OK. A guy in my job is having a cocktail party.
I’m positive the members of the SDMB know hundreds of fine recipes for delicious intoxicating cocktails that I couldn’t find in a book as you’ve tweaked the original idea.
All entries will be tested*
Cheers.
*Depending on availability of ingredients and somebody still standing 
While not technically a cocktail, Sangria is a great party drink…
4 bottles Cabernet Sauvignon, warm
1 bottle White Zinfandel, warm
3/4 quart orange juice
2 small cans pineapple juice
1 can Sprite
1/4 cup Grand Marnier
3 oranges, wheeled
3 limes, quartered
6 strawberries, halved
Let the ingredients sit warm in a vat for 2 hours. Then refrigerate overnight. When serving, pour over ice and add fresh fruit
not sangria. anything but sangria 
Reeder, you’re proposing that Irishmen drink SANGRIA?
Are you trying to POISON them???
(Jesus, yoji, in the land of Bushmills and Guinness this fellow wants to serve cocktails? That’s like going to Paris to eat McDonalds’ burgers!)
Ike…
Try it you’ll like it…
Besides I didn’t know he was Irish. And I was assuming this was a coed party. Are Irish women as hard a drinker as the men are rumored to be?
Sangria is the worst – just look at it and get drunk!
The only drink I ever make is a gin & tonic which is easy. You can also make a Lazy Tom Collins – take a highball glass with a shot of gin and fill it with Sprite. (A real Tom Collins has club soda, sugar, and lemon juice, but why not let The Coca-Cola Company prepare your mixer in advance?)
–Cliffy
Cosmopolitan of Glittering Bliss
1 part Stoli
1 part Triple Sec
4 parts Cranberry Juice (pure juice, like “Northland”. Not a juice cocktail)
1/2 squeezed lemon
Shake with ice and strain.
They’re very quick to make and absolutely delicious.
I shall be making my famous Mud Slides.
Well he is French so that sghould explain it. At a party last week the same guy made Sangria :eek:
I have to I’ve been know to have a few Cosmo’s in my day. They are extremely tasty.
Aggghhhhhhh! I DIDN’T HEAR that!
Well, if you MUST have cocktails, how about filling a tall glass pitcher with ice and dumping in a shot of dry vermouth and a litre of good gin? Have plenty of chilled Martini glasses on hand.
I’ll just sit sullenly here in my corner, nursing a half of malt. I’m not sure what a “half” is, but I read it in Joyce.
Ike, what can I say if it’s put in front of me I’ll drink it.
Now when I’m paying that’s a different matter. Then my tastes run close to yours.
Half a malt? Hmmmm, water?
Okay first you need to get some proper glasses and a punchbowl…
And Twisty sangria is quite alright, it’s the mudslides we have to stay away from…
I’m unfortunate enough to have actually seen yojimbo downing Cosmos.::shudders::
It was like someone had eaten one of the cast members from Sex and the City.
A half is a quarter of a gill or about one and a quarter ounces.
Half a maltcould be a very poor whiskey.
But my guess would go with Single malt with water.
“Here, garcon, bring us two halves of malt whisky, like a good fellow.”
– Ignatius Gallaher, in “A Little Cloud,” DUBLINERS.
…so I’m inclined to say manwithaplan is right. It means a 1/4-oz.-short jigger of a single malt whiskey.
(Notice that I spelled “whiskey” correctly, as in Irish or Bourbon…my copy of DUBLINERS is the Penguin edition, so some ponce editor in London probably substituted the Scottish/Canadian variant “whisky.”)
Unless, of course, they were out to get blasted, and Joyce meant 2 half pints of whiskey
A drink made with Stoli described as ABSOLUTely delicious? Bad posting form…minus 2 points.
Any more recipes. I’ve only enough to get a bit frisky so far
If ever there was a “Nectar of the Gods”, the MOJITO has to be it. It’s a Puerto Rican drink that makes my toes curl.
2-3 oz Light Rum
1 oz Lime Juice
2 tsp(s) Sugar
1 pinch(es) Mint
Fill glass(es) Soda Water
Directions: Place sugar, a large pinch (small handful) of mint, and splash of soda water in a pint glass. Use muddler to lightly press mint and dissolve sugar until it smells of spearmint gum. Squeeze both halves of lime into the glass, leaving one hull in the mixture. Add rum, stir, and fill with ice. Top with soda water and garnish with mint sprig.
You might need to experiment with the recipe a little. I usually add a bit more sugar.