What's your favourite cocktail?

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Hey everyone,

I'm currently learning how to make my favourite cocktails at home, and as always my tastes are for obscure (if you've ever been to Evil Eye in York, you might know what I mean!) so I'm wondering what normal cocktails everyone loves so I can learn some more normal ones? I have a few ideas, but I figure I should ask you guys as I'm sure there's a few crucial ones I've missed!

Cheers :)
 
Got to be Long Island Iced Tea - So many different variations on the same theme but all extremely pleasant. Mind you, good job you never asked this yesterday. Not sure I'd even have managed to read let alone think about booze !!!
 
Piña colada for me.

Doesn't matter how many different ones i try I always go back to it.

Only on holiday though; They don't ever appeal at other times.

Happy experimenting Adam!
 
Plain and simple blue lagoon or sea breeze for me! or sex on the beach...always hate asking for that one though!

Blue lagoon is just lemonade, vodka and blue curacao.
Sea breeze is vodka, cranberry, grapefruit and grenadine I believe
Sex on the beach is vodka, orange, cranberry and probably other fruit and perhaps rum, cant remember :P

Or for something else simple the woo woo is vodka, archers and cranberry juice.

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I have spent this Christmas mainly drinking Bloody Marys!

Well Bloody Bishops, actually, with a shot of Fino Sherry to offset some fruity sweetness against all the fiery Worcester and Tabasco sauces.

Now this thread will run and run, and lots of people will name different fruit salads and poncified alcopops in fancy glasses :p , but I belong to the school that says there's only one real cocktail and that's a Gin Martini! ;)

Christopher Hitchens, the great writer and greater drinker who died last month, said: "On the whole, observe the same rule about gin martinis - and all gin drinks - that you would in judging female breasts: one is far too few and three is one too many" :lol:
 
I generally go for a Manhatten. Fantastic drink. Quite partial to the occasional Mohito as well.
I think it is always worth trying out a 42degrees. Equal parts Chartreuse, Absinthe and Genepi, served at 42 degrees farenheit. It isn't one to return to often though!
 
RachelWaltham90 said:
Plain and simple blue lagoon or sea breeze for me! or sex on the beach...always hate asking for that one though!

Blue lagoon is just lemonade, vodka and blue curacao.
Sea breeze is vodka, cranberry, grapefruit and grenadine I believe
Sex on the beach is vodka, orange, cranberry and probably other fruit and perhaps rum, cant remember :P

Or for something else simple the woo woo is vodka, archers and cranberry juice.

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You know, Blue Lagoon is one of my favourites, yet it's not mentioned in either of my cocktail books! hmph! I do love asking for a Sex on the Beach, with a wink ;)
 
Yves Geza said:
I have spent this Christmas mainly drinking Bloody Marys!

Well Bloody Bishops, actually, with a shot of Fino Sherry to offset some fruity sweetness against all the fiery Worcester and Tabasco sauces.

Now this thread will run and run, and lots of people will name different fruit salads and poncified alcopops in fancy glasses :p , but I belong to the school that says there's only one real cocktail and that's a Gin Martini! ;)

Christopher Hitchens, the great writer and greater drinker who died last month, said: "On the whole, observe the same rule about gin martinis - and all gin drinks - that you would in judging female breasts: one is far too few and three is one too many" :lol:
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I'd not heard that quote, but the 3 day hangover I had after Christmas wishes I had... I always avoid Gin for that very reason!

Thanks for all the replies so far everyone, it's cutting it down from the original 4,000 or so options I had...
 
Prawn:lol::lol::lol::lol: Well someone had to say it:coat:
 
I've had a few over the last year at the rugby club but I'm pretty sure we just pointed at the top shelf and went, I'll have some of that, with some of that......

