Booze recipes

[The Shutting Downs]

These guys make some very nice, crisp, ciders, and have one to suit pretty much whatever your taste is for Cider.

The Black Dragon is my favourite at the moment.

[tandino]

I'm a huge fan of the cocktails, the beers and the wines (mostly the £4-£8 reds). I've got a wonderful book on cocktails called <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bartenders-Book ... =8-1">"The Bartender's Book"</a>. It's a lovely hard cover book with about 400 pages of recipes, histories of various spirits (including how they're made) and a handy run down of the top 10 bars in the world (all of which I hope to visit at some point).

As far as favourite cocktails go, mine have to be Tequila Sunrise, Dark and Stormy and Long Island Ice Tea.

Favourite lagers are a little more tricky to identify. I'm partial to Staropramen, but it can leave you with a serious headache in my experience. If I'm in Holland, I'll likely be drinking Bavaria - very easy to drink and tasty too. If I'm badly hung over but HAVE to drink, it'll be Guinness all the way.

Real Ales are creeping on to my radar now though as my local has a fine selection on most of the time. If I want bottled beers, there are a few places in Liverpool that have an awesome selection, namely The Swan, The Fly in the Loaf and Mojo, although the latter is often full of posers - excellent music though.

If any 5punkers ever come to Liverpool, I'll happily give you the guided tour of what I think are some of the best unknown bars and pubs on our fair island.

[FatherJack]

Pulled from this old thread and updated with the power of the future!

I'll drink anything. To illustrate this, in my kitchen at the moment remains:
26 tins of Stella
1 btl Mo'Bay
1/3 btl Tio Pepe Fino Sherry*
1/2 btl Advocaat
1/3 btl Warre's LBV Port
1/4 btl Yates's Aussie White

I have been on holiday this week, though - so it's a bit more than usual, it will mostly be gone by Monday.

I have been buying super-minging drinks on purpose in an effort to curb my "enthusiasm" for drinking: Supercassis, Absinthe, Raki, Sake, Ouzo - but it hasn't worked and I've still necked the bastards.

* 2 teaspoons were required for General Nickface's Chicken

Update on today's kitchen is:
Many Stellas
1 btl Stolichnaya
1 btl Jack Daniels
1 btl 'Omoo' Australian Chardonnay
1 btl Australian Sémillon dessert wine
2 sml btls of Snowball - don't know what puff bought those

In terms of recipes, I have a couple bottles of tonic (for VaT), some tomato juice and Worcestershire sauce (for bloody mary), cherryade, lemonade and blackcurrant cordial for general use, ginger beer, Pepsi Max and some Tesco coke w. almond mostly for mixing with JD.

My most oft used "recipe" is one for professional drinkers, which when embarking on a massive bender is to add a bit of lemonade and blackcurrant to the Stella. Lemonade so it goes down easier and blackcurrant so your sick tastes nice if it comes back up.

As far as bottled beers go, I like a few Tsingtao, Asahi, Cobra, Singha, Tiger, Tyskie, Lech, Zywiec, Brahma, Elephant, Baltika, various UK, trappist and German weissbiers or even Boston/Brooklyn to get me started on a Friday night.

For amateur drinking, like on summer afternoons, children's birthday parties or when flying passenger aircraft, the Fosters and Becks premixed with lime are quite refreshing, as are the Australian and Canadian "ice" beers.


Flavours from left to right: "Temporary Blindness", "Acute Renal Failure" and "Rectal Prolapse"

Update on the bottled beers is that I also like a few Innis and Gunn Blonde, Banana Bread beer and Crabbie's alcoholic ginger beer, but the first three above are my favourites still. I like the occasional Mojito, but some of the premixed ones taste like Ralgex, whereas as others are lovely and fresh minty.

[Roman Totale]

My most oft used "recipe" is one for professional drinkers, which when embarking on a massive bender is to add a bit of lemonade and blackcurrant to the Stella. Lemonade so it goes down easier and blackcurrant so your sick tastes nice if it comes back up.

