primitives discuss cocktails

[franksolich]

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grasswire  (1000+ posts)      Sun May-31-09 12:10 AM
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have we ever had a thread about cocktails?

I went to the latest hot restaurant in town the other day, which features street food a la Thailand. Little grilled skewers and bits and sauces for dunking and so on.

Someone who was with me ordered a tamarind whiskey sour. I tasted it. I can't get it out of my mind.

And I'm not even a drinker!

Do you like cocktails? If so, what?

Mind_your_head  (1000+ posts)      Sun May-31-09 02:32 AM
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1. Bombay Sapphire & Tonic w/lime at the end of long day is sublime.

Grandma, displaying her good taste:

hippywife  (1000+ posts)        Sun May-31-09 08:11 AM
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2. Back in the day I was once a rusty nail gal and I did a short stint with Long Island ice teas when they were all the rage. (The tequila sunrises in my youth were a mere stepping stone, a gateway if you will before moving on to straight tequila shots. But that was way back in the beginning.)

Then I moved on to just scotch on the rocks and loved to experiment with different wines and a little Frangelico with cream on the rocks or in coffee after dinner. Really never went for all the mixed stuff.

Don't drink at all now but I still miss going to the wine shops and picking up a bottle or two of previously unknown vintage and giving them a whirl.

Besides the on the rocks stuff, franksolich also liked Saint-Louis Beajolais, that bitter red wine that tastes like the blood of one's enemies.  Great wine.

grasswire  (1000+ posts)      Sun May-31-09 12:19 PM
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4. what's in a rusty nail?

and oh lordy -- I had forgotten about tequila sunrises. Ha!

It was when I started frequenting a piano bar and needed a drink to just nurse that I picked my drink of choice: Tanqueray & Schweppe's tonic weith extra lime. Gotta be Schweppe's.

Now I might have one drink and just a few sips of wine per year. I don't know if that's a good thing, or bad. Red wine is supposed to be a benefit to one's health.

hippywife  (1000+ posts)        Sun May-31-09 12:35 PM
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5. It's scotch on the rocks with Kahlua. I stopped the Kahlua when I figured out it was the sugars that keep the alcohol in your system longer and worsen the hangover.

The empressof all   (1000+ posts)        Sun May-31-09 12:43 PM
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6. I use to love the Tequila Sunrises when I was a "kid"

I drank them and Harvey Wallbangers....I remember loving those too.

Now I wouldn't choose a sweet drink and prefer my hard liquor neat or on the rocks with a twist. I had some lovely varieties of Polish vodka this past week. I do enjoy some of the flavored vodkas. Mostly I gravitate to the Scotches now.

I do enjoy a good bottle of wine; especially reds with beef. It's hard to truly savor Indian or Thai food without a beer.

I do enjoy alcohol in limited quantities and mostly with food. That being said...I rarely drink it now...

The Rita Hayworth primitive, who's put down a few in her time:

Tangerine LaBamba  (1000+ posts)      Sun May-31-09 01:11 PM
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7. A Rusty Nail is NOT made with Kahlua. Scotch and Kahlua? Oh, lord, just the thought of it would send the world off its axis.

A Rusty Nail is made with scotch and Drambuie and a twist of lemon peel.

This is one of those cocktails that all booze, a real hard-core drink. Rough stuff..................

The sparkling husband primitive, who omits to list what his wife puts in his drinks:

Stinky The Clown  (1000+ posts)        Sun May-31-09 08:47 AM
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3. I'm not much of a drinker.

When I do have a mixed drink, its pretty basic. Gin and Tonic, Bloody Mary. That's it, actually; just those two. Except when we go to a bar with the kids. They have a whole repertoire that I don't even recognize. Or when I am in Europe and drink on the continent with Brits. Brits are crazy people, you know.

I just enjoy my wine. And not a lot of that, really. A glass a day with supper, so a bottle lasts a pretty good while.

Or beer. I like dark, heavy stouts, porters, and ales. My current favorite is Old Rasputin. This picture is very typical of the head it forms and the color. This stuff requires a knife and fork. It can keep a spoon standing upright in its glass.

japple  (1000+ posts)      Sun May-31-09 06:03 PM
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12. Yeah, give me a Guinness any day. I love porters and stouts as well, and had an Old Rasputin last fall when I was in San Francisco. It was lovely.

I haven't had a "cocktail" in a long time, but I used to love bourbon and water, or bourbon on the rocks. During the hottest days of summer, my husband and I used to make up a batch of frozen dacquiries, usually peach (my favorite), sometimes banana, then drink them quick until your eyeballs freeze. Oy!

eleny  (1000+ posts)      Sun May-31-09 11:20 PM
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17. Oh my god, Old Rasputin - he'll knock me on my ass

I think I still have one bottle of it in the spare fridge. It might not be safe to open.

But it's tasty stuff. When I was younger I liked bock beer.

Tangerine LaBamba  (1000+ posts)      Sun May-31-09 01:17 PM
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8. Wine goes a long way around here, although when sitting around talking with friends, we can go through several bottles before dinner very easily - and nicely.

