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Title says it all, but I might as well go on, because I do so like to see myself write. I'm looking for simple (2-5 ingredients and without any complicated measures/proportions/serving directions) cocktail recipes that taste good and won't make me sound like a complete tit when I offer them to people visiting my dorm. I figure, given the number of drinkers on NSG, there should be plenty of recipes floating around.

My favorite drinks are Screwdrivers (made with Absolut) and Cuba Libres (made with Brugal), which should demonstrate both my tastes and the sort of recipes I'm looking for.

1 Jigger Gin (I like Bombay Sapphire)
1 Pony Sloe Gin
Fill rest of glass with 7-UP, serve with ice

Well, considering my favorites are Screwdrivers and Cuba Libres, I can't really help you. Other than the fact that root beer makes a good mixer with vanilla vodka, that is.

I'm a fan of whiskey sours and amaretto sours. Both are exceedingly easy and quite yummy.

I'm a fan of whiskey sours and amaretto sours. Both are exceedingly easy and quite yummy.

Seconding the amaretto sours.

Meh, I'm a mojito-man myself. Although I find them easy to make as well...

equal parts: vodka, gin, rum, tequilla, triple sec. fill glass with sour mix, spalsh of coke.
name: long island iced tea

Cuba Libre is always with bacardi, otherwise it is rum and coke.

Gin and tonic

almost anything and sprite

almost anything and ginger ale

Cuba Libre is always with bacardi, otherwise it is rum and coke.

I find Bacardi Gold makes the best Libres.

Gin...

Yeah... just gin...


However, martinis are very easy, and very classy.
-As many parts gin as you like
-Tiniest splash of vermouth
Serve.

If you want to step away from the citrus drinks (and I too enjoy Amaretto sours), I suggest an Old Fashioned (although you may need to experiment to decide how you like it). Essentially, it is composed of the following:

Whiskey
Bar Syrup (or sugar) and Soda Water (Sprite can serve, but it's not the same)
Several (5-8) shakes of angostura bitters (the most important ingredient)

Traditional recipes also call for an orange slice and a cherry to be mangled up on the bottom, but I hate that. You can drink it without additions. I personally like it with cocktail mushrooms or olives.

The angostura bitters is definitely worth buying; it lasts forever and makes a big change to the flavor of a drink, which can be handy when you're experimenting with your own concoctions.

The perfect martini:

1 glass of chilled gin
1 olive garnish
Drink while staring intently at a bottle of Vermouth.

the trotsky:
about a third of a glass of equal parts rum and vodka, add some ice, fill most of the rest of the way with rootbeer. add a splash of gin if you have it, though this isn't technically necessary.

it tastes like flat rootbeer. if you aren't careful, you wind up drinking as if it was just rootbeer. which is where it got its name - we drank a few too many too quickly when we invented it. wham, like an icepick to the fucking forehead.

the trotsky:
about half a glass of equal parts rum and vodka, fill most of the rest of the way with rootbeer. add a splash of gin if you have it, though this isn't technically necessary.

it tastes like flat rootbeer. if you aren't careful, you wind up drinking as if it was just rootbeer. which is where it got its name - we drank a few too many too quickly when we invented it. wham, like an icepick to the fucking forehead.

We developed something along those lines, but never named it...

I like Lemon Drops. If you're going to have girls around, offer them to girls. Vodka, fresh lemon juice, cointreau, and a little sugar. Shake and strain into a glass.

We developed something along those lines, but never named it...

is good stuff, wouldn't you agree?

There's a delicious cocktail that a bar in the City makes that I've never seen anywhere else, but it does take a little fuss. It's basil and blackberry with vodka, bitters and ginger beer. Amazing, and you can not taste the alcohol (they use high quality stuff).

