Or what has been your go to lately? I’m usually a whiskey and ginger kinda guy but I’m trying to branch out a little these days. What’re you drinking?

Currently sipping on a Paloma:

  • 1.5 oz Tequila (blanco)
  • .5oz lime juice
  • 4 oz Grapefruit soda (Jarritos today)
  • Pinch of salt
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    Visit us at !cocktails@lemmy.world

    I love a Paloma and agree, Jarritos and fresh lime, absolutely.

    My current favorite is an adjusted Paper Plane

    2 parts bourbon

    1 part Aperol

    1 part Amaro Nonino

    1 part fresh lemon juice

    Shaken with ice, served up.

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    I like the sound of that. Needs to be bitter, otherwise I chug them !

    I quite like salty margaritas and dirty martinis.

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    French 75 (use good champagne)
    French 76 (use good champagne)
    Old fashioned (use expensive cherries)
    Side car (use orange brandy instead of orange liqueur)
    Manhattan (don’t skimp on bitters)
    Cosmopolitan (throw the used lime into the shaker)
    Whiskey sour (use egg white)
    Gimlet (add a cedar leaf for more flavor)

    Fresh fruit is a must to make the best drinks.

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      Second the whiskey sour (with egg white) and the Manhattan…

      …and I’ll add a Moscow Mule when on a sunny patio and it’s a scorching day

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      Whiskey sour (use egg white)

      I’ve never heard of putting an egg white in those. What does that do?

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            Try it before deciding. It’s really good. Dry shake first, then put ice and shake again. I’ll take a whiskey sour any way someone wants to make it, but for an amaretto/bourbon sour an egg white is essential, it is so much better with it than without.

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    i love fruity drinks, pina colada is my favorite but bartenders hate making it so i just go for whatever cocktail has coconut or pineapple flavor

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      I used to love them.

      Then, 20 yo me decided to split a 26er into two glasses, top up with tonic and a twist of lemon. Waited til my buddy showed, put on some music and drank them in under 45 minutes. 30 minutes after that, we are standing in a snowstorm, in t-shirts (because we dont want to pay for coat check), outside a bar (we walked from our place), waiting in line to get in. An hour after that, we say fuck it, walk home, and proceed to have the worst spins, come downs, and hangovers of our lives. Needless to say, G&Ts are off the books for me forevermore.

      TL;DR 20 yo me destroyed G&T for all the mes to follow.

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    Tie between Pisco Sour and Bloody Mary. Usually a night drinking the former will lead to the latter the next day.

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    Good whisky, neat

    Decent whisky, bitters, club soda, ice in a short glass.

    Gin, flavored fizzy (LaCroix etc), splash of lime juice, ice

    Gin shaken with ice, small rinse of dry vermouth in glass, 3-4 blue cheese olives

    4:3:3:4 añejo tequila, grand Marnier, key west lime juice, honey simple (50/50 honey and water) shaken or blended with ice. (Could sub honey for sugar free sweetener to be “healthy”)

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      My favorite margarita is just 2oz tequila (yes añejo or reposado), 1oz orange liqueur, juice of one lime. No sweetener, the liqueur provides enough sweetness.