Cocktails, the libationary art!

Not drinking on weekdays but as my youngest kid is making us supper, I have time for an aperitif.

4oz tepache

4oz light tonic

2oz of the spicy seasonal Publix lemonade (Yuzu/pineapple/habanero - either this is so successful they keep making it or I'm the only one buying it but I think it's the best one they ever made)

It's good. A little spicy, a little bitter and very refreshing.

• 3 oz white wine
• 2 oz campari
• 2 orange wheels
• top with soda water

Mix in the glass with some ice.

Had a little bit of white wine left, and I wanted to see if there was some good cocktail to use it. I'm not sure that's really the kind of drink I like, it mostly tasted like diluted campari (which I guess it is). But I could see it working on a really hot day!

No pictures but made piña coladas for my family today.

1 can unsweetened coconut cream

10 oz rum

10 oz fresh pineapple juice

Juice of 2 juicy limes

4 oz simple syrup because all the pineapple was tart

Frozen pineapple chunks, probably 2 cups in volume but not packed.

Scoop of ice, also probably 2 cups in volume but not packed.

First cooled the liquids, mixed, in the freezer. Then everything into the blender. Really good, boozy pineapple smoothie. And it's raining!

2 oz fresh pineapple juice

2 oz overproof bourbon (or one with strong flavor)

1 oz amaretto (I used Adriatico)

1/2 oz pineapple amaro

1 oz lemon

Squeeze of agave syrup - if your amaretto is traditional & sweet, omit this, and add a tiny pinch of fine salt.

Shake everything with ice, pour over fresh ice.

It's really good, but I think would be better with a drizzle of syrup from amaretto cherries and a garnish of the same, and probably better with a sweeter amaro. I don't have either right now. But honestly pineapple and whiskey is hard to mess up. It's good.

Yes I moved the glass off the magazine right after the picture.

2 oz Glenglassaugh

0.5 oz Galliano

0.5 oz Giffard Abricot

1 oz lemon

1 inch piece ginger

Small spoonful brown sugar

Shake everything with ice, strain into a glass over new ice. Very nice! Galliano is underrated.

This one’s from death and co. It looked just right for my mood; all liquor, rye base, some sweetness, and indeed it was perfect. I drank it and made another straightaway!

• 1 oz Rittenhouse 100-Proof Rye
• 1 oz Pierre Ferrand Ambre cognac
• 1 oz Carpano Antica sweet vermouth
• 1 tsp Bénédictine
• 1 dash Angostura bitters
• 1 dash Death & Co Peychaud's bitters
• 1 lemon twist

Stir with ice, and garnish with a lemon twist.

• 20 ml Fernet Branca
• 20 ml herbal liquor (or green chartreuse if you can find it)
• 20 ml lime juice
• 10 ml simple syrup
• 10 ml Aquafaba

Shake everything well, and serve. I'm going with metrics measurements now, so I don't have to convert them ^^

A really interesting combination of flavors, the mint from the Fernet Branca is still there, but more of an aftertaste. I can see it being better balanced with the chartreuse, since it is higher abv.

So my sisters got me into this drink but the problem is it had to be made in the right way. theoretically it was basically a long island ice tea where the coke portion was replaced by rasberry liquor (schambourg) but doing that does not taste right. I think it did not have tequila and there may have been something with sour or bitter or I don't know what. The key though is it was a drink with a bigger kick than a long island yet literally tasted like you were drinking lemonade (which I know given the name is ice tea is kinda ironic)

You can't read it on the board but this was the special at the hotel bar today, they have a Bourbon bar, all sorts of good whiskey on the shelf. Always a sucker for a fruity bourbon sour!

Don't know exactly what is in it but my guess is bourbon, lemon, cherry heering and soda water. Can taste the whiskey, the cherry is not dominant, nor the lemon. More refreshing than I'd expect from something 'bourbon cherry'

Three years old and I've not had to moderate even thrice! Will have a cocktail later to celebrate but wanted to say thanks for making this place great!

Panama City airport

Hello everyone. I Am involved in organising my Citys queer pride parade, and the Afterparty in our students club. For this quite special occasion we thought that it might be a cool idea to offer some themed cocktails on the party. The problem is, I have no Idea what might be fitting and I have never mixed a single cocktail in my life. Thats why I thought, that I might just ask you, if any of you have some ideas for some cocktails (alcoholic or non alcoholic), that might fit the theme of a queer pride parade, that are easy to mix.

Featuring Juno, our velvet hippo.

This made 2.

4 oz gin (Farmer's)

6 oz grapefruit juice

1 oz Campari

1 oz lime

8 oz tonic (fever tree light tonic, la mejor)

Stirred with ice, strained over fresh ice with one lime wedge squeezed in and put in. A little watery, the grapefruit maybe not quite perfect but it's good.

Because the fever tree comes in weird sized bottles, there was left over so I made a gin & tonic for my daughter's girlfriend. She did not like it but a splash of St. Germain fixed it for her.

• 3/2 oz gin
• 1/2 oz grenadine
• 1/2 oz lemon juice
• 1/2 oz aquafaba

Shake with ice, then shake one more time without ice.

The grenadine is homemade, and not bright red, so I guess it is more of a pink-ish lady. But still a great cocktail after dinner!

Bocas del Toro, Panama

Costa Rica

Strap on your adblocker, this is a very adsy website but this story was good. I do a lot of waste diversion drinks but no trash can in a bar is absolutely incredible.