@PlacidPenguin I made it though the first 25 years of my life as a complete teetotaler. I have spent the years since making up for lost time. With interest…
@PlacidPenguin Me neither. I would have to go to a place and someone would have to say something like “we are drinking cocktails and not other things”, or “would you like an old fashioned, whatever that is, sir?” I haven’t gone to those places.
I’ve seen it called by several different names, but I call it a “Fruity Pleaser” Vodka, 2 parts orange juice to one part cranberry juice, and a splash of 7-up. (over ice, of course.)
@sicc574 I’m confused. Being from that area means you should actually like the Seahawks. But the only punch here is the one thrown by Quick. That Seahawk just gave a girly push.
Mine is somewhat similar - it’s a fruity concoction. Malibu rum plus any tropical fruit juice like pineapple or mango and a splash of ginger ale or sprite/7 up. Prefer all ingredients cold but over ice is ok.
@djslack@shahnm Makes sense, given that Hendricks uses cucumber and rose in their botanical mix. Hendricks is an excellent gin (one of my favorites) but I cannot say I’ve ever tried it with cucumber…
Because of fun stomach problems, I had to quit drinking. There were so many different drinks I would have on a hot day. Something no one is going to say though and everyone should try is ice water with several shots of fruit liquor.
It’s cold and refreshing. It’s like a flavored water that gives you a buzz. If i was actually trying to get drunk off this, i would do a 1:1 water to booze. That ratio is absolutely not for everyone though.
@evilstan60 Yes, is very good. Over a decade ago, I returned from a week on St Thomas and St John in late March with 8 bottles of fruit flavored rum… by the end of that Summer, the rum was all used up, mostly as you suggest here.
I bought a gallon jug of Hawaiian Punch White Water Wave (coconut/pineapple fruit punch) for a tropical-themed party. Never even got opened.
So I invented a cocktail to help get it used up:
Pour 2oz (or more?) of ‘cake’-flavored vodka in a tall glass
Fill the rest of the glass with chilled White Water Wave (ice optional)
garnish with fresh pineapple chunks
Kinda sweet, but really easy to drink when it’s over 95F
@RedOak If only Costco could sell liquor in Oregon. My ocassional roadtrips to California help (my current vodka bottle is Kirkland). But they aren’t frequent enough to keep everything stocked the way I would like.
@AleArni My family in Ashland makes occasional runs to that place in Hilt to stock up. I often stop there when we go up to visit. They actually have pretty good prices. And occasionally a real steal. They had Anchor Old Potrero whiskey for $50 a bottle last time I was there.
Probably my favorite is a buck: gin or vodka or rum or whiskey with ginger ale/beer and lemon or lime juice over ice. There are various names for specific bucks (Dark-n-Stormy, Moscow Mule, etc.) but anything with ginger, citrus and a spirit is technically a buck.
When I don’t have ginger syrup on hand (I make my own), I’ll go with a tom (or vodka) collins (gin or vodka, lemon juice, water or seltzer over ice).
Recently tho, I’ve been pouring gin (or vodka) over ice and adding triple sec or sweet vermouth, and sometimes a dash of whiskey. When I want something lighter, I’ll cut this with water or seltzer.
If I want something even lighter, I’ll use a decent lager (Rolling Rock, PBR, etc.) instead of a spirit in either a buck or a collins.
I hardly ever drink any more, but I used to love gin, grapefruit juice, cranberry juice, and a bit of sugar…in whichever proportions seemed right at the time.
I also really liked whiskey (or whisky!) sours for several years, though nothing like the official drink, I’m sure, because I’ve never been one for measuring or consistency.
But…liquor costs money, and I’m cheap, and I just don’t enjoy it like I used to.
@Dweezle Before craft beer became a thing, my long-time go-to drink was a Salty Dog: 2 parts gin/vodka over 3 parts grapefruit juice in a salted, ice-filled glass. Really good flavor & much more thirst-quenching than sugary cocktails.
12 oz frozen orange juice concentrate
12 oz frozen lemonade concentrate
2 cup sugar
2 cup bourbon
6 tea bags
7-up
Dissolve the sugar in 7 cups boiling water
Add Bourbon
Add orange juice and lemonade concentrate
simmer tea bags in 4 cups boiling water
Add 2 cups of tea
Freeze in shallow container
Scrape into glasses
@becca This is exactly what I was going to say, thanks for saying it for me! (I add a cigar or pipe and sit on the back porch swing for full summer effect.)
A michelada. Kinda like a beer bloody Mary. Mexican beer, clamato, lime, hot sauce, salt. That’s the basic ingredients. Everybody makes them a little different. Very refreshing. Had first one while diving in Belize many years ago.
