What are you drinking right now?

[justinsmnz]



Finished a couple bottles of Gamay and decided to try a new Kangaroo Kicker recipe. That's a "vodka martini" in modern bar speak. I wanted to do a 1:5 vermouth/vodka, so since I'm not that good at math, just did 1 oz Noilly with five oz Tito's. Two dashs Angostura and two dashes Reagan's Orange bitter. Awesome. So awesome I made another.

 

[tropics]

old fashioned

 

[RedLantern]

Bit of green charteruse, bit of brandy, topped with soda.

 

[b1os]

Cuba Libre with 1.5cl lime juice, 5cl Ron Varadero 3, 3cl Flor de Cana 7 and a dash of simple syrup. Topped with coke.

And Gansefoort Fizz.
2oz Flor de Cana 7, 1oz Drambuie, 1oz lemon juice, some dashes Angostura & TBT Creole Bitters, dash of simple syrup. Topped with soda water.

 

[Ambulance Chaser]

Aviation. I think I've perfected the recipe:

2 oz. gin
0.5 oz. maraschino
0.125 oz. creme de violette
0.75 oz. lemon juice

 

[b1os]

^won't work with TBT CdV (edit: The Bitter Truth Crème de Violette).

(But I will try nonetheless)

 

[Bhowie]

Piob, Tito's is my vodka of choice.

 

[Piobaire]



Piob, Tito's is my vodka of choice.

It's hard to go wrong with it...great vodka and is pretty cheap compared to many of the vodkas out there right now.

 

[b1os]

Had a London Buck earlier today. Now back to Cuba Libre, this time less LJ (>1cl), 5cl Varadero 3 and 3cl Flor de Cana 7.

 

[cptjeff]

Another improvisation with my Chambord knockoff. 2oz Barbancourt 8y, 1oz Raspberry liqueur, 1oz lime juice, dash of angostura bitters. It's very good, and one I'll have to remember in the future- there simply aren't enough rum drinks that aren't tiki or long drinks.

 

[Piobaire]

5 oz Wisers
2 oz Noilly Prat
2 eye droppers VTR bitters

x2

 

[b1os]



Another improvisation with my Chambord knockoff. 2oz Barbancourt 8y, 1oz Raspberry liqueur, 1oz lime juice, dash of angostura bitters. It's very good, and one I'll have to remember in the future- there simply aren't enough rum drinks that aren't tiki or long drinks.

Maybe try a Gansevoort Fizz?

 

[Cordwinder]



Another improvisation with my Chambord knockoff. 2oz Barbancourt 8y, 1oz Raspberry liqueur, 1oz lime juice, dash of angostura bitters. It's very good, and one I'll have to remember in the future- there simply aren't enough rum drinks that aren't tiki or long drinks.

I forget what it was called but I think there is a cocktail that uses replaces the gin for rum in a White Lady.

 

[denning]

Variation on the negroni with:
1.25 measure Citadelle Gin
1 measure Lillet Blanc
1 measure Aperol
Dash of Fee Bros. grapefruit bitters

 

[cptjeff]



Maybe try a Gansevoort Fizz?

Fizzes are long drinks. Plenty of options there when it comes to rum.

I'm talking about primarily rum, with a few modifying ingredients.

Oh, and the rum substitution for the white lady is a rum sidecar or an XYZ, depending on the type of rum (XYZ is dark, rum sidecar is probably generic enough to be either). It's not a bad drink, but I'm looking for drinks that aren't simply a substitution in an existing formula. Yeah I can make a rum version of the white lady/sidecar, a rum crusta, or whatnot, but what's rum's answer to, say, the Bobby Burns? The Corpse Reviver?

Rum just hasn't ever been too popular for developing that genre of cocktail, and it's an injustice. A nice dark rum provides a base just as interesting as a whiskey or brandy, both of which appear far more often.