Rug Burn Junky on 8/8/2009 at 20:18
I'm loving the cocktail renaissance lately. After years of only being able to get a good cocktail if I mixed it myself, there are a good half dozen that I've been haunting regularly for the past two years. High-end liquors, real fruit juices and fresh ingeredients mixed by bartenders who know what they're doing and care about it. Sign me up.
I have a number of faves, but tops is PDT, a speakeasy hidden behind a phone-booth in a hot dog joint in the east village. Having gone there a half dozen times in short order when it first opened, I got friendly with one of the bartenders, who would make me off-menu drinks that were out of this world. The drink that he gave me a real new appreciation for is the Old Fashioned. Now that I'm out of work, and with a fully stocked home bar at my disposal, I've been doing lots of experimenting with mixology.
My current go-to drink is the Tequila Old fashioned.
Muddle a quarter lime in the bottom of a shaker, with a teaspoon of raw agave syrup.
Add 2 parts tequila, 1 part Luxardo maraschino liqueur, dash of bitters, and shake. Strain over crystal ice cubes in a double rocks glass.
This week I added a couple of new ones to the repertoire. On a lark, I made a (
http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2009/08/the-colbert-bump-eponymous-signature-stephen-colbert-cocktail-cherry-heering-gin-recipe.html) Colbert Bump, after his episode on Wednesday. Passable, but needed a little sweetening with grenadine to my taste.
The other, far superior drink was a variation on the Bramble, a fantastic summer drink from the great speakeasy Little Branch.
Muddle blueberries and sugar in the bottom of a rocks glass (original recipe calls for blackberries). Fill remainder of glass to brim with chipped ice. Squeeze lemon over ice and fill glass 4/5's with gin.
Can't stress enough how important ice is to a good cocktail: Use filtered water, boil it and let it cool twice before pouring into trays. This will remove most of the oxygen from the water, leaving fewer bubbles and denser cubes able to cool longer with less melting.
If you're really hardcore, chip these ice cubes and pack it into the trays before pouring more prepared water over the chips to re-freeze.
june gloom on 8/8/2009 at 20:38
Vanilla Coke Zero.
I can't remember the last time I had anything alcholic to drink. Literally.
Jenesis on 8/8/2009 at 21:31
Coke Zero, but earlier today Carlsberg Export and Magners during a lengthy barbecue. Other than a few bottles of wine, alcohol on hand consists of Cointreau and Laphroaig. Reading this thread has promted me to add the former to the Coke Zero :)
Thief13x on 8/8/2009 at 22:14
Quote Posted by dethtoll
Vanilla Coke Zero.
I can't remember the last time I had anything alcholic to drink. Literally.
And here I thought you were just and angry drunk:D
Ostriig on 8/8/2009 at 23:45
Now? Water. It's 2.30 am and I called it a night early. Earlier? Some red wine with my dad. Earlier, but not
that earlier, probably the
best beer really better best beer in the world:
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http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb67/Ostriig/silva.jpgI'm back home on holiday now, but once I'm back in England it's gonna be business as usual, for better or worse. We're two Romanians and a Hungarian in the same house, so there's usually a healthy supply of Palinca around, I've got a small personal stash of Absinth off a Slovakian friend, and in the pubs it's usually Jack Daniel's and Staropramen.
TheivingME on 9/8/2009 at 01:07
magners irish cider
PigLick on 9/8/2009 at 02:03
more important question - When are you drinking?
Thief13x on 9/8/2009 at 02:10
No - When are you not drinking?