Being a Pittsburgh guy, the Boilermaker is always good, but here is the summer variant: Hard Cider and a shot of blackberry whiskey. I guess it counts a a cocktail. Oooh, and an interesting variant on that: Guinness and a shot of vanilla whiskey.
Margarita. Real margarita, not the $1.99 sugar sack version at the grocery store. If you get it at a restaurant and do the cheaper well version tell them to toss a splash of orange juice in there and it helps.
When it starts getting warm we have a “first Negroni of the season” ritual. There’s also the Summer Negroni which is gin, Aperol, and Bianco vermouth. But we have a large rotation of cocktails so there isn’t a single go-to. We do tend to have more drinks with fizzy mixers (soda, tonic, or ginger beer) in the summer. Last year I got the Smuggler’s Cove book and started making tiki drinks. Some of those are especially good in the summer.
I survived a week with my parents in Italy with the help of Aperol Spritzes. Aperol, prosecco, a splash of seltzer on ice in a wine glass with a slice of orange. Tart, refreshing, tasty, and (at least in Italy) pretty cheap!
I drink a lot of water and lemonade, not sure either of those can be called a cocktail but there wasn’t an option out there for those of us who don’t drink,
I am only equipped, in my current summer living quarters, to make an old fashioned, which is refreshing compared to what I usually drink, which is whiskey.
Otherwise, my go-to is a Tom Collins. It’s refreshing on its own and is a good base for whatever additional fruits you like.
Raspberry, blueberry, strawberry, cherry, canteloupe, even freakin honeydew can be muddled in the shaker before shaking and you’ve got yourself a tasty beverage.
Go-to summer cocktail? Absolutely.
Much like coffee, I have never drank a cocktail.
@PlacidPenguin
@PlacidPenguin Sounds like you need a Black Russian! (The cocktail that is.)
/image black russian
@shahnm
@shahnm
I also have never drank beer.
@awk @PlacidPenguin, My wife likes both while and black Russians. Just the cocktail, i think…
@awk
Just looked it up.
I’ll pass.
@PlacidPenguin I made it though the first 25 years of my life as a complete teetotaler. I have spent the years since making up for lost time. With interest…
@shahnm
As far as your last question is concerned…
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@PlacidPenguin you’ll likely outlive us all as a result. Do you live in UT?
@RedOak
Nope.
@RedOak
If that happens, could I have your house, car, and VMP?
@PlacidPenguin Me neither. I would have to go to a place and someone would have to say something like “we are drinking cocktails and not other things”, or “would you like an old fashioned, whatever that is, sir?” I haven’t gone to those places.
@PlacidPenguin haha. My family might have an interest in the house and car.
But you’re welcome to the VMP and all the Meh hoard-crap. They could care less about that stuff.
@RedOak
Deal.
I’ve seen it called by several different names, but I call it a “Fruity Pleaser” Vodka, 2 parts orange juice to one part cranberry juice, and a splash of 7-up. (over ice, of course.)
@Pony
Perhaps give @PlacidPenguin what’s left of the 7-Up
Cold bottled water.
@heartny - I’m mostly water myself but technically a cocktail is an alcohol-based mixed drink. My favorite mocktail is a lime rickey.
Rum punch (ouch!)
@hchavers
Ram Punch:
@hchavers @shahnm being from the Pacific Northwest, I deffinitely prefer the Seahawk punch depicted in the above giphy
@sicc574 I’m confused. Being from that area means you should actually like the Seahawks. But the only punch here is the one thrown by Quick. That Seahawk just gave a girly push.
Dr. Pepper. Much like @PlacidPenguin, I have never had a cocktail or coffee.
One because I don’t care to start and the other makes me nauseous.
whiskey ginger. it’s also my go to winter cocktail. and fall, and spring. ok once in a while i’ll do a gin tonic
@spacemart we share similar tastes. Jack and Ginger is my number two.
I like a good Moscow Mule.
Mine is somewhat similar - it’s a fruity concoction. Malibu rum plus any tropical fruit juice like pineapple or mango and a splash of ginger ale or sprite/7 up. Prefer all ingredients cold but over ice is ok.
I started typing that immediately after pony posted but then lost service for about ten min lol
@ivannabc I would do this but with a splash of Squirt instead of 7up. I’m a big fan.
We went on a Pimm’s Cup kick a few summers back. My go to has no season, though. Hendrick’s and tonic is good whenever.
@djslack Agreed with the Hendricks and tonic. With cucumber. Always cucumber.
@shahnm I’ll have to try that. I’ve always done nothing or maybe a little lime.
@djslack And Fever Tree tonic. The combination of Hendricks, Fever Tree, and cucumber is magical.
