What are you drinking right now?

[MarkThomas]

Right now it's MHL because I'll always have a little redneck in me.
After this probably a Tom Collins or Moscow Mule.

 

[cocostella]

^ Miller is actually one of those **** beers that tastes aiiight when cold and in the can, not bottle.

Crushed a ****-ton of Mojitos made with Ballast Point "Three Sheets" rum. Moved onto Mount Gaye "Extra Old" Old Fashions with HUmag46 afterwards. Feeling it a tad this morning.

 

[MarkThomas]

^ Miller is actually one of those **** beers that tastes aiiight when cold and in the can, not bottle.

That's exactly why I drink it. I'm a complete beer snob (living in Colorado makes that very easy), but I love me some MHL.

 

[Fang66]



^ Miller is actually one of those **** beers that tastes aiiight when cold and in the can, not bottle.
Crushed a ****-ton of Mojitos made with Ballast Point "Three Sheets" rum. Moved onto Mount Gaye "Extra Old" Old Fashions with HUmag46 afterwards. Feeling it a tad this morning.

That's exactly why I drink it. I'm a complete beer snob (living in Colorado makes that very easy), but I love me some MHL.

 

[Piobaire]

3 oz Citadel gin
.75 oz Noilly Pratt
2 dashes Fee Brothers West Indies Orange bitters
2 spoonfuls olive brine

Garnish 2 olives.

Incredible. Hunts, really, get a bottle of this gin.

 

[b1os]

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[Louis XIV]

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[b1os]

But seriously. A Mint Julep is a Mojito with bourbon. And Sprite. okerface:

 

[b1os]

Red wine at noon (some Sicilian Nero d'Avola), white wine before (Domäne Wachau Grauer Veltliner) dinner and after (some German cuvée of various "summer-y" grapes), beer at dinner, Old Fashioned as bedtime drink (2oz Woodford Reserve, 1 sugar cube, 2d Angostura bitters, 1d TBT orange bitters, lemon (didn't have orange) peel).

 

[Piobaire]

Okay, got some Karlsson vodka. It has character...terrior...what have you. Neat ,I like it. Creamy mouthfeel, has a definite potato/potato peel quality that's pleasing. Made a dirty vodka martini. I'm not crazy about it. Prefer the Tito's if I'm doing vodka but both are inferior to the Citadel gin.

I plan to try this vodka a few different ways. It has weight, backbone, character.

 

[Hampton]

 

[b1os]

Moscow Mule: 20cl Thomas Henry "Spicy Ginger", 7.5cl Smirnoff Black, 1cl lime juice.

 

[Piobaire]

Just got home from a five hour lunch. Made a Moscow Mule here too except I used the fresh ginger syrup I just made:

3 oz Tito's vodka
2 oz homemade ginger syrup
1 oz lime juice
top with soda water

Built in tumbler full of ice. The ginger is so peppery and fresh tasting.

 

[CBrown85]

Just had my go-to for the summer; Negroni.

1 oz Hendricks Gin
1 oz Campari
1 oz Cinzano Rosso

Splash of soda water.

 

[b1os]

Care to share your recipe? Would you change something in a future batch?
I guess it's a good way to get decent results (and save some money) by making your own syrup, unless you can get traditionally brewed ginger beer (or isn't there much of a difference? Fentiman's should be brewed, but I never got my hands on it).

BTW, I now understand that vodkas indeed have quite a different flavor profile (well, not as much as Scotch or alike, but still). Not sure whether I love the Smirnoff Black, but it's interesting.