[buzzmong]

Video game related booze recipies

Just had a gander, some seem quite nice. Mix of shots and cocktails. Worth a scan.

[FatherJack]

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A lot seem to only have a scanty connection to gaming, but that T-Virus one at the top is inspired. The mudkip one on the same page looks nice, as does the plasmid on page 11. Braw is the portal caek on 12 and the Bum Rush on 13 has reminded me just how much I love Tequila with salt.

Someone mentioned on the disco that clear spirits are less likely to give you a hangover, but the worst one I ever had was from making my own Bacardi Rigos* (Bacardi, Lime, Soda). I'm lucky that I don't suffer from them very often, but factoring in that I'm only fully sober for a couple of days a year doesn't really make that remarkable.

Also, about drinks in general, cider (in large-ish quanties) always gives me gutrot. Don't know why that is. Red wine gives me a headache while I'm actually drinking it, but I do know why that is. Port gives me gout, which isn't unexpected - it is yum though. Just annoying I have these biological reactions to stuff which I actually quite like. Mostly I like because they have alcohol in them, granted, and notwithstanding that ethanol is essentially poisonous in the first place.

* Probably mostly to do with the realtive concentration within the mixture, as by night's end I'd run out of soda. And also lime.

[Mr. Johnson]

There's a reason Belgium exports Stella Artois, and it's because the Belgians won't drink the stuff.

This is mostly true, and the same goes for fosters, I expected to see it all over Australia but I barely saw an advert for it.
People here still drink stella, but mostly the elderly chav-father/mother types, as their weak bodies can't handle all the great manbeers we have.

[bomberesque]

This is mostly true, and the same goes for fosters, I expected to see it all over Australia but I barely saw an advert for it.
People here still drink stella, but mostly the elderly chav-father/mother types, as their weak bodies can't handle all the great manbeers we have.

^ that. The Belgians think it's terribly funny that the UK thinks Stella is a premium beer

Fave beers;
Ale
I love English real ales but sadly they tend not to travel (as anyone who has ever had a pint of draft Speckled Hen in Hong Kong will attest) so I save ale drinking for trips to the UK or very special occasions (like when Ramsgate Breweries brought 2 barrels of IPA to the Brusselensis festival 3 years ago)
The Black stuff
When watching rugby I drink Guiness. This is because it travels OK, is available and relatively piss weak so I can drink it all afternoon at about 1-2 pints a half and get through 3 rugby matches without passing out on the table in the pub (a deffo if I were drinking Belgian beer and watching rugby)
The Belgian stuff
A lot of the stronger Belgian beers (<6% is not beer) use quite a lot of sugar to carry the alcohol, I tend not to like these beers (with a couple of notable exceptions, Duvel not being one of them) and so stick to the "reasonably strong" brews at around 8% rather than the nutty ones at 12 as they tend to be drier
Standouts;
Westmalle Triple. Breaks the rule, 11% and dry. I become a ranting loon after about 3 of these, but it's OK because after 4 I'm usually asleep
Rochefort 6. Actually 8% not 6 and take care of the fines in the bottom, will give you the runs. Not very available in Brussels, but can be found in the ardennes
Chouffe and Mc Chouffe. Outstanding Blonde and brown (respectively) beers from daan sarf. The only french (ok, wallonian) made beer that the flemish I work with will admit to liking
Trpile Karmelite. Breaks teh sweet rule, but manages not to be too heavy with it so I drink this at times
Orval. 6% so quaffable and the closest to an English bitter that I think I've found
Palm. A lager with a nice honey back taste. At about 10 quid for a case of 24x33cl, My house lager
Rodenback. A flemish red for when I'm feeling especially contrary. Used to be brewed in oak barrels, which is what gives flemish red beers their acidic twang. now made in stainless vats with planks of oak hanging in them, if the rumours are to be believed. Ichtegem Grand Cru is better, but I can never find it
Oude Beersel Kriek and Geuze. The brewery that sponsors our bike club. Geuze is a very specifically brewed beer that takes 3 years + to get to the bottle. Usually quite acidic, rather like a good strong cider, sometimes called Brussels Champagne. Kriek is the same but steeped in fresh cherries. Great for summer but nothing (NOTHING) like that Lindeman's shit you'll get in your local belgian pub in the UK. Kriek is the beer that commercialisation and internationalisation of belgian brewing has done the most damage to IMO, fortunately there are still several (about 10) small breweries doing it properly. If it doesn't make you pucker, it's not the real stuff.