On that note: If you are an undergrad, especially in your first two years, Absolut is a respectable choice and one your friends will thank you for. Skyy was generally the best anyone did my frosh year. However, if you can afford it, I'd suggest Ketel One as an upgrade. Runs about $22 bucks a bottle. There are better, but it's a good mid-high vodka.

the trotsky:
about a third of a glass of equal parts rum and vodka, add some ice, fill most of the rest of the way with rootbeer. add a splash of gin if you have it, though this isn't technically necessary.

it tastes like flat rootbeer. if you aren't careful, you wind up drinking as if it was just rootbeer. which is where it got its name - we drank a few too many too quickly when we invented it. wham, like an icepick to the fucking forehead.

I am so filing this away for experimentation. Any specifics on brands?

My 2 top simple cocktails(basically all I drink)

1. Captain and Coke

2. Stoli and Mountain dew/Vault

There's a delicious cocktail that a bar in the City makes that I've never seen anywhere else, but it does take a little fuss. It's basil and blackberry with vodka, bitters and ginger beer. Amazing, and you can not taste the alcohol (they use high quality stuff).

On that note: If you are an undergrad, especially in your first two years, Absolut is a respectable choice and one your friends will thank you for. Skyy was generally the best anyone did my frosh year. However, if you can afford it, I'd suggest Ketel One as an upgrade. Runs about $22 bucks a bottle. There are better, but it's a good mid-high vodka.

I respectfully disagree. Stolichnaya beats Absolut hands down. Though I agree Ketel one is an upgrade over both.

Manhattan: Two ounces of rye whisky(bourbon also works really, really well), one ounce of vermouth, a dash of Angostura bitters (available in any supermarket), shake in a martini shaker or serve on the rocks. Garnish with maraschino cherry.

Rusty nail: Equal parts whisky and Cointreau. Serve on the rocks with a twist of orange.

Moscow mule: Two ounces of vodka and the juice of half a lime, fill the glass with ginger beer.

Those are my old standbys, anyway. Smoky martinis (substitute a splash of whisky with some or all of your vermouth) are good, too.

I am so filing this away for experimentation. Any specifics on brands?

not really. i stay away from the ultra cheap alcohols on general principles (though cheap rootbeer is fine), personally.

Seriously, serving cocktails, will that be followed by a discussion on Kierkegaard - existentialist or postmodernist - possibly catch a Ingmar Bergman film after?

Surely your butler will have a few cocktails under his sleeve?

Dirty Martini - Vodka, Vermouth and brine - you then have lots of olives to eat as well. Vodka is versatile for the end when you have no more vermouth but plenty of Coke or Sprite.

In a couple of years, the Dirty Martini will be the celebrated drink in all the magazines, much as the Mojito has been for the past few years, for now it's favoured merely by the few.

Be the few.

Title says it all, but I might as well go on, because I do so like to see myself write. I'm looking for simple (2-5 ingredients and without any complicated measures/proportions/serving directions) cocktail recipes that taste good and won't make me sound like a complete tit when I offer them to people visiting my dorm. I figure, given the number of drinkers on NSG, there should be plenty of recipes floating around.

My favorite drinks are Screwdrivers (made with Absolut) and Cuba Libres (made with Brugal), which should demonstrate both my tastes and the sort of recipes I'm looking for.

Mellonball

Screwdriver + midori

So vodka, orange juice and midori

Seems to be your style

Manhattan: Two ounces of rye whisky(bourbon also works really, really well), one ounce of vermouth, a dash of Angostura bitters (available in any supermarket), shake in a martini shaker or serve on the rocks. Garnish with maraschino cherry.


I am not the only one that drinks these! YAY

My family is big into them though we go a bit different route

Use Canadian whiskey (3 to 1 ratio instead of 2 to 1) and add a bit of the cherry juice to it but otherwise the same

Also note that we use sweet vermouth for a regular Manhattans but there are many different forms using dry or combinations. (I still prefer sweet). Also have run into many areas where ordering "A Manhattan" means a brandy Manhattan

If that is more your style simply replace whisky with brandy with same proportions.

