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I’m feeling like my drink tonight is gonna be a tom collins. Anyone sub liqours out for some of the sweetener to make them more interesting? I’ve put marachino in them before and that worked pretty well.
 
On the correct hemisphere of the planet the weather is turning colder, you know what this means?
It's Hot Toddy time.
Hot Toddy is basically a cocktail... in a way, so I think its discussion fits here.

The lovely warm drink of lemon, spices, honey and bourbon (or sometimes cognac), I do a very simple one of 3 barspoons on honey, half a cinnamon stick, 2 cloves, juice of half a lemon, 2oz. of bourbon (Bulliet is what I have currently) and a cup of steaming hot water from the kettle. Let it all steep together for a few minutes and it nicely fills a large mug. yum.

any other warm booze drinks tickle your fancy?
hot mulled wine might be a drink discussed closer to Christmas.
 
Ol Dirty Fatso said:
You might want to try Cava. It's the Spanish version of sparkling wine. It tastes closer to actual champagne and is made using the same process. It can be had very inexpensively (sometimes under $10 for a bottle) since it isn't nearly as popular or well known as the other two. You could also look into French Cremant wines which are made using the traditional champagne method but not in the champagne region itself. I enjoy cremant d'alsace quite a bit.

The basic difference between the method used for prosecco (charmat) vs champagne, cava or cremant (traditional/champenoise) is that while both involve adding yeast and sugar to a still wine so that it re-ferments and adds bubbles, prosecco/charmat is done in bulk using huge industrial tanks while traditional method involves carrying out the process in each individual bottle
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The Publix I go to actually has at least 2 bottlings of cava that are roughly 14 dollars pre-tax. I don’t remember the names off the top of my head. Do you have a recommended bottle?
 
Takayuki Yagami said:
I’m feeling like my drink tonight is gonna be a tom collins. Anyone sub liqours out for some of the sweetener to make them more interesting? I’ve put marachino in them before and that worked pretty well.
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Grenadines are a fantastic sweetener in my experience.
 
Riedel glasses are very nice. Managed to find some highball glasses in some random big box store after work today. I was tempted to get a pair of their nick and nora glasses too, but I already have like 6 coupes that I like a lot. Probably going to be way easier to dial in dilution for fizzes and highballs now that I have glasses with the right volumes. What’s everyone’s preferred london dry gin btw? Preferably something in the 47%ish range like tanqueray or brokers. I mentioned that I liked Plymouth, but it’s not assertive enough or proofy enough some days.
 
Takayuki Yagami said:
Riedel glasses are very nice. Managed to find some highball glasses in some random big box store after work today. I was tempted to get a pair of their nick and nora glasses too, but I already have like 6 coupes that I like a lot. Probably going to be way easier to dial in dilution for fizzes and highballs now that I have glasses with the right volumes. What’s everyone’s preferred london dry gin btw? Preferably something in the 47%ish range like tanqueray or brokers. I mentioned that I liked Plymouth, but it’s not assertive enough or proofy enough some days.
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Just finished my bottle of Old Raj blue label(55%), kind of pricey though. Replaced it with a bottle Big Gin(47%), first time I've gotten this distiller and is stocked well in my area. Been great for Tom Collins and Gimlets so far.
 
SenorCurditos said:
Just finished my bottle of Old Raj blue label(55%), kind of pricey though. Replaced it with a bottle Big Gin(47%), first time I've gotten this distiller and is stocked well in my area. Been great for Tom Collins and Gimlets so far.
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I’ll keep that in mind if I see either of those. Basic Tanqueray seems to work pretty well for anything other and a martini or gimlet. Luckily I don’t make those at home, and I’ll never have trouble sourcing it.
 
Takayuki Yagami said:
I’ll keep that in mind if I see either of those. Basic Tanqueray seems to work pretty well for anything other and a martini or gimlet. Luckily I don’t make those at home, and I’ll never have trouble sourcing it.
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If you want to have a fun gimlet get a bottle of Coval cranberry gin.

Broker's is $20 a bottle and works good for gimlets and other gin cocktails. I have not used it for martinis though.

What I want to find is a decent juicer that will fit lemons and limes and isn't made of plastic or super bendy aluminum. My current juicer I have to rotate lemons when juicing them to get all the juice out of them.
 
CapricornusRex said:
If you want to have a fun gimlet get a bottle of Coval cranberry gin.

Broker's is $20 a bottle and works good for gimlets and other gin cocktails. I have not used it for martinis though.

What I want to find is a decent juicer that will fit lemons and limes and isn't made of plastic or super bendy aluminum. My current juicer I have to rotate lemons when juicing them to get all the juice out of them.
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From what I understand the stainless steel juicers that all look the same on amazon work just fine.
I have an aluminum one from Barfly that is too small for lemons too. Really annoying, but I’ve already spent too much on new tools recently and mostly make daiquiris anyway.
 
