Mine is a Rusty Nail. We don’t keep liquor at home so I only get one when we go out sometimes. And often they won’t have Drambuie on the bar so there goes that anyway and I resort to my usual white wine. How about you?
I’m mainly a wine and beer person, but at my sister’s Florida house we make a drink with orange juice, flavored rum and Peach Schnapps. It is SO good. I like Bailey’s and club soda, too. And Margaritas, of course.
Margarita, rocks, with salt. When we brought the boys back for second semester, the bartender made the best margarita. It was so good we asked which tequila. Milagro, a narrow blue and white bottle. The best ?
I like a Negroni or Aperol spritz in the summer and a Boulevardier when I want something heavier. (it switches out the gin for bourbon)
I like a good margarita. I’ve had some wonderful cocktails at Japanese restaurants - usually some combo of shochu, lemon, ginger, yuzu, and shiso leaves.
I like a margarita on the rocks with salt and good tequila. I’ll also order a dirty martini occasionally.
Classic rum daiquiri on the rocks. Making it correctly is becoming a lost art.
I am pretty alcohol uneducated. But can be convinced to have a margarita every once in awhile.
In college I drank daiquiris.
@abasket I named my college cat Daiquiri. My sister’s cat was Tia Maria.
The kind with alcohol.
But really, I’m a fairly simple guy; Vodka cran in the summer and bourbon ginger in the winter. A shot of Fireball anytime.
But having just returned from St. John, how could I forget Pina Colada! Love those!
Still a cosmo girl here, although I also like scotch on the rocks with a splash of water.
My brush with fame: I ran into SJP (and Matthew Broderick) in a bar. If she ever drank cosmos IRL, it seems she’s moved on now.
Hendrix gin with cranberry juice.
depends on the season…right now my favorites are simple - Vodka/Lemonade, G&T,Moscow Mule. It’s a well-known fact that I make a mean rum punch (learned from a bartender in the Caymans)…
Arctic cold gin martini, up, with a twist and three (jalapeño-stuffed) olives.
Depends on the season and who’s making it. Layperson/me in summer: Gin & Tonic. Layperson/me in winter: Old Fashioned. Restaurant or bar with interesting craft cocktail menu? I’ll ask for recs depending on my mood. Have had good results giving a couple guidelines (eg, smoky, not floral)
I would mostly just like ALL the olives in your drinks. I always think I might enjoy a bloddy mary just because I want all those goodies on the skewer.
In warm periods, Blue Hawaii, Pina Colada, Mai Tai (we once named a cat that); really any fruity rum drink. I used to switch from Cosmos in winter to Lemon Drops in summer. Many other vodka drinks.
Now it seems like trendy cocktails have to include herbs or hot spices or bacon or green tea derivatives or such, and the cocktail list is filled with gin, vermouth, whiskey, etc. One very trendy new brunch place uses aquafaba in some cocktails, which seems to be water in which chickpeas have been cooked. It takes the place of egg whites for vegans. I don’t want to have to Google cocktail ingredients!
Nothing like a great scotch or bourbon. Neat please! (ironically I’ve been having Old Fashioneds recently - nothing neat about that)