QotD: I'll Have The Usual
If a waiter stopped by right now to take your order, what cocktail or drink are you having?
Why stop at just one? It's Friday, and that means it's time for a 5ive.
Tonight's drink order:
1. Gimlet. With gin, please, none of that nancyman vodka. I like a 3:1 ratio, if you don't mind.
2. Tom Collins. Lovely. Again, if you dare suggest to me a poseur Collins featuring vodka, I will suckerpunch you.
3. How about a rum and tonic for a change? Yes, lime--lime makes everything better. *slurp*
4. Ooh, now it's time to break out the Campari. Let's go with a drink I call the GinBaby: an ounce of gin (the good gin, thanks), an ounce of Campari, top it off with tonic water and a lemon slice. Gracias y muchos besos all around.
5. Jeshush, I need a beer. Or, have you any lambic? No? OK, then, hefeweizen. Oh, what the hell, go ahead and throw the lemon slice in there--I'm in a good mood.
I may now need a shot of -brisk!- Akvavit to wake me up. It is, after all, the very water of life.
RE: #4. Does that combination actually have a name? I know it is akin to a negroni, but not. I used to get it all the time in a friend's bar in Numazu, Japan, and there they hadn't heard of it, so they just started calling it after me. It's good, though.
Lately I've been drinking a drink I'm calling "The Babysitter." It's Jones Pure Cane Soda Lemon Drop (which tastes just like CC Lemon, a drink I completely adore) mixed with a Campari-esque liqueur I made from mountain ash berries up in Alaska. I don't measure--I just pour until it looks a pleasing color and then drink. Sweet and sour and bitter, all at the same time. If you dusted the rim with salt, it'd be a treat for the entire tongue. I used to drink gin-and-CC Lemon a lot in Japan, too. But I'm guessing that the esoteric nature of these ingredients would flummox your average waiter. The above listed 5 drinks will do nicely.
Hop to it if you want your tip, handsome.
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I think I might have to start drinking the GinBaby. I have a bottle of Campari that I don't see us finishing in any other way before we move in 8 months. Cheers!
The Ginbaby, you say? I've been drinking this off and on, as an alternative to the G&T, for about a year, but never got clever enough to invent a name for it. Assuming we're talking about the same thing -- I basically mix a full-strength G&T but leave enough room for a jigger of Campari. I'm also equal-opportunity when it comes to lemon or lime here.
One last thing: no Elsinore?
Haha. Yeah, the Elsinore. I still do drink that from time to time, but last night I was feeling citrusy. Probably you noticed a theme? The drink you're making sounds about right--the Campari G&T. Surely, that drink was invented by some clever barkeep, sometime, and has a proper name, but I haven't found one. I like calling it the Ginbaby anyway--my vanity knows few bounds.
Certainly vodka has a place, but my pet theory is that the now-widespread and totally uncalled for substitution of vodka for gin in the martini, gimlet, collins, and so forth is because vodka is fairly neutral and so you can cover it up with any sort of sweet thing and that satisfies the Kool-Aid tastes Americans now seem to have. There's nothing wrong with sweet and fruity, per se, but if that's all you can appreciate, then your palate is still stuck on the kids' menu. In a gin gimlet, for example, which is somewhat sweet and fruity, the gin is still going to assert itself and bring the wide range of flavors it ideally has; the vodka isn't, so you're really just tasting lime juice. It's a damn shame.
Vodka certainly has a place in the Bloody Mary and in screwdrivers, because when you're drinking these in the morning, it's best if you can pretend to yourself and your loved ones that you're really just drinking healthful juice.
I tend to prefer either lemon or lime for certain drinks, although in a pinch I will freely substitute. I believe we even used to drink pseudo-Tom Collins at your house with lime, and that didn't bother me at all. But for the Ginbaby, lemon is preferred, just as for rum (or gin) and tonic, limes are preferred. There's no reason to be dogmatic about it, though.
Dude. In the post, see how "gimlet" is pink? Click on it, and Wikipedia will tell all.
*sigh* It's a drink of gin and lime juice, Rose's lime juice to be specific, with 4 or 3 parts gin to 1 part lime juice. Yum.
Yes, I did, but I didn't think that had to stop from being, you know, all condescending.
Oh, no...not the sip n dip. Nooooooo. That place is too surreal.