Drinkin' Old-Fashioneds.... anybody else like the old drinks?

[Dookus]

Manhattans, Cosmopolitans, etc....

My best bud and I love 'em. He was at a function a few weeks ago and ordered an old fashioned. the bartender had no idea, and when my friend told him to muddle an orange and a cherry in some simple syrup, the bartender went back to the kitchen and came out with a can of MAPLE syrup! LOL...

Anyway, I'm drinking an old fashioned right now. I was a bartender in my youth at my college and did all the faculty functions, so I learned all the good old drinks.

Nowadays, kids are drinking crown-royal and redbull (not nearly as bad as it sounds) but drinks sure have changed!

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1. How 'bout a seven-layer Pousse Cafe

and dookus, really, you MUST use the term *cocktails*

[ronzo]

2. Pousse cafe...

Very New Orleans.

[Dookus]

3. heheh yeah, you're righ

cocktails.

There WAS a time when I knew how to make a pousse cafe, but I was never called upon to make one.

I used to love the little old ladies who drank grasshoppers. They were always cool. Martini drinkers were the worst.

My best customer ever was a sweet woman who ordered a Kir, which is white wine and Creme de Cassis. I made her drink, she drank it and returned the glass to to the bar and tipped me. it was only as I was cleaning up I realized I'd grabbed the creme de cacao instead of the creme de cassis. And she drank it without complaint and tipped me. Either she was really really nice or liked chocolate wine.

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7. Martinis are coming of age again

a dry martini with a big-ass olive is very satisfying (although a bit too intoxicating)

[ronzo]

10. Here's one. Pousse Cafe.

Don't try this at home. Or do, good luck.

Pousse Cafe

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13. "A man's not drunk if he can lay on the floor without holding on."

Great quote!

[Dookus]

14. I heard

Dean Martin say that. Did he originate it?

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

4. It was my aunt's favorite drink

Last month at her funeral, everyone had manhattans...hate 'em..not real big on alcohol here....but had a small sip in honor of aunt Max.

[kskiska]

5. A guy I dated years ago, back in the 70s

introduced me to Harvey Wallbangers. Pretty good. I remember drinking a lot of Vodka Collinses, too. Another thing we used to drink was Cherry Kiafa (a Danish liqueur-type thing) with ginger ale.

[Dookus]

8. ah yes, the Harvey Wallbanger...

I think that was more of a 60's drink. A screwdriver with a float of Galliano (which tastes like postage-stamp glue by itself. The Harvey Wallbanger is the ONLY drink it's used in!)

I love the old 40's and 50's cocktails.

As I said, I worked for the University bar (mostly faculty and admin) and at a country club. My favorite trick was when somebody ordered a REALLY REALLY REALLY dry martini. I'd pour the vermouth into a bar spoon, toss the contents over my shoulder, stick the spoon quickly into the glass and add the gin. They always loved that.

But as I said, martini drinkers were always annoying.

The funniest was the drunk who kept coming up to the bar with his coffee cup and asking for a double-scotch. He said his wife didn't know he drank. I'm guessing after his eighth drink, she figured it out ;)

[AntiCoup2K4]

6. I like one of the oldest drinks..... Beer

Invented in mesopotamia one Hell of a long time ago. :beer:

maybe this explains Bush Jr's real beef with Saddam Hussein.

That bastard's great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great grandaddy invented that damn beer and made me an alcoholic until I turned 40! Let's get him!!

[frustrated_lefty]

9. Cardhu,

a single malt scotch, is my preference for special occasions. None of this "Glen 49th street" crap.

[Spider Jerusalem]

11. Ah...

The Manhattan, the Sidecar, the classic martini, the Sazerac, the original Blody Mary (gin, not vodka, and lemon, no celery...wtf is up with the celery, anyway?) A lot of the older drinks ARE better with rye instead of the now-popular bourbon, too, but rye can be hard to find in some places, sadly...

[Dookus]

12. yes...

