Templeton Sazerac.
Going to make one right now.
More of a winter drink (ie. 9 months of the year up here) but, you can’t go wrong with a Bull Shot. Basically a Bloody Mary/ Caesar with beef broth substituted for the tomato juice. Served a little warm, it’ll fuck you up pretty quick. The problem is, most bars don’t have beef broth on hand so in most cases, this is an at home drink.
Back in the 1970’s when these were popular, most bars would carry beef broth just to make them. A few streets down from where I grew up, there was a shitty little steelworker bar that used to make a version of these that actually had chunks of stewing beef (cooked) in them…the perfect PWO shake.
[quote]Dr. Pangloss wrote:
Templeton Sazerac.
Going to make one right now.[/quote]
Good call.
I’ve only got Old Overholt left and Pernod… but I’ll make do.
[quote]DrSkeptix wrote:
Aha! New Town, then. Around the corner from Henderson’s, which used to have the only edible food in the city.
(Instead of almond syrup in that G&T, just coat the glass with amaretto. More austere.)[/quote]
Yep I’m a New Town boy. Live not far from the botanical gardens. Have you spent some time in Edinburgh?
There’s some good eating here these days (and good drinking). There’s a fair few good places to get a burger.
I walk past Henderson’s all the time but have never been in. Will have to try it out.
Just had two boilermakers. Good cocktail.
[quote]Diddy Ryder wrote:
[quote]DrSkeptix wrote:
Aha! New Town, then. Around the corner from Henderson’s, which used to have the only edible food in the city.
(Instead of almond syrup in that G&T, just coat the glass with amaretto. More austere.)[/quote]
Yep I’m a New Town boy. Live not far from the botanical gardens. Have you spent some time in Edinburgh?
There’s some good eating here these days (and good drinking). There’s a fair few good places to get a burger.
I walk past Henderson’s all the time but have never been in. Will have to try it out.[/quote]
It has been decades. It surprises me that Henderson’s would still be open. Do I remember much about Edinburgh? That it was cold and damp, and that it smelled of brewery yeast. But that much hasn’t changed, eh?
[quote]DrSkeptix wrote:
It has been decades. It surprises me that Henderson’s would still be open. Do I remember much about Edinburgh? That it was cold and damp, and that it smelled of brewery yeast. But that much hasn’t changed, eh?
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Yep you can still smell the brewery when the wind blows in the right direction, but today is a beautiful sunny day… makes a change from the usual cold and damp, and you forgot to mention the howling North Sea winds.
Leith is being gentrified and the shore area has been developed, so hipsters now rub shoulders with the smack heads, but just the other day there was an
article in the paper about a child finding a needle full of drugs on the bus so Edinburgh is still keeping it real lol
[quote]pushharder wrote:
This huckleberry gin and tonic is outstanding![/quote]
Make it with this stuff and you can call it a Huckleberry Finn.
Does Whiskey mixing with my spit on the way to my alcohol transfer tank count as a mixed drink?
[quote]pushharder wrote:
[quote]Varqanir wrote:
[quote]pushharder wrote:
This huckleberry gin and tonic is outstanding![/quote]
Make it with this stuff and you can call it a Huckleberry Finn.[/quote]
Did you and Doc ever end up with in official name for that new drink?[/quote]
We just went with “Big Sky Martini”, because it blue, natch, and so that it will always remind us of that notorious notable of the Big Sky Country, Procurer of Moonshine, Sir Push Winchester Harder.
I think that an enterprising entrepreneur could make a fortune selling Big Sky Sno-Cones on Black’s Beach. I think a good name for those would be “Blue Balls”.
Schlepping the cart up and down that cliff might be a hassle, of course…
[quote]pushharder wrote:
[quote]Varqanir wrote:
Schlepping the cart up and down that cliff might be a hassle, of course…[/quote]
I have a solution.
We would use an ultralight aircraft emblazoned with the Big Sky martini trademark to transport the cart to and from the gliderport at the top of the cliff.[/quote]
Brilliant.
In the style of the 1940s pinup girls painted on the bodies of bombers, have a martini glass filled with azure liquid, in which a lovely young California Girl wearing only sunglasses is floating, against the background of an expansive Montana horizon.
[quote]Varqanir wrote:
[quote]pushharder wrote:
[quote]Varqanir wrote:
Schlepping the cart up and down that cliff might be a hassle, of course…[/quote]
I have a solution.
We would use an ultralight aircraft emblazoned with the Big Sky martini trademark to transport the cart to and from the gliderport at the top of the cliff.[/quote]
Brilliant.
In the style of the 1940s pinup girls painted on the bodies of bombers, have a martini glass filled with azure liquid, in which a lovely young California Girl wearing only sunglasses is floating, against the background of an expansive Montana horizon.[/quote]
titos vodka is also gluten free, i like to drink it with water, nice steady buzz, i get sloppy quick so i gotta taste the liquor so i go slower
I’m surprised no one has mentioned Svedka vodka. I once made the mistake of trying to keep up with a transplanted Russian and he swore by Svedka, said others like absolute were too sweet and overrated.
BTW, he chased it with slices of dill pickle or hunter sausages. Works very well, but watch out. Wish I could remember more of that night.
Just bought a bottle of Pusser’s Rum, which they claim carries a direct lineage to the same rum that was rationed to British sailors for a few hundred years.
It’s an interesting rum. I wasn’t a rum fan before, since Captains and Bacardi were what I associated with rum (along with a few others). Sickeningly sweet. But after trying some of the better rums, my tastes have changed a bit.
Apparently the US was making rum back in colonial times too, and we had a number of interesting rum cocktails, one of which involved rum in dark beer and heated with a poker from a fire…
But tonight I had some of the rum straight, and tried to get a feel from it. And then I made a version of the Bumbo drink that was supposedly popular with the actual pirates.
2 oz rum (and I used Pusser’s)
1 oz water
2 tsp sugar
sprinkle of nutmeg
sprinkle of cinnamon
The flavor’s changed as the sugar slowly dissolved in it, but it’s a decently flavored drink. Just something new for me.