Drink recipes

[Goofonian]

The tagline for the Off-Topic Discussion forum suggests there would be drink recipes and to date I have seen none. soooo.......

My most recent discovery is called a chocolate bullet. Shot of black sambucca in a glass filled to the top with chocolate milk. Sounds terrible, looks revolting, tastes fantastic (unless you don't like liquorice of course)

Last time I drank them, I woke up on my couch with a large bruise on my head and no recollection of the previous night!

 

[Lara Crigger]

My favorite drink recipe is as follows: Put beer in glass. Then drink it.

I'm not much for cocktails; the added sugar in most mixing liquids tends to put me in a bad state of inebriation much too quickly, just like wine. It's not that happy, giddy tipsy, either. It's the nasty, sour-stomach, headachey, entire-body-hates-you drunk. I'm not sure why the sugar + liquor does that, but it's never failed to do so. So if I drink liquor at all, it will be straight, maybe on the rocks.

I've never gone wrong with a fine beer. There's nothing better on a hot summer night than Bar Harbor's Blueberry Ale or a Wolaver anything.

 

[Russ Pitts]

Yeah, that reminds me of my favorite: Double old-fashioned glass, five rocks, three fingers of something brown.

Although I do have a couple mixed drink recipes:

Mint Julep
Double old-fashioned glass
Fill with ice
2 Tbsp mint syrup
2 oz Bourbon
Top with club soda

And here's one for something I call a "Wampire". (It's like a mexican bloody mary.)
Tumbler
Rocks
3 parts tomato juice
2 parts orange juice
2 parts reposado tequila
1/2 part lime juice
Several dashes of pepper sauce
Liberal sprinklings of celery salt

 

[Demiurge [deprecated]]

I have had the Mint Julep. It is goodness in a glass.

For as much as I've been drinking lately (and in reality, it's not a lot. Just a lot for me) I don't really know how to make drinks. I tend to put too much alcohol in, as if I'm 16 and trying to mix drinks when my parents are away. It's kind of sad, really. That's why I stick with the whiskey and the ice.

 

[Landslide]

I have had the Mint Julep. It is goodness in a glass.

For as much as I've been drinking lately (and in reality, it's not a lot. Just a lot for me) I don't really know how to make drinks. I tend to put too much alcohol in, as if I'm 16 and trying to mix drinks when my parents are away. It's kind of sad, really. That's why I stick with the whiskey and the ice.

I have a moderately amusing anecdote to go with this. So, when I was about 16, I was a busboy at a country club just outside the city where I grew up. It was a fairly snooty place, with a private, closed doors feeling. Everyone knew everyone else and everything was put on a yearly tab, which eliminated tips and promoted excess. Of course, I was highly impressed with it all at my tender age, so I did my best to please the members and did what I was told.

Now, disregarding my age and the legal ramifications of serving alcohol, I was young and didn't know what the hell anything alcohol-related was. So the late night when I was asked for "a glass of vodka, on the rocks," I simply followed the instructions. Glass. Vodka. Ice.

'Course, I had no idea what size glass to use, or how much vodka was enough, so I basically pretended I was getting a glass of ice-water. I grabbed a highball glass, tossed a few ice cubes in, and filled the bastard to the rim. Sixteen ounces of Grey Goose landed on that man's table that night.

He looked at me with unreadable eyes and said, "Thank you."

 

[Delmar Wynn]

Man apparently I was always drinking at the wrong country club. They always served a highball glass filled to the rim with ice and a 1/2 shot of bottom shelf vodka. Then waited for 20 minutes before bringing me the glass, which I think was under the heat lamps.

 

[Demiurge [deprecated]]

That's beautiful, Landslide. Absolutely beautiful.

 

[Brian Easton]

I'm all for the beer + glass = drink equation. If I have to have something mixed (which generally means the beer selection is piss-poor) then I'll go with a gin and tonic. If I'm using my own gin then it's close to a 1/3 gin to tonic ratio. Should be served on the rocks with a slice of lime.

 

[onesilverbullet]

For me, it's Guinness or The Macallan - but my lovely wife loves the Tears Of The Prophet:

2oz absolut mandrin (don't those people know how to spell?)
3oz pomegranate juice (it's at your supermarket)

Shake hard with ice, strain into martini glass, rock 'n roll

 

[Goofonian]

What is it that you Aussie's drink out there? A buddy of mine brought some back from a semester abroad and it was rib-ticklin' good.

Alrighty, first things first. Noone here drinks Fosters. Its shit and I actually can't think of a bottle shop here that sells it.
As far as beer goes, my personal favourties:

Coopers Pale Ale
Coopers Sparkling Ale (this one will leave you wondering what hit you in the morning)
James Boag's Premium
Cascade Premium
Toohey's Pils

I'm also a big fan of Guiness, but thats not australian and you have to go to an Irish pub to get it.

Personally I won't drink any less than that. My old man works for coopers so I used to get it for free. Tis the standard beer in Adelaide (South Australia), where its made and where I grew up, but its considered a premium beer (and has a premium price) everywhere else.
If you go to Melbourne, the "commoners" will be drinking VB or carlton draught. Sydney they drink Tooheys New or Tooheys Extra Dry.

As far as the hard stuff goes, I'm gathering its similar to the US. Standard whiskeys are Jack, Johnny, Jim etc. Vodka is a standard mixer for anything fruity and black sambucca and tequila will garuntee a fun night. Probably the most Aussie drink going round would be bundaberg rum, but I'm not able to drink it due to a bad experience when I was 15..............

anyway, I'll contribute more to the thread. Don't know what this one is called but damn its a feisty one.

shot glass
filled most of the way with absinthe
little bit of contreau for flavour
rounded out with a dash of tobasco sauce
put a straw in it and suck it up as fast as you can.

