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I still stand by my Sazerac cocktail recommendation. Classy, classic, simple, badass, mysterious.
oh, absolutely. But, the likelihood of the bartender knowing how to make it, even if s/he has all of the ingredients? Slim to none. Gimlets you can be pretty sure of. As a woman, you run the risk of them adding too much Rose's (which is not as good as fresh lime and simple syrup, but more likely to be found), but that can be fixed.
Scotch is wasted on me. I've tried. I don't taste anything. I'm sure it's me, but it was so sad. Relatives with 12-year-old Whatthefuck they poured just for me, and I'm like"Yeah, that was cold and wet, okay." Like explaining making out to Rain Man.
Gimlets you can be pretty sure of.
Ah, if only. I've averaged about 1 in 3 vodka gimlet orders coming close--the others have been some sort of unholy vodka with a squirt of lime concoctions.
Yeah, I recently ordered a Periodista and was thwarted due to insufficient ingredients.
I need to go to bars that specialize in classic cocktails, single malt whiskey, micro brewed beer, and, um, port wine.
Basically, I should live at the Eastern Standard Kitchen.
Raymond Chandler would be pissed. But it seems to me even Marlowe said it was hard to find a good gimlet in America.
In related news: I cannot wait to go to New Orleans and have 25 cent martinis and Sazeracs to my heart's content! Also, Pimms Cups and absinthe.
Gimlets you can be pretty sure of.
Ah, if only.
Oh, I meant in the having the ingredients sense. The mixture, OTOH. I have asked if I can make it myself, and, failing that, said, "okay, pooooooouuuuur . . . STOP. Okay, now a splash of Rose's." He finally got it when I told him to think of it like the vermouth in a martini.
Fresh lime juice is best for gimlets. And I agree; I either have to tell the bartender what it is, or I have to ask them to modify it. I've had a lot of "EUUUGGH, that's just cold vodka UNDO IT UNDO IT!" gimlets.
I prefer more Rose's to less, Vortx, to avoid precisely that reaction.
I drank WAY too much straight vodka in high school to want to taste it now!
I still stand by my Sazerac cocktail recommendation. Classy, classic, simple, badass, mysterious.
By most accounts the Sazerac is the first cocktail.
I need to go to bars that specialize in classic cocktails, single malt whiskey, micro brewed beer, and, um, port wine.
That would be Alembic in my neighborhood. And I know you like their beer since they're affiliated with Magnola where I took you drinking.
My drinks of choice: Cheap red wine a la Riunite Lambrusco, and Boone's Farm Sangria.
t holder of a wussy palate since 1979 and proud of it