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I got into mixology during the pandemic and still like trying new cocktails and follow some of the YouTubers I learned from during that time. I tend to like cocktails with some bitter, herbal funky flavors. Lots of cocktails with amaros and such. For base spirits I like basically anything BUT Tequila. I'll drink Tequila once or twice a year but I've never really acquired a taste. In no particular order some of my favorite cocktails:

Last Word
Aviation
Paper Plane
Negroni
Bourbon old fashioned

In a little more specialized note, I recently learned about a Star Daisy, which is:
3/4 ounce London dry gin
3/4 ounce apple brandy
3/4 ounce dry Curacoa
3/4 ounce lemon juice
1/3 ounce simple syrup

Finally, last time I was in Vegas I had dinner at the now-demolished Mirage. On their menu they had a drink I quite enjoyed, called the burgundy. I took a photo of the menu which simply said "amaro nonino, mount gay, orgeat, pomegranate" I got home and reverse engineered it as:
2 ounce Mount Gay Rum
3/4 ounce pomegranate liqueur
3/4 ounce orgeat
1/2 ounce Amaro Nonio
1 egg white (although I prefer to use Fee Brothers Fee Foam egg white substitute)

I'm not confident they used pomegranate liqueur and may have actually used pomegranate juice, and the Fee Foam is going add less non-alcoholic liquid volume than an actual egg white, so my proportions may be a bit heavy. But my copy is damn close and damn good.

I love a good Bourbon Sour with a nice foamy egg white.

Try aforementioned with tamarind paste (mixed into a slurry with a bit of water prior to mixing into cocktail).

Tamarind margarita is also really interesting especially with a chile-salt rim.

Sipping a Kentucky Mule as we speak.

I've never been a big fan of mixed drinks much beyond a Manhattan or the occasional martini. My normal drink is something brown and neat.

DYohn wrote: Sat Mar 22, 2025 11:14 am I've never been a big fan of mixed drinks much beyond a Manhattan or the occasional martini. My normal drink is something brown and neat.

I'm good with a neat scotch, whiskey, or bourbon from time to time. I had this for the first time recently and its not too dear either.

https://www.caskers.com/thomas-s-moore- ... -oQAvD_BwE

I generally like double-casked bourbon. Depends on the finish though. Somebody makes one finished in rum casks, and I did not enjoy that. Some are cloyingly sweet. Actually it was a scotch that sent me down this road: Balvenie Doublewood. Love it.

Made myself a Star Daisy tonight. My wife keeps saying we have to use stuff up and not move a bunch of near trash. I've bitten the bullet and taken responsibility for the liquor cabinet.

There are worse house chores

I am good with Scotch or Bourbon. I throw in an occasional White Russian or Martini.

CJ it sounds like you have a lot of work to do. Years ago after my parents passed away we had to clean out their home in Florida. My dad’s liquor cabinet was stocked to the brim. I found myself pouring the stuff down the drain except for a few bottles that I brought back home.

A friend mentioned to me when he had a similar task he took a bottle of new scotch and mixed some of his dads scotch in it so each time he has a drink he has some of his dads in a diluted but present state. I have done the same for 13 years and have a very diluted but part of my dads Dewars scotch in a bottle of Dewars I have.

RickC wrote: Tue Apr 01, 2025 8:43 pmI throw in an occasional White Russian

Caucasian, if you're into the whole brevity thing.

RickC wrote: Tue Apr 01, 2025 8:43 pm A friend mentioned to me when he had a similar task he took a bottle of new scotch and mixed some of his dads scotch in it so each time he has a drink he has some of his dads in a diluted but present state. I have done the same for 13 years and have a very diluted but part of my dads Dewars scotch in a bottle of Dewars I have.

That's very sweet and something I'll have to remember.