Looking at Part 2 and I realizing that I should have split it into cocktails my wife likes and the ones I like. These ones are all me.
Continuing the count from there:
#6 Rum Runner
1 oz White Rum
1 oz Dark Rum
1 oz Pineapple Juice
1 oz Banana Liqueur
1 oz Creme de Cassis
1 oz ml Orange Juice
1/2 oz Grenadine
1/2 oz 151 Proof Rum
Fill a glass with ice and add all the ingredients except the 151 then stir. Pour the 151 as a float over the drink.
This one is dangerous. I use the same blackberry liqueur here that I use for the bramble with Giffard Banane and canned pineapple juice. The rum flavor is good, with a local silver rum and Smith and Cross for the two rums, and Hamilton 151 for the float.
#7 Dark Daquiri
This Rum is SMOOOOTH
2 oz good dark rum
1 oz fresh lime juice
1/2 oz rich Demerara syrup (2:1 sugar:water)
Shake with ice and then double strain over crushed ice.
Dos Maderas 5+5 rum is so good in this. A lot of recipes say 3/4 or 1 oz of lime juice, but I am an unrefined heathen, so I always just use one lime worth of juice. Every time I make this drink, it feels like somebody else is sneaking drinks of it, because it disappears way too quickly. One of these days, I’m going to find that guy and kick his ass.
2 oz whiskey
1/2 oz rich Demerara Syrup
6 dashes or so of Angostura Bitters
1 orange peel
Stir whiskey, syrup, and bitters together with ice and strain over large ice cube
This one is Nephilium’s fault. My wife and I went to Richmond for a Dead South concert. This was the 4th time we have seen them and as always we had a great time.
We stayed at the Moxie, a weird little hotel, but nice enough and with my Marriott points it was free. With the room came 2 coupons for free drinks, so after the concert we went to the bar and found out the free drinks were either a gin or vodka high ball. My wife ordered a gin highball and I gave her the other coupon.
The bartender asked me what I wanted and I couldn’t see the rum bottles from my seat, so I panicked. I remember Neph had said to order an old fashioned to test a bar’s quality, so that’s what I ordered. I then thought I shouldn’t have done that because I don’t really like whiskey, but she had already started to make it, so I figured I could manage.
She gave it to me and it was excellent. I asked her what she had made it with and she said Uncle Nearest Tennessee whiskey. I had never heard of it, but I really liked it. I drank it and ordered another one. She asked if she could use the same ice cube since the first one didn’t have time to melt, I said that was fine. She then apologized and said that she only had one ounce of Uncle Nearest left so it was half that and half Crown Royal. Not nearly as good, but I finished it, helped my wife finish her second gin highball and we went to our room.
If she had more of the Uncle Nearest, I would have stayed there longer and maybe the fiasco that happened later could have been averted. See drink #10 for details.
My Fancy Stirring Pitcher
My favorite way to make one
When I made myself one at home, it was good, but not as great as I remembered. I watched a few videos and in all of them they squeezed an orange peel over the glass. I had assumed this was bartender flair and didn’t do that, nor did I garnish it with an orange peel. I tried it once, just to satisfy my curiosity and found out it was not flair, it was the missing ingredient. I was astonished at how much that improved the drink. I have also tried other bitters, but I like it best with the Angostura.
My wife bought me an ice mold for round ice and it works pretty well, much better than how I used to do it with my fridge ice.
#9 King Kong
Not My Picture
1 1/2 oz Whiskey
1/2 oz Smith & Cross Jamaican Rum
1/2 oz Giffard Banane du Brésil Liqueur
3 dashes Angostura Bitters
Stir whiskey, rum, Giffard Banane, and bitters together with ice and strain over large ice cube
Like a regular Old Fashioned, but STRONG. I like it, my wife could barley handle the smell. I prefer the original, but this is a nice variation. I use more than 3 dashes of the bitters. In the video, he uses lemon peel, but to me, lemon tastes like Pledge cleaner smells, so I use orange for this one also.
#10 Cherry Peanut Butter
So Simple, But So Good
1 12 oz bottle of Cheerwine
1 (or 2) oz Luxardo Sour Cherry Gin
1 (or 2) oz Peanut Butter Whiskey
I don’t know if I invented this, but that’s what I call it. For the Cheerwine, get the glass bottles. The cans and plastic bottles are made with corn syrup instead of sugar and are not quite as good. If Cheerwine is not available, it is almost as good with Cherry Dr. Pepper or Cherry Coke.
This one almost killed us the night after the above mentioned Dead South concert. After we went to the room, we started drinking these and listening to music.
We were really enjoying ourselves and I kept laughing about how even with 2 oz each of the PB whiskey and cherry gin, you could not taste the alcohol. I don’t know how many I drank, but I was HAMMERED. Finally we decided we should sleep, so I went to brush my teeth.
