Terminalcoffee discussion

I'm good at pouring beer (except for our Sierra Nevada tap, which seems to produce twice as much head as beer), and I know how much wine goes in a glass, but I have never made a mixed drink in any official capacity.
We don't serve many mixed drinks, but here and there somebody will order one, and theoretically I should be able to make them without running to anybody for help.

So:
If I had to take a crash course on the official recipes for a handful of drinks to know by heart, what should they be?
I'm thinking:
vodka & tonic/gin & tonic
margarita
daquiri
screwdriver
cosmopolitan
long island ice tea

What else?

Captain & Coke

Vodka & Lemonade

I tried to keep them simple for starters Sarah :-)

Kamakazi.
Buttery nipples.

lemon drops.

Rum and coke
Lemon drop
martinis, both gin and vodka ones

And gimlets. My grandpa used to always have to explain to servers how to make gimlets.

oh and you should know:
manhattan
and
old fashioned

Fuel is a mixed drink me, my wife, and some friends concocted:

- Bacardi Limon
- Chambourd
- Triple Sec
- Cranberry juice.

Despite the name, it goes down very smooth, but you'll no doubt be FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKED up after 4 or 5 shots of those. Honest.

I would never correct Gus's grammar, cause he's scary. But I kind of want to.

Yeah. Crap. I should know those.

That's a lot. Maybe I should take a course.
Mind you, I can always use the book. The big thing I have to learn is how long to pour. I think a shot is a count to five with the bottle all the way upside down. Or I could pour it into a shot glass first and from there into the glass.

Sarah Pi wrote: "Yeah. Crap. I should know those.

That's a lot. Maybe I should take a course.
Mind you, I can always use the book. The big thing I have to learn is how long to pour. I think a shot is a count to fi..."

Or count whilst pouring into a shot glass, and you'll have your answer.

Around here the popular drinks are:

Gin and tonic
Whiskey sour
any flavored vodka w/ sprite
bay breezes

My sister worked in the bar of a restuarant and she had to make mojitos quite a bit. She hated it.

I think different kinds of bars are more expected to do different kinds of drinks. We're a proper pub, so mostly people order beer or whiskey or wine.

Sally, please, by all means, correct my grammar. Besides, I see now where I committed my grammatical atrocity.

Sally wrote: "I would never correct Gus's grammar, cause he's scary. But I kind of want to."

You misspelled scranky .

Oh, wait. That was Clark. Now I'm getting them confused.

Doesn't it depend on your clientele, Sarah? Is they're all over eighty it's different than if they're hipsters.

From my experience hipsters like to drink the same cocktails as the over 80 set.

A cuba libre is just a rum and coke. Don't let some asshole throw you off by ordering that. I hate when people do that.

Have you seen Cocktail, Gretchen?

Any or all of the above :)

I think there's some lime, too, in a cuba libre. Let me check...

Yep, that's the only difference.

Pronounced Cooba.

People usually want a lime on their rum and coke too.
@sally, I saw cocktail a long time ago. Is there a cuba libre part?

People usually want a lime on their rum and coke too.
@sally, I saw cocktail a long time ago. Is there a cuba libre part?

There is a cuba libre part. It is awesome. Tom Cruise is the new young flustered bartender and the waitress keeps asking for a "cooba libre" and won't just tell him it is a rum and coke. He tells her she's a bitch.

There are not many Tom Cruise movies I don't have memorized.

Sally wrote: "From my experience hipsters like to drink the same cocktails as the over 80 set."

We have two main crowds - young professionals and older Irish people. Even though some of the younger people are artsy, they don't seem to cross all the way to hipster. I don't know why we attract such nice non-attitudinous people, but we do. They sit at the bar and talk to total strangers for hours at a time.
And blessedly, most of them are happy drinking beer.

I have a show tonight but I'm looking forward to bartending tomorrow night because we just got Shiner Bock on tap!

Shiner Bock rocks.

My dad loves Shiner Bock.

my dads fav beer is: free

with cold being a close second

Good ol' Dad.

The local free paper does a feature every year that they call "the coldest beer in town" or something like that. They go around and order a pint from a hundred different bars and then when nobody's looking they stick a thermometer in it, and then they publish the results.

This is followed by the annual letters column in which a number of beer drinkers point out that ice-cold is only necessary for crappy beers with no taste, and most good beers shouldn't be served ice-cold.

free beer would probably not be of the best quality so in that case cold is a good choice.

I want to try a Buffalo 66: rosemary vodka, Worcestershire sauce, and beet juice. Anyone ever heard of it?

Sally wrote: "From my experience hipsters like to drink the same cocktails as the over 80 set."

Oh look, Sally does know what a hipster is.

BUSTED.

As much as I love kamakazis, that recipe should be locked away somewhere, along with Al Gore’s blueprint for the Internet.

Lobstergirl wrote: "I want to try a Buffalo 66: rosemary vodka, Worcestershire sauce, and beet juice. Anyone ever heard of it?"

Heard of it (my roommate is a bartender/waiter) but never felt the urge to try one. I don't want beet juice in my alcohol.

Hmmmm. I dont love beets but i winder if the Worcestershire does something miraculous.

I WONDER. Not winder.

I wah wah wah wah winder.....

Who wrote the book of love?

Tell me, tell me, tell me

Zardoz is in the Tardis wrote: "I remember buying a 'suitcase' of Pabst for 9.99."

Or Altes or Goebel "back in the day," resulting in a blackout, train-wreck, curb-retching, wake-up-in-where-the-hell-am-I drunk.

My stomach's churning just thinking about it.

Did anyone else every buy a case of Dubuque Star? Union-made in Dubuque Iowa. Long gone, sorry to say.

It's fun to name cocktails after people.

Zardoz is in the Tardis wrote: "I remember guzzling down a bottle of Mad Dog 20/20, or "church wine" as we used to jokingly call it, before heading to the clubs. Same for Thunderbird, I called that my 40 minute buzz."

Oh sweet Jesus, Mad Dog...

Wild Irish Rose--the first taste of alcohol Dr. Cynthia ever had. Once was quite enough.

Cynthia wrote: "Did anyone else every buy a case of Dubuque Star? Union-made in Dubuque Iowa. Long gone, sorry to say."

No, but I drank plenty of Holiday or Potosi beer made across the Mississippi from Dubuque in Potosi.

Clark wrote: "Oh sweet Jesus, Mad Dog... "

That pretty much says it all.

Feeling retro: Gin & It (like a sweet martini)

Something fluffy: a Snowball (as youngsters we were allowed one at Christmas!)

I really want to try a Black Russian but a simple G & T is the mixed drink of choice in our family (very English I'm afraid).

Don't do these 80s drinks!!!

Lager top: about 1cm of lemonade in the top of a pint of lager. What's the point?

Snakebite (& black): lethal mix of 1/2 lager and 1/2 cider (dash of blackcurrent to soften the blow).