I enjoy a good cold beer now and then, and, of course, my favorite is the home-town Yuengling lager, but in the warm weather, I mix it with lemonade, to come up with a shandy. Half and half is my preferred ratio, although others may prefer it differently. There's no hard rule - some shady recipes call for ginger ale, but that's never appealed to me.

When I lived in South America, I grew fond of a drink called (Spanish pronunciation, please) "gin con gin. Half gin, half ginger ale. On the rocks. It was good for not-so-great gin, because the ginger ale concealed the harshness of the cheap gin. That's the time-honored way of getting rid of cheap booze - mix it with something.

Today, in fact, would be a great day for a shandy, but the corn-on-the-cob is the compelling item in mouths right now ..............

wakemeupwhenitsover   (1000+ posts)        Sun May-31-09 03:59 PM
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10. Sometimes I like cocktails.

Mostly wine, but if it's really cold I like scotch & water. In the summer I like Tanguaray & tonic with two limes. I also like those lemon drops that became the rage a few years ago. My most favorite cocktail is a Perfect Manhattan, but I only drink them for the maraschino cherries.

cbayer   (1000+ posts)      Sun May-31-09 06:49 PM
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13. I like mojitos and make them whenever I get fresh mint.

Totally refreshing sundown drink.

grasswire  (1000+ posts)      Sun May-31-09 08:10 PM
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14. what's your recipe?

I have a gorgeous bunch of fresh peppermint from the farmer's market. Of course I have no booze in the house except a bit of gin in the freezer. I do have limes, tho.

What's up with this putting gin in the freezer?

cbayer   (1000+ posts)      Sun May-31-09 08:12 PM
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15. I make a simple syrup, then crush the mint into a pulpy mash in it.

Then strain into some rum, lime juice and top with soda water. Add a few fresh mint leaves and there you have it.

I have never made it with peppermint, but it's a fun drink to play with. The amounts of alcohol, simple syrup, lim juice and soda water can all be adjusted until you get the taste you like.

[The Village Idiot]

I don't drink, these people all sound as if they have met their soul mates and it is liquor

[franksolich]

I don't drink, these people all sound as if they have met their soul mates and it is liquor.

I'm still curious as to what the sparkling husband primitive's wife slips into his drinks.

I highly doubt it's a love potion.

[BlueStateSaint]

Coach, I've heard of putting vodka in the freezer, but never gin.  (In my youts, I used to have a bottle of Finlandia Vodka in the freezer pretty much all the time.)

[Karin]

I know!  They all say, "I don't drink AT ALL anymore, but"  and lists what's on the menu for breakfast lunch dinner and snack.      I mean it's every post!  Oh I never drink, but I love my wine, etc. 

Frank, I like your taste in wine.   Personally, an ice cold LaBatt's or 2 on a warm day after doing some yard work & gardening is heaven. 

[DumbAss Tanker]

I don't drink very often these days, once I hit my 40s my stomach just wouldn't take it the way it did when I was a young rowdy.  Mainly whatever's free when the farm neighbors stop by with a cooler on board, or if I'm buying it for a special occasion, a good Pils or Dunkel import beer, perhaps with a couple of shots of Irish whiskey.  I kinda like rum drinks, too, but I'm not a wine guy and gin tastes positively nasty to me...about as nasty as Jaegermeister, which is also repulsive. 

[BadCat]

I don't drink very often these days, once I hit my 40s my stomach just wouldn't take it the way it did when I was a young rowdy.  Mainly whatever's free when the farm neighbors stop by with a cooler on board, or if I'm buying it for a special occasion, a good Pils or Dunkel import beer, perhaps with a couple of shots of Irish whiskey.  I kinda like rum drinks, too, but I'm not a wine guy and gin tastes positively nasty to me...about as nasty as Jaegermeister, which is also repulsive. 

Over in Germany, you find Jaeger in gas stations, next to the Pepto-Bismol.  They sell it as a digestif.
Boggles my mind that people drink that stuff for "pleasure".

[Odin's Hand]

Huh, the DUmmies, by and large, like ***** drinks. I'd have never guessed.

[Chris_]

japple  (1000+ posts)      Sun May-31-09 06:03 PM
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12. Yeah, give me a Guinness any day...

 
This alone - that a DUmbass is possibly tapping into the same keg of ambrosia that I might be - is enough to turn my stomach. Almost makes me want to go drink pisswater with the Brits (something no self-respecting Scotsman would do).

[RobJohnson]

I don't drink, these people all sound as if they have met their soul mates and it is liquor

Of course all of the DUmmies claim: And I'm not even a drinker!

 

[AllosaursRus]

Of course all of the DUmmies claim: And I'm not even a drinker!

 

Johny Walker Red Label is the nectar of the Gods!!!!!!!

[RobJohnson]

Booze must kill the pot buzz. 

[Tucker]

I haven't had a drink in 16 years but scotch on the rocks was my drink of choice.