mixed drink recommendations
Friday, August 17th, 2007 - 3:55pm
Looking for suggestions for EASY TO MAKE mixed drinks. My wife currently favors a dirty vodka martini or something like a vodka & cranberry juice; however, she seems to dislike the taste of vodka. I'm wondering if there's a different drink and/or different alcohol that I should recommend.
And before the sniping begins, yes, this is really for my wife. 
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Iced tea (sweetened, but being a good Texas boy, you already assumed that) with lemon flavored rum. Tasty, cheap, and hard to screw up.
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Mojito. I could drink those all day long. And actually, not terribly hard to make.
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Grapefruit juice goes very well with vodka. I think it's called a Greyhound.
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Would you believe I'm drinking Sweet Tea right now (we have to capitalize it down here, by law)? I brew about 6 glasses a day at work.
And that's pretty awesome, I've never heard of anyone mixing tea with any kind of alcohol (not counting the Long Island Iced Tea, aka the source of my one "missing time" incident).
I think a Mojito is a little more involved than we're looking for, but they are dang tasty. And Doc Awk, I'll have to see if she digs on grapefruit.
Thanks to all so far and keep 'em coming!
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My wife likes the vodka collins. Maybe your wife would like a tom collins, which is made with gin instead of vodka.
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three measures of Gilbey's, one measure of vodka, half a measure of kina lillet, and a thin slice of lemon peel shaken gently over ice and served in a champaign glass.
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Two suggestions of vodka drinks for someone who dislikes the taste of vodka. Well done!
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Skittlebrau!
Actually no, we tried this once using blue Skittles in place of sugar. It was horrid... it was also full of booze, so we drank it.
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Long Island Iced Tea, go with sweet and sour and a splash of coke with:
1 oz. Vodka
1 oz. Gin
1 oz. Tequila
1 oz. rum
Splash of Triple Sec
I made it with top shelf rum and vodka with cheap tequila and gin and they turned out fine.
edit - you won't taste any vodka in this one.
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I doubt you'd have any senses left functioning after two of those.
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Including memory, see my above post (actually, there was a lot more than just 2 long islands involved in that affair).
Man, the number of quick replies to this thread as compared to even, say, the gamer chicks thread bespeaks doom to the collective Goodjer liver, and pity to the collective Goodjer libido.
Also: drinks that are not self-explanatory might benefit from explanation. I'm not tryin' to be ungrateful, just sayin'
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Whiskey and lemonade. Handful of ice cubes. Tall glass.
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wordsmythe wrote:
Tom Collins
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Minus the lemonade, ice and glass I'm a huge fan as well.
The wife has got a wicked recipe for mojito slushies. All the booze, none of the salad. I'll poke around for it when I get home.
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How about taking a gander at http://www.1001cocktails.com/recipes/?
Some Non-vodka suggestions: How about a Heather Blush? Or a Rubber Chicken?
Though I know you said she doesn't like the taste of vodka, I'd recommend at least trying a Sea Breeze. You do not taste the alcahol at all and they're quite refreshing.
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Shot of coconut rum + pineapple juice.
I have yet to meet a lady who didn't love this (including my wife).
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Captain Morgan (or GOOD spiced rum) + (Diet) Dr. Pepper = WOWZIE!
SoCo (Southern Comfort) + Cranberry Juice = Tasty and refreshing.
Simple, and you can use diet/lite ingredients. Every little bit helps.
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Irish Car Bomb! Yummy.
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Recipe:
1 bottle single-malt scotch (preferable aged over 18 years)
1 glass
Open bottle. Mix the above ingredients.
Enjoy.
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Good, but definitely on the heavy side. Back in the drinking days we did 4 or 5 of those while downing pitchers of beer and other shots. Good times....
Not so nice the next day.
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Since it's for your wife:
That's a good one. Here are some basics:
Rum & Coke
Whiskey & Coke
Gin & Tonic
Gin & 7Up
Whiskey & 7up (a.k.a. 7 & 7)
Any hard liquor (X) + sweetened/Rose's lime juice (X gimlet)
You can substitute other pops for Coke (Dr. P generally is good). Citrus pops (including grapefruit ones) can all be used instead of 7up. Gin mixes better with fruit juices than whiskey. Whiskey mixes better with pop, or violence.
Slightly fancier: Margarita on the rocks (just fixed one for myself last night while E Hunnie made herself a daquiri)
3 parts tequila
2 parts triple sec/Grand Marnier
1 part lime juice
+ ice
You can fudge those in any direction you choose. I choose more tequila. If you want to get fancy, wet the rim of the glass first and turn it upside down in a bowl of salt, preferrably a rougher salt instead of fine-grained table salt. The recipe's the same for a blanded 'Rita, but you stick it in a blender and have to wait. That's really only acceptable if someone else is doing it or you can drink from a bottle while it blends.
Oh, and there's the Strip & Get Naked, which is really popular among Wisconsin nerds I know. Folks tend to either love it or hate it:
1 can frozen lemonade concentrate
1 can's worth vodka (could be gin or tequila if you want, I guess)
3 cans beer
That'll get the job done.
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Crown Royal. Glass. Ice. Whatever proportion you see fit.
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Bacardi Spiced Rum and Coke, half and half, tastes like vanilla coke, no alcohol taste. Or Redrum(yes I know, but it is real, it's cherry rum) and 7up/sprite or ginger ale, sooo good.
I've heard Jagerbombs are supposed to be good. Haven't tried one though.
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There's also the Boilermaker, which is turned into a Depth Charge by dropping the alcohol into the beer.
Change the beer to Guinness, and the liquor to Bushmill's (or another Irish whiskey), and you have a Car Bomb.
Change the liquor to sake, and you've got yourself a Sake Bomb.
Basically, beer + shot = easy.
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It's not really a mixed drink but we've been going through Bailey's Shivers like mad in our house lately. It's just Bailey's in blended ice but it's like heroin. Liquid heroin.
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Back in my nascent bar days, I used to order a very girlie-man "amaretto sour" whenever I had a chance. Tastes just like candy.
1 1/2 oz amaretto almond liqueur
1 - 2 splashes sweet and sour mix
Pour the amaretto liqueur into a cocktail shaker half-filled with ice cubes. Add a splash or two of sweet and sour mix, and shake well. Strain or pour into an old-fashioned glass, garnish with a maraschino cherry and a slice of orange, and serve.
Apparently, some people top if off with Sprite (and others say to use a splash of grenadine). Everytime I've gotten it, it's been "on the rocks," too.
(from http://www.drinksmixer.com/drink820.html)
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That's the gross version of the irish car bomb, tastes like ass and makes almost everyone puke, drop shots are supposed to taste good. The irish carbomb I'm used to is Guiness with a drop shot of baileys. Unicorns are good, no idea what goes into them, and also bottle caps. Gladiators are also good.
You guys have it all wrong. You drop a shotglass of 1/2 whiskey and 1/2 baileys into a 1/2 pint of Guinness. I'll be having at least two of those tonight during Gears and Beers.
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