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Snow Cone Capone posted:(seriouspost maybe next time i'm in NYC but not a lot of good cocktail spots out in the suburbs) It doesn't need to be a particularly good cocktail spot, any place with a full bar will have Chartreuse, and ordering a green Chartreuse on the rocks for dessert is a hell of a move.
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Kevin DuBrow posted:I searched this thread for recipes using Midori but couldn't find much. Other than a Midori sour is there anything that it goes well with? Pineapple and rum?
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Somebody tell me I’m a fuckin idiot because I got obsessed with clear ice over the last 6 months and have now perfected my clear ice but now I want one of these: Brass Ice Stamp but I also don’t want to spend $200 when I can buy more alcohol with it. I don’t want an ice stamp but I want something I can lay ice down like this, does anybody have anything that’s a little cheaper?
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Sep 28, 2022 06:48
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That doesn’t even seem that expensive. A 1’ long 4” wide 3/8” thick piece of lead free brass is $150 on McMaster-Carr. Check AliExpress maybe? edit: lol US $54.60 30％ Off | Bar Ice Stamp Brass Ice Plate Honeycomb Ice Mold Branding DIY Cocktails Whiskey Ice Printing Stamping Bar Tools Carving Icecube https://a.aliexpress.com/_mNHbq8o
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Sep 28, 2022 07:09
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Kevin DuBrow posted:I searched this thread for recipes using Midori but couldn't find much. Other than a Midori sour is there anything that it goes well with? Don't know if my post was one of the ones you found, but Human Tornada posted:How about a Basic Beach
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Sep 28, 2022 11:30
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Those are cool. Do you need to apply any heat or just set them on there for a bit? I recently got the owner of our company excited about clear ice and he bought an insulated mold. I might cut our logo into a piece of brass for him as a gift.
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Sep 28, 2022 11:35
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No heat required, generally. My local place (currently closed due to a fire this summer, sadly) has/had these big copper sphere makers. Just gravity and copper. They're massive and beautiful. With highly (heat) conductive metals, just contact and pressure does all the work.
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Sep 28, 2022 11:40
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Chemmy posted:That doesn’t even seem that expensive. A 1’ long 4” wide 3/8” thick piece of lead free brass is $150 on McMaster-Carr. haha more like I've already been made fun of for spending $50+ on a clear ice cube maker but this might take the cake Might as well buy it and support smaller businesses, it's that or another 4 bottles of smith and cross
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Sep 28, 2022 16:55
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Personally I wouldn’t be buying metal food products off of AliExpress unless I was confident in my ability to confirm their composition.
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Sep 28, 2022 16:57
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adnam posted:haha more like I've already been made fun of for spending $50+ on a clear ice cube maker but this might take the cake Just a hypothetical, nothing to do with me at all.
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Sep 28, 2022 17:02
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Strange Matter posted:What would one look for if one were interested in clear ice cubes even though one's wife already thinks one's obsession with phat ice cubes is silly. Great question! If you have a lot of freezer space you can DIY with a cooler but that took up too much room and I don't like chipping at large ice blocks if I can help it If you're like me and the missus has graciously allowed all use of a top shelf, I purchased On The Rocks Ice Maker which does pretty well for my usually self or self+1 needs. I just use hot tap water and it has yielded pretty great clear ice for the last year or so. There's a lot of similar/cheaper ones and honestly the basic principle is the same so you could theoretically get away with the generic version of the above
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Sep 28, 2022 17:22
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Similarly, I was gifted this one, and like it a lot. It's very clear, which is nice, and looks great in the glass. Also check your local area, before I got that, occasionally I'd put an order in at a local ice spot, they might do residential and it's not cheap, but it's fun for special occasions. Plus they'll do spears!
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Carillon posted:Similarly, I was gifted this one, and like it a lot. It's very clear, which is nice, and looks great in the glass. Also check your local area, before I got that, occasionally I'd put an order in at a local ice spot, they might do residential and it's not cheap, but it's fun for special occasions. Plus they'll do spears! I also have this ice mold and it works a treat. Takes two days to make four cubes, but it’s much cheaper than most of the alternatives and produces a higher quality cube to boot. Plus, you can use the excess opaque ice it creates for stirring and shaking.
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Sep 28, 2022 19:16
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Anonymous Robot posted:I also have this ice mold and it works a treat. Takes two days to make four cubes, but it’s much cheaper than most of the alternatives and produces a higher quality cube to boot. Plus, you can use the excess opaque ice it creates for stirring and shaking. I have this dream of using the massive left-over opaque ice for a giant holiday punch float at a holiday party or something similar but who am I kidding, I have 1 friend and 3 cats so it's pretty much just me crying into my fancily decorated punchbowl every Thanksgiving Anyways I bought Giffard's Liquer du Banagne and made a bunch of banana rum old fashioneds and banana daiquiris. I actually drank a little bit over ice cause it was surprisingly tasty.
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Sep 28, 2022 20:26
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Get a dog. Walk the dog. Meet other people with dogs. Talk to other people with dogs. If you like the other people with dogs, invite them over to make them a yummy cocktail. Make friends. As an adult, I'd struggled to make new friends in a new area. But accidentally falling into those instructions above worked really well.
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Sep 28, 2022 20:37
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adnam posted:I have this dream of using the massive left-over opaque ice for a giant holiday punch float at a holiday party or something similar but who am I kidding, I have 1 friend and 3 cats so it's pretty much just me crying into my fancily decorated punchbowl every Thanksgiving I have a similar problem where I throw parties with carefully considered themed cocktails that I do advanced prepwork on and then my friends all come over and drink PBR all night anyways.
