Sgroppino with peach sorbet instead of lemon.

Sipsmith gin with light tonic.

TYPICA. Confluence gin, Mandarin amaro, Dillions sweet vermouth, garden bitters.

(At Primary Colour in YYC) Sorry-- no picture.

It was pretty good :)

This sounds decent.

I've been making Aviation cocktails lately. The Aviation is a pre-Prohibition cocktail that's basically a gin sour. The recipe is:

2 oz gin
0.5 oz lemon juice
0.25 oz creme de violette (or creme yvette if you can't find creme de violette)
0.5 oz luxardo maraschino

shake with ice in a shaker and strain into a cocktail glass. serve with a cherry.


Separately, I have recently discovered that there's a global shortage of Chartreuse! The monks have apparently decided to limit production. Has anyone been able to find it in stores?

https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/dini...l#post36352212 (Posts # 1892 & 1898)

I made an old fashioned this evening, the first I've ever had so nothing to compare it to.

2 oz blended 12 year scotch
2 dashes orange bitters
Fat teasooon of 3:1 honey syrup
No orange peel

Not bad and a nice warming drink for the fall season.

New one for me— a Vieux Carré Cocktail:

I chose Bulleit Rye and Hennessy Cognac — rather decent cocktail with dinner and not too sweet, despite the vermouth.

• 3/4 ounce rye whiskey
  
• 3/4 ounce cognac
  
• 3/4 ounce sweet vermouth
  
• 1 to 2 dashes Angostura bitters
  
• 1 to 2 dashes Peychaud's Bitters
  
• 1/2 ounce Bénédictine liqueur
  
• Cherry or lemon twist, garnish
  

An Old Fashioned with Scotch? This classic American drink should be made with American whiskey. I make 'em with bourbon sometimes but I like rye better - it's not as sweet.

FDR loved Old Fashioneds, and so did his private secretary, Grace Tully. She started making them with Scotch and discovered she liked them better that way. When she suggested it to FDR one day, he said, "I never heard of such a thing. It's absolutely sacrilegious."

of course it is sacrilegious. Bourbon is my choice but rye is acceptable.

I have a bottle of Four Pillars Green Apple and Rhubarb Gin - one of the best gins I've ever bought, but sadly a limited edition. It's a balmy spring evening here in Melbourne, so I'm going to start off with a G&T with Fever Tree Indian and a lemon slice. I often add a slice of green apple too.

After that? Something shaken - perhaps a Sidecar or Gold Rush. I have a glut of lemons from my garden, plus I just bought a Boston shaker after using a cobbler for years, so I'm keen to take my new toy out for another spin! I caved and bought the Boston after the cobbler got stuck while I was doing a dry shake for a highball of rye, Licor 43, lemon juice, egg white, soda water :rolleyes: I got it unstuck by freezing some water inside, then thawing that down to a large ice block before shaking hard against the lid!

I guess I'll try Rye next. Rittenhouse is on sale at our local Safeway.

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Subbed agave syrup for simple syrup.

This is really good. Notably stronger than the previous one made with 80 or so proof Scotch.

My friend would send that back without the proper ice. It has to be 1 or 2 giant cubes or spheres.

If the ice is good enough for Stanley Tucci's home, it's good enough for mine. :p


Stay tuned to this thread, death star ice spheres are on sale at Amazon today, delivery scheduled for tomorrow.

But he even admits he is missing the proper equipment. I have no idea what death star ice is but I have both 2" cubes or big spheres. Hopefully that's what you are getting too. A luxardo cherry doesn't hurt either in an old fashioned but I am too cheap to buy them.

Drowning the sorrow’s from tonight’s disappointing news with a Vieux Carré (ingredients above).

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Halloween Manhattan. Large cube. No upcharge.

Lazy bartending again tonight...

The Huntsman - a recipe by Bar High Five (Tokyo) which appears in one of my cocktail books
45mL (1.5oz) 101 proof bourbon (I used Wild Turkey 101)
15mL (0.5oz) Chambord
A few dashes of orange bitters, to taste (I love the orange note in this drink, so I usually go for 4-5 dashes)
Stir in a mixing glass over large ice cubes and strain into a chilled glass

My all-time favourite "lazy" drink!

I'm hoping the only things that make this a "Halloween" drink is the bat and you drinking it on Halloween. If there's pumpkin anything added to that beautiful drink, I'm not sure I'll be able to get it out of mind next time I make/order one!

