Currently I love a sweet tea vodka mixed with lemonade. Soooo refreshing and easy to drink!
Margaritas. But ran out of tequila tonight and made caipirinhas - forget how good they are. But pretty strong with just Cachaça muddled with limes and sugar. Yum. Snooze.
Today I bought summer placements for my kitchen table. They are brightly colored with various summer cocktails scattered all over them. I wonder what possessed me to do this? You all did! 
A martini. gin, dry, stirred, two olives, is the favorite cocktail of my sixties. Waving at sherpa from across the room with glass in hand.
In my teens & twenties, I drank strawberry daiquiris, whiskey sours, white russians. Raising young children in my thirties and early forties, there were no cocktails, as our children were the sort requiring the most alert attention humanly possible. When the children finished college, we traveled with them and with our friends and we all drank all the fancy, famous house cocktails at all the restaurants and bars before our meal. That was fun. But now I just prefer something much plainer, though it isn’t unusual for us to have mimosas with breakfast on the weekends at home, if it’s going to be a lazy day.
Didn’t make me a non-drinker, but to this day I can’t stand peppermint ANYTHING, even gum, lifesavers, or candy canes…
If you’ve ever had a Ruby Relaxer at Ruby Tuesday’s, you know that they’re delish! I learned the recipe for those, and also know how sneaky strong they are. The other moms at D’s college grad party, they did not know…
I am mainly a bourbon guy so my go to is just a bourbon, neat. In the summer months we buy Buffalo Trace Bourbon cream and make an adult root beer float. 2oz of Bourbon Cream, 4 oz of rootbeer over ice. They say its also good over a scoop of vanilla ice cream but we haven’t tied that yet. My other go to mixed drink is an Old Fashion.
I am not a whiskey drinker. An unfortunate incident in my teen years with Crown Royal at a Peter Frampton concert turned me off forever.
We went to an Indian restaurant the other night and they had a mojito made with OJ and Cranberry juice. Very refreshing. A friend at work brought me some mint from her garden (I seriously kill even plants that grow like weeds!). May have to experiment tonight.
I’ll admit I’m not a chemist and it’s been more decades than I care to admit since I even attended a chem class, but…I’m pretty sure water is a solvent.
Ooh peppermint. Many decades ago my Mum and I went on a vacation together to Corfu and arrived to find out hotel was double booked. They put us in a ghastly hotel in a room above the hotel AC rooms or something and every time the machines started up the whole room would shake. We downed a bottle of creme de menthe between us that night. Have never drank it since. Maybe the hangover took out minds off the bed bug bites we woke up with.
Memories!
Sprite, fresh lime juice, maraschino cherry juice!
Water is a solvent, but most organic chemists don’t refer to it as such. 
I should’ve clarified for non-chemists that I meant “organic solvent.” Like ethanol, even diluted.
I finally finished the bottle of vodka a friend gave us. It has been sitting in my freezer for close to 15 years! Vodka makes great pie crusts, so every Thanksgiving I used a little for a pie. That said, I would not mind a glass of good Zinfandel or Chardonnay.
I keep a small amount of vodka in my freezer permanently for pies. Back when I had menstrual cramps I used to drink it mixed with orange juice, but thankfully having babies totally cured the cramps. I rarely have a cocktail except the occasional Kir at home. Drink a lot of wine though!
Pies?
Cook’s illustrated foolproof pie dough recipe:
https://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2007/11/cooks-illustrated-foolproof-pie-dough-recipe.html
^^Best crust, according to my family. The evaporating alcohol makes the pie crust airy, so it melts in the mouth. Yumm!!
I have been taking notes from this thread, and have two or three things that I intend to try out (including the pie crust). Thanks to everyone for the good ideas.
My favorite cocktail is something that I made up myself. However, I expect that it probably exists already under a different name. It consists of:
- one part blueberry vodka
- one part cranberry juice
- two parts pink lemonade
- (optional) a splash of blueberry liquor
I just added the last ingredient last night. It seemed to go well. The whole thing can be served with ice, particularly on a hot day.
I have been slow posting this because I am a bit concerned that my name for it might be politically incorrect. The first two ingredients and the optional blueberry liquor to me are pretty obvious “New England” specialties, and that is where we live. The pink lemonade to me is sort of southern. The entire drink is refreshing, but has a bit of a “sweet” taste to it. The obvious name for the drink is therefore “New England Sweety”.
I love a French 75 made with cognac.
There are so many good cocktails out there and I’m too lazy to make most of them at home. I do make frozen watermelon and lime daiquiris though, in the summer. I freeze chunks of watermelon and don’t use any ice, so the flavor is great! My blender probably hates it though, it is torturously thick.
You want an unfortunate surprise. Drink a bottle of Goldschlager with a group of your best friends. Getting sick and Gold particulates. Not pretty. lol.
Oh my, I need to try vodka in pie crust! It also makes me wonder how flavored vodka would work. I’m imagining lemon vodka in pie crust for a blueberry pie. Sounds yummy to me.
I’m not much into distilled alcohol. But I do enjoy 100% rice sake on ice, very refreshing. A soft wine like buzz.