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
Sazerac - basically a Louisiana old fashioned
- 2 oz Rye whiskey
- 1/4 oz dark simple syrup ( like Turbinado, Demerara, etc)
- 5ish dashes of Peychaud’s bitters
- rinse glass with absinthe (I swear it doesn’t taste like anise/licorice at all in the end)
- lemon twist
- serve straight up
A gin and tonic with Squirt
Well,
Do you make yours with a split base of rye and cognac or do you go for straight rye? Love me a good Sazerac! If you haven’t had one yet, give the bijou or la louisiane a try too. Both are delicious new orleans style cocktails
A white russian or a raspberry or mango mojito
Jameson Whiskey
Ginger Ale
Ice
Squeeze of lime
Lime slices
Daytime: Caeser
Nighttime: Negroni or Manhattan
Those are my go to as well, except bloody Mary, but similar to a Caesar.
Dark & Stormy is my favorite, from what I’ve tried
My usuals are the Black Russian and the Gin and Tonic.
Black Russian = 1 jigger vodka, 1 jigger kahlua and coke, in a tall glass.
G&T = 2 jigger gin, a splash of Rose’s lemon squash and tonic water, in a tall glass.
I’ve invited one based on my taste for palomas and pisco sour. El Condor:
- 1oz of Tequila or Mezcal
- 1oz of Pisco (Peruvian)
- 0.5oz Syrup Agave (you can find it in the muesli section) or simple syrup
- 2oz Lime juice
- 2oz grapefruit juice
- 1 Eggwhite to shake if you like it more smooth
- chili salt rim or chilistring garnish
Probably the best cocktail I did so far.
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:
- Margarita.
- Vesper.
- 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.
The Last Word is my favorite, but I rarely have the ingredients on hand. The Bees Knees is a more common go-to.
Naked & Famous is my favorite. It’s been described as the result of a Oaxacan love affair between The Last Word and a Paper Plane.
Monte Carlo
1.5oz Bourbon, 0.5 Benedictine, 2 dashes Angostura
I don’t do cocktails much, mostly because I don’t really have the ingredients around. One I like to do now and then is whisky (around half the drink, preferably spicy rye) and the rest about equal proportions of apple juice and ginger ale, poured over a chunk of ice.
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.