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Anonymous Robot posted:I have a similar problem where I throw parties with carefully considered themed cocktails that I do advanced prepwork on and then my friends all come over and drink PBR all night anyways. I made my dad limoncello a couple years ago after he came back from Italy dripping in the stuff. Sous-vide, hand-carved organic lemons, rich syrup the whole monty and poured into little ikea glass bottles w/ a nice label to boot. I visited him a week later and he had poured the individual bottles into a 7-11 big gulp and added some ice and asked me if I wanted some.  My other favorite friends who don't appreciate cocktails story is when I had pre-batched tiki cocktails and came back to people pouring them 1:1 w/ soda because 'they were too strong', that one was great
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Sep 28, 2022 20:47
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*gets poured shot of macallan 25, chugs it*
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Imma make a Last Word tonight, over ice 
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Data Graham posted:*gets poured shot of macallan 25, chugs it* My mother in law did a shot of 2 oz of Louis the XIII about a year ago. In her defense, nobody told her exactly what it was (but the vintage crystal goblet was a good tell, imho), but she's great, so we just poured her another one. For all you Costco-ites, I recently found this stocked near me Kirkland Signature Islay Single-Malt and for sub $40 it's a fantastic deal. Great neat, or as a highball.
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prayer group posted:. You might try replacing half the vermouth in a Manhattan with it, and balance its richness with a spicy high-proof rye as the base spirit. Oh hey that's not half-bad with rye, thank you!
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Right on! Glad that worked for you. Let this be a lesson to y'all! Instead of just straight 1:1 subbing when trying to make a new bottle work in a drink, make like a gymnast and do the splits. Split the bitter part of a Negroni between the Campari and another amaro. Split the vermouth part with a sherry. Hell, split the gin part with something crazy. Gin and Jamaican white rum work impossibly well together in many contexts. Could an apple brandy Negroni be good? Why not find out? Get weird! A big part in getting good at making cocktails is understanding why things don't work, so let your failures be as constructive as your successes. prayer group fucked around with this message at 07:49 on Sep 29, 2022 |
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Waltzing Along posted:Get a cask of Amontillado. Fixed that for you.
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How long does a cask of amontillado last once tapped? Asking for a friend...
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I have rabbits because I like drinking alone
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Mr. Wiggles posted:How long does a cask of amontillado last once tapped? Asking for a friend... Just get a delicious cask of Madeira, it’s already fully oxidized.
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I made a thing, but I feel it needs some tweaking: 4 - milk 1 - mr black 1 - creme de cacao 1/2 - hersheys syrup The drink ended up too chocolately. I think the syrup should have been 1/4 at most. But it also seems like it could be tweaked more.
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Uhhhhh just go down to 1/1/1 milk/coffee liqueur/cacao and you'll have something in between a Mudslide and a White Russian. What you've made is chocolate milk that also happens to have some liquor in it.
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I wouldn't use the syrup at all, Mr Black is already chocolateyish, creme de cacao emphasizes it, and the syrup just is too much. I also don't like drinking straight milk, esp not 4 oz, but I guess you're specifically aiming for a milkshake vibe? My own drink would be 1.5 oz Mr black 1 oz bourbon 1 oz half and half .5 oz sweet vermouth (carpano antica) .25 oz creme de cacao But that's a dessert cocktail, not a milkshake. If I had to do milkshake: 3 oz milk 1.5 oz Mr black .75 oz sweet.vermouth .25 oz creme de cacao .25 oz creme de.menthe 1 drop vanilla extract Shake with ice, garnish with one more small drop of extract.
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I feel like any time I try to make a fancy cocktail that has coffee liqueur and dairy, it just turns out to be a slightly different (worse) White Russian. Probably should just embrace it I guess
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Pander posted:3 oz milk I think I'll try this next. And I have everything on hand including the opened, slowly dying, bottle of vermouth.
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Add a whole egg if you want more of a milkshake vibe too
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As someone with an overactive pancreas, some of these cocktails make me sleepy just reading the recipes 🤣
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I would add .25 Louisa's in there too. But maybe that's a regional liqueur. I just found out about this. I can't wait to make some orange peels without fear of slicing a finger open: https://jeffreymorgenthaler.com/my-new-favorite-citrus-peeler/
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Professor Wayne posted:I would add .25 Louisa's in there too. But maybe that's a regional liqueur.
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sounds like they were maybe just using a knife instead of a peeler?
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yep. i've never sliced open a finger with a normal peeler and made a permanent scar . definitely a knife
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It happens. Do it enough times, especially under pressure and maybe with wet hands. I’ve shaved off half my pinky nail, or slipped and cut a chunk out of a knuckle. Mind you I’ve made thousands of twists and those are the only 2 I can think of. It’s especially daunting for people who have never done it. Just takes practice. I’m sure you’ve all cut yourself in dumb ways while chopping something.
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The Maestro posted:It happens. Do it enough times, especially under pressure and maybe with wet hands. I’ve shaved off half my pinky nail, or slipped and cut a chunk out of a knuckle. Mind you I’ve made thousands of twists and those are the only 2 I can think of. Yeah, I only garnish for myself at home, so I take my time. If I had to actually produce a volume of twists I'd eventually get careless, like when I took the tip of a finger off with a mandolin on the very last cucumber out of like 50 prepping for a luncheon.
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I was doing some searching and saw some discussion of CO2 canisters came up; I have *6* empty sodastream canisters because I was a lazy dummy and didn't exchange them when I went to get new ones. Are these theoretically refillable? I'd just prefer to maybe exchange them or pawn them off to someone else, but I'm open to just having a stockpile of CO2 I cycle through until I decide whether to invest into a larger industrial canister.
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