by frederic on May 15, 2012
Last week for Thursday Drink Night, the theme was “summertime,” and mixologists across the webosphere got out their swizzle sticks, Pimm’s, and even some blue Curaçao to celebrate the impending season! Without further ado, here are three pairs of drinks:
JFL of Rated R Cocktails started the blue drinks rolling with this Tiki number.
Endless Blue
• 1 1/2 oz Demerara Rum
• 1 oz Virgin Island White Rum
• 1 oz Lime Juice
• 3/4 oz Orgeat
• 3/4oz Blue Curaçao
• 1/2 oz Coconut Cream
• 1/2 oz Pineapple Juice
• 1 tsp Absinthe
Blend with 12 oz crushed ice and pour into a hollowed pineapple (use less ice if using a pint glass or other smaller vessel). Garnish with a mint sprig.
Michael Basista of DrinksBurgh kept the blue theme alive with this blender drink.
Blue Sky Dream
• 1 1/2 oz White Rye
• 1 oz Blue Curaçao
• 1 oz Coco Lopez
• 1 oz White Grapefruit Juice
• 1 oz Lemon Juice
• 3 dash Tiki Bitters
Blend with 5 oz of crushed ice for 5 seconds or so. Pour into a Hurricane glass and garnish with a lemon twist.
The Cocktail Virgin/Slut Fred Yarm cracked out the swizzle stick and made a split spirit drink with the border of Peru and Brazil in mind.
Loreto Swizzle
• 4 Coffee Beans
• 1 oz Cachaça
• 1 oz Pisco
• 1/2 oz Lime Juice
• 3/4 oz Pineapple Juice
• 3/4 oz Simple Syrup
Muddle the coffee beans in a mixing glass and add pisco and cachaça. Meanwhile, add the rest of the ingredients to a tall glass filled with crushed ice. Next, finestrain the coffee-tinged pisco and cachaça into the tall glass (to remove coffee grounds). Swizzle to mix. Garnish with 3 dash Angostura Bitters and a lime twist, and add a straw.
Zach Pearson also opted for a split spirit drink using tequila and rum.
Drinking a Daiquiri at the Beach
• 1 1/2 oz Reposado Tequila
• 1 oz Rhum Agricole Blanc
• 1/4 oz Sirop de Canne (sub 2:1 simple)
• 1/4 oz Lactart
• 1/8 oz Green Chartreuse
• 15 drop Bittercube Jamaican Bitters #1
Shake with ice and strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with a mint leaf.
For the Pimm’s part of the show, Dan Chadwick of Kindred Cocktails offered up a British-inspired tipple.
It’s Always Sunny in London
• 1 1/2 oz Pimm’s No. 1
• 1 oz Gin
• 1/2 oz King’s Ginger Liqueur
• 1/2 oz Lime Juice
Shake with ice and strain into an Old Fashioned glass containing a large ice cube.
Scofflaw’s Den’s SeanMike continued with the Pimm’s theme with this refreshing tall drink. Feel free to read the recipe with a Bono Vox voice like I did.
Summer Bloody Summer
• 2 oz Pimm’s No. 1
• 1 oz Gin
• 1 1/2 oz Aperol
• 2 dash Angostura Bitters
Shake with ice and pour into a Collins glass. Top with tonic water, garnish with a lime wedge, and add a straw.
by frederic on May 7, 2012
Last week for Mixoloseum’s Thursday Drink Night, the theme was “action movies” so anything from movie titles to famous quotes to the Wilhelm Scream was fair game. Here are some of the drinks from the night:
Raymond McCormick a/k/a Rawim started the evening out with a heart-pounding moment in many movies — the bomb defusement.
Cut the Red Wire
• 3/4 oz Gin
• 3/4 oz White Rum
• 3/4 oz Passion Fruit Purée
• 3/4 oz Lime Juice
• 1/3 oz Crème de Noyaux
• 3 drop Vanilla Extract
Shake with crushed ice, add 1 oz of club soda, and pour into a Collins glass. Float a 1/2 oz of dark rum.
Fred Yarm of Cocktail Virgin/Slut honored the Spaniard who defends against villainy.
Mask of Zorro
• 1 1/2 oz Spanish Brandy
• 3/4 oz Dry Sherry
• 1/2 oz Coffee Liqueur
• 1/4 oz Cinnamon Syrup
• 1 dash Angostura Bitters
• 1 Egg White
Shake once without ice and once with and strain into coupe glass. Garnish with a ‘Z’ made with drops of Angostura Bitters on the egg white froth.
DrinksBurgh’s Michael Basista went all Indy on us with this flaming number. This drink gets my nod for best visual symbolism in a recipe for the night!
Kali Ma’s Flame
• 1 1/2 oz Gold Rum
• 1 oz Spiced Rum
• 1 oz Lime Juice
• 1 oz Coco Lopez
• 1/2 oz Grenadine
Shake with ice and pour unstrained into a tall glass or Tiki mug. Fill a half spent lime shell with a 1/2 oz of Lemon Hart 151, ignite, and sink into the glass.
Dan Chadwick of Kindred Cocktails mixes up a Dirty Harry line with a Jamaica rum pun.
Are You Feeling Lucky, Funk?
• 1 1/2 oz Smith & Cross Rum
• 1 1/2 oz Amaro Nonino
• 1/4 oz Zirbenz
• 1 dash Angostura Bitters
Build in an Old Fashioned glass with a large ice cube. Stir to mix and chill.
Rated R Cocktails‘ JFL drink name can only be pronounced with an Schwarzeneggerian accent which might bleed into the reading the rest of the recipe…
Da Choppa
• 4 oz Diced Mango
• 1/2 Banana, sliced
• 3/4 oz Falernum
• 3/4 oz Lime Juice
• 1 oz Barbancourt 5 Star Rum
• 1/2 oz Cruzan Blackstrap Rum
• 1/2 oz Cruzan White Rum
• 6 oz Crushed Ice
• 2 dash Angostura Bitters
Blend on high 20 seconds while screaming “GET TO DA CHOPPA!” Pour into a Tiki glass and garnish with a lime wedge.
Zach the Venture Mixologist’s Batman tribute gets my nod for drink of the night with this bitter bomb! Or wouldn’t the Batman tribute be the Dark Knight? Hmm… maybe it’s a generic action movie moment when all things go haywire.
Dark Night
• 3/4 oz Cynar
• 1/2 oz Beefeater Gin
• 1/2 oz Campari
• 1/2 oz Dubonnet
• 1/4 oz Fernet Branca
• 2 dash Celery Bitters
Stir with ice, and strain into a rocks glass containing fresh ice. Garnish with a lemon twist.
Finally, Scofflaw’s Den’s SeanMike took the Mexican-themed story of a man who goes off to the Middle East to save his brother and put it into a glass. This one gets my nod for best thematic elements in a drink!
Saving Private Perez
• 2 oz Mezcal
• 1 oz Lime Juice
• 1/2 oz Agave Syrup
• 1/4 oz Arak
• 1 dash Angostura Bitters
Shake with ice and pour unstrained into an Old Fashioned glass.
