Notate your best cocktails

MY BLOODY MARY
ice
tabasco
tomato juice
squeeze lime
pepper
wodka
celery salt (option)

guzzle

for more vigour add:
dash red wine
dash sherry

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A flute is a poor choice for a gin and tonic, not enough capacity and a guitar is mighty difficult to drink out of.

Punch à la Romaine is a mixture of dry white wine or champagne and a simple sugar syrup, plus the juices of two oranges and two lemons, with a bit of their zest, steeped for one hour. Strained and frozen, then mixed with a sweet meringue and then fortified with rum. It’s served like a sherbet, and acts as a palette cleanser. (Escoffier, 2932)

Use the flute to drink outta the git-box, duh!!!

Since so many holes tho you have to have mighty good sucker.

haven't made that romaine but i plan to.

Where's the lettuce come in?

the kitchen door.

notate a cocktail already

Vodka Blush (from Rosemary's Baby)

2 1/2 oz vodka
3/4 oz fresh lime juice
1 dash grenadine syrup

Fill shaker 2/3 with fresh ice. Add ingredients. Shake and strain into chilled cocktail glass.

I'm going to try that with campari instead of grenadine.

Tonight I'm finally gonna implement something I've been going on about for some weeks: vegetable cocktails. It all started after tasting a fine cucumber martini. I'm sure cucumber will work fine with mist drinks but I can't really think of other vegetable sto mix. Any ideas?

The Gazpacho bloody mary is a good vegetable cocktail (tomato, sweet pepper, cucumber, spring onions all in there).

Could do something with carrot juice, and there must be somethign wonderful to do with beetroot.

Borscht jello shots?

This is not some mid west polack frat party round here.

although possibly some kind iof supper chilled vodka short with a beetroot foam floated on top would be some kind of good.

not a big fan of beet root so not sure about this. I'm thinking radish could give a drink a nice bitter twist but i'm not sure how much flavor would get diluted in the spirit.

A simple but effective tipple: Wyborova Bison Grass vodka with cloudy apple juice. That particular vodka has a cinnamony tang to it thanks to the grass blade, which goes nicely with the juice.

Ah yes the legendary Tatanka

I had a ginger margarita once and it was like whoa.

There's a local dairy here making ginger/peppermint ice cream which is really good with gin or ginger brandy. A lushie.

I meant Zubrowka not Wyborova vodka, I dont know where I pulled that name from.

Bartender friend has been making this for me:

Muddle:
-Fresh cucumber
-Fresh Thai Basil
-a few drops of some kind of flavored bitters- mint maybe?
-one sugar cube

Shake:
-Plymouth Gin
-Muddled ingredients
-Ice

strain into martini glass, garish w/ cucumber
or, pour over ice in rocks glass

tastes so good and tricks your mouth into thinking you're drinking something healthy if you're hungover.

Ah yes the legendary Tatanka

Blimx0r I never knew it was a proper cocktail! Awesome.

Also Grad that sounds awesome and refreshing and I don't even usually like cuke.

CRANBERRY GINGER ALE

is a versatile mixer

So last night after several batches, I eventually found a winning formula of mashed cucumber and mint, vodka and lemonade. Pretty easy to make while drunk too, which always counts.

I also tried chopped radish with ginger ale and vodka, which was interesting but probably not enough to have a second drink.

one of the better cocktails I've concocted recently (so good I even gave it a name)

Watermelon Islands

Half fill tall wide glass with Schweppes Russchian
squirt in a table-spoon worth of Cypressa lemon dressing,
don't be put off by the word dressing,
and a squeeze of fresh lime, then

2 shots of dry schnapps
2 shots of Cointreau
& 1 shot of Tesco-finest Blue Curacao (25% in stylish tall bottle with surprisingly elegantly-designed brand label)
(Bols, etc, an acceptable alternative; but never in a million years use that dreck they serve in Wetherspoons, whose name I forget)
pour over plenty ice, and three cubes of watermelon, which float to the top of a drink the colour of the aquamarine
shallows of the seas that surround the South Pacific islands.
Ignore fact islands aren't red cubes.

i didn't concoct this one myself; it comes courtesy of sotto in l.a.:

A$AP Rickey {Vodka, fresh basil, Strega, Bertagnolli grappino, bitter lemon soda, lime essence}

the basil is the star. so good.

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It may be technically wrong but my definition of a 'shot' is the larger end of one these
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filled to the brim. If you do not happen to follow my baselessly invented convention,
then just times all measurements in above recipe by two.

I notice it says 25ml on the small end. If that's a shot, by shot, take it that I mean double-shot.

Tesco-finest

It's better than Bols, which isn't surprising since Tesco's food & drink general in the last year have outstripped in quality M&S, Waitrose, (and it goes without saying) Sainsburys. Either I'm misreading you, or your once-justified aloofness is way out of date.