@djslack @shahnm Makes sense, given that Hendricks uses cucumber and rose in their botanical mix. Hendricks is an excellent gin (one of my favorites) but I cannot say I’ve ever tried it with cucumber…
Because of fun stomach problems, I had to quit drinking. There were so many different drinks I would have on a hot day. Something no one is going to say though and everyone should try is ice water with several shots of fruit liquor.
It’s cold and refreshing. It’s like a flavored water that gives you a buzz. If i was actually trying to get drunk off this, i would do a 1:1 water to booze. That ratio is absolutely not for everyone though.
@evilstan60 by fruit liquor, do you mean fruit flavored vodkas, runs, etc? Or do you mean sweet type liqueurs?
@moonhat fruit vodkas, rums, etc. Whichever base spirit you like the most.
@evilstan60 Yes, is very good. Over a decade ago, I returned from a week on St Thomas and St John in late March with 8 bottles of fruit flavored rum… by the end of that Summer, the rum was all used up, mostly as you suggest here.
I bought a gallon jug of Hawaiian Punch White Water Wave (coconut/pineapple fruit punch) for a tropical-themed party. Never even got opened.
So I invented a cocktail to help get it used up:
Kinda sweet, but really easy to drink when it’s over 95F
A dark & stormy. And to make it extra wonderful, using Rachel’s Ginger Beer from Seattle. Sooooo yummy.
@moonhat This is my wife’s thing. Any and every season…
@shahnm your wife has excellent taste, clearly.
@moonhat @shahnm At least in cocktails. In SO, meh
@compunaut @moonhat Yeah. I still don’t know what the hell she was thinking…
@moonhat @shahnm Maybe you were really good at slipping her…
a few too many Dark & Stormy drinks
Jameson Green Tea
@vinuash But it’s only a (large) shot!
@vinuash Jameson on the rocks with some lime does it for me…
G&T for me. With lime. Although right now I’m drinking vodka & tonic with lime. I’m out of gin.
@AleArni The important thing is to keep drinking.
@AleArni came here to say the same. Year 'round tho.
Latest surprise for the money… Costco-Kirkland Gin.
@RedOak If only Costco could sell liquor in Oregon. My ocassional roadtrips to California help (my current vodka bottle is Kirkland). But they aren’t frequent enough to keep everything stocked the way I would like.
@AleArni My family in Ashland makes occasional runs to that place in Hilt to stock up. I often stop there when we go up to visit. They actually have pretty good prices. And occasionally a real steal. They had Anchor Old Potrero whiskey for $50 a bottle last time I was there.
Probably my favorite is a buck: gin or vodka or rum or whiskey with ginger ale/beer and lemon or lime juice over ice. There are various names for specific bucks (Dark-n-Stormy, Moscow Mule, etc.) but anything with ginger, citrus and a spirit is technically a buck.
When I don’t have ginger syrup on hand (I make my own), I’ll go with a tom (or vodka) collins (gin or vodka, lemon juice, water or seltzer over ice).
Recently tho, I’ve been pouring gin (or vodka) over ice and adding triple sec or sweet vermouth, and sometimes a dash of whiskey. When I want something lighter, I’ll cut this with water or seltzer.
If I want something even lighter, I’ll use a decent lager (Rolling Rock, PBR, etc.) instead of a spirit in either a buck or a collins.
TL;DR: Yes!
Polar diet orange soda! -Terrific!
Rarely, a very weak gin and tonic or a (weak or even no alcohol) pina colada.
Pina Coladas from my margaritaville.
@Cynamon http://goo.gl/images/8jYyFb
I hardly ever drink any more, but I used to love gin, grapefruit juice, cranberry juice, and a bit of sugar…in whichever proportions seemed right at the time.
I also really liked whiskey (or whisky!) sours for several years, though nothing like the official drink, I’m sure, because I’ve never been one for measuring or consistency.
But…liquor costs money, and I’m cheap, and I just don’t enjoy it like I used to.
@Dweezle Before craft beer became a thing, my long-time go-to drink was a Salty Dog: 2 parts gin/vodka over 3 parts grapefruit juice in a salted, ice-filled glass. Really good flavor & much more thirst-quenching than sugary cocktails.
@compunaut @Dweezle yes, salty dog with vodka!! Try it with Tito’s ruby red vodka, almost unnecessary to water it down with juice
Bourbon slushes. I keep a batch in the freezer year round.
@pooflady please explain. Sounds good
BOURBON SLUSHES
12 oz frozen orange juice concentrate
12 oz frozen lemonade concentrate
2 cup sugar
2 cup bourbon
6 tea bags
7-up
Dissolve the sugar in 7 cups boiling water
Add Bourbon
Add orange juice and lemonade concentrate
simmer tea bags in 4 cups boiling water
Add 2 cups of tea
Freeze in shallow container
Scrape into glasses
Add 7-Up
@pooflady yum! I might have to try that!
