Cocktails, mixes & shots

[TUG]

Ive gotten bored of beer now, dont get me wrong i like a good drop of ales and lager all round but i went ibiza as a family outing for a week and it was all inclusive, free beer and mixers so thought i'd give them a whirl.
I grew fond of black russians and pina coladas especially.

Anyone else like stuff like that or are you all man me ugh ugh.
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[G]

Were they actually decent strength?
Gave up on all the cocktails you got in Tenerife as they used all the usual tricks to give you the weakest drink possible - alcohol in the straw, around the rim etc.

Anyway, I like a well made vodka cocktail - usually when there's a company-tab behind the bar , though of course that does tend to end up quite messily! Revolutions have some very nicely made examples.

[Dazbo666]

Tried a Black Russian (drink ) and Long Island Iced Tea in the past just out of curiosity, and found them to taste quite nice.

More recently got in to Mojito's during a wedding reception, and I don't even remember leaving the party. The best bit about it is that if I had been ill, my mouth would have still tasted minty fresh!! LOL

TBH though I normally just stick to JD on the rocks, or a pint or three of Stella or Guiness
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[Shaun]

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[TUG]

well i asked for gin and coke and it was 50/50 mix haha they were really strong, like my GF's method of mixing.
i loved them, i replicated a black russian last nite was so good.
Only problem is the ingredients as we dont have much here to mix to form a drink. I managed with vodka, tia maria and lemonade and was great.
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[Spit-Fire]

[TUG]

So what would you guys reccomend and whats the best way to get what i need cheapish and so on? has anyone here dabbled in making their own etc?
Faves and worsts?
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[Ste]

Baileys & sambuca is pretty bad.
Baileys & tia maria (think thats what it was) is nice.
Minori, advocate & grenadine is very nice.

The Turtle in Reading does some good cocktails but I don't remember what they were.

[Tonka]

This was the most perfect cocktail I've had in a long, long time. Might have been the setting which is right in the centre of NY or the fact that it was a big zero birthday

.....who knows, but it's really very, very good and I would recommend!!


Renaissance Times Square - 2 Times Square Martini
"A Cocktail Created at the Crossroads of the World... Times Square"

2oz Absolut Vanilla
Splash of simple syrup
2oz pineapple juice

Shake well into a chilled martini glass. Garnish with a wedge of lime.


I just might have had a few more than was good for me , but
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[JakeyR]

Jamaican jumps are the best and they get you hammered, i have no idea whats in them though. They just taste good and after 10 i cant remember much.
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[hellkat]

I went to New Orleans for the Millenium, and people were drinking Hurricanes ... and getting so wasted they could hardly stand up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_(cocktail)

Kind of ironic, really.

I saw one guy surrounded by a crowd of maybe two dozen people who were howling encouragement ... he was bent over, in that sort of standing-foetal position that one adopts when one is about to chunder.

He was so wankered, he couldn't throw up.
It was horrific to watch.
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[hellkat]

But seriously ...
Lovely!
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On the civilised side, I am very fond of cocktails in general.
Off the top of my head, my favourites are:
* whiskey sours (whiskey lemon juice and ... not sure what else),
* tequila sunrises
* strawberry daiquiris
* margaritas
* brandy Alexanders (brandy, cream, curacao, nutmeg).
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[hellkat]

But PROPERLY made, with proper liquor ... not with that disgusting "margarita mix" or "daiquiri mix", ugh.

Don't give me some shite buncho powdered flavour.
Might as well use Kool-Aid
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[Louise]

Love my shots and cocktails. But I was recently put off by the 'cement mixer' shot - was rank and felt like curd in my mouth

[colin1]

cocktails made from the usual spirits behind the bar and nothing else are shit

However, cocktails based on real fruit and mint are ace.

I'm thinking of the mojito, which is a handful of fresh mint crushed up, with lime juice, rum and quite a bit of sugar.

They are fantasic. I used to have loads of mint in my garden, but it died. I'm gonna grow some more. Mint tea is ace too.
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[Shaun]

[DanceLikeAMon...]

Don't know if it's got a proper name, but my favourite cocktail used to be double tequila, ginger ale and fresh lime juice.

Had it a few times sitting outside the Pitcher and Piano on Newcastle Quayside watching the ships go by (except no ships actually go by anymore)

[Jefr0]

If you've got a sweet tooth you might like this:

https://www.retrotuckshopsweetsdirect.co.uk/images/refresher%20chews.jpg

The Refresher cocktail.

It's a pint glass, full of ice, 1 blue WKD, 1-2 shots of blue aftershock topped up with strongbow/cider to the top.

Gotta love disaronno and coke as a mixer.

Or Midori, vodka and lemonade is a nice cool drink in the summer.
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[G]

Tke people I've had make cocktails in the local revolutions make good cocktails; as I like vodka, their 'restrictive' menu suits me.

It's not the clientèle, which I'm fine with at this other place, it's the ambience - the feeling you're paying for that, not the drinks.
Conversely, upstairs in another local 'trendy restaurant' they have a very good cocktail bar, but unfortunately it's not always open.

A zombie is a 'good way to kick off a messy night' as you say - shots are an alternative to that. I haven't found anyone that would choose one for the taste.

And yes, I have tried plenty of different cocktails made with a large variety of spirits - offered from a variety of places, including various dedicated cocktail bars. This is why I know I generally prefer Vodka. Different people are different, an that .

[m0l0t0v]

[colin1]

As shaun rudely pointed out cocktails which use real fruit or at least decent juice, are better than stuff that just comes out of a bottle.

I only know about the Mojito but I'm sure there are loads others. They do seem ridiculously expensive until you try one, and then they seem a bargain. Something to sip slowly and enjoy, rather than get wasted on.

For vodka addicts, I'd suggest keeping a bottle in the freezer and drinking it neat. It tastes a lot less harsh, and when its from the freezer, it goes thick like a syrup, which is sorta wierd.
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[m0l0t0v]

At one party I got bored and decided to make a random shot.

And so the Bleeding Hurricane was evolved.

50ml shot glass.

Ingredients (dashes of, not measured):

Grenadine
Archers
Malibu
Vodka
Blue Curacao
Triple Sec
Bacardi
Russian Standard Vodka
Bayleys
White tequila

May have forgotten a couple of that list

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Didn't taste half bad tbh!

And I made a made a new shot recently, Mexican Kamikaze.

Sake, tabasco, tequila on top. Layered like a flatliner. Pretty lethal

Sake on it's own, is pretty nice.


Oh and you have a Blue Lagoon cocktail; Vodka, Blue curacao and lemonade.

Vodka and Orange is a Screwdiver, I believe archers and ornage is Fuzzy navel..


I've got a couple of books somewhere with loads of recipes.


To the OP, having a good ingredients list isn't cheap. you can buy cheap tesco's/sainsbury's equivalent but it will taste crap. So either build through time (like I did) or buy everything at once and screw the rest of the month

What I'd suggest is go out to places and try cocktails and then decide what to buy OR look up cocktail recipes, whether vodka based, rum based, etc or random ones (can usually find sites with reviews from randomers) and go from there.

One thing that's good to have is Angostura Bitters. It's like 43% from memory and it smells amazing. You only usually have a few drops in a drink.
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