I'm mostly a craft beer guy, but I do like a good cocktail. However for cocktails at home, it's pretty much fresh margarita or an old fashioned.

I'll have bourbon or scotch on the rocks from time to time as well. Yes, I can Google, but easier to highlight what I like and ask for recommendations vs looking through recipes that have crap I don't like. For instance, I hate gin. I'm also not big on sweet drinks. My margaritas are tequila, lime juice, and triple sec/cointreau.

Don't worry about what I have on-hand, I can go buy stuff.

There's 18 pages of ideas here. https://texags.com/forums/67/topics/3031696

HTownAg98 said:

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There's 18 pages of ideas here. https://texags.com/forums/67/topics/3031696

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Cool, just like pages of googled drinks.

And let's just go ahead and end the thread bc I'm sure I'm about to get all kinds of *****

The French 75 is a good option. You sound like a dry champagne kinda guy. Go buy a decent brut and a good bottle of cognac. Get a prosecco if that's your thing or you want to balance the liquor. A lot of 75 recipes use vodka or gin, and it's ok to be wrong. Good cognac is the way to go.

1oz cognac stirred with ice and strained into a champagne flute.
Twist of lemon in the flute.
Top up flute with chilled champagne.

It depends. Are you trying to limit your carbs? Do you like Topo Chico?

Sorrell Booke said:

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It depends. Are you trying to limit your carbs? Do you like Topo Chico?

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Don't care about carbs. Yes, like topo.

Are you about to suggest ranch water?

I'm pretty much the same as you. Craft beer, Old Fashioneds, Fresh Margarita/Ranch Water and that's about it. Generally like to keep it fairly simple.

The only thing I've added to the rotation lately is the 1944 Mai Tai:
https://distiller.com/articles/original-1944-mai-tai-recipe

Outside of that I'll do an Infante now and then:
https://www.liberandcompany.com/products/infante

Switch the tequila for Mezcal. More interesting margarita. Del Maguey Vida is a reasonably priced, but good mezcal for cocktails.

Pisco Sour - similar flavor to a margarita, but unique. A good brunch drink. If you can't handle egg whites in a cocktail, then are you really cocktailing?

Manhattan or Sazerac are easy to make and good variations if you like old fashioned.

If you want to put work in, make a Benton's Old Fashioned.

I also love to make The Brave from Anvil in Houston, but it takes some specific ingredients.

If you like bitter, it's hard to go wrong with a Negroni variant like a boulevardier or a mezcal Negroni.

If you like margaritas, there is a whole family of cocktails to experiment with in the same family (sours). A margarita is just a tequila sour. There's an almost endless variety of options that follow the basic recipe of booze, citrus, sweetener.

Try a whiskey sour (whiskey, lemon, simple). Or since you already have triple sec on hand sub that in for the simple and you have a variation of the sidecar.

One of my favorite cocktails that everyone seems to love is the Paper Plane. Requires you to pick up Aperol and an amaro, but honestly amaros are some of my favorite things to keep around anyway because they are really fun to play with in drinks. The Paper Plane is an incredibly well balance combo of boozy/citrusy/bitter/sweet.

I like tequila old fashioneds from time to time

tequila, orange bitters, ice, and maybe a little sugar if I'm not being lazy.

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I'm pretty much the same as you. Craft beer, Old Fashioneds, Fresh Margarita/Ranch Water and that's about it. Generally like to keep it fairly simple.

The only thing I've added to the rotation lately is the 1944 Mai Tai:
https://distiller.com/articles/original-1944-mai-tai-recipe

Outside of that I'll do an Infante now and then:
https://www.liberandcompany.com/products/infante

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To give it more depth. Use a rich simple syrup 2:1 using demerara sugar and dry curacao. You can futz around with the rums but using Smith & Cross or Dr Bird to give it more funky punch and Appleton Estate 12yr makes a very fine cocktail.

some good suggestions. much appreciated. Will go through these.

AggieOO said:

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some good suggestions. much appreciated. Will go through these.

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Go to Whiskey Cake or Moonshine. Great cocktails and replicate those recipes.

AggieOO said:

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Cool, just like pages of googled drinks.

And let's just go ahead and end the thread bc I'm sure I'm about to get all kinds of *****

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The audacity of this statement

MarathonAg12 said:

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AggieOO said:

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Cool, just like pages of googled drinks.

And let's just go ahead and end the thread bc I'm sure I'm about to get all kinds of *****

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The audacity of this statement

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it was made partially in jest.

When it gets warmer, I love me a Moscow mule. Cheap and easy to make

Likewise

Bored and watching ice and tree branches fall to earth

This post and the previous with manhattan, saz, and boul are all you need.

Lock it down

Maybe a Dark and Stormy?

Dark rum, ginger beer (not ale) and lime juice.

EclipseAg said:

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Maybe a Dark and Stormy?

Dark rum, ginger beer (not ale) and lime juice.

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I make a variation of that called a Stormy Daniels

Replace the dark rum with Jack Daniels

MarathonAg12 said:

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EclipseAg said:

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Maybe a Dark and Stormy?

Dark rum, ginger beer (not ale) and lime juice.

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I make a variation of that called a Stormy Daniels

Replace the dark rum with Jack Daniels

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Do you have to wear a condom when drinking those?

Know Your Enemy said:

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MarathonAg12 said:

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EclipseAg said:

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Maybe a Dark and Stormy?

Dark rum, ginger beer (not ale) and lime juice.

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I make a variation of that called a Stormy Daniels

Replace the dark rum with Jack Daniels

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Do you have to wear a condom when drinking those?

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You can but it's not the same

No.

It will Trump a dark and stormy any day of the week

EclipseAg said:

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Maybe a Dark and Stormy?

Dark rum, ginger beer (not ale) and lime juice.

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I haven't had one of those since I was in south Africa 10 years ago. They were made with home distilled rum my buddy's brother makes. Good call.

Can't remember how much of a coffee guy you are, but I made a Revolver last week that went over well

2oz bourbon
.5 coffee/espresso liqueur
2 dashes orange bitters
Flame an orange peel as a garnish if you're feeling fancy

I used Bulleit and Mr Black cold brew liqueur

Scriffer said:

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Can't remember how much of a coffee guy you are, but I made a Revolver last week that went over well

2oz bourbon
.5 coffee/espresso liqueur
2 dashes orange bitters
Flame an orange peel as a garnish if you're feeling fancy

I used Bulleit and Mr Black cold brew liqueur

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0% coffee guy. Love the smell, don't really like the taste. I can drink it in a pinch, but not a preferred flavor.

Ok that's what I was thinking.

Disregard

No worries, I can leave the coffee out, add a sugar cube, add a couple more dashes of bitter, add a cherry, and pour it over a large ice cube.

Can I have you over for some whiskey neat and delicious bourbon.

No need for cocktails. We can touch belt buckles

Try mint julep. They can be pretty sweet but you can certainly go light on the syrup. Delicious!

That sounds geeat

MarathonAg12 said:

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Can I have you over for some whiskey neat and delicious bourbon.

No need for cocktails. We can touch belt buckles

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