Cocktail Hour
 

What's your favorite cocktail of the moment?

When the sun goes down, I pour myself a nice champagne cocktail: bubbly with a splash of orange, pineapple and cranberry juice. Mmmmmmmmmmm!

And you?

Seven and 7, which seems so absolutely blue collar, but I find I'm really fond of them for some reason.

Hey, my hubby drinks Southern Comfort straight up.

A blue collar drink for a white collar man.

I say "whatever gets the job done!";)

Jack and Coke, Rum and Coke, Comfort and Coke ... whatever.

I have tried, unsuccessfully, for many years to establish a "signature drink" for myself. It cannot involve vodka, and I would prefer it not involve gin.

Past candidates: Fuzzy Navel, Tequila Sunrise, Planters Punch, Slippery Nipple (don't really like the licorice flavor), Buttery Nipple, and an assortment of frozen daquiri flavors.

Perhaps I'm really just a shot of Jack with a beer back kind of girl?

Getting it done: Beefeater gin + vermouth 5:1, shaken, up with two olives.

Tasty sipper: dark & stormy -- ginger ale and dark rum.

Diabetic sipper: diet pepsi and orange vodka. :(

maker's mark, neat, with a soda back.

Double Ice Cold Sapphire Martini, dry (tsp or tbsp extra dry vermouth), with 2 Talk o' Texas Hot Okra Pickles, lemon zest

Makers Mark doubles with a sprig of Mint and one large ice cube

Guinness

(BTW... Nothing but Gin makes a martini)

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A proper Dark and Stormy must be made with a good, snappy ginger beer.

I have yet to drink anywhere (outside of my own home) that has ginger beer of any kind, much less a snappy variety, in the cooler.

I'm boring. I drink Bud Light.

That's funny -- I've also had my share of candidates over the years as well.
In college, it was Riunite Lambrusco (do you even remember that junk?!), onto white russians, then my 'only chardonnay' phase, onto vodka martinis (the best had anchovy-stuffed olives), then vodka gimlets when I met my hubby, then I went through a series of "a shot of this, a shot of that" until I settled on my latest enjoyment.

I wonder what'll be next?:)

Yes. I like Reeds. Ooh look - they have icecream! I gotta try that.

A ti-punch from Martinique . A splash of Dillon rum ( appellation contrôlée) , a drop of liquid cane-sugar , a zest of lime . NO ICE CUBES .

A few accras and a pork-blood sausage ( boudin) to go with it .

My bread and butter (so to speak) are 1) the martini* and 2) single malt Scotch. I also like Jagermeister and an occasional peppermint schnapps. Oh and the Long Island Iced Tea, which I often just don't feel like going to the trouble to make. There are times when I want something not quite so hard, and I'll have OJ mixed with midori or blue curacao.

Today at the liquor store I passed up peppermint schnapps in favor of 99 Apples. I will report back and let you know what I think.

*I can't tell you how much it annoys me to go to a restaurant that has a couple dozen "martinis" and order a martini, and get back, "what kind?" Or, they just assume you want vodka.

P.S. I see you know your stuff SteveDallas . In American books , they always talk about 'highballs' . What exactly is a 'highball '? Please elucidate this literary alcoholic mystery for me .

I have no clue... when I've run across it I just took it to be an unknown [to me] cocktail of some kind.