Favorite and Least Favorite Cocktails?

[RetiredLEO]

Well, it is New Years. How about your favorite and not so favorite cocktails? I'll get this party started.

Honestly, I keep mine pretty basic:

• Gin & Tonic: 1/2 quality Gin, 1/2 tonic water, a lime wedge, and done.
• Dry Martini: 2½ ounces Gin, ½ ounce dry Vermouth. Garnish with an olive.
• Absinthe: Glass of Absinthe, pour cold water over a sugar cube, through an Absinthe spoon.
• TnT: 1/2 Tequila, 1/2 tonic water, dash of bitters, and a limed wedge.
• Tom Collins: 3 parts Gin, 2 parts lemon juice, 1 part sugar syrup, 4 parts carbonated water. (Or just simplify it with Tom Collins mix.)

Ones that are a no go:

• Pretty much any foo-foo drink.
• Anything involving the two words "pumpkin spice". Had a beer, well a couple sips of one, so labeled at an office party (free beer and how bad can it be?) and, um yah, never again.
• Most, though not all, brown liquor drinks. Though I did use to do the Bourbon Supremo (Bourbon and tonic water, with a lemon wedge) back in the day. (And, yes, I'm aware that is sacrilege to Bourbon purists, but it was the cheap, Old Crow stuff.)
• Whatever is the current obnoxiously trendy cocktail. If not at home, I do my drinking at dive bars, casinos and a private club, so I usually don't see that often these days, thankfully.

How's about you pallies?

Saki with Chinese. Porter or Stout with BBQ. Red wine with Italian. Two shots of 100% Agave Sauza Plata Tequila with lime wedge with all other meals. Adult beverages only with the supper meal.

 

[fredball]

Man If I have to drink the hard stuff it's Foo Foo all the way life is way too short to drink anything that makes you wince to swallow it

NO GO for me

• Gin & Tonic:
• Martini:
• Tom Collins:

I like a good Bloody Mary made with ZING ZANG
Cranberry Juice and vodka
Long island Ice Tea
Red Beer made with ZING ZANG
screw driver
root beer float the one with booze in it
ect ect

 

[Helocat]

Bottle of smoke. Peaty stuff right there.

Christmas gift from a son and daughter. it lasted 5 days
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[Helocat]

#1 drink for me is a good scotch. Balvenie 12 or Oban Little Bay is my go too. Oban 14 favorite and Balvenie 21 for very special events. One large ice cube and scotch.

Actual cocktails for me:
1. Manhatten (Note I make an Oregon Smoked Cherry Manhatten, outstanding)
2. Long Island
3. Manhatten

Least favorite: I know its blasphemy in Portland but I have just lost the taste for big beers. Don't care for the "beard yeast made Dandylion beer" and such. If I have to drink beer, i.e. fishing or camping its Bud Light. Yup one of the cheapest beers, total lawn mowing beer.

 

[Tom Louis]

When I was a young man I loved 'The Thin Man' movies and once saw Nick Charles order. a Gibson, which is a gin martini with a pickled onion instead of an olive for flavor. I still like one on occasion. Down (from here) in Bend Oregon you have Crater Lake Gin distilled with genuine PNW sourced juniper berries, my personal favorite Gin. My son in law gave me a bottle of Raygoza Añejo Tequila for Christmas. It is so fine that it would be a huge shame to mix it with anything. We drink a glass or two of wine a day at our house but I am always the designated driver when we are out and about so not much otherwise. Tom

 

[41mag]

over 30 years ago my doc advised with the onset of Diabetes 2 I had a Big Choice to make; I could keep my drinking habits, or I could probably keep my kidneys and eyeballs functioning. So far he's been right. And I believe my overnight change was due to Divine Intervention.

 

[bbbass]

Oh gosh, I like almost all cocktails, sweet, dry, no matter. BTW, straight up, neat, or on the rocks is NOT a cocktail!! Neither is beer. Or wine unless it is a wine cooooooler.