Seconding the amaretto sours.

motion carried

Gimlet
Put two ice cubes in a martini glass, add two measures of gin and one measure of Rose's Lime Cordial.

But for a general rule mix two measures of your favourite spirit (gin, vodka, surgical spirit, whatever), one measure of your favourite liqueur (cointreau, benedictine, midori, cough syrup) and top up with your favourite fruit juice.





(The surgical spirit and cough syrup are jokes)

White Russian for me. Very easy to make. Great to have on hand when watching Big Liebowski.

Cuba Libre: Rum, coca cola and a sprinkling of lemon juice. Serve on the rocks, enjoy.

Cocktails... I never really think of these as cocktails... but i suppose you could add ice and something else and give them a funny name and then wham you have a cocktail.

1) Drambuie with lemonade
2) Jägermeister with coke
3) Hot chocolate with Cointreau -- it's like a chocolate orange (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry%27s_Chocolate_Orange) in a drink

I tried the first after trying Drambuie neat. I don't know what they put in it, but that shit is strong (and tasty)... and I can drink vodka as though it were water.

This one probably is a bit too complicated for what you want....

Singapore Sling

6 Measures of gin, 3 measures cherry brandy, 1 measure cointreau, 1 measure benedictine, 1 measure lime juice, 1 measure grenadine shaken together in a cocktail shaker. Pour into highball glasses and then top either with soda water or a mixture of equal parts pineapple and orange juice.

Title says it all, but I might as well go on, because I do so like to see myself write. I'm looking for simple (2-5 ingredients and without any complicated measures/proportions/serving directions) cocktail recipes that taste good and won't make me sound like a complete tit when I offer them to people visiting my dorm. I figure, given the number of drinkers on NSG, there should be plenty of recipes floating around.

My favorite drinks are Screwdrivers (made with Absolut) and Cuba Libres (made with Brugal), which should demonstrate both my tastes and the sort of recipes I'm looking for.

Orange Juice
Carrot Juice
Strawberry Juice

Mix together with some yogurt and you've got a delicious cocktail!

Title says it all, but I might as well go on, because I do so like to see myself write. I'm looking for simple (2-5 ingredients and without any complicated measures/proportions/serving directions) cocktail recipes that taste good and won't make me sound like a complete tit when I offer them to people visiting my dorm. I figure, given the number of drinkers on NSG, there should be plenty of recipes floating around.

My favorite drinks are Screwdrivers (made with Absolut) and Cuba Libres (made with Brugal), which should demonstrate both my tastes and the sort of recipes I'm looking for.

The Harvey Wallbanger is an improvement on the screwdriver, because it tastes better when you puke it up.

don't drink because i'm underage but my favourite cocktail i have heard of is the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster,which according to the Guide feels like ''having one's brains smashed out by a slice of lemon wrapped around a large gold brick''.

Slow Comfortable Screw - that's sloe gin, Southern Comfort, vodka, amaretto and orange juice. Goes down easy.

Mr friends and I came up with a variation on Diesel - thats beer, cider and a dash of blackcurrant which resembles agricultural fuel, hence the name - by adding wine. We called it Vin Diesel and invented purely for the amusing name.

don't drink because i'm underage but my favourite cocktail i have heard of is the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster,which according to the Guide feels like ''having one's brains smashed out by a slice of lemon wrapped around a large gold brick''.

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Bartending/Cocktails/Pan_Galactic_Gargle_Blaster
* 1 oz. (30 ml) EverClear
* 4 oz. (120 ml) Bombay Sapphire or Jeremiah Weed
* 4 oz. (120 ml) Cold Wild Turkey
* 2 oz. (60 ml) Herredura Tequila
* 5 oz. (150 ml) Rum
* 1 worm from bottle of Mezcal
* 2 oz. (60 ml.) Gatorade

Oh yeah, that'll do bad things to your brain.