Some of it was good, some it......not so good

If I can remember the good ones tomorrow when I get up there and have flashbacks then I'll make a note of what we had
 
Well if I was to finish the night off on a cocktail or three then it would be White Russian. But tbh I am happy to drink anything with alchoholholhol in it :D
 
I only manage to get this when abroad,but love it.:thumbs:









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I have a few, Mojitos are fantastic, White Russians because "the dude abides" and a Pina Colada

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I managed to get a bottle of Canadian whisky, we call it rye, on the Jordan / Syria border on my 2nd trip to the middle east. When I got to Damascus there were plenty of juice stands and I got a big bottle of pomigranet and blood red orange juice mixed 50 50. I dunno what such a mixed drink would be called but it was excellent.
 
Depends on the bar and location. sit me at the bar at Sun City and I'll go for Sex on the Beach but move me Soputh and East to the So Far So Good bar and it'll be a Mojito at 6pm, thanks, sometimes knock up a couple of mojitos here at home if it's a warm evening and we're feeling holiday sick and need a quick reminder.
 
Chaiparinia for me, or made with vodka to be a chaipirosca (no idea about spelling it).
1 lime, some brown sugar, crushed ice and fill with cane rum. Properly lethal and strangely refreshing.

Of course the last night out I was on we went through loads of Jagerbombs.

I only seem to like drinks that end up with confused mornings and ill afternoons!
 
Lots of people talking about mojitos, but I've found the quality of them varies hugely! There is a place here famous for them, served in a very old metal urn, and they are awesome!
 
Yves Geza said:
Now this thread will run and run, and lots of people will name different fruit salads and poncified alcopops in fancy glasses :p , but I belong to the school that says there's only one real cocktail and that's a Gin Martini! ;)
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+1. Never could make a decent one myself though. Of course, it has to be served with a stuffed olive.
 
Well after much deliberation I can confirm that my favourite is strawberry daiquiri!
 
French Martini for me. I love pineapple in a cocktail! Not often I go the cocktail route though.
 
Discovered a new one (to me) at a friend's bar in Platanias Crete - Mudslide. Can't remember what went in it, mainly because I had 2 of them and Greek measures are generous!!!
 
We have Mudslides at the rugby club, Vodka, Tia Maria and Baileys, yum
 
kelack said:
We have Mudslides at the rugby club, Vodka, Tia Maria and Baileys, yum
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Bloody hell Kelly, has it taken this long for you to sober up? That must have been one hell of a bender :lol::lol:
 
yoby said:
Got to be Long Island Iced Tea - So many different variations on the same theme but all extremely pleasant. Mind you, good job you never asked this yesterday. Not sure I'd even have managed to read let alone think about booze !!!
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As soon as I saw the title of this thread, that is the one that immediately came to my mind! I love a LIIT - if you find a generous barman who just pours without measure, all the better.

We were in London a couple of months back and in the hotel cocktail bar I was joking with the barman there, telling him not to spare the spirits - after a few, he brought me out one that had no cola, just full to the brim with shots :D "is that strong enough for you?" - hell yeah! Downed it in about 2 mouthfuls and near fell out of the place haha.
 
u8myufo said:
Bloody hell Kelly, has it taken this long for you to sober up? That must have been one hell of a bender :lol::lol:
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:lol::lol:

I forgot I had posted in January
 
When I went to visit my sister in the British Virgin Islands I got a bit of a taste for the Painkiller cocktail (from Pussers bar):
The Painkiller® is a blend of Pusser's Rum with 4 parts pineapple juice, 1 part cream of coconut and 1 part orange juice served over the rocks with a generous amount of fresh nutmeg on top. You have a choice of numbers 2, 3 or 4, which designate the amount of Pusser's Rum! Cheers!
Painkiller #2 ... 2 parts Pusser's Rum
Painkiller #3 ... 3 parts Pusser's Rum
Painkiller #4 ... 4 parts Pusser's Rum
 
Pint of snakebite. If it's for a lady, splash in some blackcurrant for a fruity taste explosion (after she's had several of them...).

I once had a brain hemorrhage in a bar in Maidenhead; two measures of peach schnapps, one measure of Baileys floated on top so the underside bobbled, drip some grenadine down a straw so that it goes through the Baileys and leaches into the schnapps. You had to down it in one because it tasted too awful to drink it slowly.
 
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