Combat Cocktails

Bigger Stronger Leaner
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I have seen drinks mentioned here many many times
for Recovery

Robert A has been a strong advocate.

for the past many months I have been in PT
Replaced ACL torn PCL severed 2 heads of hamstrings
some damage to PCL capsule and some calf shit too.
yay.

and I have been taking in allot of green juice
Im believing that they have helped allot with inflammation

Ive had almost daily

Kale spinach or chard
blue berries
Giant chunk of ginger
cucumber
and have played with
parsely cilantro
pineapple many times ( instead of blue berry)
added 1 or 2 scoops of hemp or unflavored whey protein
and some matcha green tea.

wait…
not that kind of cocktail- although I did have better skin hair nails
less inflammation etc…

we are talking quality ass drinks.
for thanksgiving I served

the Seelbach Cocktail

a bourbon and champagne based cocktail

Blasphemy- no actually quite festive
and let me dull the pain of sitting thru Thanksgiving with some fucked up inlaws
while on crutches

1 good bourbon
2 good champagne
3 contreu
4 7-10 dashes Angustora bitters
5 7-10 dashes of Peychauds Bitters

surprisingly dry champagne worked well with bitter and the smokey bourbon
avoiding makers or some of the low end Jim Beam etc with out committing sacrilege
you can can find a modest young bourbon who’s’ peppery and smokey taste will work well

2 oz good bourbon ( I used a small brand called Hudson)
1/2 oz of Cointreau Its an adult triple sec
7-10 dashes each of Peychaud 's and Angustora Bitters
champagne- I like Bollinger- its dry or you cant go wrong with Veuve Clicquot
Orange peel or orange slice for garnish

In an Ice filled larger ( highball) glass add Bourbon Cointreau and bitters
strain into a rocks glass with a thinly sliced orange on the bottom
add some ice and top with champagne

White Cranberry Martini
or as I like to call it Christmas drink.

this came about around holiday time.
And while somewhat recovered I was not looking forward to spending
an evening with same in laws for seven fishes, and then staying up all night to assemble
a bike for my son without being somewhat medicated

I made this in a large pitcher and everyone was feeling quite festive.
Good Vodka - makes a massive difference the higher the quality the less bit the vodka may have
I used Tito’s Vodka its a newish US brand that is as good or better then Grey Goose.

Its sort of a Gimlet or a Vodka based Martini with lime juice for some festive tartness

1 liter of Tito’s Vodka
2 juice of 6-8 limes * triple strained
3 Rosemary simple syrup
4 white Cranberry juice
5 frozen cranberry on swizzler
6 lots of fucking ice

simple syrup
Usually its a 1 to 1 of sugar and water brought to a boil and dissolved
for a Dark rum drink or a brown drink yes use Turibino or light brown sugar or Raw sugar
because this was white sugar - I used plain old white sugar .75 to 1 with water.
I also used maybe 3 sprigs of rosemary whole to make the syrup.

Put the water in a pot- add the sugar bring up the heat enough to dissolve the sugar
add the rosemary - simmer for 20-30 minutes on low
strain into a container to chill.

Lime juice I cannot emphasize how important it is to strain the lime juice
multiple times to eliminate the pith and membrane or pulp strain with a fine mesh strainer into a container to chill.

fill your mixing pitcher with ice pour in your 1 liter of Vodka add your lime juice
stir it plenty if your making a smaller batch use a shaker add your simple syrup
and keep stirring or shaking I only used about 16 ounces of white cranberry juice

strain it out of the shaker or pitcher into your glasses add the frozen cranberry on a stick for garnish.

this made a smooth smooth tart cocktail with rosemary undertones.

please add to this thread

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Nice. Unfortunately I don’t have much to add to this thread in the way of mixed drinks as I’ve always just been a minimalist in the alcohol dept (if I’m gonna drink then give me a good dark beer, stout preferrably, or maybe a mixer like a Gin and Tonic and I’m happy, though I do like the taste of a White Russian from time to time). But I am always eager to learn from you more knowledgeable folks. :slight_smile:

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whiskey, neat, for any occasion.

And what are you, Mike Goldberg? Combat cocktails? stockton slap?

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[quote]Jarvan wrote:
whiskey, neat, for any occasion.

And what are you, Mike Goldberg? Combat cocktails? stockton slap? [/quote]

I think it was a ref to my off-topic/derail in Irish’s log, this time I was actually helped along by Sento of all people.

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I am going to cross post from Irish’s 2.0 training log for the first recipe. I think everyone has seen it, but it is winter and this is important stuff.

