probably a margarita more than anything, with manhattan a close second.
from time to time, I get gin gimlets, G&T’s, V&T’s and martinis.
At home, I make margaritas, manhattans, V&T’s and G&T’s.
To my great consternation, I can’t make a good martini.
:smack: Please remember to add smiley after Duh… 
I’m trying to remember, because it’s been about 9 months or so since I’ve had one. It’s served in a shot glass, and it’s Southern Comfort, with a bit of cream that stays suspended in the center of the booze (hence “Thundercloud”–it looks just like a little cloud), with a float of Bacardi 151.
A bourbon and diet cola. Preferably Maker’s Mark. Sometimes I will get a Bacardi and diet cola or Captain Morgan’s and diet cola.
How do you like your martinis? Maybe I can help.
Who cares if Mojitos aren’t ‘trendy’ anymore? I love them! Same goes for Cosmopolitans, too.
Canadian Club double sweet manhattan. I’m discovering that I’m actually a fan of sweet vermouth, so I usually ask for them mixed in equal parts. This is probably nauseating to lots of people, but I don’t care.
Oh dear, I’m on vacation for a couple weeks. Much experimenation to ensue when I get back, though. My minions (I mean co-workers) are in for a 2 am taste test.
If I order a mixed drink, I’m usually in one of my favorite family owned Mexican restaurants. So it’s usually a frozen margarita. Yum. Every now and then I’ll get a tequila sunrise or a mudslide. There’s also a steakhouse which makes a mixed drink called a Lone Star, which is confusing as there’s a rather popular beer called Lone Star too. Anyway, the Lone Star mixed drink is rum and pineapple juice and something else, I forget what, with a cherry. It’s very refreshing.
One of the Mexican restaurants has a non-alcoholic Strawberry Swirl that is very good indeed. Sometimes I order that.
Usually, though, I just drink a beer. I like Grolsch (though I usually can’t get it in a restaurant), Heineken, and Dos Equis, preferably in the green bottle.
I think I’m gonna have to go out to eat tonight.
I usually order a Kamikaze (sp?) if I order something mixed. However, I don’t usually order mixed drinks, so more often than not, I just grab a glass of red wine or Amberbock, an Anheuser-Busch microbrew.
my problem is they tend to either taste like pure gin or pure vermouth. I don’t buy this “just wave the vermouth bottle over the glass stuff”.
My typical martini is gin, straight up, with an olive.
As opposed to the other drinks I listed which are all pretty sweet, i do tend to like “no sweet” things. scotch, neat is actually my most typical drink.
Last was this weekend at the Atlanta restaurant that rotates on top of the downtown Westin. Very cool… Anyway, I had a fresh peach daiquiri that was yummy! Otherwise it’s margaritas or amaretto sours.
Either:
Irish Whiskey on the rocks (in order of preference: Powers, Jameson, Bushmills)
or a good single malt Scotch neat, with Glenlivet being the poison of choice.
Those are for times when I’m enjoying myself and the drink.
Onstage, my drink of choice is beer or Dewars & Soda, with a lemon - double shot of Dewars, in a pint glass, soda to the top. Disturbingly refreshing, but I can only enjoy about one per set without risking embarassing public drunkenness. Yes, it has happened in the past…
On the beer front, just about any decent IPA, APA or Pilsener will suffice. The default beer of choice is Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. The cheap cold domestic of choice is Blatz or Natty Bo.
P
Well, I used to be a margarita girl. Then I went though a phase of loving the Italian Margaritas at Carino’s, until I got sick after eating there one night and never went back.
For the past few years, though, it’s always been a Vodka Collins. Now, Stonebow does the scotch and soda thing, so when we we go to bars these days, it’s almost automatic. Scotch and Soda…Vodka Coliins…
Drinks that float or chase or froth have never been my thing. I despise drinks that come in weirdly shaped glasses with beads or tassels hanging off it.
Does this mean we are boring, too?
FB
I have you all beat for boring and trite: Fuzzy Navels. If they don’t have the goods for that, I’ll get a cranberry juice and vodka, or maybe a raspberry or peach daiquiri.
Yeah, I know, real girly and fruity. I don’t care. I order food and drinks because I like the taste of them, not to be “cool.”
Bloody Mary and a snit. mmmmmmmmmmmm
The Bloody Mary should be spicy, with 3 peal&eat schrimp, cheese-stuffed celery, a pickle, black olive and green olive.
All the basic food groups.
Unless it’s morning. Then you can skip the schrimp, and add a beefstick
Vodka gimlet. I love limes, and when I make them at home I eat the lime pulp after squeezing out the juice; at a bar, I don’t usually get to do that.
Daniel
Start with a good gin. Bombay Sapphire or Citadelle. Fill a shaker with a few ice cubes (not too many or you dilute the gin). I am partial to glass shakers. Chill the martini glass and then put 1/4 oz vermouth in the glass. I don’t like Martini and Rossi, I prefer Cinzano Extra Dry. Pour 1.5 oz gin into the shaker and “cure” the gin. In other words, swirl it around in the shaker…neither shaken nor stirred, until the gin is really cold. Now, swirl the vermouth around in the chilled glass until the vermouth coats the inside of the glass. Strain gin into the glass and add olive (I like my olive on a sword pic…YMMV)
It may seem very time consuming, but I make martinis like this even when I am at work (I tend bar) and once you get proficient, it doesn’t take any more time than slopping all of the ingredients into the shaker and pouring it into an un-chilled glass.
I don’t order mixed drinks very often, but when I do I typically order either a cosmopolitan or an Absolut and Seven (mandarin and seven if I wasnt a sweeter drink). I used to drink Southern Comfort on the rocks- a lot… Nowadays I usually order wine (piesporter, guveisteminer(sp?) or white zin) or a beer- Guinness preferably.
I forgot, when the wife and I go out for a couple of games of pool, we both tend to have Long Island Iced Tea.