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#31
08-17-2005, 05:00 AM
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Re: Drink help.
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[ QUOTE ] What is in "the manhattan?" [/ QUOTE ] * 3/4 oz Sweet Vermouth * 2 1/2 oz Blended Bourbon * dash Angostura bitters * 2 or 3 Ice cubes * 1 Maraschino cherry * 1 twist of Orange peel [/ QUOTE ] You can also make a Manhattan with dry vermouth, or a 50/50 mix of the sweet (aka Rosso) and dry. To get the 50/50 variety order your Manhattan "perfect". (Your bartender should know what what this means, but it's not guaranteed.) I also tend to skip the orange peel, and go pretty heavy on the bitters. I'm not sure why the recipe calls for blended bourbon. Knob Creek is my standard bourbon for this drink, but try a bunch of different ones and see what works for you. Another good whiskey drink is the Horse's Neck - 2oz or so bourbon over ice in a tumbler, add lemon peel, and fill with ginger ale. The tricky part in this drink is the lemon peel. (You only want the yellow zest, not the white pith.) Ideally, you peel the entire lemon in a single spiral and line the entire glass with it. It takes practice to get this right, but if you do the drink gets gradually more lemon-flavored as you go through it. (The peeling's easier and safer with a very sharp knife.) If you're not looking to put in that much effort, a simple slice of zest will still be a noticeable improvement over plain bourbon+ginger ale (which is good, just not as good). You might consider getting a book or two about cocktails. I'd recommend Dale Degroff's The Craft of the Cocktail and Charles Schumann's American Bar. 
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#32
08-17-2005, 05:33 AM
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Re: Drink help.
I'm a waitress at the White Bear Yacht Club in MN. Tonight I was the drink girl for the Michican Tech Hockey coaches and what i gathered was some sort of advisory board made up of old players, the point being that there was a lot of chest hair, big cocks etc etc: a room full of real men. They ordered the following drinks: kettle one martini on the rocks with an olive, captain and coke, captain and diet, brandi manhattan, coors light, amstel, vodka tonic, budweiser, bass. No pinot grigio. No cosmo.
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#33
08-17-2005, 06:48 AM
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...with bitters. You must have the bitters.
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#34
08-17-2005, 07:03 AM
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Gin & Tonic [/ QUOTE ] Okay, if you are a middle aged woman. Mack
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#35
08-17-2005, 07:37 AM
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Re: Drink help.
I don't understand why so many people insist on trashing fine Tennessee whiskey like Jack Daniel's by dumping Coke in it. Ugh. Just use any old well bourbon for that. Jack is made to be savored.
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#36
08-17-2005, 07:45 AM
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Re: Drink help.
In the UK you couldnt get a more girly drink than Jack and coke.
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#37
08-17-2005, 08:14 AM
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Re: Drink help.
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In the UK you couldnt get a more girly drink than Jack and coke. [/ QUOTE ]
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#38
08-17-2005, 08:25 AM
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Re: Drink help.
Colorado Bulldog.
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#40
08-17-2005, 09:05 AM
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I don't understand why so many people insist on trashing fine Tennessee whiskey like Jack Daniel's by dumping Coke in it. [/ QUOTE ] Because Jack is hardly any better than Beam? If I'm drinking whiskey rocks, there's no way I'm doing it with Jack. That's not even the best whiskey to come out of Tullahoma.
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