TDN: Bubbles – Vote for the best drink!

by Sylvan on February 8, 2010

Bubbles was the theme this last Thursday Drink Night – Champagne, ginger beer, soda, tonic, cola, or anything else fizzy.   The prize for best drink is either merely the glory of winning (and being in Mutineer Magazine) or something awesome TBA.

Thursday Drink Night on February 11th will be Trader Tiki’s Exotic Syrups.

Check out the recipes then vote! (Poll below recipes)

Sparkling Negroni: Make your favorite Negroni, top off with a brut Champagne.

Estrella Branca: Soak sugar cube in 1/8 tsp Fernet at bottom of flute glass, fill with Champagne.

Lumber Jill: 1 1/2 oz Smith & Cross Traditional Jamaican Rum, 3/4 oz green Chartreuse, 1/4 oz maple syrup, 3/4 oz fresh lemon juice, 1/2 oz fresh orange juice, 2 dashes Angostura, touch salt, shake and strain over fresh ice, ~3 oz ginger beer to top.

Blair Fizz: 2 oz bourbon, 3/4 oz Trader Tiki’s Don’s Mix, 1/2 oz lemon juice, 1-2d Angostura. Shake, strain, top with club soda in a collins glass. Garnish with a lemon wheel and a cherry.

Mexican Funeral: 2 oz blanco tequila, 1/2 oz orgeat, 1/2 oz cassis, 3/4 oz lime juice, 3 oz ginger beer. Build on rocks and float 1/2 oz Aperol.

Haarlem Bazaar: 1 1/2 oz Bols Genever, 1/2 oz Cointreau, 1/2 oz Ginger liqueur, 1/2 oz Lime juice, 1/4 oz green Chartreuse, 1/4 oz Maple syrup, 1/4 tsp Pernod, shake and strain into collins glass with ice and top with 2 oz tonic water.

Soak it in Cider #2: 2 oz gin, 1/2 oz Dolin Blanc, 1/4 oz maple syrup, 2 dashes whiskey barrel bitters, barspoon pimento dram. Stir and strain over ice. Add 2 oz hard apple cider.

Gin & Itch: 1 oz Tanqueray, 1 oz Matusalem platino, 3 oz grapefruit, 1 oz orange juice, 1 oz pineapple juice, 1/2 oz cinnamon syrup, top with soda.

Vegas Phone Call: 1 oz blanco tequila 1 oz X-rated Fusion 1/4 oz Canton ginger 2 oz grapefruit juice. Top with Champagne – shake and strain into a highball with fresh ice.

Dr. Zed’s Treatment: 1 1/2 oz Junipero gin, 3/4 oz TraderTiki’s orgeat, 1/2 oz Cynar, shake, strain into a collins glass, top with 4-5 ounces tonic and ice and garnish with a mint sprig.

Pelagia: 1 1/2 oz Tanqueray, 1/2 oz St. Germain, 1/4 oz apricot eau de vie, 1/2 oz lime juice. Shake/Strain into glass, add 2.5 oz of Prosecco.

Pacino Nights: 1 oz Pimm’s, 1 oz pomegranate syrup, 1/2 oz lemon juice, top Prosecco or other sparkly.

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TDN: Nuts – Vote for the best drink!

by Sylvan on January 29, 2010

Nuts and nut products was the theme this last Thursday Drink Night -  Castries, Frangelico, macadamia nut liqueur, orgeat, nocino, etc.  Much to my dismay, none of these recipes look ‘nuts’; they all look pretty good! The prize for best drink is your very own bottle of Castries Peanut Rum Creme Liqueur.

[EDIT 2/1/10:  This weeks theme will be TDN: Bubbles. Break out your Champagne, ginger beer, soda, tonic, cola, or anything else fizzy and mix original cocktails with us on Thursday Night!]

Check out the recipes then vote! (Poll below recipes)

Amaretto Siciliano: 1.5 rye, 0.75 oz amaretto, 0.5 oz Averna, 0.5 oz lemon juice, 0.25 oz maple syrup, 1 dash Fee’s Whiskey Barrel bitters. Shake/strain.

