What is your favorite alcoholic cocktail?

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.

If you’re ok with bitter flavors, I’m a big fan of the Negroni.

I prefer mine straight up so it doesn’t dilute too much.

Absolute favorite is the Sazerac. Any recipe you find use less sugar.

Rye Manhattan up. Rye old fashioned if you want rocks and sweeter profile. But always rye.

The Dude was on to something, white russian all the way.

The Last Word is my favorite, but I rarely have the ingredients on hand. The Bees Knees is a more common go-to.

Penicillin. Honey, bourbon, scotch, ginger, and lemon, all in one.

For a cocktail, I'll take a well executed Mojito 9/10 times. That other 1/10 is often a White Russian.

Else a gin & tonic as a long drink, as long as they got decent stuff.

These days I have maybe 2-3 drinks a year at most, so I'm not willing to settle for inferior ingredients.

I dunno about favorite, but my go-tos are an Old Fashioned in the fall and winter, and a Tom Collins in spring and summer.

Those become a Manhattan or an Aviation if I’m feeling fancy or just want to mix it up.

Mai Tai. All the joy of vacationing on a beach, without the beach.

Rarely drink cocktails, but Long Island Ice Tea is probably my go-to.

I like tiki drinks.

Painkillers are incredible. I'll take 12.

measurements:

• 2 oz Dark Rum (preferably Pusser's Rum, as it's the traditional choice)
• 4 oz Pineapple Juice
• 1 oz Orange Juice
• 1 oz Cream of Coconut *Garnish: Grated Nutmeg and optionally a pineapple wedge or cherry

Instructions:

• Combine Ingredients: In a shaker, add the dark rum, pineapple juice, orange juice, and cream of coconut with ice.
• Shake Well: Shake vigorously until well chilled.
• Strain: Strain the mixture into a hurricane glass or large snifter filled with ice.
• Garnish: Generously grate fresh nutmeg on top of the drink and, if you like, add a pineapple wedge or cherry for decoration.

Is the sun up? Bloody Mary

Is the sun down? Extra dirty gin martini. Preferably Hendricks or Botanist.

I'm sober now, but back when I drank I always loved a martini made with equal parts gin and sweet vermouth with a splash of grenadine and a maraschino cherry.

Gin and Tonic is my go-to.

The one that catches people off guard, but people generally seem to enjoy once they try is dark rum and orange juice (but the OJ has to be good, the kind thats pulpy / thick).

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

I quite like salty margaritas and dirty martinis.

I don't drink hard liquor any more, but even when I did, I didn't drink cocktails, but did get a tiny bit fancy on straight whiskey.

Rye, mid or top shelf. Chilled glass with a whiskey stone. Sometimes with a beer.

Dark, unspiced rum and any of the fruit juice monsters mixed 1:1 in a big gulp.

Keeps my heart on it's toes.

Caipiroska, a Caipirinha variant with Vodka instead of cachaça

https://iba-world.com/caipirinha/

Replace the Grapefruit from your Paloma with some Japaleno brine and it's my current go to

Daytime: Caeser

Nighttime: Negroni or Manhattan

An Old Pal - which is a minor variation of a Boulevardier

• 1 ounce Rye
• 1 ounce Campari
• 1 ounce dry Vermouth
• Served straight up garnished with a twist of lemon

If I can find it, Time Release is fantastic and should be on everyone's must try list

• 1.5 ounces Dry Gin
• 1 ounce White Port
• 0.5 ounce Sloe Gin
• 0.25 ounce Yellow Chartreuse
• Stirred not shaken, served straight up, garnished with a cherry

Great sipper that changes in flavor significantly as it warms up. Most places don't have White Port on hand and few have Sloe Gin on hand so can be difficult to get at a bar.

I have multiple - it depends on the occasion:

• illegal (I love mezcal)
• moscow mule
• bloody mary
• piña colada

Division Bell! It's punchy and tart with the citrus and slightly bitter aperol, and the mezcal gives a really welcome smoky flavor. I add just a quarter oz simple to the standard recipe, otherwise I find it a little dry.

-1 ounce mezcal -3/4 ounce Aperol -1/4 ounce Luxardo maraschino liqueur -3/4 ounce lime juice, freshly squeezed -1/4 ounce simple syrup

-Add ingredients to a shaker with ice, shake well before straining into a coupe and garnishing with a grapefruit twist

Negronis, I love campari and gin

I also love coming up with cocktails so I'd love to share one of my favorites, the Fire Eater

• Dried whole chili peppers, broken in half
• Fireball
• Maraschino cherries and syrup
• Fill with coke and serve over ice, alternatively use cherry coke

The drink gets spicier as you drink. For the full fire eater experience eat the chilis at the end.

Salmiakki, keep it classic.

I'm partial to the New Orleans cocktails. If I'm making a Sazerac, I like this variation.

