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Friday Fun Thread for October 4, 2024

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Currently drinking gimlets with the missus and playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R.. What a surreal game.

Post you favorite cocktail recipes!

Start with a standard Manhattan recipe, but not only do you make sure not to forget the Maraschino cherry, you also add a dash of Maraschino liqueur and a dash of Cherry Heering.

Weeski: 1 1/2 oz Irish whiskey, 1/2 oz Cointreau, 1 dash orange bitters, 1 oz Lillet Blanc, orange peel (candied since I'm lazy) garnish.

Mint julep, but always with granulated sugar instead of syrup (to muddle the mint leaves better), and about twice as many leaves as the standard recipe calls for.

I have an undying love for a Godfather, though I rarely get them these days. It's just 2 oz whisky, commonly scotch, but I've had them with bourbon, whiskey, thinking about trying one with applejack now that I think about it. Then you add 1 oz amaretto. Stir, have over ice or whiskey stones and enjoy.

This is the drink I go for when I’m out on the town;

1oz Aperol 1oz Reposado Tequila Shake, pour into an ice-filled high ball glass

Pour 2oz dry Prosecco or Cava on top, garnish with ruby red grapefruit slice.

Comes out a beautiful salmon color if done right, it’s both light and boozy and keeps your tastebuds alert.

On the gaming front; I’m absolutely obsessed with UFO50, a top tier collection of 50 8-bit style games with modern design elements.

I’m not particularly nostalgic about the 8-bit era as it was coming to a close when I started playing games as a kid but these are really impressive. As a collection it’s astounding, some of the individual games are amongst the best I’ve ever played. And there are 50 of them!

Old fashioned - default specs - any crap bourbon like jim beam white label, orange bitters and the syrup used is the syrup from the 1886 pemberton coke recipe.

Basil smash - basil extract, gin, syrup, lemon juice

The orange peel garnish actually seems to make a difference to an Old Fashioned for me, but I'm too lazy to keep fresh oranges on hand and carve peels for cocktails, so I've recently got a jar of candied orange peels for the purpose, and that seems to add 50% of the value for 5% of the work.

Swapping out Pedro Ximenez Sherry for the simple syrup is one of the greatest small changes you can make to a classic cocktail.

It’s crazy sweet but figgy and date-y.

I recently put together a gimlet mix that is pretty decent but I can't for the life of me find the recipe at the moment. I'm a fan of equal parts cocktails, the Negroni being the exemplar. Most people are probably familiar but the recipe is:

1oz each of gin, Campari, and sweet vermouth

Stirred, poured over ice

Orange peel garnish, express the oils before putting it in the drink.

Bold juniper-forward gins work best, they get lost in the Campari otherwise. I'm a fan of the humble Cinzano for a sweet vermouth.

Another great equal parts is the Last Word:

3/4oz each of gin, Green Chartreuse, maraschino liqueur, and lime juice

Shaken, served straight up

Garnish with a maraschino cherry

(replace the gin with rye whiskey and the lime with lemon juice for a Final Ward, which I honestly prefer)

And one more rec if you're feeling adventurous and since I love Fernet Branca, the Midnight Stinger:

1oz each of bourbon and Fernet

3/4oz lemon juice

little under a half ounce of 2-1 sugar syrup

Shake, serve over crushed ice

Mint sprig garnish

1oz each of bourbon and Fernet

3/4oz lemon juice

little under a half ounce of 2-1 sugar syrup

Shake, serve over crushed ice

Mint sprig garnish

Have some fernet, will try this today. In general I love amaro and almost all herbal liqueurs, I unironically like a thimble of jaegermeister as a digestif, like an elderly Frisian farmer.

It's probably the best cocktail with Fernet included, I really like Fernet and coke but it's hardly a cocktail at two ingredients. A lot of the herbal liqueurs I originally purchased for mixing have become favorites for just sipping as well, honestly its almost a shame to use stuff like Chartreuse in a cocktail since they pack so many flavors on their own.

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