# The best cocktail...
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-cocktail/150321
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [January 23, 2003, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-cocktail/150321 "2003-01-23T00:30:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@peepthis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peepthis)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2003, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-cocktail/150321/21 "2003-01-24T00:04:56Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Ukulele Ike \*
> **Equal parts brandy, white creme de cacao (chocolate liqueur), and heavy cream. Stir with ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass.**
**Ike’s** is one variation, but the more common version uses dark creme de cacao (its color blends more nicely with the brandy than the clear stuff), and sprinkle either nutmeg (preferred) or cinnamon atop the final mixture. Great stuff!
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### Author:  [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2003, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-cocktail/150321/22 "2003-01-24T01:13:57Z")
Pretty much agree with **Flymaster** but …
Perfect Vodka Martini is made shaken with those little plastic
Ice cubes, so that you don’t dillute the Vodka.
Per Person
Requires a glass of the best Vodka you can afford, a tea-spoon of extra dry martini. Shake with the frozen plastic ice cubes, and serve in chilled martini glasses which have had a carefully dryed green olive placed in the bottom of the glass.
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### Author:  [@irishgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irishgirl)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2003, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-cocktail/150321/23 "2003-01-24T01:17:44Z")
wusses.
long island ice tea.
it’s about the most alcohol you can get in a glass.
alternatively…
a black russian ( cola, tia maria, vodka) with a guinness head.
get drunk like only the irish know how!
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### Author:  [@Birds\_On\_A\_Bat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Birds_On_A_Bat)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2003, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-cocktail/150321/24 "2003-01-24T01:21:47Z")
Waborita. Mix equal parts fresh lime juice, cointreau, and tequila in a shaker over ice. Serve in a salt rimmed martini glass and garnish with a slice of lime. Preferred tequila is Cabo Wabo, but any tequila will do the trick.
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### Author:  [@Rhum\_Runner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhum_Runner)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2003, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-cocktail/150321/25 "2003-01-24T19:28:03Z")
Damn! I always come in late on the drinking threads! For me, a gin & tonic can’t be beat, (I like Saphire, but Tangaray is very good too) A gin gimlet is also very good. I like simple cocktails, nothing too fancy.
If you want something kinda different, I went through a phase of drinking 1/3 Captain Morgan’s mixed with 2/3 apple juice over ice. Hmmm, rum.
Brandy Alexanders can knock you on your ass in a hurry.
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### Author:  [@Cosmopolitan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cosmopolitan)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2003, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-cocktail/150321/26 "2003-01-24T19:39:20Z")
Cosmopolitans, of course! 😉 And any drink made with blue curacao’ll probably look interesting & taste pretty nice as well. Then there’s Stolichnaya Raspberry & 7-Up, which I thoroughly enjoy.
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### Author:  [@radar\_ralf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/radar_ralf)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2003, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-cocktail/150321/27 "2003-01-24T21:22:06Z")
Harvey Wallbanger: 1.5 ounces vodka, 1.5 ounces Galliano liqueur, ice, and orange juice in a tall glass. Slippery nipple: 1.5 ounces Buttershots, 1.5 ounces Bailey’s Irish Cream. Duck Fart: 1 ounce Kahlua, 1 ounce Bailey’s Irish Cream, 1 ounce Seagram’s Seven, ice. Pousse Cafe: slowly pour these ingredients into a tall parfait glass, in the following order -
1/4 ounce Grenadine
1/4 ounce Yellow Chartreuse
1/4 ounce Creme Yvette
1/4 ounce Creme de Menthe
You end up with a layered drink.
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