Cocktails at home?

[woodacre1983]

So with the majority of us all on lockdown. And bars etc shut what cocktails are people making at home?

I always enjoyed at evening with a good friend and a watch natter once a week over a couple of cocktails. Luckily one of my favourites is dead simple to make at home so I now enjoy a Negroni or two at home

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Anyone else making cocktails at home?


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[gerrudd]

I'm a fan. Usually pretty simple. Mostly the Martini. In the last year or so I'm warming to the vodka martini. My preferred version is a double Smirnoff Blue, 10ml of Dolin and a dash of orange bitters. Garnish with lemon peel. I also like a Gibson. 70ml Plymouth, a capful of dry vermouth, garnished with an onion. Or Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim, a vodka martini as above, no bitter but add some cucumber juice, garnished with a very thin slice of cucumber. I make the cucumber juice by straining the juice extracted from about an inch of cucumber with a citrus reamer. I'm heretical in the fact that I think shaken is as good as stirred and easier at home. I also like old fashioned and Manhattans but don't presently have the ingredients. I made a Bramble on Saturday, loveky but too much work, especially making the crushed ice. In general my philosophy is simple drinks at home and anything complicated in a bar.

[~dadam02~]

White Russians here, just heavenly and so simple.

[gerrudd]

Bramble. Bit of overkill on the lemon spice.


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[Craizeehair]

A good old fashioned Whiskey Sour, my absolute favourite.

[woodacre1983]

I'm a fan. Usually pretty simple. In general my philosophy is simple drinks at home and anything complicated in a bar.

I agree wholeheartedly for home the enjoyment for me is being to make it relatively quickly yet still be able to enjoy it.
I’m a massive fan too of the old fashioned and would love to invest in a smoker to do a smoked old fashioned at home.

But the negroni is a favourite and oh so simple!


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[gerrudd]

A good old fashioned Whiskey Sour, my absolute favourite.

I do like a whiskey sour. This is a good article on the subject, but I prefer my drink with egg white: https://lukehoney.typepad.com/the_gr...skey-sour.html

[Gee252]

Bars still open at ours but I stick to beer hawk draft and GnT

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[Saint-Just]

Vesper Martini here. No Kina Lillet so Noilly Prat instead.

[veil]

I love a cocktail at home and I blame it on watching and getting hooked on the Madmen TV series. A nice old fashioned, or a proper Singapore sling (with cherry Heering, Benedictine and Cointreau, etc) and the last word (that has equal measures of gin, lime juice and the 55% lovely green alcohol called Chartreuse) are amongst my favorites. The wife hates my concoctions and thinks they all taste like cough mixture. Just as well as it's hard work just shaking enough for me! If you like them check out the book on the subject by Dale DeGroff 'the Essential cocktail' it's very good.

[Saint-Just]

If you like Chartreuse, you must know there is also a yellow one, and an equivalent from the Pyrénées, both green and yellow Izarra.

[veil]

Never heard of Izzara, I knew about the yellow Chartreause though, it's meant to be more mellow and sweeter than the green. Making cocktails is a good education in different booze. When I started I hated vermouth so it cut out a lot of drinks to me, so I forced myself :) keep it in the fridge though as its weaker than spirits. I'll look out for Izzara.

[veil]

Points deducted for spelling

[thegoat]

Just a simple Old Fashioned for me.
Although today was all about Aperol Spritz in the sunshine .

[thebuffoon]

Vesper Martini here. No Kina Lillet so Noilly Prat instead.

Gin and French! Drank gallons in my misspent youth.

[Craizeehair]

I do like a whiskey sour. This is a good article on the subject, but I prefer my drink with egg white: https://lukehoney.typepad.com/the_gr...skey-sour.html

Thanks for that, I totally agree about the egg white. I know what I’ll be drinking this coming weekend. Enough of the red red wine!

[subseastu]

Wife is partial to a French martini recently. I tend to stick to GnT's

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[Mr Curta]

Mojito, Daiquiri and Papa Doble if I have the ingredients.

[Carlton-Browne]

So with the majority of us all on lockdown. And bars etc shut what cocktails are people making at home?

I always enjoyed at evening with a good friend and a watch natter once a week over a couple of cocktails. Luckily one of my favourites is dead simple to make at home so I now enjoy a Negroni or two at home

Perhaps next time you could post a picture before you've consumed most of it...

