Silly Commuting Drinking and relaxing

gtvlusso

We may have already covered this, but anyway....

Post dog walking, washing, cleaning and cooking for fambly:

Mines a Gibson:

3 parts Gordons Gin to 1.5 parts Noilly Prat Vermouth - shaken 12 times with ice and served in a Martini glass with a cocktail onion on a stick.

Enjoyed mostly with a Cuban MonteCristo Cigar, although I am running low on good Cuban cigars and have opted for "New Yorkers"....

Smoked in the garden in my chair....or hip flasked and smoked whilst walking the dog....if time is at a premium!!

DonDaddyD

Right now Bulmers Pear! :P

Classy me!

Greg T

Is that just not a Martini?

Is it called a Gibson as it gets you battered and anti-semitic?

I'd steer clear if I was you.

Deadeye Duck

own creation. No idea if it actually has a proper name but:

50ml - Jägermeister
25ml - Blackcurrant
100ml - Diet Coke (used to be dandelion & burdock, but I've gone off that)

greg66_tri_v2.0

If I can be bothered to make one: Mint Juleps. The trick is to balance the sweetness and the bitters just so.

Hot day, sit in the garden, try not to down it in a oner.

It's dead like bleedin' Kentucky in mah back yard, it is.

LDN-Flyer

Friday in my flat is all about the sours.

Enough for 4

Gold Rum, Appletons Special or Mount Gay
Limes 7-10 slices to taste
GingerBeer
1 egg
Brown Sugar. 2 tsp to taste
Ice
Angustora bitters (Optional)

Muddle limes in mixer making sure you bruise the skin to get the taste out. Add sugar and muddle again.
Add Rum, 200ML.
Add Ice, Shake to bruise the rum and mix with limes and sugar.
Add 1 x egg white (Use the freshest egg poss)
Shake again.

Fill 4 tumbler glasses with ice and half fill with ginger beer. Strain Rum mixture over the ice. Dash angustora.


WIN

Roastie

For me, nothing beats a good espresso.

But given that I can't have any coffee after 6pm for fear of sleep issues - 2nd choice would be a good bourbon.

LDN-Flyer

Deadeye Duck wrote:

own creation. No idea if it actually has a proper name but:

50ml - Jägermeister
25ml - Blackcurrant
100ml - Diet Coke (used to be dandelion & burdock, but I've gone off that)

WTF!

JagerBOMBs are the only way to do it, unless you're a lady.

She-Jager

shot glass. 1/2 jager 1/4 Peach Schnapps 1/4 cranberry.

Greg T

Greg66 wrote:

If I can be bothered to make one: Mint Juleps.

Rock n Roll baby YEAH!

Greg T

LDN-Flyer wrote:

1/4 Peach Schnapps .

Holy Christ what's going on?

Is this Burds cocktail hour?

blu3cat

gtvlusso wrote:

We may have already covered this, but anyway....

Post dog walking, washing, cleaning and cooking for fambly:

Mines a Gibson:

3 parts Gordons Gin to 1.5 parts Noilly Prat Vermouth - shaken 12 times with ice and served in a Martini glass with a cocktail onion on a stick.

Enjoyed mostly with a Cuban MonteCristo Cigar, although I am running low on good Cuban cigars and have opted for "New Yorkers"....

Smoked in the garden in my chair....or hip flasked and smoked whilst walking the dog....if time is at a premium!!

Isn't a Gibson where the Gin is put in the freezer first, thereby not melting the ice and ensuring a decent strength Martini?

Have you tried a Gibson with other Gins? Tanqueray 10 makes an especially nice one for special occasions IMHO.

for me, Vodka Martini. Ice cold Ciroc and a splash of Vermouth. The dirtier the better.

gtvlusso

Greg T wrote:

Is that just not a Martini?

Is it called a Gibson as it gets you battered and anti-semitic?

I'd steer clear if I was you.

it would be a Martini if I put an olive in it. Dirty Martini if I add the olive's juice to it as well or a Gibson:

Although Charles Dana Gibson is most likely responsible for the creation of the Gibson martini (where a pickled onion serves as the garnish), the details are debated and several alternate stories exist. In one story, Gibson challenged Charley Connolly, the bartender of the Players Club in New York City, to improve upon the martini's recipe, so Connolly simply substituted an onion for the olive and named the drink after the patron. Other stories involve different Gibsons, such as an apocryphal American diplomat who served in Europe during Prohibition. Although he was a teetotaller, he often had to attend receptions where cocktails were served. To avoid an awkward situation, Gibson would ask the staff to fill his martini glass with cold water and garnish it with a small onion so that he could pick it out among the gin drinks. A similar story postulates a savvy investment banker named Gibson, who would take his clients out for the proverbial three-martini business lunches. He purportedly had the bartender serve him cold water, permitting him to remain sober while his clients became intoxicated; the cocktail onion garnish served to distinguish his beverage from those of his clients.

