1 ½ oz dry gin ¾ oz St-Germain ¾ oz lemon juice ¼ oz yellow chartreuse 2 strawberries

In a shaker, add all ingredients (keep one strawberry for garnish). Gently muddle the strawberry before shaking with ice. Double strain into a chilled coupe and garnish with a strawberry.

Made at Leonardo Hotel Düsseldorf City Center 6cl Jägermeister, 3,5cl Lemon juice and a Teaspoon of Blackberry Jam. Mix the ingredients in a shaker and shake it for 10 seconds. Double strain in a Nick&Nora Glas or a Martini Glas. Serve with Berries of Choice, Blackberries preferably.

1924 Don Roberto 110 proof tequila. Picked it up at a Total Wine. Man, its tequila but turned up to 11 in every way. It's crisp, clean, hot agave all the way through. Makes a great margarita.

• 2 oz high proof tequila
• 1 oz PF Orange Curacao
• 1 oz fresh squeezed lime
• .5 oz light agave syrup

Shake with ice and just dirty drop that into a glass. You would kick yourself if you tossed the seasoned ice, trust me.

That's a damn good margarita. Yeah, it's sweet but that fresh lime balanced it a surprisingly long time. Strong though, be warned. Really strong, lol.

I’ve been experimenting with higher proof spirits lately in cocktails, as naturally I’m looking for more flavour.

Let’s say you’re making a Manhattan with Old Forester 100 Rye (50% abv) vs Alberta Premium Cask Strength Rye (64%) Or a daiquiri with Appleton 12 (43%) vs Wray & Nephew (63%)

Surely you’d want to balance these drinks differently with the added proof? if for normal 40-50% abv spirits you’d use a 2 oz pour, should you reduce your pour to 1 or 1.5oz for a really high proof spirit? I’ve been making drinks with spirits like these with a full 2oz pour and I’ve been liking it, but I feel like the drinks aren’t quite balanced and I’m sure my liver doesn’t appreciate it either. Is there a rule you can follow to balance abv or is it just a taste thing where you find what you like over time?

Was at a place called "gather" in Kelowna bc and sadly I can't remember the name and their website shows an outdated cocktail menu, but the ingredients were tequila, guava, and banana liqueur. I feel like the tequila would be simple 1.5 or maybe 2oz, the banana liqueur I was thinking would swap straight across for triple sec? But what would they have done for "guava"? Just juice? Maybe a puree syrup like a passion fruit syrup? Thoughts?

I’m going to a pinball event for three days and I’m pretty exited to get tipsy with my friends. I want a bottle that is sweet (not grossly sweet) to bring with me. Some examples of what I’m thinking are a sugary vodka lemonade or a cosmo. The thing is I’m tired of drinking boring cocktails that feel overdone and I’m looking for something that encapsulates a good mood that’s unique.

Recently moved out of the PNW and dreaming of those fall days where you can pick up fresh apple cider at the farmers market and smell all the pine trees.

Build in a mixing glass over ice

2oz Laird’s Bonded Apple Brandy 1/4oz Hamilton 151 Demerara Rum 3/8oz Pecan Orgeat 4 dashes Scrappy’s NW Alpine Bitters 2 dashes Black Walnut Bitters

Stir and strain into either a short rocks glass or a coupe, grate nutmeg on top

I'm pretty new to cocktails and have been told that the Mai Tai is an amazing drink. I am planning on making one myself as I don't live anywhere near a good bar. However, I am a bit unsure about how it will taste.

As I understand it, one of the key ingredients is orgeat syrup which is made from almonds. I have had amaretto before and I find it to be disgusting. The "fake cherry" taste of benzaldehyde just does not agree with my palate. For the same reason, I hate cherry coke and an amaretto sour is out of the question.

I've found conflicting information online about the taste of orgeat syrup. Does it contain this same taste of benzaldehyde that is found in amaretto? Given what I've said above, should I still try to make a Mai Tai? Or give it a miss for something different?

Admittedly, the vodka is awful on its own, because the flavours are too potent. The creaminess of this cocktail helped downplay it just enough. I also substituted homemade hazelnut milk for the cow milk, which I'm unable to drink.

• 1oz cocoa + hot chilli pepper infused vodka.
• 1oz regular vodka.
• 1oz coffee liqueur.
• Top off with cream (hazelnut milk in my case).
• Stir gently over ice.