First point of order for all

[quote]Some Chimp on the internet wrote:
The Hot Toddy

1 Part sugar
Several thin slices of lemon
4 Parts water
2 Parts Whiskey
Nutmeg

1.) SUGAR We begin with the sugar. We want to use relatively unrefined sugar ideally. Demerara sugar would be best(dark, large crystals, plenty of molasses flavors), but Turbinado(not quite as dark, large, or flavorful) will work ok. Turbinado sugar is often seen packaged as,Sugar In the Raw. You can find it in most grocery stores or higher end coffee shops.

I am sick and I don’t have any of that shit modification: Use regular sugar at about 3:1 with brown sugar. It won’t be as good, but it will still be damn good. If you don’t have any brown sugar, use a bit of honey, but only if it comes from a bear shaped squeezey bottle. If you are one of the joyless bastards who buys the non-bear shaped bottle of honey, punch yourself in the dick. You don’t deserve this hot toddy recipe.

2.) Cut the lemon thin. If don’t have any fresh lemons, substitute a teaspoon or so of lemon juice, but try to cut some kind of fresh citrus(orange, lime, etc.) to use in the cooking. Yes it fucking matters. Lemon juice concentrate plus an orange slice or two is much better than just the lemon juice.

3.) Water, it’s wet.

4.) Whiskey or Whisky. Scotch or bourbon. We want either brown liquor, or the brownest of the brown liqueurs. I know someone told you that you could use gin, and that the citrus and sugar would bring out the juniper notes in the gin. Now is not the time to be listening to that kind of shit. We are either fighting off a head cold ourselves or trying to warm up and get drunk at once. Notes of juniper berry ain’t gonna cut it. About half as much booze as water will do. This is going to be heavily mixed so a blended scotch like Famous Grouse or lower tier bourbon is just fine.

5.) Fresh grated is better, but I just use the pre-ground stuff. It is also amazing in hot chocolate.

Steps

1.)Combine the water, sugar, and fresh cut lemon/citrus(hold back some for garnish if you want)/lemon juice together and slowly heat. This isn’t rocket surgery. You just want the sugar to completely dissolve, so simmer and stir every so often. This might take 10-20 minutes. It also gets the flavor out of the fresh citrus into the drink. If you want a big batch a slow cooker/crock pot works well for parties, just make sure it is clean.

2.) Once the sugar is completely dissolved and the citrus looks floppy/cooked reduce the heat to low and add the liquor. Do not do this while it is boiling. If you cook off the alcohol and still try to pass this off to your friends you will go to “The special hell”.

3.) Garnish with a lemon slice and a dash of nutmeg(yes the nutmeg matters)

It looks complicated. It isn’t. Use good ingredients and you will have good results. Follow the instructions and it will be awesome.

Note: Cheaping out/using the substitutions may lower the beverage from “liquid panty remover” status to merely “bra unfastener”. If you find this is the case, pour her another.

Note2: I make these a little on the weak side. Less booze, more sugar and lemon than many recipes. It is better to make it a bit weak, really tasty, and compensate with volume.

Now as for

I have to confess I follow a self imposed “12 hour” rule, with the Scrubs(t.v. show) addendum that “it may be to early too drink it, but it is NEVER too early to think about it.”
[/quote]

Regards,

Robert A

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[quote]brotardscience wrote:
I have seen drinks mentioned here many many times
for Recovery
[/quote]

Quick Morning “Recovery”

Vanilla, Unflavored, or Chocolate protein drink.

Add instant coffee.

Eat a banana or a piece of bread for carbs.

This is about fast, fast, FAST. It is perfect for the times you wake up and realize you will be trying to function through one blood shot eye because, REASONS, and you should probably eat something but have no time.

Regards,

Robert A

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Robert,

I hope you’re coping with everything, and that you have good people around you. I’m sure from your kindness here that you have solid relationships in real life to fall back on - if you need them.

That said:

I also asked this excellent and wholly pertinent question in Irish’s log, that I feel may have been lost in the plethora of vulgar posts about the grubby business of fighting and strength training (dirty words if ever I heard any).

Gratitude to Brotardscience for creating the thread - hopefully we can squeeze Robert A like a freshly picked lemon.

[quote]
Whilst I hesitate to distract you from the troubles you have at the moment Robert, any cocktail recipes you may wish to share that can make a guy appear funnier and more charming to impressionable girls who don’t yet know better would be much appreciated.

I can create a ‘Combat Cocktails thread’ if Irish would rather, understandably, that we didn’t clog up his log.[/quote]

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Didn’t mean to leave you out London.

The first will be the finest of the cocktails, using the criteria I posted in Irish’s log.