 

[Russ Pitts]

shot glass
filled most of the way with absinthe
little bit of contreau for flavour
rounded out with a dash of tobasco sauce
put a straw in it and suck it up as fast as you can.

Oh my mother-loving Christ. We're drinking that at Casa Fletch tomorrow night. Might skip the straw though.

 

[Goofonian]

shot glass
filled most of the way with absinthe
little bit of contreau for flavour
rounded out with a dash of tobasco sauce
put a straw in it and suck it up as fast as you can.

Oh my mother-loving Christ. We're drinking that at Casa Fletch tomorrow night. Might skip the straw though.

The straw is kinda important. If you've made it right, the tobasco sauce will float on the top but to get the full effect of the drink you need the sauce to be the last thing to hit the back of your throat, which is where the straw comes in. Just make sure its a very little straw, or even cut a normal sized straw into 2 or 3 pieces, otherwise it can get a little awkward.

trust me on this.......

 

[Russ Pitts]

Ah I get it. alrighty then.

 

[Teleios]

shot glass
filled most of the way with absinthe
little bit of contreau for flavour
rounded out with a dash of tobasco sauce
put a straw in it and suck it up as fast as you can.

Oh my mother-loving Christ. We're drinking that at Casa Fletch tomorrow night. Might skip the straw though.

Wow, Death.

I personally can't pass up a good margarita.

 

[Delmar Wynn]

Umm. Oh. Wow. Oh. Owww. Umm.

Casa Fletch may never be the same again.

 

[Trujkin]

shot glass
filled most of the way with absinthe
little bit of contreau for flavour
rounded out with a dash of tobasco sauce
put a straw in it and suck it up as fast as you can.

Wow, Goofo, does that have a name? If you make it "double shot glass" I bet you could call it "Vomit on Command". Holy cow does that ever sound vicious.

Speaking of liquid death, however, courtesy of a little bar in San Luis Obispo, CA called Bull's Tavern, here is truly the most foul thing I've stood near that didn't include an anisette. It's the equal parts that does it. For a split second it almost tastes like dinner...

Bull Sweat
Equal Parts:
Bacardi 151
Wild Turkey
Tabasco
Worcestershire Sauce

Instructions: Ingest, regurgitate, repeat.

 

[Araman]

shot glass
filled most of the way with absinthe
little bit of contreau for flavour
rounded out with a dash of tobasco sauce
put a straw in it and suck it up as fast as you can.

Oh my mother-loving Christ. We're drinking that at Casa Fletch tomorrow night. Might skip the straw though.

The straw is kinda important. If you've made it right, the tobasco sauce will float on the top but to get the full effect of the drink you need the sauce to be the last thing to hit the back of your throat, which is where the straw comes in. Just make sure its a very little straw, or even cut a normal sized straw into 2 or 3 pieces, otherwise it can get a little awkward.

trust me on this.......

So the trick is to burn the back of your throat and instantly cauterize the wound with more burning?

Sounds delightfully sadistic, who's got the absinthe?

 

[Goofonian]

Wow, Goofo, does that have a name? If you make it "double shot glass" I bet you could call it "Vomit on Command". Holy cow does that ever sound vicious.

I've heard some call it a firestarter, but I'm not sure if it has an excepted 'official' name

So the trick is to burn the back of your throat and instantly cauterize the wound with more burning?

Thats pretty much it yeah. The first time I had one I had it bought for me, along with half a dozen of my friends but mysteriously the guy who bought them DIDN'T buy one for himself. I didn't realise this until after i'd spent 5 minutes gargling my beer trying to "make it stop! make it stop!" I don't think its likely to make you throw up though, regardless what it does to your stomach, you won't be thinking about that for a little while.

I'll expect an update over the weekend about how friday night at casa fletch went


as per the usual I'll add a little more. This one was my favourite drink leading up to and around the time of my 21st, I call it a triple black but could also be dubbed "vomit on command"

shot glass of black sambucca, double sized shot glass if your really keen.
Down the shot then immediately skull a bottle of schmirnoff double black.
*fall over*

 

[Araman]

My favorite drink recipe is as follows: Put beer in glass. Then drink it.

I'm not much for cocktails; the added sugar in most mixing liquids tends to put me in a bad state of inebriation much too quickly, just like wine. It's not that happy, giddy tipsy, either. It's the nasty, sour-stomach, headachey, entire-body-hates-you drunk. I'm not sure why the sugar + liquor does that, but it's never failed to do so. So if I drink liquor at all, it will be straight, maybe on the rocks.

I've never gone wrong with a fine beer. There's nothing better on a hot summer night than Bar Harbor's Blueberry Ale or a Wolaver anything.

I'll have to side with Lara on this one - A good beer is hard to beat. I'm very partial to bitters, it's a taste you really learn to devlop when you live in europe for awhile, my favorite being John Smith's bitter (not available in the states unfortunately).

I do, however, enjoy a fruity conconction from time to time, with my all time favorite being a Hairy Buffalo:

1/5 part Stoli Vodka,
1/5 part Gin
1/5 part 151 proof rum
1/5 part Jose Cuervo Especial gold tequila
1/5 part Jack Daniel's Tennessee whiskey

Orange juice, and 2 shots of grenadine


Yeah, pretty tame when compared to what some of you have been posting here, but I'm of the kind that prefers to *enjoy* my drinks occasionally ;P Call me crazy.