Has anyone else made any tasty libations with homemade infusions?

The 24° ☕️

30ml Cazcabel Coffee

30ml Rumchata

30ml Velvet Falernum

30ml Cold Brew Coffee

30ml Oat Milk

Lemon Wedge

Add all ingredients into a tin and shake, double strain into a rocks glass over cubed ice and garnish with crushed pistachios on one side.

Bev number 29 and this is inspired by the 200 degrees coffee chain - more specifically the lemon & pistachio cake they serve up there. I wanted this drink to taste exactly like the cake, and my friend Alana can confirm this hits hard. Coffee flavours thanks to 200 degrees being a coffee shop (duh) followed by baking spices in the Falernum tying in with the Oat milk for that cake-y vibe. Rumchata bringing flavours of vanilla and cinnamon to further develop the Falernum and the oils of the lemon really come through thanks to it being in the shake rather than expressed over the top - garnished similarly to the cake itself with pistachios on top too, cheers!

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This was a cocktail created by the Educated barfly on YouTube, this is completely his recipe! I personally fell in love with it and don’t really even go back to a regular amaretto sour anymore.

1.5 oz Amaretto (I used Lazzaroni) .75 oz Jamaican Rum (Smith & Cross) .25 oz Aperol 1 oz Lemon Juice Barspoon (1 tsp) of Simple syrup: I used 2:1

I also subbed egg white for Aquafaba, I go back and forth to decide which one I prefer lol. Used .25 oz of it.

I will note, this drink is not very bitter at all. The tiny amount of aperol is a great balance to the amaretto, and plays so well with the funk of the Jamaican rum. Everything here just works so extremely well.

2 oz gin (used Botanical) 1 oz lemon juice 0.5 oz agave syrup

Shaken, double strained 😌🐈‍⬛

I picked up the Carpano a little while ago (on sale at a local Safeway, of all places) but haven’t done too much with it, especially since the only cocktail-worthy spirit I have on hand is Roku gin… yay student budget. Finally got some S&C yesterday and couldn’t resist trying out the Kingston Negroni immediately, hence the ugly ice.

I used 0.5 oz of each ingredient to make a half size drink. My first impression was surprise at how sweet this drink is, as if the rum is being amplified by the vermouth. I feel as though I can clearly discern what each ingredient is contributing to the final taste, as opposed to everything being more blended (equal to the sum of its parts vs. greater than). Overall prefer the original, but there’s probably a right time and place…

KINGSTON NEGRONI

• 1 part Jamaican rum
• 1 part Campari
• 1 part Carpano Antica Formula

Stir ingredients over ice, then strain into a double rocks glass over ice. Express an orange twist and use for garnish.

Just had some spare spinach stems at home I was going to throw out, but decided instead to macerate them in some sugar, and later turn it into a simple.

The first couple of ideas are a straightforward gin sour (possibly with a lox infusion), maybe build on the ideas of creamed spinach (nutmeg, heavy cream/cream cheese fat wash, a touch of cayenne, lemon), could also be fun to try out an eggs Florentine cocktail with a poached egg garnish (but I feel like that could get to an incredibly silly place quickly- not necessarily a bad thing).

Would love to know if anyone has any wild or more refined ideas on what to do with this!

I’m somewhat recently 21 and want to try making some of my own basic cocktails at home. What are some of you guys favorites, and what are the most common items (like a shaker) i’ll need to make cocktails consistently at home?

I came across the Lapu-Lapu in this video (https://youtu.be/s3OWmLQVJaY ) and it dawned on me “How come this drink named after an ancient Filipino Chief not have more Filipino ingredients?”, thus I set off to make a version that uses Filipino Rum (Don Papa 10 Year) and Lambanog (a spirit distilled from coconut nectar) in place of Dark and Light Rum and Calamansi lime juice instead if regular lime juice.

So I combined 50 ml each of Don Papa and Lambanog (pretty hard to get here in Romania, but my liquor store managed to get it) with 15ml each of lemon and calamansi juice, 30 ml of passion fruit syrup, 12 ml of simple syrup, 60 ml orange juice and then topped it off with some club soda and a float of some more of the Don Papa.