While I was in there, my wife was talking to me, and she cut off mid-sentence. I found her passed out like her switch had been turned off, so I covered her up and picked up her phone to set the alarm. Is said 5:47. I thought for sure her phone was broken, so I found mine and it said the same thing. OH NO!, Check out time was 10:00, so I set the alarm for 9:30.
That was a rough morning, I am too old for these kind of shenanigans any more. It was an hour to get to Williamsburg for breakfast at my favorite chicken and waffle place, and I didn’t even enjoy the meal. Then it was another hour to get home. We got home around 1 pm and I went to bed for a couple hours. I don’t plan on doing that again, but I didn’t really plan on doing it that time either.
A lot of my cocktail knowledge and recipes come from 3 YouTube channels, if you had clicked on the videos in the drink names you would have seen them:
I do have one more to add:
Apple Old Fashioned
I made a cider reduction, simmering 2 cups of pure apple cider with a cinnamon stick until it went down to ½ cup.
2 oz whiskey(he used bourbon)
½ oz of the apple cider syrup
1 dash Black Walnut Bitters
1 dash Angostura Bitters
Orange oil expressed across the top(I did this for the first one, but it didn’t work with the apple so I left it off)
1st I made one with Maker’s Mark bourbon, and it was good, but the orange did not match the apple.
Then I made one with Uncle Nearest, also really good.
Last I made one with Laird’s Apple Brandy and it was the best. It was so good, it tasted like another one.
I like this as much or maybe better than the traditional Old Fashioned with Uncle Nearest.
This looks good.
Some of the cocktails in the article look good too.
What’s an oz ml? Did you convert this from a Metric Recipe?!
You caught me, I cut and paste the recipe.
It had both oz and ml measurements, but I missed the ml in the orange juice.
I hope my pay doesn’t get docked for this.
Australian ml?
I haven’t seen Uncle Nearest where I get my booze but it looks the like they stock it at another shop ( a new place I haven’t been to yet), I’ll have to give it a try.
Uncle Nearest – i thought they was bankrupt
#6 Rum Runner – gay
Tee-totalling ain’t for everyone but hangover free is a great feeling for old guys.
Until recently when my sinus headaches started flaring up, I was hangover free no matter how much I drank.
My brother-in-law used to hate me because we would drink together, the next day I would be fine while he was hating life.
I always thought if I had hangovers like that, I wouldn’t drink.
My delicate GI tract (which coincidentally is currently going haywire) has all but ended my drinking days. I understand why others enjoy it but I really don’t miss it that much.
Sounds like your GI tract needs a good kicking to toughen it up. I recommend cheeseburgers, cheap bourbon and Lucky Strikes.
Heavy, heavy fuel
*respectful nod for the Dire Straits reference*
tips hat
I’m trying really hard to keep from laughing at the #10 incident (because I’ve been there a few times, and it feels exactly the same. Remind me to tell the story about the bachelorette party and the Topton Team 3-Gun Championship from a few years back.)
I’ve also noticed the same thing about Daiquiris (I also make them with rich Demarra syrup, though usually not dark rum) – they go down way too easy. Also Whiskey Sours. The last time I started on the Whiskey Sours at home, I realized around 2am that not only was the bourbon bottle empty, but I’d also used all the eggs that I intended to have for breakfast.
Look, we’ve tried the whole gender “equality” thing. We gave it our best shot. It’s time to just chain them back up to the stove and be done with it.
Comedy was kind of coming out of its coma. Watch how fast the Shane Gillis backlash ends that shit.
Are we ever going to get a comedy out of Hollywood again before it dies? Probably not. Like even they in all of their delusional pomposity realize that they are incapable of making people laugh anymore. They don’t even try.
And every man under the age of 30? Draft them into the military. Remove all rules about hazing.
Make them men again. Drastic times call for drastic measures.
I’ve held off on doing it because I don’t like fame, but I’m throwing my hat in the ring for 2028.
Country needs clarity. It needs First fueled jizz running through it’s veins again. And I’m the man to do it. This shit isn’t complicated – it’s about will. I’ll truly make America great again. 5 step plan. A 5 minute plan. It’ll be done.
DIs and OCS Tac Officers need love too.
It’s time to just chain them back up to the stove and be done with it.
Bullshit.
If we had stopped at equal rights, it would have been fine
But we continued off the cliff into special rights for special groups, then crashed and burned when we entered punishment of the privileged.
The correct answer is to teach what equal rights actually means. Equal treatment under the law. Special accommodations is actually a violation of equal rights.
Equal opportunity does not guarantee equal outcomes.
Equal rights do not guarantee equal opportunity.
You’re born; nobody helps; nobody interferes; you get whatever you earn; then you die.