What are you drinking tonight?

[EdHeart]

Found the recipe while browsing around , named the Neon Experience

Ingredients:

1 muddled baby cucumber
60 ml Gin
20 ml Lemon Juice
20 ml Agave Syrup

Refreshing for sure just a bit to sweet for me. I guess a cucumber gimlet tomorrow is in order

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Former barman here. Sugar and its related cousins, IMHO are to be added only in such quantity as to enhance flavors and smoothe edges. This goal, that is the amount of sweet added needs to be judicious, to taste, and for the most part different for every pallate. I do not like sweet. I discovered that like salt, sweet can enhance significantly, lifting flavors without being obstrusive.

You might like the drink better with half or more less agave.

One last thought, sorry, I'm such a geek for this...

Make a simple syrup of any sweet you're going to use. Agave and honey do not play nicely in cold drinks, they seize if not made into a looser construction as in a one-to-one water:honey/agave/sugar. Or if you've guests that lean in the direction of sweeter; a heavy syrup which is 2:1. water:sweet.

 

[EdHeart]

Another German fave: Fruhe Kolsch (no hating on my choice of glassware. Love these jars!)

 

[Bobovata]

Recently had my first taste of one of the better Australian gins, the Rare Dry from Four Pillars distillery. Mixed with 50/50 tonic water & water, plus ice.

A somewhat different taste from traditional gins, less juniper and more citrus. But very nice.

 

[FL shaver]

Blackberry bourbon smash to start last evening out…

 

[La Malice]

Former barman here. Sugar and its related cousins, IMHO are to be added only in such quantity as to enhance flavors and smoothe edges. This goal, that is the amount of sweet added needs to be judicious, to taste, and for the most part different for every pallate. I do not like sweet. I discovered that like salt, sweet can enhance significantly, lifting flavors without being obstrusive.

You might like the drink better with half or more less agave.

One last thought, sorry, I'm such a geek for this...

Make a simple syrup of any sweet you're going to use. Agave and honey do not play nicely in cold drinks, they seize if not made into a looser construction as in a one-to-one water:honey/agave/sugar. Or if you've guests that lean in the direction of sweeter; a heavy syrup which is 2:1. water:sweet.

Thank you.

I decided to follow the recipe to a t and on the first sip was like hum, not sour enough.

 

[La Malice]

Sidecar , after a few month of Calvados Sidecar, I got a bottle of cognac and switch to the more usual Sidecar variant.

 

[EdHeart]

Thank you.

I decided to follow the recipe to a t and on the first sip was like hum, not sour enough.

And you were right to follow the recipe as written: the only way to know really. Besides, the fun is in the experience and the experimenting.

 

[Sergio1703]

 

[FL shaver]

Aviation. Light cocktail this summer eve.

 

[La Malice]

I decided to get a taste of home. Only available at the distillery which is my hometown. The future ex wife was there a few weeks back and picked up a bottle of only available there stuff, I hope for 1888 bottle but I shall see, whenever she has the time to drop it.

 

[Chandu]

Bog standard of Sauvignon Blanc aka Kim Crawford. For all I know it's the Busch Lite of Sauvignon Blanc

 

[Herrenberg]

Bog standard of Sauvignon Blanc aka Kim Crawford. For all I know it's the Busch Lite of Sauvignon Blanc

One could do a LOT worse. For example, the "Fume Blanc" overoaked Sauv Blanc wines of California.

 

[noodles hovar]

Found the recipe while browsing around , named the Neon Experience

Ingredients:

1 muddled baby cucumber
60 ml Gin
20 ml Lemon Juice
20 ml Agave Syrup

Refreshing for sure just a bit to sweet for me. I guess a cucumber gimlet tomorrow is in order

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When my wife is a bit confused would it be OK if I said "What's the matter, my muddled baby cucumber?"

 

[tejolot3]

Made a whiskey ginger yesterday afternoon:

7½ oz — Canada Dry ginger ale
2¼ oz — Old Overholt rye whiskey
1½ oz — lemon juice
½ oz — Pierre Ferrand dry curaçao

 

[La Malice]

When my wife is a bit confused would it be OK if I said "What's the matter, my muddled baby cucumber?"

how comfy is your couch ? Is the basement fully finished ? Just asking so that you can cover your base man

 

[rostern]

Rare Breed barrel strength bourbon and a few drops of water.

 

[The Count of Merkur Cristo]

Paul:
Tonight...I'm enjoying a Asbach snifter' (
(straight...no ice but a little distilled water), glass or two of;

Asbach Uralt...so smooth & mellow (might even become my Brandy of choice)!

"Keep your friends close and your brandy even closer" Old Brandy Proverb

 

[Quaznoid]

Ice cold Sapporo

 

[tejolot3]

Found the recipe while browsing around , named the Neon Experience

Ingredients:

1 muddled baby cucumber
60 ml Gin
20 ml Lemon Juice
20 ml Agave Syrup

Refreshing for sure just a bit to sweet for me. I guess a cucumber gimlet tomorrow is in order

It's basically a gin sour already, just not well balanced. Try this instead:

1 baby cucumber, sliced and muddled (or just half of one, then snack on the other half)
60 ml gin
30 ml freshly squeezed lemon juice
15 ml agave syrup
shake with ice and strain into well-chilled glass

This should work well with most any gin. However, I'd caution you away from citrus-bomb gins, as most of their flavor profile will disappear into the lemon juice. Preferable would be something spicy or floral, or a classic London dry.

 

[noodles hovar]

how comfy is your couch ? Is the basement fully finished ? Just asking so that you can cover your base man

The doghouse has AC