Ahh one a flat mate of last year told me, its not too simple and its a bit like Diesel (the cocktail not the fuel), very nice though :)

Start off with a Smirnoff Ice or WKD blue, a whole standard size bottle into a pint glass.
Add roughly a third of a pint of Strongbow apple cider.
Some black currant cordial.
A shot or two of Vodka.

Think that's it, I enjoy them. :)

Also note that we use sweet vermouth for a regular Manhattans but there are many different forms using dry or combinations.

Yeah, I think "perfect" Manhattans are needlessly complicated. I prefer them sweet myself, which is why bourbon is such a great substitute for rye.

Seriously, serving cocktails, will that be followed by a discussion on Kierkegaard - existentialist or postmodernist - possibly catch a Ingmar Bergman film after?

Surely your butler will have a few cocktails under his sleeve?

Dirty Martini - Vodka, Vermouth and brine - you then have lots of olives to eat as well.
In a couple of years, the Dirty Martini will be the celebrated drink in all the magazines, much as the Mojito has been for the past few years, for now it's favoured merely by the few.

Be the few.
Yes on the dirty martini. It is an amazing drink. But have it with gin (a true martini), not vodka (officially a martini, but not nearly as good.)

Manhattan is my drink. The way my wife and I like it is:
2 parts whiskey to 1 part sweet vermouth
few drops angostura bitters
few drops creme de cacao
"fresh" slice of orange peel

My personal favorite bourbon for this drink is Kentucky Tavern. Jim Beam and Early Times are also nice from time to time.
I prefer Gallo Sweet Vermouth.
I stir the drink, add ice, stir a little more, add a little more ice.

Title says it all, but I might as well go on, because I do so like to see myself write. I'm looking for simple (2-5 ingredients and without any complicated measures/proportions/serving directions) cocktail recipes that taste good and won't make me sound like a complete tit when I offer them to people visiting my dorm. I figure, given the number of drinkers on NSG, there should be plenty of recipes floating around.

My favorite drinks are Screwdrivers (made with Absolut) and Cuba Libres (made with Brugal), which should demonstrate both my tastes and the sort of recipes I'm looking for.

This recipe for a cosmo is stolen from an international corporation I will not name.

2 ounces vodka (I suggest goose, svedka, or belvie but their recipe calls for kettle 1)

1/2 ounce peachtree scnapp's
1/2 ounce peach simple syrup

cranberry juice.

shake with ice and strain into a chilled 5 oz. martini glass. garnish with a lime (traditional) or drop a cherry in the center.

Black Velvet - Guinness and champagne can go quite a long way if you want something cheap that most people will like. Bismark's favourite drink apparently.

Molotov Cocktail:

1x Glass bottle
1x Petrol-soaked rag
1x Lighter/matches
2/3rds Petrol
1/3rd Oil

Voila! A fiery cocktail that livens up any venue!

This recipe for a cosmo is stolen from an international corporation I will not name.

2 ounces vodka (I suggest goose, svedka, or belvie but their recipe calls for kettle 1)

1/2 ounce peachtree scnapp's
1/2 ounce peach simple syrup

cranberry juice.

shake with ice and strain into a chilled 5 oz. martini glass. garnish with a lime (traditional) or drop a cherry in the center.

I've never heard of it being made with peach anything...

Traditional cosmo is CCCL: 6 count Citron, 3 count Cointreau, 1 count cranberry juice, quick dash of Rose's Lime Juice

Manhattan is my drink. The way my wife and I like it is:
2 parts whiskey to 1 part sweet vermouth
few drops angostura bitters
few drops creme de cacao
"fresh" slice of orange peel

My personal favorite bourbon for this drink is Kentucky Tavern. Jim Beam and Early Times are also nice from time to time.
I prefer Gallo Sweet Vermouth.
I stir the drink, add ice, stir a little more, add a little more ice.

