What's your favorite adult beverage these days? Have you invented a cocktail lately?

I like to make a bourbon slush in the summer. I make a large batch by using 3 parts pineapple, 2 parts ginger ale and one part bourbon. Mix and put in the freezer, check a few times to stir ingredients and avoid separation of liquids. Once it freezes, scoop out enough of the slush to fill half a glass then top off with sprite or 7-up to fill glass. Stir together and it's ready. This won't be like a frozen margarita, or other frozen drinks, its frosty not solid. It's refreshing in hot weather.

I use diet ginger ale and diet sprite to cut down on the calories.....it doesn't change the taste.

There's lots of craft gins now though, all with a different twist. Hendricks G&T is supposed to be taken with a slice of cucumber instead of lemon.

On a drive back from Devon I came across a farm shop selling Dorset gin. Hotel Chocolat do a cocoa gin, and there lots and lots of other artisanal varieties, a lot of which seem to have shot up from nowhere..

Though I'm cheap (budget necessities) and my taste sensibilities are particularly refined, I'm happy to see the gin Renaissance over here (booming craft gins wise) in as well. Looking forward to trying some higher end stuff.

Privateer Rum, distilled in Ipswich, MA.

I invent cocktails all the time. I pour cheap vodka into whatever is handy.

That meant to read... my taste sensibilities are NOT particularly refined....

Hendricks should be available, and not too pricey. It's too big a company to be labelled artisan, but the product is made in small batches.

Since moving to my present apartment, for whatever reason, I hardly stock up on booze to drink alone at home. On occasion, I might buy a six pack of craft beer or one slightly larger craft beer bottle. The six pack would likely last me two months as I only drink sparingly on the weekends.

Can't remember the last time I bought a bottle of wine, let alone a bottle of hard liquor (other than as gifts for my manager). But than again, a bottle of gin really would last me a ton of months. I'll consider getting a bottle of Hendricks. I know where to buy it here.

I have a problem with alcohol, not drinking it, buying it. I like to have a really wide range and keep buying new stuff, having a taste, then putting it with the rest. I've got a ridiculous amount of booze, including gin, but I just couldn't help buying the Dorset gin and some Somerset apple schnapps when I stopped off that time last August.. I've had a drink from each, but that's about it.

Vodka Martini...because everything else is just flavored vodka.

Shaken over cracked ice served straight up and drink while looking at a picture if Antonio Benedetto Carpano, the inventor of vermouth.

In the summer I like Hugo

Prosecco.
Splash of elderflower syrup to taste.
A few fresh peppermint or spearmint leaves rubbed to release their aromatic oil.
Top with a slice of lime.


Aperol Spritz is nice too
2 oz Prosecco, 1 1/4 oz Aperol, Splash of Soda water

Now mine is a Grey Goose Vodka with Cranberry Juice and a orange slice.

I used to drink goose...till someone gave me a bottle of Tito's for my birthday.

Just bought a bottle myself. Good stuff.

I have been putting a splash of Sambuca in my espresso for a few years now. Have recently tried Black Sambuca by itself. It's not as strongly anise flavored and with a few drops of ice water added, is more pleasing to drink than clear Sambuca.

I like grapefruit radler but not everyone has it available.

When I go to the nearest legion, they make me a faux version - 1/4 a stein of what's on draft (preferably Rickard's Red or something similar) + a can of Fresca. It's ummm a diet grapefruit shandy. sounds weird, tastes good. They only charge me for the Fresca as the bar stewards get more stewed over the night, the proportion of draft gets higher

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