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Sandwich Anarchist posted:Ok my dude Anyways...is the Henry box brown really just 12yr rum and grape juice? With that and the Bookers Manhattan it seems like he’s relying on high quality spirits to improve poor recipe balance.
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The Maestro posted:Anyways...is the Henry box brown really just 12yr rum and grape juice? With that and the Bookers Manhattan it seems like he’s relying on high quality spirits to improve poor recipe balance. 15 year El Dorado specifically, unless they’re putting out fake recipes to mess with people. Which is probably more douchey than just being a bad bartender. A recent Yelp review says the drinks often have a poor balance or excessive alcohol taste, in addition to rude staff. Halloween Jack posted:Oh God, I hate bars like this. Every time you turn around, someone's fighting Benny Urquidez in the hallway. The worst part is they legit have some of the best cocktails in town. The owners are part of the Dave Arnold school so they always have creative drinks with acid-adjusted orange juice, centrifuges, etc. None of my bartender friends can understand why such a skilled mixologist would ruin one of the best bars in Orlando by encouraging doing coke inside.
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Sep 13, 2019 02:14
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The drink tastes like rubbing alcohol. The grape juice just accentuates the alcoholic bite of the rum, it's terrible.
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Sep 13, 2019 02:43
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Toast Museum posted:When you say to shake all ingredients, does that include the Malta? Not trying to be pedantic; I haven't tried shaking egg white with soda, but I can imagine it frothing up pretty well. Yup and it does froth quite a bit with the foam sticking around for the duration thanks to the yolk. The lime is rather transformative and leaves the Malta and rum meshing to a neat flavor structure. I liked it enough that I'll be keeping some of the little bottles around in the bar.
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Sep 13, 2019 03:12
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Sandwich Anarchist posted:The drink tastes like rubbing alcohol. The grape juice just accentuates the alcoholic bite of the rum, it's terrible. That definitely matches the one review.
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Sep 13, 2019 03:33
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Well, I tried, but it’s hard to argue for going to a bar when the drinks aren’t up to par. I still think it’s beautiful, and it was a fun experience, but that’s probably because I walked a mile in the rain with my dad to get there. Like the drink, it seems to be more about the story than the quality.
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Sep 13, 2019 04:40
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The Maestro posted:Well, I tried, but it’s hard to argue for going to a bar when the drinks aren’t up to par. I still think it’s beautiful, and it was a fun experience, but that’s probably because I walked a mile in the rain with my dad to get there. Like I said, I've been to a lot of bars. I travel regularly for work and pleasure and have spent at least one night visiting bars and restaurants in 13 states. I've been to 5 bars on the 50 Best Bars list and some others that are no longer on it, as well as bars that I consider to have drinks on par or even above them in quality; at this point I think I can say that my favorite hometown bars in Orlando and Sanford are on par with the "50 Best Bars" and are only not on the list because they lack the industry connections to get the necessary attention from the right people. What I've quickly realized is that there's a plateau to how good a drink can be. If you make a classic cocktail with the right proportions and method, the choice of spirit and exact nuances of your method will have little influence on the final quality. Drinks with more unusual or rare ingredients like housemade infusions and bitters or Dave Arnold's scientific methods can create drinks that break rules and create new tastes, but they're rarely "better" than the established classics, just different and open to individual preferences. I love the Toki Lowball at Existing Conditions, but I'd still take a Sazerac with rye from Bitters & Brass near my house over it. What happens is that your choice of bar becomes one of customer service, with an emphasis on character and kindness. Assuming drink quality is equal, your enjoyment will hinge on the people around you. Bitters & Brass in Sanford is my favorite bar not just because their drinks are top notch on a national level, but because the people working there have become my friends over a year of regular visits. I stop in on slow nights and spend hours talking to the bartenders on duty that night about our lives and recent food and drink experiences. I've been a taste tester for a green tea-infused gin cocktail that one of the owners was working on because there were no visitors for almost 2 hours and he was only there to wait on an ice delivery. One night I pulled up a mid-century cocktail that was very unbalanced due to excessive Chartreuse and the co-owner and Sandwich Anarchist competed over the Internet to create their recipes fixing it with me judging the cocktails. It's the first place I bring friends and coworkers to when we need a drink, and I always feel like I'm at home there. By comparison, the bars downtown have a lot of problems despite having drinks that are objectively as good or better. The Robinson Room ruins an otherwise excellent bar with pro-drug imagery that encourages a rich guy version of the drunk dude starting fights and molesting women. Hanson's Shoe Repair has a password to get in and has awesome drinks, but will refuse to give proportions even for drinks that are already available online and won't kick out toxic customers for fear of losing money. The downtown bars also have a much worse crowd than Sanford but I don't fault them because Orlando drunks are loving insane. Like, my friends have almost gotten stabbed and barbacks have been robbed at gunpoint taking out the trash. So Hop Sing already gets strikes against it for its attitude. So many people have corroborated accounts that they're abrasive and rude at the best of times. The owner is not just a douchebag, but seems to relish in the pleasure of banning undesirables and has made the ease of banning people practically a tourist attraction. Even if the drinks were awesome, an environment where everyone is staring at customers for a reason to permanently ban them and even getting aggressive and assaulting people (according to at least one review) isn't one that anybody should visit. The fact that the drinks aren't that great just makes it a shithead paradise.