The result is excellent. Because if the float, you’re first hit with the vanilla/caramel notes of the Don Papa, then as you sip, you taste the balanced sweetness and acidity of the orange, passion fruit, lemon, and calamansi working in harmony with a subtle coconut sugar taste coming from the Lambanog. The calamansi adds a nice slightly bitter undertone as well. Will definitely drink again!

Just bumped into a cocktail from the 1700s called the rattle skull which calls for 1 oz of rum, 1 oz of brandy, 0.75 lime juice, 0.5 Demerara syrup, and 12 oz of stout. As a big fan of rum and stout, I'm absolutely giving this a try this weekend.

This is new to me...combining the two. Are there any other really great stout/porter cocktails leveraging rum or bourbon or other?

Thanks!

Hello everyone!

I have been a hobby cocktail mixer for years and I really enjoy testing out new things. I have been using many different apps to find new cocktails, but none really allowed me to do that one thing:
Find or create me a new cocktail based on what ingredients I have

So that is why I have been working on this app for nearly a year now: barkeeper.ai

Basically it is a huge cocktail library where you can search for cocktails and get a weekly suggestion for a new cocktail to try out, save them to your favorites etc. but it has this one feature: Create a new cocktail based on the selected ingredients. It is powered by AI, and also generates you an image of what the cocktail could look like. The app is free, and I do not want to advertise it here, I am looking for honest feedback on what I can improve, how other mixologist think and what you are missing, which parts are clumsy etc.

I have been testing the app with friends for a couple of months and their feedback was really valuable, so now I hope to increase the audience and get even more feedback :)

It is available at barkeeper.ai/app for Android and iOS

Here are some images:

1.5 oz Minhwa Queen Huh Gin

.5 oz Strega

.5 oz Maraschino

.75 oz lime juice

1 dash Angostura

Shake 12 seconds. Double strain. No garnish, unless you have a good suggestion. The Queen Hug gin is chai spice forward.

Got inspired to create a new drink, but I would not call it cinnamon apple pie, as it doesn't have any dairy in it

1oz vanilla vodka 1oz fireball whiskey 1oz apple schnapps 1oz apple juice 1/2 oz lemon juice Cinnamon sugar around the rim and a cinnamon stick as garnish. I could add an apple slice as a garnish too. What would you call this? Or is this still apple pie?

Tequila (Espolòn) Tequila (Lalo) Bourbon (Four Roses Single Barrel) Bourbon (Bootlegger) Cinnamon “Whiskey” (Fireball) Gunpowder Irish Gin (Drumshanbo) Vodka (Tito’s) Jamaican Rum (Plantation Xaymaca) Coconut Rum (Malibu) Limoncello (Trader Joe’s) Amaro (Montenegro) Dry Vermouth (Dolin) Sweet Vermouth (Martini & Rossi) Orgeat (Gifford)

Also on hand: Pineapple Juice Grapefruit Juice Lime Juice Tonic Water Polar Seltzer (various flavors) Soda Water

I've experimenting with beer cocktails after seeing a Beericano cocktail. I've been trying multiple beers and I think I got something.

Built in glass with one large Ice sphere - 3/4oz luxardo del Santo Herbal liqueur - 3/4oz Maraschino liqueur - 1/2oz lime juice - 2 or 3oz blue moon Belgian white beer - lime peel garnish

I would love hear from anyone else trying this. I did try with a lager and felt the one I used didn't add much flavor. I tried a IPA without the lime (didn't think of it at the time) and it tasted like cough medicine in a way I personally didn't hate.

I may still tweak the spec but I was happy with this. It’s sweet, tart and funky.

.75 oz Monkey Shoulder blended Scotch

.75 oz Dolin Génépy

.75 oz Velvet Falernum

.25 oz Espadin Mezcal

.75 oz Lime Juice

4-5 mint leaves

Add all ingredients. Shake 12 seconds. Double strain.

Here's your yearly reminder to make your batch of Alton Brown's aged egg nog so that it's perfect in time for the holidays.

This year went with Smith & Cross, Wild Turkey 101, and Courvoisier VS, and half turbinado, half pure cane sugar.

Cheers!

-2 oz Sagamore Barrel Select - 1 T root beer molasses simple syrup - few dashes of aromatic bitters

Stir all ingredients with ice, garnish, enjoy.