Another version of the origin story, included in The Good Man's Weakness by Charles McCabe, states that the drink was created in San Francisco by Walter D. K. Gibson (1864-1938)[10] at the Bohemian Club around 1898[11] or 1900.

A third origin story was that it was invented at Gibsons Restaurant in Chicago, Illinois

Hmmm.....I have issues with booze....! And now back to online ordering of Montecristo no.1's

LDN-Flyer

Greg T wrote:

LDN-Flyer wrote:

1/4 Peach Schnapps .

Holy Christ what's going on?

Is this Burds cocktail hour?

Yeah thats why i called it a she-jager

lost_in_thought

Not really a cocktails kinda girl/trucker...

For me it's quite easy - while it's still warm enough to sit out, and there's no food involved, lager or better yet wheat beer - Leffe is an easily obtained one that's nice.

Once dinner is served, I'm on to red wine.

As soon as I've finished dinner, it's straight to neat whisky.

gtvlusso

DonDaddyD wrote:

Right now Bulmers Pear! :P

Classy me!

Try Brother Pear Zider....from Zummerzet.

http://www.brotherscider.co.uk/age-check.php?rurl=/

A Glasto favourite!

Deadeye Duck

LDN-Flyer wrote:

Deadeye Duck wrote:

own creation. No idea if it actually has a proper name but:

50ml - Jägermeister
25ml - Blackcurrant
100ml - Diet Coke (used to be dandelion & burdock, but I've gone off that)

WTF!

JagerBOMBs are the only way to do it, unless you're a lady.

She-Jager

shot glass. 1/2 jager 1/4 Peach Schnapps 1/4 cranberry.

jagerbombs end up with wasted alcohol splashed on the bar and also include red bull, which I'm not a fan of.

jager on it's own is actually better than jagerbombs IMO.

shoulder_of_orion

Caipirinha or Mojito if the weather is right. You need A LOT of:

ice limes obviously Cachaça or Rum (at least a bottle between four for 2-3 decent coctails each) and mint (if Mohito) or sugar (if Caipirinha)

itboffin

from 4pm on Friday's is officially beer Friday wherever I work, seems to go down very well, no idea why.

I lead by example natch!

greg66_tri_v2.0

Shoulder of Orion wrote:

Caipirinha or Mojito if the weather is right. You need A LOT of:

ice limes obviously Cachaça or Rum (at least a bottle between four for 2-3 decent coctails each) and mint (if Mohito) or sugar (if Caipirinha)

Aye.

Altho' crushing the ice is a right fag. I always need a drink once I've had a round of that lark...

DonDaddyD

Oh I've got one.

Coke (as in Coca Cola you sniffers) over ice about 3-quarters up the glass and a scoop of ice cream on top.

Proper NICE!

Deadeye Duck

My gf loves cosmopolitans, so I have them quite often. I don't pull a face drinking most drinks, but that makes me look like i just got brain freeze.

LDN-Flyer

Deadeye Duck wrote:

LDN-Flyer wrote:

Deadeye Duck wrote:

own creation. No idea if it actually has a proper name but:

50ml - Jägermeister
25ml - Blackcurrant
100ml - Diet Coke (used to be dandelion & burdock, but I've gone off that)

WTF!

JagerBOMBs are the only way to do it, unless you're a lady.

She-Jager

shot glass. 1/2 jager 1/4 Peach Schnapps 1/4 cranberry.

jagerbombs end up with wasted alcohol splashed on the bar and also include red bull, which I'm not a fan of.

jager on it's own is actually better than jagerbombs IMO.

Thats alcohol abuse

ice cold Jager is good, i'll agree with you there.

But blackcurrent and D&B... is this a long drink? it sounds like it melts your teeth.

robmanic1

Jacques Fruits Des Bois was made for summer (or is it the other way around?).

http://www.jacquescider.co.uk/Home.aspx?pid=1

UndercoverElephant

I'm quite keen on a black magic myself:

2 shots vodka,
1 shot Kahlua.
2 teaspoons Lime juice.