Favs:

Gin and Tonic
Bloody Mary
Coffee Nudge
Margarita
Vodka Gimlet


Honorable Mention:

VO and water
CC and Seven
Seven and Seven
Mai Tai
Daquiri
Strawberry Daquiri
Pina Colada
Grasshopper
White Russian
Long Island Iced Tea
Tequila Sunrise
Whiskey Sour
Screwdriver
Harvey Wallbanger
Harvey Pudphucker
Skip And Go Naked
Those watermelon rum drinks they do on Cruise ships
Sweet whiskey, pineapple chunks, coconut creme, blended


Nope list:

Rum and Coke
Martini
Sloe Gin Fizz

There's many I'd like to try!

 

[RetiredLEO]

over 30 years ago my doc advised with the onset of Diabetes 2 I had a Big Choice to make; I could keep my drinking habits, or I could probably keep my kidneys and eyeballs functioning. So far he's been right. And I believe my overnight change was due to Divine Intervention.

So what kind of seeing eye dog did you get?

 

[TTSX]

It's not a cocktail, though really enjoy a straight single malt scotch. No ice, no anything, just scotch in my glass and I'm darn happy

 

[RVNvet]

over 30 years ago my doc advised with the onset of Diabetes 2 I had a Big Choice to make; I could keep my drinking habits, or I could probably keep my kidneys and eyeballs functioning. So far he's been right. And I believe my overnight change was due to Divine Intervention.

Prior to 11/18/1987, anything with alcohol.
Subsequent to 11/18/1987, anything without alcohol.
(Also with assistance of an HP.)

 

[tac]

My late Great-uncle Jack, who served in the same unit in WW1 as my maternal grandfather and my Canadian grandfather, invented a lightning pick-me-up that could, I 'spose, be described as a cocktail, IF you'd never actually HAD a cocktail.

1. Take a ten-ounce straight-sided glass.

2. Fill it 3/4 full with ethanol [as used in lanterns and Coleman cook- stoves].

3. Top up to within about 1/4" of the rim with California Syrup of Figs.

4. Finish off with a tablespoonful of your favourite effervescent digestif, Eno's?, and stir in quickly.

5. Drink it all down before the fizzing has stopped.

It was guaranteed to get you moving even if your legs had been blown off, but only rarely if you had lost your head.

 

[DB is Here]

Bourbon or Rye neat. Guess I'm a no Fru-fru type of fella.

 

[Ura-Ki]

Sounds kinda like "Skull Pop", Take Torpedo Fuel, ( ethanol,) Filter through a loaf of bread into your canteen cup, and swizzle quickly with fusing tool and drink!

 

[titsonritz]

I've been on an Old Fashion kick with Buffalo Trace or Markers
Beefeater is my old standby, Gin and juice (grapefruit and cran is a fav), gin and tonic, Martinis it's all good.

Don't care for anything with soda pop or other sweet foofoo drinks.

 

[Carbon]

I am more of a beer and wine guy, but if I drink liquor its a Kentucky mule, or makers mark on the rocks, and maybe a mojito if its sunny out.

Never again, vodka and mt dew. It was all we had sr yr hs camping.

 

[Hill Man]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned a mezcal (repasodo or anejo). Neat or as a base for margarita. Margarita mixed with lime juice and very light on the Cointreau. Or sans Cointreau.

A wheat mash bourbon. Pappy Winkle being my favorite (when using the expense account).

Moscow or Kentucky mule. Preferably with an alcohol ginger beer.

Old Fashioned. Sazerac base but other good bourbons are acceptable.

McMenamins Terminator

Revolver

Cabernet or Sauvignon Blanc.

White rum and Cascade Ice. Zero carbs.

No go: Bacardi, cheap beer, light and medium colored beers

 

[Capn Jack]

How about a little VP out of the bottle with my buddies under an overpass out of the rain...