Your cocktail recipe of choice ?

[boopdeep]

Been enjoying refreshing Gin Fizz: 

Healthy addition of Gin to shaker. Add 1 egg white. Squeeze half a lemon. 2 dashes Simple syrup.  Shake shake shake. add ice to shaker. Shake shake shake. Pour into glass and add soda water to full. Finish with lemon peel. 
 

[Notsocleaver]

On 4/6/2020 at 5:09 PM, ATGroom said:

I have heard some advocate for Chartreuse with cigars - seems like it would overwhelm and kill the palate if you ask me, but I've never tried it so I can't really say. If you are part of the Chartreuse camp though you might enjoy my favourite night ending cocktail, the Last Word:

-1 part gin
-1 part Chartreuse
-1 part maraschino
-1 part lime

Shake well and serve in a float glass. I like to put a homemade maraschino cherry (ie, much less sweet than store bought) in the bottom. If you free pour it maybe go a little lighter on the gin and the lime and a little heavier on the Chartreuse and the maraschino.

It's a bitter sweet herbal complex drink. It tastes very strongly of booze, and so is for serious drinkers only. 

There is also a Final Word variation which replaces the gin with whiskey (Canadian Club whenever I've done it) that is a bit sweeter.

There is also a Fernet About It, which replaces the gin with Fernet Branca, and is getting into the "drink on a dare" category of beverage. It can hit a certain spot for the right kind of masochist though.

This one almost made my list. There is a drink called the Comanche Club that you basically make by dumping a last word and a negroni together into a shaker, reshaking and then straining into two glasses. Absolutely amazing if you are a fan of either cocktail.

[StogieSteve23]

StogieSteve’s Flowering Tea Ketel

Pour the following ingredients into a cocktail shaker over ice and shake vigorously for at least 30 seconds.

- 1.5oz of Ketel One Vodka

- .5oz of St. Germain (or less depending on how floral you like your drinks)

- 1tsp of Blueberry Honey (you can use whatever honey you have)

After the cocktail has been thoroughly shaken and your shaker is a nice frosty consistency, pour its contents into a rocks glass over ice.  Some effort might be required shaking it if the holes got slightly clogged by the honey. 

Top off with Lemon Seltzer.  I used Trader Joes Blueberry Lemonade Seltzer to go with the blueberry honey.  Garnish with a lemon wheel and enjoy!

[Mr.T]

I enjoy a good Old Fashioned most months and a caipirinha in the summer. But I Saw the Gin Fizz so I thought to add the Sloe Gin Fizz which my wife has been enjoying in our ‘shelter in place’ life. I like Sloe Gin in cocktails. So it’s 1oz Sloe Gin ( I like Plymouth Sloe Gin), 1 oz Gin (Hendricks), 1.5 fresh lemon juice, 1 tsp simple syrup, mix and shake and pour and top off with club soda and a slice of lemon and voila!


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[Çnote]

So, not a recipe per se but a technique that I have used:

https://skillet.lifehacker.com/use-an-almost-empty-jam-jar-to-flavor-a-cocktail-1834080513

 

 

[havanaclub]

This is a personal favourite, never have I had a cigar with one but my wife and I enjoy one before a nice dinner.

Caesar
(The Americans call it a Bloody Mary with tomato juice instead of Clamato)

- Pick you favourite Mott’s Clamato(clam and tomato) juice. I enjoy the “works” or “picked bean” one.

-cut up Lime, rub the rim of a large glass with a lime wedge. Then rub the glass in some seasoned rimmer. I use Keg rimmer. Squeeze and toss the lime in.

-toss a handful of ice in the glass and add 2 shots of vodka. I use Belvedere or grey goose.

-4-5 shots of tobasco sauce (I love them spicy)

-1-2 shots of Worcestershire sauce

-add picked beans and put some of the juice from the jar in your large glass. (You could add celery or some add pickled onion or shrimp cocktail)

-Add horseradish

-pour Clamato juice in

-stir and grind fresh ground pepper on the top.




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[gweilgi]

On 4/8/2020 at 10:21 AM, BeerPimp said:

I will say that if you are looking for ice sphere molds get the ones that come with a cooler that you put them in.   It slows the freezing process so you get super clear ice spheres. 

 

This is one of the ones I froze.

Nice idea.

The one problem I have with ice cubes is that they dilute the alcohol.

Oh, and there are always a few -- I like to call them eejits -- who will put ice cubes in their single malt, for which the only suitable punishment is tying them to a chair and force-feeding them raw haggis while playing a medley of Andrew Lloyd Webber musical tunes on the bagpipes.  
 

YMMV, of course...