On the whole, though, my favorite has to be the Vieux Carré

• 3/4 oz rye
• 3/4 oz cognac
• 3/4 oz sweet vermouth
• 1/3 oz Bénédictine D.O.M
• 2 dashes Peychaud's bitters
• 1 dash Angostura bitters
• Optional absinthe rinse (I usually keep some absinthe in an atomizer because I refuse to throw out perfectly good absinthe)

Serve in a rocks glass with a lemon twist

At the same time, though, my love for bitter sometimes draws me to a Bonsoni:

• 2 oz Carpano Antica vermouth
• 1/2 oz Fernet Branca

Painkiller, which is piña colada for grown-ups

Whiskey Sour, skip the egg

Classic Daiquiri (not the slush one)

A Right Hand.

You have to make it yourself though because unfortunately no one knows what the hell this delicious drink is.

Sazerac - basically a Louisiana old fashioned

• 2 oz Rye whiskey
• 1/4 oz dark simple syrup ( like Turbinado, Demerara, etc)
• 5ish dashes of Peychaud’s bitters
• rinse glass with absinthe (I swear it doesn’t taste like anise/licorice at all in the end)
• lemon twist
• serve straight up

Old Fashioned, when the bar is stocked enough and the barman knows, then Smoke & Cigars

Amoretto sour or gin gin

If I have to pick one drink to take to a desert island, it's the classic Sazerac.

That is what I will want most of the time when I want a cocktail. However, I will allow a few others to enter rotation, depending on mood, time/temperature, and place:

1. Margarita.
2. Vesper.
3. Pastis.

And, finally, my embarrassing guilty pleasure (which I never order except when I am in company I know well or I am on a Caribbean island): piña colada.

A white russian or a raspberry or mango mojito

I'm a big fan of a Malt Neat.

The ingredients are:

-3oz Islay malt

That's it! It's so easy and simple, and it's impossible to mess up!

All time favorite: Jungle Bird. The perfect mix of tiki drink in spirit but with a punch and grown up flavors!

Also love me a Bee's Knees with some high quality gin and honey. There's a fantastic New England distillery called Barr Hill that makes gin from honey, which makes for an extra amazing one.

I've really been enjoying the "Sour" format lately, too. Very versatile with all the random liquors or lower-proof alcohols I've collected over the past few years making random drinks.

Lots of good cocktails in here. Going to plug !cocktails@lemmy.world for everyone to check out and contribute these cocktails, too.

Other than cheap domestic beer when im trying to get drunk, I stick to Old-fashions. Great drink to sip as the liquor slowly mixes with the water from the melting ice, smoothing out the flavors.

1.5 ounce whisky

.5 ounce of simple syrup (I like mine extra sweet)

A couple dashes of Angostura bitters

1 fat chunk of ice

(Basil Hayden is my bourbon of choice)

Personally a fan of the Sonic Screwdriver, because I like my drinks like I like my ladies: sweet, bubbly, geeky as hell, and able to knock my ass out.

2 parts Sprite

2 parts orange juice

1 part vanilla vodka

1 part Blue Curaçao

Combine and serve in a highball glass on the rocks.

Anything spicy or peppery. I'm pretty basic. Jalapeños are enough, but if you're creative about it, so much the better.

Dark & Stormy is my favorite, from what I've tried

Black Russian is my thing most of the time. Also gin sour without egg is great.

I normally like my liquor with just a splash of water, but I do make a mean mojito. The secret, which I discovered by accident, is adding a bit of catnip along with the mint. It has a smoother minty flavor which compliments the lime juice really well

Also, catnip tea is commonly used to help people sleep, so you get nice and relaxed without drinking too much.

It always changes on the day but couple of my favourites are

-corpse reviver No. 2 -absinthe sour -pina colada -bloody mary( with gin instead of vodka and homemade chili sauce instead of tabasco)

An Ethicurean. I genuinely believe it's the perfect cocktail but I've only ever come across it in a single bar in all my life.

• Serves 1
• ice cubes
• lemon ¼
• thyme 2 sprigs plus 1 to serve
• honey 1 tsp
• vodka 25ml
• apple juice 100ml

Full recipe.

Monte Carlo

1.5oz Bourbon, 0.5 Benedictine, 2 dashes Angostura

Scotch and soda.

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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.

Caipirinha. Made with cachaça, sugar, and lime. The drink is prepared by pounding the fruit and the sugar together, then adding the liquor.

Gimlets with homemade lime cordial if I'm trying to get hammered. Alternatively: death in the afternoon to black out

Dark n stormy with lemon hart 151 and a couple dashes of ango if I'm feeling lazy

Old fashioneds with a nice barrel proof bourbon to unwind

Amaretto sour for something sweet

Vieux carre if I want vermouth

There's a whole wide world of fancy booze out there, I couldn't pick just one favorite lol

I've invited one based on my taste for palomas and pisco sour. El Condor:

• 1oz of Tequila or Mezcal
• 1oz of Pisco (Peruvian)
• 0.5oz Syrup Agave (you can find it in the muesli section) or simple syrup
• 2oz Lime juice
• 2oz grapefruit juice
• 1 Eggwhite to shake if you like it more smooth
• chili salt rim or chilistring garnish

Probably the best cocktail I did so far.