Why? does not sound good to me at all (the bolded part) I am a fan of Manhattans as with previous posts but still... never heard of adding anything chocolate to them

Molotov Cocktail:

1x Glass bottle
1x Petrol-soaked rag
1x Lighter/matches
2/3rds Petrol
1/3rd Oil

Voila! A fiery cocktail that livens up any venue!

soak plastic silverware or styrofoam in the gas/oil...it'll stableize it somewhat.:wink:

Orange Juice
Carrot Juice
Strawberry Juice

Mix together with some yogurt and you've got a delicious cocktail!

Needs vodka.

I've never heard of it being made with peach anything...

Traditional cosmo is CCCL: 6 count Citron, 3 count Cointreau, 1 count cranberry juice, quick dash of Rose's Lime Juice

right, but like I said this is from an international corporation's bar book. It's not the traditional way to make it. I've never heard of using Citron in a traditional cosmo. Try it and see if u like it.

did you know that the word ''Molotov Cocktail'' was invented by the finnish?here's the wiki article on the molotov cocktail:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov_cocktail

right, but like I said this is from an international corporation's bar book. It's not the traditional way to make it. I've never heard of using Citron in a traditional cosmo. Try it and see if u like it.

Yeah, I know from it's from an international corp, but I have no idea where they got the idea that there is peach anything in a cosmo...it's lemon, lime, and cranberry.

As for citron, it is what was originally used and what is called for by the IBA


Mind you, I hate flavored martinis, outside of the dirty martini. Hangovers in an inconvenient glass, they are.

Coffee and vodka?
Vodka and vodka?
?????

Give me your alcohol, I'll drink it for you.

Why? does not sound good to me at all (the bolded part) I am a fan of Manhattans as with previous posts but still... never heard of adding anything chocolate to them

Adding a "few drops creme de cacao" is the trick. Actually wasn't our original idea. Read in a bar book (like 35 years ago) that creme de cacao is sometimes added in place of the bitters. Tried it and liked it :) Now we add both! It's kind of like adding cocoa powder to chilli. If you actually taste the chocolate flavor you've added too much. But the nice thing about food and drink is we all have different tastes and can explore those without hurting anyone.

Yeah, I know from it's from an international corp, but I have no idea where they got the idea that there is peach anything in a cosmo...it's lemon, lime, and cranberry.

As for citron, it is what was originally used and what is called for by the IBA


Mind you, I hate flavored martinis, outside of the dirty martini. Hangovers in an inconvenient glass, they are.

They got the idea of peach because it makes it taste delicious. Give it a shot one time. You can't drink too many of them. 2 is the most I've had at a time then switching to the dirty martini you just listed. MMM, vodka and olives.

The greatest of all forgotten cocktail recipes: the Pegu Cocktail

http://www.vintagecocktails.com/featured.html

Ingredients :
- 1 1/2 oz gin
- 1/2 oz Cointreau (or other orange liqueur)
- 1/2 oz lime juice
- 2 dashes Angostura bitters

Shake with cracked ice, then strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

Deus vult. Bibete!

They got the idea of peach because it makes it taste delicious. Give it a shot one time. You can't drink too many of them. 2 is the most I've had at a time then switching to the dirty martini you just listed. MMM, vodka and olives.

I'm sure it's delicious, but it isn't a cosmo...the recipe you listed is similar to a WooWoo (equal parts peachtree and vodka, splash of cranberry juice)...nothing in a cosmo has peach flavor

That said, I'm not a big fan of sugary drinks. Give me a gin and tonic or rum and coke or long island iced tea or gin dirty martini extra dry any day

Mario Themed Cocktails: http://scrollbar.dk/events/20080215.Mario.Bar/

Final Fantasy Cocktails: http://scrollbar.dk/events/20080509.Final.Fantasy.Night/

Easy Cocktails:

Cape Codder
- 2 oz vodka
- 5 oz cranbbery juice
- lime wedge

Kamikaze
- 2 oz Vodka
- 1 tsp Lime Juice
- 1/2 oz Triple Sec
- lime wedge

Aviation
- 2 oz Gin
- 1/2 oz Maraschino liqueur
- 1/2 oz Fresh lemon juice

Boston Sidecar
- 1 oz Light Rum
- 1/2 oz Brandy
- 1/2 oz Triple Sec
- 1/2 oz Lemon Juice

I mixed some white tequila with some Squirt, added some ice.

i was pleasantly surprised

Final Fantasy Cocktails: http://scrollbar.dk/events/20080509.Final.Fantasy.Night/

Do want Phoenix Down.