[monogroover]

Haven't made one for quite a while, but a simple vodka martini. I don't use a shaker. I chill the ingredients (except for the vermouth), and the glass in the freezer. I prefer a lemon twist to an olive.

Here's one I made earlier, with an olive. Several years earlier, actually

[pugster]

fernet and coke (you need to like the taste of cough medicine for this one )

[ism123]

I find making (and drinking) negronis very enjoyable but end up getting pretty drunk on them...

[Paradiddle]

Mostly rye whisky and ginger ale or a simple G&T for me. Do those even count?

Might do an old fashioned tonight since I'm lacking on the mixers.

[therooster]

All of the cocktails. I may have a problem. Most prepared at home (probably in order):

- Old Fashioned
- Whiskey Sour
- Espresso Martini
- Long Island Iced Tea
- Negroni
- Mojito
- Moscow Mule
- White Russian
- Gimlet

[leo1790]

Negroni for me. Never liked cocktails but a friend introduced me to negroni's last Xmas and it's probably knocked red wine off the number one spot.

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[Carlton-Browne]

The other good thing about Negronis is that the ingredients can normally be found in any airport lounge.

[simonedgar]

Just made my first Negroni last week - very impressed. Don’t normally drink cocktails but I think that might of changed. Got some Bourbon whiskey & going to attempt an Old fashioned this week!

[jimyu]

Godfather - possibly the easiest and tastiest cocktail there is!

[CriticalMass]

Another Negroni fan here. Funny how this has suddenly become fashionable- until recently I hadn’t had one since about 1980. Now my Saturday evening staple.

[ism123]

My recipe is this:

All 1-1-1 ratio

Tanqueray
Campari
Cocchi vermouth
Ice
Orange peel

Interested to know what other gins and vermouths people use


Ian

[valleywatch]

I'm a fan. Usually pretty simple. Mostly the Martini. In the last year or so I'm warming to the vodka martini. My preferred version is a double Smirnoff Blue, 10ml of Dolin and a dash of orange bitters. Garnish with lemon peel. I also like a Gibson. 70ml Plymouth, a capful of dry vermouth, garnished with an onion. Or Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim, a vodka martini as above, no bitter but add some cucumber juice, garnished with a very thin slice of cucumber. I make the cucumber juice by straining the juice extracted from about an inch of cucumber with a citrus reamer. I'm heretical in the fact that I think shaken is as good as stirred and easier at home. I also like old fashioned and Manhattans but don't presently have the ingredients. I made a Bramble on Saturday, loveky but too much work, especially making the crushed ice. In general my philosophy is simple drinks at home and anything complicated in a bar.

Excuse me if Im teaching a granny how to suck eggs............But!

You say its too much hard work, specially making the crushed ice"?

When I worked bars (many many years ago!) I simply put a few ice cubes into a glass drying cloth (thin cotton tea towel basically!) cover the ice cubes, crunch into a ball, then just whack them onto the bar a few times! Instant crushed ice!

Re-open cloth, there is your crushed ice.

[Rob s]

It's been whisky sours or old fashioned for me so far.
Want to try some espresso martini but other than coffee I'm lacking ingredients.

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[woodacre1983]

My recipe is this:

All 1-1-1 ratio

Tanqueray
Campari
Cocchi vermouth
Ice
Orange peel

Interested to know what other gins and vermouths people use


Ian

I tend to use Sipsmiths or atm I’m using a local small batch gin called Garstang Gin now that is exceptionally nice!


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[Kirk280]

I’ve just had a gin and 7up.

I don’t like gin but it was nice!

(Yes I’ve ran out of whisky....and didn’t want it open a bottle of wine!).

I might have another...

[Casper]

I make a pretty good Old Fashioned with Woodford Rye.

[leo1790]

My recipe is this:

All 1-1-1 ratio

Tanqueray
Campari
Cocchi vermouth
Ice
Orange peel

Interested to know what other gins and vermouths people use


Ian

Tanqueray no.10
Campari
Martini rosso
Ice

Also quite partial to using Ophir which gives it a bit of a different flavour.

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[Matt8500]

Another whiskey sour fan here. Shake an egg white and a teaspoon of caster sugar, add 2 measures bourbon (I like Makers Mark), 1 measure lemon juice and lots off ice. Shake again and serve- is it wrong to want one at 8am

[Pitch3110]

Negroni, Negroni, Negroni...

