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Cocktails
66Mustang
Member Posts: 4,318 Disability Gamechanger
I enjoy the cooking threads on here but I am unable to do most cooking due to my issues so sadly don’t get to try the recipes out. However I do love a cocktail and this is something I am sometimes able to make, so I am wondering if anyone else is into them and wants to share any recipes. I will share a few below.
A few of my favourites........
Old Fashioned
2 oz / 50 ml bourbon
0.5 oz / 12.5 ml sugar syrup
A few dashes of Angostura Bitters or Orange Bitters
Serve over ice. 2 units of alcohol.
Daiquiri
2 oz / 50 ml white rum
1 oz / 25 ml sugar syrup
1 oz / 25 ml lime juice
Shake in a cocktail shaker with ice then pour the liquid only into a glass. 2 units of alcohol.
Whiskey Sour
2 oz / 50 ml whisk(e)y
1 oz / 25 ml sugar syrup
1 oz / 25 ml lemon juice
Pour into a glass with ice and stir. 2 units of alcohol.
Bramble
1 1/2 oz / 37.5 ml gin
1 oz / 25 ml lemon juice
1 oz / 25 ml sugar syrup
1/2 oz / 12.5 ml blackcurrant liqueur
Optional: soda water
Pour into a glass with ice and stir. Optional: add soda water to make the drink longer and less strong. 2 units of alcohol.
And one non alcoholic one which I think is delicious...
Shirley Temple
1 oz / 25 ml sugar syrup
1/2 oz / 12.5 ml grenadine
Ginger ale
Add the sugar syrup and grenadine to a glass filled with ice and top up with ginger ale. 0 units of alcohol.
Over to you!
PS sorry if alcohol threads are not allowed, please remember to drink responsibly.
A few of my favourites........
Old Fashioned
2 oz / 50 ml bourbon
0.5 oz / 12.5 ml sugar syrup
A few dashes of Angostura Bitters or Orange Bitters
Serve over ice. 2 units of alcohol.
Daiquiri
2 oz / 50 ml white rum
1 oz / 25 ml sugar syrup
1 oz / 25 ml lime juice
Shake in a cocktail shaker with ice then pour the liquid only into a glass. 2 units of alcohol.
Whiskey Sour
2 oz / 50 ml whisk(e)y
1 oz / 25 ml sugar syrup
1 oz / 25 ml lemon juice
Pour into a glass with ice and stir. 2 units of alcohol.
Bramble
1 1/2 oz / 37.5 ml gin
1 oz / 25 ml lemon juice
1 oz / 25 ml sugar syrup
1/2 oz / 12.5 ml blackcurrant liqueur
Optional: soda water
Pour into a glass with ice and stir. Optional: add soda water to make the drink longer and less strong. 2 units of alcohol.
And one non alcoholic one which I think is delicious...
Shirley Temple
1 oz / 25 ml sugar syrup
1/2 oz / 12.5 ml grenadine
Ginger ale
Add the sugar syrup and grenadine to a glass filled with ice and top up with ginger ale. 0 units of alcohol.
Over to you!
PS sorry if alcohol threads are not allowed, please remember to drink responsibly.
Replies
If you like bitter, do you like Campari? Another of my favourite cocktails, that doesn’t contain sugar syrup, is the Negroni, which is equal parts Campari, sweet vermouth and gin. I have heard Campari is popular with soda water.
There are lots of cocktails I like, but I love Pina Coladas (and getting caught in the rain etc.) in particular @66Mustang. I also had a really authentic Mojito at a Mexican restaurant not long ago and it was delicious.
A Sex on the Beach is vodka, peach schnapps, orange juice and cranberry juice according to Google.
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Sometimes, the alcohol is only in there to give you the effect of alcohol, not to enhance the flavour. In fact, sometimes the other ingredients are there to make the alcohol more drinkable. I think this comes from America when alcohol was illegal and people made their own which was so foul that they had to add other flavours to make it drinkable!
A good example is the tequila sunrise which is tequila mixed with orange juice and grenadine floated in the bottom. I sometimes for breakfast just take a glass of orange juice and float grenadine in it and it’s delicious, I like it as much if not more than if it has the tequila in it.
I have been wanting to try a porn star martini
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