I was just discussing that yesterday with my bud. The good Rye's are mostly gone. I don't much regret it, because I prefer Bourbon.

In fact, we were drinking Jim Beam manhattans last night. I guess there's still Canadian Club....

ps: btw...what's a Sazerac? Never heard of that one.

[Spider Jerusalem]

18. The Sazerac's one of the earliest cocktails...

dates to the 1970's, the Sazerac Bar in New Orleans, from whence it takes its name. Rye, Pernod, Peychaud's Bitters and simple syrup (better tan it sounds...)

[Midwest_Doc]

24. Sazerac History

The original New Orleans Sazerac used absinthe instead of Pernod. The cocktail, invented in the 1800's, was made popular in the Sazerac Lounge of the Roosevelt Hotel (now Fairmont) on Canal Street.

[ronzo]

16. Rye?

cool book.

[Robb]

26. Really?

The original Bloody Mary was a gin drink? I'll have to tell Mrs. Robb; she makes them that way and named them herself after Margaret Thatcher - "Bloody Maggie". ;)

Haven't seen the gimlet mentioned so far.... this is my before-dinner cocktail of choice. Up if I'm out, rocks at home.

[politicat]

15. Gin and Tonic or a Brandy Manhattan or Campari and Soda

Which means I don't drink at clubs often.

The gin has to be Bombay or better - Mother's ruin makes my liver sit next to me and demand alimony.

The Brandy has to be a good VSO.

And no one, not even goth clubs where the kiddies and batlings want to pretend they're blood drinkers, carries campari anymore. It's all Cherry pucker.

My grandmother tends bar at the Moose and has since I was an infant (I'm 28 now, the child of two young mothers) so I grew up learning what was in a drink and how to make them properly.

But these strange concoctions of blue curacao and vodka... those aren't martinis. Mixed drink, yes.... but it's nto the glass.

*sigh*

Politicat, off in search of her good bottle of gin.

[Dookus]

17. ahh...

blue curacao.... always loved it. Blue Hawaiian, I believe, was Vodka, grapefruit and blue curacao. Yummy...

Never liked Gin at all. Couldn't stand the stuff - smells like perfume and couldn't even drink it. Brandy, too, was never a favorite of mine.

I liked vodka, bourbon and scotch, and all the variants thereof.

I think good vodka and blue curacao shaken over rocks and poured up might be pretty tasty.

[frustrated_lefty]

19. Not that I like it,

but are there any purveyors of Absinthe in the house?

[VOX]

20. I started on Whiskey Sours...

Do those even exist anymore?

:toast:

[Dookus]

21. sure they do...

it's my boyfriend's favorite drink. It was also my mother's favorite drink. Hrmm.....

[grasswire]

22. it's very hard to get a well made drink in a bar

It used to be that nice hotel bars were reliable, but that isn't even so now. I drink very little, but if I am out where people are ordering drinks I will order a Tanqueray and Schweppes with lots of lime. Unfortunately, the tonic is usually flat and the lime is a tiny slice that wasn't even squeezed into the drink. I could make it lots, lots better at home.

I like old fashioneds, too. And Smith & Kearns. And I like a real margarita, shaken with ice and strained into a glass. Not blended. I still remember my first margarita, in Los Angeles' Olvera Street, old town.

Gee, I'd have a drink now, but the only alcohol in the house is a small bottle of Cointreau that's four years old and left over from crepes suzette.

[Ellen Forradalom]

27. Mmmmm, whisky sours

I got sloshed at a friend's wedding on those. Yummmmm.

[Padraig18]

23. "Brown mumblers", a/k/a...

Manhattans, are my favorite mixed drink. I also like a classic 'Bombay Dry' martini (7:1) with just a splash of olive juice.

[trof]

25. My Christmas drink.

Scotch Old Fashioned.
For some reason I only drink them during the holiday season.

[Ellen Forradalom]

28. I knew how to mix an old fashioned by the time I was 11

My parents were alcoholics (long since recovered, thankfully.) I still tease my mother about it.