I cannot believe how many others on here share the love of this fantastic tipple..

Other go too cocktails at home, Pornstar Martini and of course Pina Colada.

Cheers chaps

Pitch

[ism123]

I urge all Negroni lovers to try the Cocchi vermouth - not cheap but it adds a few layers to the Negroni :)

Ian

[leo1790]

I urge all Negroni lovers to try the Cocchi vermouth - not cheap but it adds a few layers to the Negroni :)

Ian

I'm onto the last dreggs of Martini so a Cocchi Vermouth Di Torino has just been ordered.
Thanks

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[Broussard]

Negronis used to be simple, but with everyone releasing the own premium / super-premium gin using local / special botanicals, it's actually getting harder and harder to mix a decent drink. So I tend to have multiple bottles of amari and bitters open in order to make a Negroni that works with the gin. Martini Rosso for background, Zuca for base notes, Antiqua Formula for richness, Sacred for spice, etc. And then Campari, Sacred Rosehip, Aperol, etc depending on what's needed. Not all modern gin botanicals work in a Negroni, in my opinion. Some modern gins just don't really seem to have been distilled for mixing...

[blackal]

Well - I’ll give this Negroni a bash, since it gets universal accolades here.........

I always put great store in the French for ‘knowing a thing or two about food and drink’,

but in this warm weather, sitting in the garden............. it has to be a Pimms No1.

Quintessentially English.......... SO-O-O good!

[PreacherCain]

Negroni is always a good go-to, though I am also enjoying the occasional old fashioned and a Saturday night white lady is a must-have. Variety is the spice of life though, I think I might go for a French 75 this evening.

[blackal]

I love a good marguerita - I can drink them all night, until.................

well - until they all come back up!

[Seang]

Love a Negroni and in the summer 50ml gin, 25ml Campari, 25ml Rosso, one can of Fever tree Indian = Italian G&T

In the lockdown our tonic order was subbed for ginger beer - so Dark and Stormys (Rum, Lime juice, G Beer 1:0.5:2)

others I make at home

Martinez
Aviation
Old Fashioned
Sazerac (spelling?)
Corpse Reviver No2
Gimlet
Tom Collins (Don't believe a word he says about me)
Clover Club
Gin Fizz
French 75
Italian 75 (Merlin Griffiths from First Dates did this one on James Martin Saturday ITV show and uses Asti')

And for a really old recipe - Gin Cocktail, 25ml water, one barspoon of sugar, stir until dissolved, add 50ml Gin and ice, stir until chilled, strain into a cocktail glass and garnish with grated nutmeg

[gerrudd]

The fortified wines thread I started got me thinking. A bamboo might be both tasty and lower alcohol. I'll be trying the dry version, but might add 5ml of simple syrup.
1 1⁄2 oz. dry amontillado sherry
1 1⁄2 oz. Martini extra dry vermouth
2 dashes orange bitters
1 dash Angostura bitters
Twist of lemon

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[sweets]

I am a massive Negroni fan, and specifically bought a full kit of Cocchi Vermouth, Berto Bitter (not Campari) and local Psychopomp Gin (distilled about 200m from my front door, their Woden is magnificent for Negronis).
This 3 bottle set makes for perfection with twisted Orange zest and lots of ice.
None of these bottles get used for anything else.
Dave

[Pitch3110]

I am a massive Negroni fan, and specifically bought a full kit of Cocchi Vermouth, Berto Bitter (not Campari) and local Psychopomp Gin (distilled about 200m from my front door, their Woden is magnificent for Negronis).
This 3 bottle set makes for perfection with twisted Orange zest and lots of ice.
None of these bottles get used for anything else.
Dave

go on Dave, box me one up for Suffolk mate.

Cheers

Pitch

[gilford]

I’ve been on the Black Russians this week (and feel crap this morning because of it).

Tia Matia
Absolute Vodka
Full fat coke

lovelyyyyyy :-)

Cant help but feel when this is over I’ll need a new belt along with an AA sponsor!

[Saint-Just]

I’ve been on the Black Russians this week (and feel crap this morning because of it).

Tia Matia
Absolute Vodka
Full fat coke

lovelyyyyyy :-)

Cant help but feel when this is over I’ll need a new belt along with an AA sponsor!

Coke? In a Black Russian?