Cocktails for Beginners

[Tank Girl]

If you like the pineapple tropical type ones:

Blue Lagoon - 3 parts vodka, 1 part blue bols, 4 parts pineapple, 1 lemon.

All fruit juice based cocktails need the bastard shaken out of them. Do not shake cocktails with fizzy drinks in them... you won't be the first

I do like a blue drink now and again, but they make me feel very ropey the next day and make your poo go green

 

[tarannau]

I was going to stick up for him about Tequila Sunrises, but then he mentioned that Tomato filth. No brought up.

 

[Idaho]

Yeah vodka does me for some reason too.

 

[Tank Girl]

my favourite cocktail when I was a teenager was vodka, blue bols, peach shnapps and lemonade.

or a variation was to replace the lemonade for diamond blush

 

[milesy]

hurray it's pick on milesy time again

when's it *not*

and of course a bloody mary is a cocktail. anyone who says it isn't is either an idiot or someone purposefully trying to annoy me

 

[Idaho]

Kick his fucking face off

(steams in to milesy)

(gives chinese burn)

(runs off)

 

[moonsi til]

my favourite cocktail when I was a teenager was vodka, blue bols, peach shnapps and lemonade.

or a variation was to replace the lemonade for diamond blush

I still make and reccomend here...vodka, cava, peach snapps and orange juice. Make it into a big jug and noone will feel the cold.

 

[MsShirlLaverne]

Try my tagline, 50/50 each. It's known as a Cherry Bakewell. (it's not very sophisticated and it should be drunk from a canteen slung around your neck, but hey, some people like a challenge)

 

[Cadmus]

Bacardi + coke + lemon juice + bit of lime juice + slice of lime = Cuba libre

 

[subversplat]

Make some Mint Juleps and pretend to be Hunter S Thompson

Put mint, sugar, and a small amount of crushed or shaved ice into the bottom of a julep cup or tall glass. [Optional: Muddle the mint and sugar, then let stand for a bit to allow the broken leaves to release their flavor.] Add bourbon whiskey, top off with crushed or shaved ice, and stir well to mix and chill the libation.

This is another one you can make en-masse and just add the garnishes as you serve.

 

[pootle]

Ta everyone!

Bloody Mary's will be for the morning/lunchtime after the night before though.

I've got too much choice now though, although I can say emphatically that they're won't be any redbull and I *probably* won't be buying any Buckie either!

Might just cheat and go and get some of those cocktail mixes...

 

[Idaho]

Make some Mint Juleps and pretend to be Hunter S Thompson



This is another one you can make en-masse and just add the garnishes as you serve.

Not technically a cocktail

Neither is Mojito as it goes. A true cocktail should be a spirit, a cordial and some fruit juice.

 

[Idaho]

Might just cheat and go and get some of those cocktail mixes...

There is no need for that

 

[hiccup]

Not technically a cocktail

Neither is Mojito as it goes. A true cocktail should be a spirit, a cordial and some fruit juice.

Sez who? None of the nice cocktails have fruit juice in.

 

[Idaho]

Sez who? None of the nice cocktails have fruit juice in.

Say those of us who set themselves up as know-it-all authorities on the history of mixed drinks.

 

[Herbsman.]

So... is anyone rimming before making their cocktails? I heard that rimming makes all the difference to a cocktail. Don't forget to use rimming sugar to make that rim taste lovely and sweet

 

[Idaho]

I used to rim the glass with salt for a Margherita. But have since decided that it actually tastes a lot better when shaken into the drink.

 

[subversplat]

So... is anyone rimming before making their cocktails? I heard that rimming makes all the difference to a cocktail. Don't forget to use rimming sugar to make that rim taste lovely and sweet

I like to add a powdered colour to my rimming. Sometimes the rimming is sweet but sometimes I like my rimming salty.

 

[hiccup]

Hmmmm, innuendo aside, margarita's rimmed with white powder could be...pleasant.

 

[milesy]

Not technically a cocktail

Neither is Mojito as it goes. A true cocktail should be a spirit, a cordial and some fruit juice.

oooh is this an actual fact or just someone being argumentative on teh internets?

 

[milesy]

a zombie, about...now

 

[Idaho]

Ooh zombies. Damn good drink that isn't it?

The cocktail 'fact' was read by me in a book on the history of cocktails. So it could be bollocks, but it is bollocks I restated in good faith.

 

[milesy]

it sure is, although the missus had to top hers up a bit with extra pineapple juice

and in that case, idaho, i take your word for it, and if i repeat it to someone else and get told i'm talking bollocks, i'll tell them someone on teh internets told me it

 

[Idaho]

If it seems too strong - that is often because of insufficient ice. Shake it with about 8 cubes and have 5-7 fresh cubes in the glass too.

 

[Herbsman.]

milesy hasn't been rimming

 

[Bernie Gunther]

A variation. The 'Killer Zombie'

White, Gold, Dark Rum, Orgeat Syrup, Orange & Pineapple Juice, Blue Curacao topped up with Woods 100 Rum (or some other kind of stupidly overproof rum if you can get it)

 

[Tank Girl]

I feel all nice and warm

I'll be sufficiently tipsy to cope with the bus to Prod after the next one

 

[milesy]

the second one's much better, shaken over ice. i had thought about it with the first lot but, er, didn't. cheers idaho, my New Best Friend.

 

[Herbsman.]

I've one called the ginger ninja, it's stone's ginger wine, whiskey, white rum topped up with ginger ale and with a piece of crystalized ginger in the bottom. Rimmed with ginger flavoured sugar (sugar that's been left in a sealed jar with a few pieces of fresh ginger for months)

This cocktail ruined my life exactly two years ago

 

[Tank Girl]

I'm really intriqued as to how it ruined your life

cocktails are goooooooooood