Cocktails

[BrianGSDTexoma]

Got a half pork butt on the smoker and most sides prepared now time for a cocktail. I try to stick with low carb drinks. I really missing my venors but it died with the virus and I guess never coming back. I been doing this one with tequila and diet ginger beer with a pack of lemon. These lemon and lime packs taste just like the real thing and handy when don't have any on hand.

What your favorites?

 

[Displaced Texan]

I guess beer is out. Scotch is low carb I think. Red wine. Not very good with smoking meat though.

 

[BrianGSDTexoma]

I guess beer is out. Scotch is low carb I think. Red wine. Not very good with smoking meat though.

We all start somewhere. Cooking and BBQ are my passion. Still have my failures. It part of the learning process. Where from Tx you from? I grew up just north of Detroit. Going to Mom funereal next month in Hart Mi.

 

[Displaced Texan]

We all start somewhere. Cooking and BBQ are my passion. Still have my failures. It part of the learning process. Where from Tx you from? I grew up just north of Detroit. Going to Mom funereal next month in Hart Mi.

Sorry to hear that.

I grew up in Fort Worth.

 

[SmokyMose]

Gave up hard liquor a few years ago, but I wasn't fancy. Absolut & Cranberry or a Vodka Martini suited me. Beer only now.
Sorry to hear about Mom. R.I.P.

 

[Wurstmeister]

 

[forktender]

Blanton's Bourbon with an orange wedge wiped on the rim of the glass or and a Classic Knob Creek Old Fashion if I want something a little sweeter. Either that or a Lone Star or Shiner Bock or lite beers if it's really hot, or I feel like pounding beers all day at the beach, pool or on the river bikini watching.

 

[Displaced Texan]

Blanton's Bourbon with an orange wedge wiped on the rim of the glass or and a Classic Knob Creek Old Fashion if I want something a little sweeter. Either that or a Lone Star or Shiner Bock or lite beers if it's really hot, or I feel like pounding beers all day at the beach, pool or on the river bikini watching.

Ooooooo, old fashioned. Good idea.

 

[forktender]

Vernor's is good stuff, we can still find it at our supermarkets, give it a month or two, and it will be back on the selves at your stores most likely. They halted production and US imports due to Covid according to their website. It says they will be ramping up production and shipping in the fall.

There is no way in hell that I would pay $38 for 18 cans of soda, even if it was the old time Coke that had Cocaine in it.

 

[pushok2018]

Such a coincidence... I fixed a cocktails for myself and noticed this post... Sometimes make classic cocktails like Manhattan, Margarita, rarely Long island ice tea... More often I play with recipes and fix my own cocktails, like this one: rom, Drambuie, Campari, Caravella and ice. This is hit or miss but I like to experiment... Never use cognac for cocktails -good cognac is good by it self....

 

[BrianGSDTexoma]

Blanton's Bourbon with an orange wedge wiped on the rim of the glass or and a Classic Knob Creek Old Fashion if I want something a little sweeter. Either that or a Lone Star or Shiner Bock or lite beers if it's really hot, or I feel like pounding beers all day at the beach, pool or on the river bikini watching.

Man I love old fashion. My whiskey works great for those. I need to go make some simple syrup now.

Long island ice tea

One of my favorites!

 

[thirdeye]

If I've ever had an actual Old Fashioned, I don't recall it.... in the West, this is about the most old fashioned drink we have.

 

[BrianGSDTexoma]

actual Old Fashioned

I make a sugar free simple syrup and 2 shots whiskey to one shot syrup than add these:

 

[SmokyMose]

If I've ever had an actual Old Fashioned, I don't recall it.... in the West, this is about the most old fashioned drink we have.

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I can't remember which chases which, but it's nationwide....

 

[Displaced Texan]

I went looking for some Scotch and all I have is Dewar's. Um....it was a gift.

 

[BrianGSDTexoma]

Old Fashion

Ooooooo, old fashioned. Good idea.

You all talked me into it.

 

[jcam222]

I made my wife a bunch of sugar free Kahlua last year and a batch of sugar free Irish cream. She also LOVES cocktails made with vodka or white rum and any of the Ocean Spray Diet cranberry drinks. Especially the cran pineapple and cran mango

 

[chopsaw]

I can't remember which chases which, but it's nationwide....

That's why I just mix 'em together .

I go with Beam black over ice and a splash of water . When I was in Tennessee last June , I had some peach moonshine mixed with pineapple juice and a blue sports drink . Man it's good on a hot day .

 

[Displaced Texan]

Lazy with the Cuervo mix, but it is very good with this tequila liqeuer.

 

[BrianGSDTexoma]

Lazy with the Cuervo mix, but it is very good with this tequila liqeuer.

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Man I love that Agavero!!! Brought some back Mexico 20 years ago and fell in love with it. I want to try the orange.