Don’t usually love super sweet beers but this was rather tasty
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Found a grocery store that carries soju here. It is super smooth, and like all sojus you can comfortably sip an entire bottle.
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I love infusing vodka! It’s so easy and effective. There are a lot of different flavors in this drink but they harmonize well. I feel like a chump for buying that big bottle of maraschino liqueur when the recipe only calls for half a teaspoon per drink. I’m the type of person who steers away from “easy drinking” cocktails, so I’m pleased with this strictly one-sip-at-a-time concoction.
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The other day I made two scratchmonkey originals:
I wish I’d gotten a better photo of Bachelor’s Burning Sensation but that would have delayed drinking it and I was not in the mood for that shit!! This was my first mezcal based cocktail and wow, wow, that sure has a taste, that sure wasn’t something I could gulp down, this sure did have a bunch of heat but maybe that’s cuz I went big with the hot sauce. I now have to buy some tequila to compare with the mezcal, as I haven’t had tequila in a very long time. This is a good cocktail that took me, like, more than 5 minutes to drink, and I guess that’s normal, I guess you’re supposed to savor a cocktail, I guess this has been a learning experience for me. I would like to drink more spicy cocktails in the future. I will make this again, if I am ever on a ‘hot date’ that I want to impress by saying “did you know there are cocktails named after me on the internet, and you can taste them…right now?”
I didn’t take a photo of the The Dog Sufferer even though I made, like, 3 of them. This is my kinda cocktail. It’s gin with pickle brine and lemon. I get my pickles from the farmer’s market in town. This dude from Jersey sells nothing but pickles. They’re great, especially the ‘firecracker’ pickles, which are spicy, and go great on a chicken sandwich. I used that brine here so it had more of a kick than intended and that was mighty fine, I could drink this all the time, it’s not all that different from my usual martini, which is my favorite of all the drinks. If I had a hot date over I would NOT tell her this was named after a Yu Gi Oh card. I’d say it was named after a sex thing, and then she’d probably leave, and that would be fine, just means more dog drink for me.
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Good news is that you can use that maraschino in Last Words and Miffy’s Heart of the Cards.
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With what I have on hand, I think I can…make both of these.
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I’ve tested literally none of these since making up these cocktails years ago
Goku
2 oz Bourbon
3/4 oz Lemon Juice
1/4 oz Grenadine
4 oz ginger beer
shake and strain all ingredients except ginger beer into old fashioned glass. Top with Ginger Beer.
Bulma
1 1/2 oz gin
3/4 oz dry vermouth
1/4 oz absinthe
2 dash orange bitters
stir with ice, strain into coupe glass
garnish with orange peel
Yamucha
1 Lager
1 shot of rye
Drink them
Muten Roshi
1 oz gin
1 oz bourbon
1 egg white
1 oz lime juice
2 oz ginger ale
Shake all ingredients, except ginger ale, very hard with ice (1 minute). strain into pint glass, top with ginger ale
The Two-star Dragonball
1 1/2 oz bourbon
1/2 oz sloe gin
1/2 oz lemon juice
shake with ice and strain into coupe glass. garnish with two cherries
Oolong
3/4 oz Vodka
3/4 oz Campari
5 oz champagne
Shake vodka and campari with ice. Strain into champagne flute and top with champagne
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I’ve tested this one a lot over the years, it’s good
reading this also made me weirdly nostalgic for the trashy version of this, my typical drink order from the phase where i spent a lot of time in crappy bars and also probably drank too much: one budweiser and one shot of jack daniels. aka the big mac value meal of bar orders. there is something kind of satisfying about the like all american boringness of it all. plus it gets you drunk.
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i just finished reading this book:
and he went on at some length about getting a cheap beer and a cheap shot at a cheap bar, and it was really great. i think what i’m saying is that you’re in the wrong line of work, and should be a private detective?
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When I was really trying to drink myself to death I’d have a half a dozen or so of these in an hour or two
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I have a specific memory to this, which was after college graduation, going on a bar crawl with a friend who has since sadly passed. We were going at it pretty hard and I phased back into reality with the realization that we were at the local Hell’s Angels bar (the only place where I have literally witnessed somebody being beaten with pool cues in the dirt parking lot because he knocked over somebody’s bike) and my friend had just ordered an Amaretto Sour. I hastily ordered a shot of Jack with a Bud back with the aim of balancing out his order. I think it worked because we left in one piece.
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My friend I get drinks with after work always gets PBR and a shot of well whisky. But only gets PBR when at the bar, at his place he pairs whatever beer is cheapest, recently Coors light, with the whisky.
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oh my god this sounds so good
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They do taste remarkably similar to flat Dr. Pepper
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Lately I’ve been mixing together a blend of a few of the things I have most on hand to use stuff up, and it turns out they work well. I think it’s at least adjacent to an established cocktail of some kind?
1 part bourbon/whiskey
1 part port (or another kind of nutty fortified wine)
luxardo cherries (ish) and a little syrup
bitters I guess?
a couple ice cubes, mostly to water it down
probably would be good with an orange slice too
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This is almost exactly the suburban cocktail, all that’s missing is some rum
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I have a lot of that too, actually
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here’s the cocktail i made in utah, no pics because i forgot
miffy was bored while waiting on her soup to finish cooking no. 1
3 muddled blackberries
2oz lemon juice
2oz vodka
3/4oz honey syrup
shake shake double strain top with ginger ale and garnish with a lemon peel
i’m probably doing something wrong but i remember it tasting nice! the ginger ale would’ve been topo chico if the grocery store hadn’t been out of regular topo chico, but it was probably better for it being ginger ale instead. i think i split what was in the shaker between two drinks the first time? and when i made a third i just used what was left of the ginger ale and the lemon juice i squeezed. after writing them down the measurements seem kind of silly to me; i guess the idea is that you’re making fancy lemonade, and with that framing it doesn’t seem quite as silly, but it still doesn’t seem like much of a cocktail and could probably use a little more complexity. or else just less of everything but the vodka
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This cocktail was so good, I don’t think you need to change a thing tbh!
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If you make cocktails like you reheat pizza I can guarantee that the cocktails are fantastic
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