@pooflady People in Wisconsin make these with brandy. They are great.
@pooflady I haven’t made slushes in years! Guess I forgot about them, but they are delicious. Now I’m going to make some!
Rye whiskey on the rocks with a beer back.
I know, it doesn’t technically count as a cocktail.
/giphy whiskey
A little vodka & vodka over some vodka.
Scotch w/ a single ice cube
@becca This is exactly what I was going to say, thanks for saying it for me! (I add a cigar or pipe and sit on the back porch swing for full summer effect.)
Piña Colada. I know somebody else said it already, but their ‘n’ didn’t have a tilde, so it didn’t count.
Hint: Alt+0241
I’m hooked on Palomas. But with a splash of grapefruit juice as well as fresca.
Mmm.
A michelada. Kinda like a beer bloody Mary. Mexican beer, clamato, lime, hot sauce, salt. That’s the basic ingredients. Everybody makes them a little different. Very refreshing. Had first one while diving in Belize many years ago.
@tomdina Didn’t it get watered down?
@shahnm Only if you’re not keeping pace…
Rum Punch. If it’s good enough for the Caribbean, it’s good enough for me.
@dptalia - Make mine with black strap rum, please!
(Somewhere there’s a picture of me at the Cruzan Rum Distillery. This ain’t it!)
Don’t drink much anymore but psyched AF that Zima has made a comeback, also in the summer love a good greyhound or salty dog(both with vodka, not gin)
As I am basically a single malt scotch guy, I don’t care for cocktails. So, just a cold beer.
Sort of a cocktail since it’s technically a mixed drink.
Panty Rippers all day
Being a Pittsburgh guy, the Boilermaker is always good, but here is the summer variant: Hard Cider and a shot of blackberry whiskey. I guess it counts a a cocktail. Oooh, and an interesting variant on that: Guinness and a shot of vanilla whiskey.
Margarita. Real margarita, not the $1.99 sugar sack version at the grocery store. If you get it at a restaurant and do the cheaper well version tell them to toss a splash of orange juice in there and it helps.
@Targaryen 100% with you! Plain margarita, on the rocks w/ salt is a thing of beauty!! MIC DROP
@Targaryen @tohar1 yes and plenty of salt on that rim. Perfect
I used to drink Shirley Temples way back when. Can I count that if it came from a bar?
old fashioned!
Also, snapple with everclear.
@carl669 with Basil Hayden or Buffalo Trace
(Weller 12’s for sippin’)
@carl669 Everclear is underrated as a mixer; how else are you going to avoid watering down the drink?
The lack of Aperol Spritz in this thread is worrying
When it starts getting warm we have a “first Negroni of the season” ritual. There’s also the Summer Negroni which is gin, Aperol, and Bianco vermouth. But we have a large rotation of cocktails so there isn’t a single go-to. We do tend to have more drinks with fizzy mixers (soda, tonic, or ginger beer) in the summer. Last year I got the Smuggler’s Cove book and started making tiki drinks. Some of those are especially good in the summer.
any mule kentucky moscow depends on the mood u kno?
/giphy mule
@blndfayth wow totally awesome mule couldn’t stop watching lol
Disaronno Sour
Cuba Libre: Meyer’s dark rum, Pepsi, fresh lime. Mmm…
I survived a week with my parents in Italy with the help of Aperol Spritzes. Aperol, prosecco, a splash of seltzer on ice in a wine glass with a slice of orange. Tart, refreshing, tasty, and (at least in Italy) pretty cheap!
Water. I drink water.
@kittykat9180 Well, yes, I think we all do. But that’s not really a coctail
Adderall, Fentanyl, Propofol
And Weenies.
@ChadP very nice.
That Red White & Berry vodka with lemonade. Tastes like a rocket pop.
I drink a lot of water and lemonade, not sure either of those can be called a cocktail but there wasn’t an option out there for those of us who don’t drink,![](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw== ":\")
Thought of another delicious one - not a drink but frangelico(aka monk bottle hazlenut liquor)
Coat a lemon wedge in sugar - suck the lemon sugar and keep juice in ur mouth
Take shot together = chocolate cake shot
Beer…
preferably cold and in a glass, but basically, just beer.
/image glass of beer
Umm, yeah!
I am only equipped, in my current summer living quarters, to make an old fashioned, which is refreshing compared to what I usually drink, which is whiskey.
Otherwise, my go-to is a Tom Collins. It’s refreshing on its own and is a good base for whatever additional fruits you like.
Raspberry, blueberry, strawberry, cherry, canteloupe, even freakin honeydew can be muddled in the shaker before shaking and you’ve got yourself a tasty beverage.
Shandy: lemonade and lager.