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Sep 13, 2019 05:13
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Can't they all exist? bars you go to just once for "the experience" bars you go to when you feel like drinking heavily for cheap bars that play the music you like bars you go to see a familiar face bars you go to because they're nearby bars with cool/interesting/attractive staff bars with awesome happy hour bars you take clients to bars you REALLY like but can only afford to go to once a year bars with amazing drinks bars you go to meet new people In my experience, no single bar ticks all of those boxes. Nobody needs to finger a single "favorite" bar.
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Sep 13, 2019 05:53
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Philly update: I ended up not finishing work and driving into town until 8:30. Went to Sarvida first for dinner, BYOB'ed a can of Hell or High Watermelon from Murph's bar. After dinner went to R&D and had two excellent cocktails:   Thank you all for recommendations! I'm wiped out or I would have visited more places!
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Sep 13, 2019 06:12
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I actually like Pastels, but they don't have a good bathroom to do coke in.
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Sep 13, 2019 15:16
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Some of the best drinks I've had were at dive bars with bored bartenders. I know a local whiskey/dive that had some amazing bartenders there. They up and left and started their own bar and took all their recipes with them. Best drat whiskey sours I've ever had hands down. No bars that I've seen that encourages doing blow tho 
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Sep 13, 2019 18:39
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Caught a chill while reading so whipped up a gin toddy of Beefeater, lemon, sugar, and hot water from the kettle before making a pot of tea. In hindsight, I have some honey gin made in Vermont I should have used but is good nonetheless.
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Sep 14, 2019 23:37
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I've been making a shitton of kombucha and am wanting to booze it up a bit. Other then the obvious infuse ginger and use it as a replacement for ginger beer, what're some good drinks?
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Sep 15, 2019 21:27
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Submarine Sandpaper posted:I've been making a shitton of kombucha and am wanting to booze it up a bit. Other then the obvious infuse ginger and use it as a replacement for ginger beer, what're some good drinks? What flavor kombucha?
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Sep 15, 2019 23:43
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Sandwich Anarchist posted:What flavor kombucha? I also have some pom and peach syrup for quick flavorings. Good to make whatever flavor though. Submarine Sandpaper fucked around with this message at 21:04 on Sep 18, 2019 |
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Sep 18, 2019 16:32
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Went to a hard kombucha bar the other day and tasted a basil infused 'bucha. It made us hungry for some Italian food. Very weird.
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Sep 18, 2019 20:44
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Don't drink a gallon of the stuff. (Oh yeah I've been making apple too.) It was either that or some raw? sausage that made me regret the previous day's choices. /e- haven't been making hard but gonna start! Submarine Sandpaper fucked around with this message at 21:11 on Sep 18, 2019 |
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Sep 18, 2019 21:04
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Submarine Sandpaper posted:/e- haven't been making hard but gonna start! Stop talking about your poo
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Not to sure where hard 'bucha falls under in the booze. Is it a wine? Is it like distilling liquor? Or similar to homebrewin some beer? What kinda cocktails can ya even make with is? 'Bucha mimosas? My cousin-in-law recently turned 21 and discovered Jager Bombs. He had a much better time then I did for sure, but he kept bringing out 2 for me and him and I couldn't disappoint ! I'm not old! I swear! *has hangover for 3 days*
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Sep 19, 2019 18:47
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I'd put hard kombucha closest to homebrewing beer
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ShortyMR.CAT posted:Not to sure where hard 'bucha falls under in the booze. Is it a wine? Is it like distilling liquor? Or similar to homebrewin some beer? What kinda cocktails can ya even make with is? 'Bucha mimosas?
