Most cocktails have some pretty hilarious names like Adios MF!, Two Nights into Georgia, Lava is Flow and so on. I used to spend some of my time in Australia making up alcoholic concoctions devised to lose one’s head, and quite rapidly at that. I had somehow managed to get my own (fully licensed) restaurant & bar at the tender age (read dim) of 23, and the first five months or so were spent blissfully drinking the bar’s shelves, starting from the left to the right, a system I used until I became almost broke. My two regular acolytes were a mad Armenian gambler and an Aussie surfer (though during those heydays, he saw little ocean action), and since the place was next to an Avant-Garde gallery full of nutty artists, there was always someone on hand to help me getting a step closer to the poor house.
I’ll list a few of them as I go. Please add to the list, this is a “diary” that will grow in size over the next few months (it will be parked in the Wine & Spirits category on the right front page), and it might come in handy when a celebration comes into play.
Monkey’s Nuts:
3/4 oz banana liqueur
3/4 oz creme de almond
1/2 oz Kahlua® coffee liqueur
4 oz whipped cream
Mix Creme de Almond and Banana Liqueur together in a rocks glass filled with ice, then add Kahlua and top with whipped cream. You might need two or three to get going.
Captain Fantastic on Acid
1/4 oz Captain Morgan® Original spiced rum
1/4 oz coconut rum
1/6 oz Blue Curacao liqueur
1/6 oz pineapple juice
1/6 oz grenadine syrup
Mix all ingredients except grenadine and pour into a shot glass. Add grenadine and shoot. Shot should be blue on top and red on bottom. One is enough. Move on to the next.
Raw Sewage Deluxe
1 shot Blue Curacao liqueur
1 shot vodka
1 dash grenadine syrup
pineapple juice
Mix ingredients together in a cocktail shaker. Shake, strain into a highball glass, and serve.
Midnight Sex on the Beach
1 oz vodka
1/2 oz Midori® melon liqueur
1/2 oz Chambord® raspberry liqueur
2 oz pineapple juice
1/2 cup cranberry juice
Pour vodka over crushed ice in a champagne saucer. Add cranberry juice, midori, chambord, and top off with pineapple juice. Stir gently and serve.
Vampire Girl
1 oz Chambord® raspberry liqueur
1 oz vodka
1 oz cranberry juice
Combine ingredients in a shaker over ice. Serve as shots in an old-fashione
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The site (click on the links) with all these cocktails is just awesome! I could spend hours just ogling. Cocktail porn heaven! I have submitted quite a collection of my own over the years. Don’t be shy, add some of your own.
A few years ago, in Barcelona, I was ambushed into a new sort of bar. It has a row of barber’s chairs facing the entrance, and one had to sit in it, head tilted back. The barman would prepare a concoction, pour it down your gullet and shake your head violently, like a cocktail shaker. Someone had to take you by the hand, you had to get assistance to get up…and started spinning like a drunken sailor…but what fun!
Any chance for a beer cocktail? I’m not crazy about hard spirits, but wine & beer I can do.
Beer cocktail? A Shandy? Half beer, half lemonade…it’s as far as it gets…
oh, ick. Beer and lemonade???
Yes, in England it’s called a Shandy, very popular with the ladies.
Ginger beer. That’s about as alcoholic as I go.
Ginger beer & Jack Daniels, THAT’S THE TICKET!
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