivo theme, that instead of Americano Rosso you use Dopo Teatro.

This is going to be EPIC. 

[Sneakeater]

A perfect aperitif cocktail that I unfortunately had as a digestif.

Montreal

3/4 oz. Gin

3/4 oz. Rye (should be Canadian) (wasn't)

3/4 oz. Aperol

3/4 oz.  Suze

Stir (duh).

Garnish with a grapefruit twist.  (Don't tell anyone, but not having grapefruit I used lemon.) (It's easy to see how grapefruit would have been better, though.)