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What are you drinking tonight?

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Atomic Playboy said:
Tonight I made a couple of drinks for the myself and the missus. A Saratoga (rye, brandy, sweet vermouth and bitters) and a Jack Rose (applejack, lime juice and homemade grenadine). Both were pretty fabulous, though I was surprised that my wife opted for the richer Saratoga over the fruity sweetness of the Jack Rose. But I could drink a few dozen of either, so win-win.
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Saratoga sounds nice; I'l have to try that. :thumbsup:


I had this with my dinner; very nice:

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KT
 
KeithTalent said:
Saratoga sounds nice; I'l have to try that. :thumbsup:
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The Saratoga was really good. It's from that class of cocktails where people were like "hey, I like this drink, but what if I swapped out half the main ingredient for some additional liquor which should not go together but absolutely does?" Like the "Between the Sheets"; take a Sidecar (2 oz cognac, 1 oz lemon juice, 1 oz Cointreau) and sub out half the cognac for a nice amber rum (1 oz each of cognac, rum, lemon juice and Cointreau); it's AWESOME. The Saratoga is the same idea with a Manhattan and some brandy. I used the following recipe:

1 oz rye whiskey (Rittenhouse)
1 oz brandy (Paul Masson Grande Amber VSOP, but a nice cognac would be lovely)
1 oz sweet vermouth (Carpano Antica if you can swing it, Martini and Rossi would be fine)
2 dashes Angostura

Stir with ice, strain into a cocktail glass, garnish with an orange twist (a lemon twist will do in a pinch, but the orange really is magical here, and you can go for a flaming twist if you're feeling especially flamboyant). It's less spicy and slightly sweeter than a traditional rye Manhattan; exceptionally smooth. Don't know how well it would fare with bourbon and brandy, since bourbon is a bit sweeter than rye to begin with. But I highly recommend it.
 
Atomic Playboy said:
A Cosmopolitan. Yes, it's a girly-ass drink, but I'd never actually made one before, and if you make it so that the sweetness doesn't overpower everything, it's actually pretty good. It's cold, it's refreshing, and it's bright pink... it's delightful.
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Grab some Boone's next time.
 
I'm still working on a 1.75 L bottle of Bulleit bourbon. I bought it because it came with 4 of the nice Bulleit glasses and was a pretty good price (~$35).
 
Silver Captain sounds good. I had some spiced rum tonight, but I'm not liking the spice anymore. I use to drink so much damn rum when I turned 21.
 
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Picked up a bottle of Pumking pumpkin ale. Not normally into pumpkin beers, or pumpkin anything really, but for some reason I found myself in the mood. This stuff is really good. It smells like pumpkin pie, it tastes like pumpkin pie, and it packs a wallop.
 
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