The Chica Sour (Pisco 100 Quebranta, Peruvian Chicha Morada, cinnamon, passion fruit syrup, lime, egg white)

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One of my favorites is:

HOTEL GEORGIA
Tanqueray Gin, Orgeat, Lemon, Orange Blossom Water, Egg White, Nutmeg Dust

(The Hotel Georgia is in Vancouver BC)

Can our European friends start shipping more Green Chartreuse to the US. Asking for a friend that can’t get it in our state and misses our Last Word cocktails.

Of course I meant “their” state and “their” last word since I was asking for a friend 😂

See Post # 166 supra.

Thank you 🙏

I found a bottle at a liquor store in the west loop, Chicago, a couple weeks ago. It was $120...grr.

It's been chilly up here at the cabin in the Northwoods of Wisconsin, Mrs Willie & I enjoyed a Rusty Nail or two in the evening this past week,

We prefer a 2 parts blended scotch with 1 part Drambuie mixOld Fashioneds are THE predominant cocktail in Wisconsin, usually made with Brandy (Wisconsinites drink a staggering % of the brandy compared to the rest of the US). Elsewhere most Old Fashioneds are made with bourbon (we prefer rye if going the bourbon route).

I don't think I've ever seen/heard scotch used in an Old Fashioned.I was lucky when the shortage started and found bottles of green and yellow Chartruese at smaller independent liquor stores, the type of shops that mostly rely on beer and cheap booze sales to survive. They weren't aware of what they had and didn't mark up the price. I wasn't the only one, when I went back to stores that had numerous bottles of both sitting on their shelves, all of the stock had been purchased.

A favorite cocktail of ours with green Charturuese is the Last Word.

For yellow Chartruese we really enjoy Naked & Famous:
https://www.diffordsguide.com/cockta...ked-and-famous

Who knew that lilikoi and bourbon went so well together? Apparently the barman at Bocanova.
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Made G+T's this evening. Excellent.

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Celebrating our British heritage this July 4th :D

At Everson Royce Bar
Mateo St. Margarita (tequila, prickly pear, agave, lime)

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Hope I found the right place for this
Recommendation if in Birmingham (UK)
About 10 mins walk from the railway station.

Fox and Chance
2 for one - 2 Old Fashioned for £16 and all 4 were splendid (no cherry, but decent ice - I didn't think to ask for a cherry )

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If you think it looks like a short measure I think this was taken to illustrate the ice, it may not have been the first one

The Four Pillars Distillery is 45 minutes from my house in Melbourne and they have a dangerously good value happy hour on Friday evenings during the winter: 50% off all gin cocktails!

I also go to the Four Pillars Laboratory whenever I'm in Sydney. It recently celebrated its fifth anniversary and I was lucky enough to catch the limited edition celebratory menu on the very last day it was offered:

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I've never had the particular one in your photo. Hopefully they bring it back someday - the botanicals and notes sound so interesting.

In my home bar, I currently have their: Bloody Pinot Gin; Australian Gin; Green Apple & Rhubarb Gin; My New Go-To Gin (notes of quandong, yuzu, lime, lemon myrtle). I tend to pounce as soon as they release some kind of interesting limited edition.

Old Fashioned made with Balcones bourbon.

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Get my Old Fashioned at IAH Polaris Lounge made with Balcones

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Digestif from Estonia

Korbel brandy is typically used. Find it on the bottom shelf of your nearest liquor store...but it makes a very good Old Fashioned. Possibly my first cocktail. When you order, specify "sweet" (splash of Sprite), "sour" (sour mix) or "press" (club soda). I don't know anyone who drinks them sour. The classic cherry is still the most prevalent garnish, but olives or cocktail onions are also on offer at supper clubs and some bars. I've been to a couple WI weddings where the bar was only serving beer, wine, and OF's. I'd bet a dollar that the top 2 cocktails in the state are the OF and Bloody Mary (with a free beer back of course).

Ultimately its unlike an Old Fashioned you'll get anywhere else and probably deserves its own name. But I still love them, and I think I was in my 40's before I really appreciated a classic bourbon/rye OF.

(raises hand), I order my OF sour and to boot I order with marinated mushrooms as the garnish.agreed, good idea :tu:

I don't feel so badly now for making my first OF with regular ice cubes.

Sour mix and marinated mushrooms - WTH Willie? :confused: :D

Most northwoods barkeeps don't blink an eye but a few size me up as if thinking "that's a new one" or "how hammered is this guy?":)