Tinwhistler tries cocktails

Amaretto and grenadine? I don't know how much cranberry they"re pouring in there, but that sounds like super sweet cloying candy to me.
 
Amaretto and grenadine? I don't know how much cranberry they"re pouring in there, but that sounds like super sweet cloying candy to me.
That one was mostly vodka. The others were smaller amounts. A "splash" of grenadine for color. 1/2 oz amaretto. 1oz vodka and 2 oz cranberry. It was more balanced than the Dark Elf above, which was super sweet and cloying
 
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Banana Cream Pie...basically a rum banana smoothie. This was a lot boozier than I expected. If I make again, I'll use 2 parts cream to 1 part rum instead of vice versa.
 
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Grasshopper: Creme de menthe and creme de cacao with cream. Probably would look more like a grasshopper if I'd bought the leprechaun green artificially colored menthe, but I didn't. So I guess it's a brown grasshopper.

Tastes like a Girl Scouts Thin Mint cookie
 
Alien Brain Hemorrhage - Peach schnapps, Bailey's, blue curacao, grenadine. I put a touch too much schnapps, so I couldn't really splash the curacao and grenadine to churn up the Bailey's as much as I wanted.

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Turn Undead: Lemon juice, vodka, Kahlua. This looks and smells like some kind of cola-and-booze drink. But generic, like Dr. Thunder or Great Value Cola. But it had a lot more flavor than smell, and was tasty, if boozy.
 
Got a new book for Valentine's Day.
First cocktail: Negroni-Nomicon--gin, vermouth, campari, triple sec, blue curacao. 5oz of liquors, no non-alcoholic ingredients. It made my nose a bit tingly ;)

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Tonight's drink is a play on the El Presidente cocktail (the "Hell Residente")...with the addition of Fireball and Irish Whiskey, and blue curacao instead of triple sec. That makes it: Rum, vermouth, blue curacao, fireball, tullemore dew, grenadine. It's...different. Boozy. Tastes of cinnamon and orange with a hint of complexity. These flavors really shouldn't work together. But they kind of do.

Also, I'm noticing this book is a big fan of mixing blue curacao and grenadine to make a drink that's so purple as to be almost black.
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Whoops..forgot to post this one, which came between the two dark drinks...

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Pallid Carcosa. Pineapple juice, coconut cream, spiced rum, peach schnapps (called for peach moonshine, but no thanks), sweet and sour. Blended with ice.

I'm definitely a fan of these kinds of fruity drinks.
 
It's been a while.

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H. Peach Lovedraft. Guinness, peach schnapps, rum. It's actually a whole lot better than I thought it would be. The peach goes well with the Guinness and cuts a lot of the bitterness of the stout. The beer and rum keep it from being too peachy.

Peach forward when it hits your tongue, but with a lingering stout finish. Not bad at all.
 
It's Friday!
From the D&D book: Barbarian Rage.
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Equal parts dark rum, white rum, Amaretto, Chambord, tequila, Midori, vodka, Malibu, gin, Blue Curacao. 8 oz Monster energy drink.

This is like a long island iced tea in that it doesn't taste boozy at all...but it's super fruity. And at 10 oz of liquor/liqueur. I'm about to be fucked up.
 
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