2.9 KiB
Ingredients
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Vodka
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Rum
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Tequila
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Gin (Warfield favorite)
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Whiskey (Ross)
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Lime
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Lemon
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Agave Syrup (margarita)
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Bitters
Mixers
- Coca-Cola
- Ginger beer (non-alcoholic)
- Tonic water
- Salt
Drinks
Rum and Coke
- 2 shots of rum
- coca-cola
- use mixing spoon
Moscow Mule
- Ice
- Two shots of vodka
- Juice of a lemon slice
- Fill up to top with ginger beer
- Always mix drink with fork
- Serve with a slice of lemon on the rim
Humble Margarita
- Squeeze limes for juice
- Want Ice in drink (try freezer vodka)
- Put rim in water, then salt to salt rim
- Agave syrup (1/2 as much as lime)
- 2 shots of tequila
- Optionally add spiced salt
- Fix with fork
Tips for mixing any type of drink
- Thoroughly mix together all ingredients, unless explicitly stated (please don’t stir White Russians or the touch of coke in a long island iced tea). Nothing sucks more than getting soda one sip, and straight alcohol the next.
- ALWAYS MEASURE the FIRST time that you make a drink. Get the basics down before experimenting and getting creative.
- Measure consistently. If you measure things out 90% of the time: you tend to get a sense of why a drink works, and you get an intuitive sense of how much a shot is. Wing’n it is not for beginners.
- Experiment, I like to Frankenstein one drink a night. You should live with the consequences and down whatever drink/abomination you end up with. It’s a good way to learn how to tune mixed drinks. Who know’s, you might invent the next martini.
Tips for covering up the taste of alcohol
The main goal of any mixed drink is to taste good. Covering up the bitter flavor of alcohol is an important. Here are a few general tips for making something that tastes good.
Make it cold
The human tongue becomes less sensitive to flavor when it's cold. This is why ice cream has a lot of flavoring, and why almost every mixed drink comes with ice.
Make it sweet
This one’s pretty simple, add enough sugar to make it not bitter (don’t go too far or it will taste like diabetes). Margaritas and rum + coke is a good example of this principle.
Add alcohol to something that’s already bitter
If something is already bitter, adding alcohol to it won’t make things worse. This tends to cover up alcohol really well! The classic version of this is adding vodka to cranberry juice, it just ends up tasting like cranberry juice.
Use better alcohol
Higher end alcohol tends to taste less like sucking on a copper pipe. This makes it much easier to cover up the alcohol flavor, and gives one some room for error while mixing. Grey Goose feels like cheating after using svedka for a while!
Get drunk
People become less sensitive to alcohol when they have already had something to drink. This is why most people recommend using worse quality alcohol after the first drink or two, most people can't tell the difference at that point. This is also why drunk people tend to make bad drinks too.