The Bloody Mary

The absolutely classic recipe is

One shot Vodka
6 ounces canned tomato juice
2-3 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
1-2 shakes Worcestershire Sauce
1-2 shakes Tobasco Brand hot sauce
“rolled” and served over ice.

Note: Rolling is just pouring the liquid from one container to another, half assed gently, several times to mix it. You can also just stir. The issue is if you shake tomato juice you get foam.

That is serviceable, but I feel it is inferior to the following.

Ingredients:

1.) 1 part Vodka
2.) 6 parts tomato juice
3.) 1 part lemon juice
4.) 1/2 teaspoon of horseradish
5.) Worcestershire sauce to taste (2-4 shakes)
6.) Hot sauce to taste (1-2 shakes for starters)
7.) dash of salt (if tomato juice is low sodium)
8.) dash or more of black pepper

Garnish with fresh any of the following: lemon, lime, green olive, pickled green been, caper berries, or celery.

Notes:

1.) Vodka- This needs to be good, not great. Brotard’s recommendation of Tito’s is very, very solid and would be my choice for everything. The deal with vodka is that it is supposed to be filtered to be “tasteless, odorless, and colorless” or nearly so. The effect is that cheap vodka (plastic bottle) is horrid, but very quickly the point of diminishing returns hit. IF you don’t have to make a show out of pouring it than mid range is more than fine.

2.) Tomato juice-Yes you could use fresh, but why? Canned is fine. Regular or low sodium is fine. I am also totally ok going off script and using V-8 or some brand of tomato based “vegetable juice” if that is all that is on hand. This recipe is very forgiving. The more sodium it has, just omit the salt later and careful with any sauces high in sodium.

3.) Lemon Juice-Yes, fresh squeezed lemon will bring out the acidic AND savory aspects of the tomato juice. No, I don’t give a fuck. Go ahead and keep a jug of the reconstituted stuff on hand and drive on. Some folks prefer using lime juice, that is also good. You can even use Key Lime juice if you want. Just don’t use any of the sweetened bar products.

4.) Horseradish-Yes, freshly grated is better. Fuck no, I don’t use it either. Look, I don’t make these when I am feeling terrific. I keep prepared horseradish (grated and packed in water) around because I like it on sandwiches/with meat and I just use a bit of that. Just do not use some kind of mayonnaise based horseradish “sauce”.

5.)Worcestershire Sauce-This really should be Lee and Perrins. I have not found another brand that tastes nearly as good. I like a fairly high amount in my drinks, but if I am mixing for me I don’t care if the drink is duller in color (as opposed to bright red). The guidelines assume you are mixing for another/haven’t figured out exactly what you like. IF you have seafood allergies you can omit this and still enjoy the drink, just increase the salt and pepper.

6.) Hot Sauce-Bloody Mary’s are forgiving. As opposed to the actual Bloody Mary. Who was kind of not. Anything from a very vinegar tasting Tobasco to Sriracha is fine. IF you use some kind of super hot death pepper sauce (Ghost pepper) than use less or blame yourself. The goal is to make it taste good and be drinkable though, this isn’t a test of manhood. IF you purposely make these too hot to enjoy and still serve them than take a knee and punch yourself in the ear.

7.)Salt- What the fuck ever. IS sea salt better than iodenized salt? Yes. Does it have to be fancy? No. You may not even want it depending on taste and what juice you used.

8.)Pepper-Black pepper is fine. Fresh ground, or not. Whatever.

This recipe gets points for being very forgiving. In fact if you don’t drink alcohol or are somewhere where it is prohibited it will still taste just fine, if a bit lacking.

Substitutions:

Clamato instead of tomato juice makes it a Bloody Caesar. I don’t prefer this, but some folks do.

IF you don’t have lemon or lime juice of any kind, you can get away with Orange juice for the citrus, use less and double up on any vinegar based hot sauce. I don’t recommend this, but it actually works better than leaving the citrus out.

Regards,

Robert A

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Thank you Robert! I had no idea that it was such an art. I have much to learn. I’ve saved it to a document, and will commit it to memory, since nothing takes the panache out of a cocktail like constantly referring to a recipe.

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[quote]Robert A wrote:

[quote]brotardscience wrote:
I have seen drinks mentioned here many many times
for Recovery
[/quote]

Quick Morning “Recovery”

Vanilla, Unflavored, or Chocolate protein drink.

Add instant coffee.

Eat a banana or a piece of bread for carbs.

This is about fast, fast, FAST. It is perfect for the times you wake up and realize you will be trying to function through one blood shot eye because, REASONS, and you should probably eat something but have no time.

