Cocktails - Them fruity chick drinks

[Purple Pepsi: Zero]

I learned how to make mule cocktails after hearing my mom mention she liked them, just so I could surprise her with a few fancy drinks on Mother's Day. I'd never tried one until I started looking up recipes for that, but I still prefer cocktails with brown liquors.

 

[HarblMcDavid]

I have always liked sidecars. Another underrated cocktail is the "lunchbox" which is half beer, half orange juice, and 1/6th Amaretto. It sounds like an odd combination, but imagine the flavor of grapefruit juice with a pleasant aftertaste of almond. The hops in the beer and the orange juice balance each other out quite nicely into a grapefruit flavor.

Interesting, I like the sound of that.

I played around with Amaretto in fruity beverages when I was in hawaii and really liked the impact that a bit of it had on things like rum + fruity juices + blended ice, but the beer is a dimension I usually wouldn't consider.

What do you use for the beer? IPAs for extra hop, or just more standard lagers?

 

[Hepativore]

Interesting, I like the sound of that.

I played around with Amaretto in fruity beverages when I was in hawaii and really liked the impact that a bit of it had on things like rum + fruity juices + blended ice, but the beer is a dimension I usually wouldn't consider.

What do you use for the beer? IPAs for extra hop, or just more standard lagers?

Any beer will do, but I think it works especially well with darker beers like porters or stouts as the roasted malt ads and almost caramel/butterscotch aftertaste when it mixes with the orange juice and Amaretto.

 

[SenorCurditos]

A couple of weeks ago I went to a bar that had matsutake mushrooms steeped in bourbon for their Old Fashioned's. Tried it out last night with oyster mushrooms in Woodford in a classic sugarcube OF, strangely savory but great. Did 2 cups bourbon to 1 cup mushrooms and heated the mixture to 180f and steeped in the fridge for 8 hours with a pinch of salt.

 

[𝕺𝖑' 𝕯𝖎𝖗𝖙𝖞 𝕱𝖆𝖙𝖘𝖔]

Made up a drink...

2 parts tequila blanco
1 part mezcal
2 parts aperol
1 part st germain
1.5 parts lime juice

Shake n strain onto rocks

 

[Hepativore]

I have a birthday coming up on the 31st of this month. In celebration, I have concocted a series of mixed drinks with the theme of a personal concept I have been working on.

1. The drink of the Ancient Archival Zones...

Industrial Memoria

2 ounces (4 tablespoons) Slivovitz
1/2 ounce (1 tablespoon) unfiltered apple juice
3 to 4 ounces Nut Brown Ale

Mix together and serve in a copper cup.

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2. Early-Mid Alpha

Lost Medical Research

1/2 pink sparkling wine
1/2 strawberry-cranberry juice

Mix and serve in a clear, cylindrical glass

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3. Early-Mid Beta

Vacuum-Sealed Tropics

2 ounces (4 tablespoons) banana liqueur
2 ounces (4 tablespoons) orange liqueur
4 ounces hard lemonade

Mix together and serve in a ribbed tumbler.

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4. Mid-Archival Zones

Desert Graveyard For Electronics

2 ounces tangerine liqueur
1/2 ounce rose syrup
2 ounces peach liqueur
4 ounces club soda

Mix together and serve in a polished steel cup

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5. Late Archival Zones

Polar Installation

3/4 ounce white Creme de Menthe
3/4 ounce brandy
3/4 ounce ginger ale

Mix together and serve in a light blue, anodized aluminum fluted cup.

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[Pomniman]

Interesting, I like the sound of that.

I played around with Amaretto in fruity beverages when I was in hawaii and really liked the impact that a bit of it had on things like rum + fruity juices + blended ice, but the beer is a dimension I usually wouldn't consider.

What do you use for the beer? IPAs for extra hop, or just more standard lagers?

Beer-based cocktails are somewhat iffy to me because they fuck you up a lot faster than you'd think they would. I remember putting a small bit of becherovka herbal liqueur in some beer or another (probably some ale or pilsner) once and while it tasted great it had me out on my ass surprisingly quickly. Black and tans are good too (mix half a dark beer with half a pale one) but I'm terrible at making them so I usually don't bother.

 

[Neurotypical Mantis]

is it worth making a separate mocktails thread?

 

[AnOminous]

Beer-based cocktails are somewhat iffy to me because they fuck you up a lot faster than you'd think they would.

Like the boilermaker where you just drop a shot of whiskey, shotglass and all, directly into a beer and then slam it as it erupts.