Non beer drinks

Gin and Tonic
Rum and Lemonade or Mojito'd - turns me into a raving loon almost as fast as Westmalle triple
Lemonchello - moorish digestivo of choice
Jenever - often known as flemish gin but has nothing to do with Gin afaik. Usually a couple of bottles hanging around in odd flavours from a recent farmer's market
Red wine. lots of

Ghetto cocktails

not much really, we just make sure we don't run out . and good red wine (at least, good enough for us) is cheap as chips here so there's few excuses to run short[/u]

[Mr. Johnson]

Oude Beersel Kriek and Geuze. The brewery that sponsors our bike club. Geuze is a very specifically brewed beer that takes 3 years + to get to the bottle. Usually quite acidic, rather like a good strong cider, sometimes called Brussels Champagne. Kriek is the same but steeped in fresh cherries. Great for summer but nothing (NOTHING) like that Lindeman's shit you'll get in your local belgian pub in the UK. Kriek is the beer that commercialisation and internationalisation of belgian brewing has done the most damage to IMO, fortunately there are still several (about 10) small breweries doing it properly. If it doesn't make you pucker, it's not the real stuff.

it's common to refer to kriek as 'wijvenbier' (wijf (plural wijven) is a crude and in some parts of the country offensive slang for women) because it's pretty much just lager with syrup in it. Real kriek is an excellent summer beer, it's really good to drink when it's hot outside. And Oude Beersel is the beer we always bought crates of when I was still in my youth organization. We usually had to go and get new crates halfway through our camps, despite taking enough for a week first time round.

[bomberesque]

it's common to refer to kriek as 'wijvenbier' (wijf (plural wijven) is a crude and in some parts of the country offensive slang for women) because it's pretty much just lager with syrup in it. Real kriek is an excellent summer beer, it's really good to drink when it's hot outside. And Oude Beersel is the beer we always bought crates of when I was still in my youth organization. We usually had to go and get new crates halfway through our camps, despite taking enough for a week first time round.

you should give them another visit! they were closed for a while (brewmaster retired) then a group of young guys bought the place, convinced the brewmaster to come back and teach them, now they're in full production again, won some enterprise award recently aswell.

They also make (or more accurately commission) Beersalis Blonde, the house blonde in the MONK cafe in St Katrine. Not my cup of tea (bit sweet and yeasty for me), but very popular

[Nickface]

Let me introduce to you all, my friends the Collins family...

1 part booze
2 parts Collins mix*
3 parts club soda

*you can substitute the Collins mix with lemon or lime juice, just add in two teaspoons of sugar, too.

Now... the GLOSSARY of the Collins that I've had

Tom Collins - Gin
Jim/Jack Collins - Whiskey
Comrade Collins - Vodka
Jose Collins - Tequila


I'm a big fan of the Jose Collins myself, but I also just like Tequila and Gin in general. You can put any booze-ahol you'd like in there, it's more or less a glorified (insert booze here) & Tonic, but a lot sweeter.

[Dog Pants]

Oddly enough I saw a Tom Collins on a drinks menu today and wondered what it was. Now I know.

[HereComesPete]

[buzzmong]

[Roman Totale]

Excuse me barman, please may I have a glass of THOMAS!

[HereComesPete]

I say THOMAS! THOMAS! Don't you be gettin' uppity on yo' momma!

[Legoshoes]

Apparently i thought blue aftershock and orange juice would make a good combination one night. It made it taste like how orange juice usually tastes just after you've brushed your teeth.

I love a bit of ale, me. Not too fussy as long as it doesn't taste like stale bath water.