Drink neat in a shot glass. A few of them can fell an elephant. Which is nice

Deadeye Duck

LDN-Flyer wrote:

Deadeye Duck wrote:

LDN-Flyer wrote:

Deadeye Duck wrote:

own creation. No idea if it actually has a proper name but:

50ml - Jägermeister
25ml - Blackcurrant
100ml - Diet Coke (used to be dandelion & burdock, but I've gone off that)

WTF!

JagerBOMBs are the only way to do it, unless you're a lady.

She-Jager

shot glass. 1/2 jager 1/4 Peach Schnapps 1/4 cranberry.

jagerbombs end up with wasted alcohol splashed on the bar and also include red bull, which I'm not a fan of.

jager on it's own is actually better than jagerbombs IMO.

Thats alcohol abuse

ice cold Jager is good, i'll agree with you there.

But blackcurrent and D&B... is this a long drink? it sounds like it melts your teeth.

not particularly long no. it's only 175ml all in.

It derived from my old love of JD, which turned to my love of black jacks, (JD, blackcurrant & coke), I was then shown the wonders of jager, which was kept as a straight for a while but temptations started wondering what it would taste like.

The D&B part was purely by accident. I ran out of coke one day drinking black jacks, tried it with D&B instead and it was quite nice. After a while though it did grow sickly, and thus I ended up using diet coke, as the flavour isn't as overpowering then.

LDN-Flyer

White Lightening neat from bottle, whilst sat in the gutter.

shoulder_of_orion

Greg66 wrote:

Shoulder of Orion wrote:

Caipirinha or Mojito if the weather is right. You need A LOT of:

ice limes obviously Cachaça or Rum (at least a bottle between four for 2-3 decent coctails each) and mint (if Mohito) or sugar (if Caipirinha)

Aye.

Altho' crushing the ice is a right fag. I always need a drink once I've had a round of that lark...

Yep know exactly where you're coming from.

My technique is to wrap the ice in a tea towel and then really welly it against a hard surface preferably a granite or marble worktop, repeatedly like.

It's amazing how many people wimp out at this point by delivering a limp blow and then pretend that the ice is properly crushed. Also those fridges that make crushed ice always run out after 1-2 cocktails and then its another 24 hours before they can make ice again...

UndercoverElephant

LDN-Flyer wrote:

White Lightening neat from bottle, whilst sat in the gutter.

The breakfast of champions. 8)

blu3cat

UndercoverElephant wrote:

LDN-Flyer wrote:

White Lightening neat from bottle, whilst sat in the gutter.

The breakfast of champions. 8)

The finest quality Tramp-agne

il_principe

Roastie wrote:

2nd choice would be a good bourbon.

1st choice for me, although it's hard to find bars in London that serve decent Bourbon at decent prices. There's a great pub in Brighton that has a great stock and prices to boot. Rip Van Winkle or Elijah Craig for me - if I can find it. Otherwise Woodford Reserve'll do. 2 cubes of ice, max.

Cocktails wise I'm a caipirinha man. Also partial to Cosmopolitans - pref made with white cranberry juice - that way the don't make you look quite so camp. Having said that, I make my own version with pomegranate juice which is luvverly.

Mostly though I'll stick to proper British Beer and NZ wines - Pinot/Sauv Blanc/Riesling, oh and Gruner Veltliner if I can ever find it, bloody Austrians don't like to export the good stuff.

gtvlusso

blu3cat wrote:

gtvlusso wrote:

We may have already covered this, but anyway....

Post dog walking, washing, cleaning and cooking for fambly:

Mines a Gibson:

3 parts Gordons Gin to 1.5 parts Noilly Prat Vermouth - shaken 12 times with ice and served in a Martini glass with a cocktail onion on a stick.

Enjoyed mostly with a Cuban MonteCristo Cigar, although I am running low on good Cuban cigars and have opted for "New Yorkers"....

Smoked in the garden in my chair....or hip flasked and smoked whilst walking the dog....if time is at a premium!!

Isn't a Gibson where the Gin is put in the freezer first, thereby not melting the ice and ensuring a decent strength Martini?

Have you tried a Gibson with other Gins? Tanqueray 10 makes an especially nice one for special occasions IMHO.

for me, Vodka Martini. Ice cold Ciroc and a splash of Vermouth. The dirtier the better.

Personally,. I have a booze dedicated freezer - has home made limoncello, gin, vodka and so on in it - only stuff I keep out is whisky (as it seperates) and Bourbon.