Takayuki Yagami said:
From what I understand the stainless steel juicers that all look the same on amazon work just fine.
I have an aluminum one from Barfly that is too small for lemons too. Really annoying, but I’ve already spent too much on new tools recently and mostly make daiquiris anyway.
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I went to walmart and they had a solid metal lime juicer that fit both lemons and limes. Tested it tonight and it worked just fine. It now replaces the aluminum one I got from barfly as well. I want to try out one of those juicers that has the feet on the handle so you can rest it on the table and push down on it too just because it will work with oranges and a few cocktails use orange juice.
 
Just finished my last day of my current job, my co-worker and I went for cocktails after hours at a little stowaway spot that's practically a hole in the wall, but god damn do they make a good cocktail. Without PL'ing too hard - Gin, Vermouth, Basil Acid, Chocolate Bitters, Raspberry Aromatic. Went down like pure candy, all 3 of em. Got a nice little buzz going.
 
CapricornusRex said:
I went to walmart and they had a solid metal lime juicer that fit both lemons and limes. Tested it tonight and it worked just fine. It now replaces the aluminum one I got from barfly as well. I want to try out one of those juicers that has the feet on the handle so you can rest it on the table and push down on it too just because it will work with oranges and a few cocktails use orange juice.
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Is it the one that’s powdercoated green or yellow? I had one of those straight up blow apart in my hands, which prompted me to get the barfly one in the first place. Do you have a favored manufacturer as far as tools go?
 
Takayuki Yagami said:
Is it the one that’s powdercoated green or yellow? I had one of those straight up blow apart in my hands, which prompted me to get the barfly one in the first place. Do you have a favored manufacturer as far as tools go?
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Hahaha, yeah it was. I spent a good 10 minutes just squeezing the hell out of that thing while I was in the store. My mother was with me and she kept looking at me like I was crazy.

I have no favorite. Kinda hard to anymore since so many things are made in China and rebranded over and over. I have been thinking of checking out the Japanese made stuff, but they want fucking 60 bucks for this: https://bar-times-store.tokyo/barware/others/vitamin-juicer.html . I mean.. I want it, because it's not cheap Chinese craftsmanship, but 60 bucks for a manual juicer?

Only thing my bar is missing right now is some foot/stemmed rocks glasses, but the only company that makes them is Libbey and they only sell them in bulk. I don't need 24 5.5 oz. glasses.
 
CapricornusRex said:
Hahaha, yeah it was. I spent a good 10 minutes just squeezing the hell out of that thing while I was in the store. My mother was with me and she kept looking at me like I was crazy.

I have no favorite. Kinda hard to anymore since so many things are made in China and rebranded over and over. I have been thinking of checking out the Japanese made stuff, but they want fucking 60 bucks for this: https://bar-times-store.tokyo/barware/others/vitamin-juicer.html . I mean.. I want it, because it's not cheap Chinese craftsmanship, but 60 bucks for a manual juicer?

Only thing my bar is missing right now is some foot/stemmed rocks glasses, but the only company that makes them is Libbey and they only sell them in bulk. I don't need 24 5.5 oz. glasses.
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I actually got convinced by someone to buy to a US-made Boston Shaker. Spent entirely too much on it, but it seems to work pretty well, and is way heavier than what i was using before.
 
I like a French 75 but I never make them myself since I can't get through a bottle of champagne fast enough before it goes flat. I don't fuck with the mini bottles because I'm not a chump.
 
I gaslit myself into thinking Manhattans were really nice when I was 18 because I wanted to look sophisticated, and now I just order them out of habit. I'm still not sure if I actually like them or not.
 
I have this really nice lemon cocktail I've done up a few times a few years back when I worked in a bar. It was quite deadly and had four shots, for the life of me I can't remember what the second liquor I put in it was. Really hoping to one day get super baked and have a eureka moment.
  • 2 shots of lemon gin (I use gordons, but I've also done it with this fancy bullshit I don't remember)
  • 2 shots of ?
  • 1/3 cup club soda
  • 1/2 juiced lemon
  • dash of simple syrup
 
twi1992 said:
I like a French 75 but I never make them myself since I can't get through a bottle of champagne fast enough before it goes flat. I don't fuck with the mini bottles because I'm not a chump.
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>can't get through a bottle of champagne fast enough
>not a chump

Pick one

seriously just mix it with some juice if you aren't big on regular champagne, although I suggest using a cheaper bottle of cava if you're going to mix it at all and leave true champagne for drinking by itself.
admiral said:
I gaslit myself into thinking Manhattans were really nice when I was 18 because I wanted to look sophisticated, and now I just order them out of habit. I'm still not sure if I actually like them or not.
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I was like this with negronis, now I make myself one once or twice a year and confirm that they are pretty good. even if they aren't something I want every day.

infamousbeing said:
I have this really nice lemon cocktail I've done up a few times a few years back when I worked in a bar. It was quite deadly and had four shots, for the life of me I can't remember what the second liquor I put in it was. Really hoping to one day get super baked and have a eureka moment.
  • 2 shots of lemon gin (I use gordons, but I've also done it with this fancy bullshit I don't remember)
  • 2 shots of ?
  • 1/3 cup club soda
  • 1/2 juiced lemon
  • dash of simple syrup
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This seems like it could work with almost anything... though most of what I'm thinking of right now is liqueurs, so it would be way too sweet with two full shots. Limoncello, st germain, cointreau
 
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