Bourbon Street Bread Pudding: 1.25 oz Castries, 0.75 oz bourbon, 0.5 oz Kahlua, 0.5 oz simple, 1 whole egg. Coupe glass w/drunken raisins.

Damn the Penguins: 1.5 oz Chairman’s Reserve Rum, 0.5 oz Castries, 2 dashes chocolate bitters. Shake, strain, garnish peanut brittle.

Preemie Baby: 3/4 oz ea. gin, LH151, Aperol, lime juice, blood orange juice, Trader Tiki Orgeat, 1/4 oz Kirsch, 4d Trader Tiki Falernum Bitters, egg white. Shake and top with soda.

Mexican Standoff: 1.5 oz crema de mezcal, 0.5 oz nocino, 0.25 oz. Frangelico, 0.5 oz pear syrup, 0.5 oz lemon juice, 0.5 oz blood orange juice, 2 d Angostura, shake serve over crushed ice, garnish with a blood orange twist.

Ants on a Log: 1 oz peanut-infused bourbon, 1 oz currant-infused bourbon, 0.5 oz fresh celery syrup, 2 dash celery bitters. Stir/strain, garnish with a celery stick w/bourboned currants.  Syrup: http://bit.ly/91XibZ

The Farmer’s Respite: 2 oz applejack, 1t Cherry Heering, 1t Drambuie, 0.5 oz Frangelico, 1 dash Angostura, 0.75 oz Dolin Blanc, lemon twist.

Seymour Glass: 1.5 oz bonded apple jack, 0.75 oz nocino, 0.5 oz lime juice and 0.5 oz simple. Stir.

Grovekeeper: 1.5 oz 100 proof rye, 0.5 oz yellow Chartreuse, 0.5 oz hazelnut syrup, 2 dashes Fee’s aromatic bitters. Shake/strain over ice cubes in rocks glass. Mint sprig garnish.

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TDN: Fruit Brandy – Vote for the best drink!

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The challenge was given to break out the unloved apricot, blackberry, and peach brandies from the nethers of your bar and break them out we did! Prize this week is a bottle of Pear Eau-de-Vie!
Check out the recipes then vote!
Be sure to stop by 1/28/10 for TDN: Nuts!
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TDN: Monk – Vote for the best drink

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Ancient wisdom guided our cocktail creations last night, and the hand of Stan Jones stirred many a drink. But which was the best? Decide quickly, as the winner will win a bottle of Elixir Vegetal from Cocktail Kingdom.
Check out the recipes then vote!

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Don’t forget to vote for last week’s best drink from TDN: HOT!

December 16, 2009

TDN: Hot produced delights even the devil would blush at, but which one was the best? Pick wisely, as the winner will receive a bottle of Scrappy’s orange bitters from Cocktail Kingdom.
Check out the recipes then vote!

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Vote for the best drink created during TDN: Allspice Dram

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TDN: Allspice produced some delectably fallish libations that warmed the soul and tickled the liver. Which one was the best? Pick wisely, as the winner will receive a seamless Yarai mixing glass from Cocktail Kingdom and a bottle of homemade dram from Colonel Tiki.
Check out the recipes then vote!

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Rumfustian

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Mandeville

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A few weeks ago while working my way through the 100 cocktails Bobby Heugel of Anvil in Houston thinks everyone should try at least once list, I was confronted with the Cuba Libre. The Cuba Libre is a step up from a standard Rum and Coke by including lime juice and often lime peel [...]

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Good Ol’ Harv – The Harvey Wallbanger

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Sunday was National Harvey Wallbanger Day. Did you miss the parade?
There are classic cocktails, and there are classic drinks. One of the latter is the Harvey Wallbanger. It has almost everything I think makes a great cocktail: a cool backstory, controversy about said backstory, a simple recipe with an exotic ingredient, and a wicked cool, [...]

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Ancho Chile Syrup

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There is a syrup i like to make sometimes, its made with ancho chile. The ancho chile is a dried blackish/reddish brown chile. Flat and wrinkled, it looks almost like a big flat raisin in a way. Its actually a poblano that is dried, then its called ancho. It’s a not very hot to medium [...]

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