The Cocktail Thread
 

This is a tad late for some events, but World Cocktail Day (sponsored by the Museum of the American Cocktail) is upon us and there are still some ongoing events. Thankfully, World Cocktail Day seems to have become World Cocktail Week.

Both Devin Tavern (NY, NY) and Oliver's Lounge (Seattle) are hosting some events tonight. :eek:

Here are details for the Cocktail week in San Francisco. Continuing throughout the week.

There are some chances for folks to win a trip to Tales of the Cocktail, an annual event held in New Orleans. This will be the Fifth Anniversary Tales of the Cocktail, a culinary and cocktail festival held from July 18-22. The official cocktail this year is:

Starfish Cooler

1 oz. Moët and Chandon White Star
1 oz. Lemoncello
1 oz. PAMA Pomegranate Liqueur
1 oz. Un-sweet Iced Tea
½ oz. Simple Syrup
Muddle orange slice and mint leaf in Collins glass.
Combine all ingredients.

Created by: Stacey Smith, GW Fins, New Orleans

Lots of good opportunities for food and drink and sampling innovative cocktail creations as well as classics.

Anyone have favourite cocktail recipes to share? :)

Lychee nut martini
cat: booze
serves: 1

4 oz Grey Goose vodka
2 1/2 oz lychee syrup
splash lime juice

Shake on ice, serve straight up in a martini
glass, garnished with lychee.

Katy Jordan, Saint, Boston

On the plane: Kahlua and Milk. Fill a tumbler with ice. Pour Kahlua mini over the ice. Then slowly pour milk over the ice almost to full, leaving it layer. Serve to happy pax.

And you can always get a vodka mini to go along with that and be happy for two drinks worth! :)

I don't know why this one cracked me up, but it did! :)

I've never tried it, and I can't decide if it would be truly icky or not. It comes from the Absolut web site:

PEANUT BUTTER & JELLY MARTINI

1 oz ABSOLUT VODKA
1/2 oz Black Currant Liqueur
1/2 oz Hazelnut Liqueur
1/2 oz Strawberry Puree
Fresh Strawberry

Shake liquid ingredients with ice and strain to a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with strawberry.

Tropical Itch:

1 oz. light rum
1 oz. vodka
1/2 oz. Orange Curacao or Grand Marnier
3 - 4 oz passion fruit juice

Shake with ice and pour contents in a glass. Pineapple or umbrella garnish. Suck 'em up!

Best martini I ever had was a Lemongrass Martini, served at La Lucciola Restaurant, Bali, Indonesia. Don't have precise recipe but I watched the bartender make it. Ginger in Bali is very plump and fresh out of the ground and exudes quite a bit of juice when squeezed:

Into a martini shaker with crushed ice, add premium vodka of choice, squeeze the juice from a large piece of fresh Balinese ginger (using a squeeze juicer), take two reeds of lemongrass, tie in a knot, pull tightly so lemongrass oil drips into martini (from where the knot is in the lemongrass) shake, strain and pour into up martini glass, and insert the knoted lemongrass into the martini (straw like) as garnish. Fantastic!

Honeysuckletini
2 measures light rum
1/4 measure clear honey
1 measure lemon juice (Freshly squeezed!)
1 measure orange juice (Freshly squeezed!)

Important- dissolve honey into rum BEFORE adding any ice.
Shake ingredients with ice and pour into chilled martini glass
(also good with gin or whisky instead of rum)

If you're omni enabled you might like to see more suggestions in a similar thread.

I checked that one and I see missydarlin used to like Green Apple Martinis. I always liked the idea of them, but the reality was disappointing. I like missydarlin's suggestion of fresh apple puree. Here is another take on that, from a bartender in Eugene, OR:

Bad Apple

1 quarter green apple, seeded
2 oz Absolut Citron
1.5 oz lemon juice
1 oz simple syrup

Either muddle apple in a mixing glass or blend ingredients, without ice, until apple is pureéd smooth. Shake this mixture with ice and fine-strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with a slice of green apple.

Photo here.

I drank one of those recently - as a shot.

It was not icky at all. It tasted like, well, pb+J :)

My personal favorite in the category of 'tastes like what it's named for' is:

Oatmeal Cookie

1/4 oz Goldschlager® cinnamon schnapps
3/4 oz DeKuyper® Buttershots liqueur
1/4 oz Bailey's® Irish cream


var. 1 - Pour the Goldschlager into the bottom of a 1.5-oz shot glass. Add the Buttershots butterscotch liqueur, float the Bailey's on top, and serve.

var. 2 - Combine ingredients in a shaker with ice. Shake, strain and serve.

It's Friday :) and I found some references to an obscure (classic?) cocktail (featured in Drinks Magazine) that I thought might appeal to some FT'ers:

Burnt Fuselage

1 ounce VSOP Cognac
1 ounce Grand Marnier
1 ounce dry vermouth

Stir with ice; strain into chilled cocktail glass and twist a strip of lemon peel over the top.

FRENCH MARTINI:

French Martini

2 oz Vodka
½ oz Chambord
2 ½ oz Pineapple Juice

My wife loves this one. Actually just mixed one for her, except I did 1 oz Vodka, 1 oz Chambord and 2 oz Pineapple Juice

http://www.theartofdrink.com/blog/20...ch_martini.php

I don't know what this is called but it tastes absolutely delicious. And it smells amazing as well. Can be made a shooter or a mixed drink.

Mixed drink:
1.5 oz jaegermeister
1.5 oz peach schnapps
3 to 4.5 oz cranberry juice (depending how you want it to taste- sweeter or not as sweet).
Add to shaker and mix with ice. Strain and serve. Garnish with a slice of peach if available.

Shooter:
.5 oz jaegermeister
.5 oz peach schnapps
.5-.75 oz cranberry juice (again depending on how sweet you want it)

Add to shaker and mix with ice. Strain into a 2 oz shot glass. Goes down like juice ^

Oh..and for those who don't like jaegermeister: you won't taste it all in this drink if mixed properly.

LPR:
1 part malibu
1 part butterscotch schnapps
1 part vodka
2 parts pineapple juice

and to shaker, add ice, mix very well, strain into glasses. better as a shot...be warned, this is one sweet drink.

Something from my younger days that I remember fondly. I suddenley had the craving for one. Maybe it's because I soon return to my motherland.

You can never go wrong mixing fire with a tasty beverage...

Flaming Dr. Pepper

1oz Amaretto
1/4oz Bacardi 151
12oz beer (something yellow like a Bud or Miller High Life)

Pour amaretto into a shotglass. Float 151 on top. Prep yourself a dribble mat, preferrably near a sink. Pour beer into a pint glass. Light the shot on fire and ceremoniously dunk into the glass of beer which should then be immediately entirely consumed as quickly and as dramatically as possible. :D