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Sounds pretty good. My only issue is that I really do enjoy hard kombucha, but regular kombucha from the store is just gross to me. I figured gin and or vodka would make for a good way to booze up a drink. It's pretty much the go-to to booze up most anything really.Sandwich Anarchist posted:I'd put hard kombucha closest to homebrewing beer Makes sense
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Most store booches are pasteurized so they don't blow and it makes them ironically blowWhalley posted:2oz gin, 1oz campari, 5oz kombucha, and a touch of lemon and ginger juice is loving stunningly juicy. Also I know there's a cocktail called a Swedish Tart that's basically a shot of vodka, a shot of dill syrup, and fill with a green tea 'booch; a bar near me served it a while back, but I never wound up ordering the thing, I just took a photo of the menu. ty
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The distillery said to make an old fashioned with this one, so I did. It's great! Ask Weltlich for more info! 
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Sep 21, 2019 00:30
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trip report: a few szechuan peppercorns, crushed, work to give that twang to a bloody mary if you run out of horseradish!
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I've been making mojitos with about an ounce of rum and half a can of lime White Claw each. Along with the rest of the canonical ingredients. They're actually amazing. I'm using some white Havana Club rum I brought back from Europe. Also i store the rum in the freezer to get a little less ice melt action going. What's the closest/best alternative to Havana Club in the US? poo poo is gonna run out. I've heard good things about Caña Brava. I'm well versed in rum but I'm usually buying different style bottles for tiki drinks.
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Sep 30, 2019 20:04
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I personally think cana brava tastes like rubbing alchohol
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Sep 30, 2019 20:24
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I've been using Flor de Caña Extra Seco, but I have to work with what's actually available in my area.
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Sep 30, 2019 20:28
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I dont know if they still make Caña brava, but that doesn’t mean you can’t find it. I’ve enjoyed it. Diplomatico is a good choice, for anything
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Sep 30, 2019 20:42
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I'm a Mount Gay kinda guy myself. I'm also a Malibu and Sailor Jerry guy. So take my recommendations with a grain of salt here.
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ShortyMR.CAT posted:I'm a Mount Gay kinda guy myself. I'm also a Malibu and Sailor Jerry guy. So take my recommendations with a grain of salt here. I love Mount gay extra old for sipping and am sad I finished my bottle and haven't had the wherewithal to replace it.
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kirtar posted:I've been using Flor de Caña Extra Seco, but I have to work with what's actually available in my area. Seconded, especially since they've apparently cleaned up their labor practices in the last few years. Excellent Cuban-style white rum.
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I am so glad it's morally defensible to buy Flor de Caña again. Their Extra Seco is so good and so, so cheap. The four-year is a crazy value for the quality as well. Speaking of, I'm also loving Denizen's new Vatted Dark. It's a hundred-proof 80/20 blend of vat-distilled aged Guyana rum and unaged agricole. Spicy and high-toned from the agricole, with a rich cola-syrup backbone. $26 in Atlanta. Recommended.
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Does anyone have a favorite bitters making guide? I want to make a pine bitters for my brother who likes both of those things. I have an isi whipper if that makes infusion easier or more effective.
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Quick opinions of some store bought egg nog? I know there's a thread about making nog, but gently caress that poo poo. I'm lazy. I just wanna buy premade bottles and if need be add more booze to some nogs. Thinkin bout the upcoming holidays and as per tradition (that I started a year ago) I make a large quantity of booze. Last year was a hot cider/tottie
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homemade eggnog is pretty quick and easy and far superior to storebought stuff, so i can't rightly recommend any store bought brand (the only brand i kinda like is local to me so would be a worthless suggestion anyway)
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Nog is not my jam but I remember liking the Trader Joe's carton my wife got.
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Oct 8, 2019 16:35
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If you do decide to do your own nog, and you should, everyone and their mother-in-law swears by the Alton Brown Aged Egg Nog recipe.
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Thing is, I have very limited fridge space during the holidays. My house is grandmas house which is THEE house for holiday shenanigans (before everyone goes home to their houses of course) So between having turkeys, hams, pies, and a million tamales. I can't really squeeze some Nog jars in there. Maybe one day I'll try it out.slut chan posted:If you do decide to do your own nog, and you should, everyone and their mother-in-law swears by the Alton Brown Aged Egg Nog recipe. Coolio, I'll keep a look out. I'm also interested in non-alcoholic nogs that I'll probably booze up somehow.
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So I'm not sure where to even begin, but I figured I'd start here: I'm trying to obtain https://www.thewhiskyexchange.com/p/3248/lapponia-cloudberry-liqueur-lakka for a christmas gift (or maybe not that specific brand but it's gotta have cloudberries), but it won't deliver to the states. I don't know if I just call up liquor stores or what, it's on amazon.uk so I figure it can't be that rare? Any ideas/advice would be appreciated
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