Regards,

Robert A[/quote]

Wait, so are you just putting the instant coffee into the protein shake? The liquid, right, not the grinds shit that comes in that package?

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Just wanted to let you guys know I am enjoying this thread. But as I seldom drink anything other than Scotch, scotch and water, scotch and tonic, scotch and ice, scotch and Mt Dew, scotch in coffee I have little to contribute. I am considering some of the other drinks above. For me Scotch is a economical way to rapidly achieve therapeutic BA levels, raise you arm once or twice and its done. I prefer Johnny Walker Black. As all scotch drinkers though my high standards dwindle pretty quickly after a drink or two.

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[quote]FightinIrish26 wrote:

[quote]Robert A wrote:

[quote]brotardscience wrote:
I have seen drinks mentioned here many many times
for Recovery
[/quote]

Quick Morning “Recovery”

Vanilla, Unflavored, or Chocolate protein drink.

Add instant coffee.

Eat a banana or a piece of bread for carbs.

This is about fast, fast, FAST. It is perfect for the times you wake up and realize you will be trying to function through one blood shot eye because, REASONS, and you should probably eat something but have no time.

Regards,

Robert A[/quote]

Wait, so are you just putting the instant coffee into the protein shake? The liquid, right, not the grinds shit that comes in that package?[/quote]

Nope, dump a “handful” or however much of the crystal “instant coffee” into the water along with the protein powder. It dissolves just fine in cool water and the protein flavor (even unflavored whey) covers up the taste.

No BS. Fill shaker with water. Scoop protein in. Spoon/dump some instant coffee in. Screw on lid of shaker cup and shake. Drink. Tell yourself you will only choke the life out of a stupid person if they really deserve it, or if this is the only coffee you get before lunch.

It works.

I can slam a protein shake and eat a piece of bread while walking out the door and have a “pseudo” breakfast in 2 minutes that costs very little (as opposed to ready made drinks).

Give it a go.

Regards,

Robert A

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I am not much of a drinker - anymore- you can do the math there.

But I do end up making them for others- and yes using them
to get thru shit gatherings.

that being said.
I cant let Robert A get away with instant coffee.

This is one of my all time favorite things to drink

Manhattan Special - made in Brooklyn for over 100 years.
Its awesome.

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Just want to say that that hot toddy recipe is bollocks! Ok, I’m sure it is fine, but I was taught a different way.

Hot black tea. Add anywhere from a tsp to a tbsp of honey, whiskey, and lemon.

It is the tea which is critical, and honey is way better than sugar when sick, especially if it is raw, local honey. Just saying.

I also love me my martinis, but I use more than a “breath” of vermouth. I like a solid dolip of the stuff. And three olives. Yum!

–Me

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[quote]brotardscience wrote:
I am not much of a drinker - anymore- you can do the math there.

But I do end up making them for others- and yes using them
to get thru shit gatherings.

that being said.
I cant let Robert A get away with instant coffee.

This is one of my all time favorite things to drink

Manhattan Special - made in Brooklyn for over 100 years.
Its awesome.
[/quote]

I have to track a few of these down.

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[quote]kravi wrote:
Just want to say that that hot toddy recipe is bollocks! Ok, I’m sure it is fine, but I was taught a different way.

Hot black tea. Add anywhere from a tsp to a tbsp of honey, whiskey, and lemon.

It is the tea which is critical,
[/quote]
I first learned it this way as well. Where I ended up though was that I preferred it without all that much booze. Strong tea with lemon and honey IS the cold remedy/drink of choice. I always ended up thinking the whiskey/whisky took away from the taste.

Then I found this recipe and it “works” better. It smells vaguely medicinal, but no bullshit works on coughs, colds, and “warms” you up great.

Again, tried honey with the “restorative”/medicinal toddy and like raw sugar better.

I love all the “special” honeys, clove vs wildflower vs blackberry vs…

However, the bear shaped squeezee bottle cannot be denied.

Strongly agree. I am going to have to cover martinis a bit later.

Regards,

Robert A

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On Coffee

The following is for “not good” coffee. I write “not good” because this would be “bad” coffee, but we are going to labor on with the assumption that drinking it is going to be preferred to having no coffee. This trick pays the biggest dividends with “black” coffee so no cream or sugar either by choice, or because you have none.

Salt.

Use a dash of salt in a cup, or a pinch in a pot, of shitty/burned/cheap coffee. It seems to “smooth” the flavor out and make it less burned/sour. I love good coffee. I am not above drinking gas station/waiting room/been on the burner for 4 hours coffee either.

Regards,

Robert A