I respectfully disagree. Stolichnaya beats Absolut hands down. Though I agree Ketel one is an upgrade over both.

I may be biased. I have memories of shots of Stoli I'd rather not revisit.

Square One is a wonderful artisan vodka, if you haven't had it. And it's organic, for people who care (I don't).

Best vodka...Triple 8...'tis amazing....

EDIT: Though Zubrowka is also yummy.

I am not the only one that drinks these! YAY

My family is big into them though we go a bit different route

Use Canadian whiskey (3 to 1 ratio instead of 2 to 1) and add a bit of the cherry juice to it but otherwise the same

Also note that we use sweet vermouth for a regular Manhattans but there are many different forms using dry or combinations. (I still prefer sweet). Also have run into many areas where ordering "A Manhattan" means a brandy Manhattan

If that is more your style simply replace whisky with brandy with same proportions.

My grandfather drinks Manhattans, they always remind me of him. He makes them with whiskey and sweet and dry vermouth. No cherry juice. It looks very classy and 40's when he drinks it.

(The surgical spirit and cough syrup are jokes)

But will work in a pinch.

White Russian for me. Very easy to make. Great to have on hand when watching Big Liebowski.

How did I forget the White Russian? Good call. Also if you're looking for taste and not intoxication, Kahlua and cream alone is tasty.

3) Hot chocolate with Cointreau -- it's like a chocolate orange (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry%27s_Chocolate_Orange) in a drink

I'm not big on mixing orange and chocolate, but a little (or a lot) of Kahlua in hot chocolate is delicious.

Start off with a Smirnoff Ice or WKD blue, a whole standard size bottle into a pint glass.
Add roughly a third of a pint of Strongbow apple cider.
Some black currant cordial.
A shot or two of Vodka.

You can only drink this if you're a girl, or act like one.

Kamikaze
- 2 oz Vodka
- 1 tsp Lime Juice
- 1/2 oz Triple Sec
- lime wedge

I second the Kamikaze, but then, I was already losing my balance when I had it.

Learned this one from a hotel in Chimayo, New Mexico:

Chimayo:
1 part tequila
2 parts tart apple cider (adjust proportions to taste)
dash grenadine (optional)
garnish with thin apple slice

Simple, easy, unusual, yummy.

If you've got nothing else in the house, Stoli Vanil splashed into Coke makes a Vanilla Coke worth drinking. In fact, Stoli Vanil can be splashed into just about anything and make it worth drinking. ;)

Also, everyone should learn how to make (and drink) a martini.

My grandfather drinks Manhattans, they always remind me of him. He makes them with whiskey and sweet and dry vermouth. No cherry juice. It looks very classy and 40's when he drinks it.

Those are perfect Manhattans with the two vermouths

Tell ya what with 3 to 1 with whiskey they will fuck you up fast lol

http://www.drinksmixer.com/drinkvw14727.html

I was already wasted when I started drinking them, but I believe I liked it.

http://www.channel4.com/more4/media/images/documentaries/R/russia/gallery2/trotsky_384x350.jpg

the trotsky wins, i tells ya

I believe the recipe is called "Tokyo Lights".
1 part Vodka
1 part Gin
2 parts Calpis

Space Rift Royale
5 parts gin
3 parts vermouth

2 olives and crushed ice, shaken, not stirred.


I stole it from a TV show :)