Cocktails: Nola Ruin and Barnacle Grog (Name pending)

[crocos]

Two drinks: First is a hard drink, served up, the second a long drink over ice.

Please let me know if you try either of them!

Based heavily on the Logan's Ruin at Monterey, which is in turn a Sazerac style drink, I present:

THE NOLA RUIN -

• Chill the heck out of a old-fashionied glass with ice
• Make a simple syrup, add a shot to mixing glass (because couldn't find any Agave nectar in the supermarkets! Recently been taken out of the line-up that Progressive stocks apparently - I'll need to hit up Moore Wilsons or mexifoods.co.nz)
• Add a double of 1800 Anjeo tequila reserva to mixing glass
• Add a double of Laphroaig 10-year to mixing glass
• Add a double dash of Grapefruit bitters
• mix well with spoon.
  
• Pour a single shot (or a 1/2 shot if feeling parsimonious) of 170-proof absinthe. Light that puppy up! BURN BABY BURN! Snuff the flame after 10 sec or so.
• Empty ice out of old fashioned glass, pour in the absinthe shot, thoroughly coat the sides of the glass, then turf the absinthe.
  
• Slice off a very generous slice of orange peel - lightly bend it to make the oils come to the surface
  • optionally light it to give a pleasant slightly burnt tang
• put in old fashioned glass
• Pour content of mixing glass over the top of the peel & serve, no ice

Variation: Go to Monterey for the Logan's Ruin (Requires access to Newtown, Wellington, New Zealand. Damn good burgers too - pro-tier++)

Variation: Instead of a mixing glass, use a Shaker with ice. This brings out the tequila more, almost completely suppressing the smokiness of the Laphroaig

Variation: Use Peychard's Bitters or Orange Bitters instead of the Grapefruit Bitters. I may have to slap you if you use Agnostura.

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With Talk Like A Pirate day just last week, here is:

BARNACLE GROG - <Open to suggestions for better name>

• Fill a Collins glass (tall thin tumbler) with loosely-placed ice
• Two generous dashes of Peychards Bitters
• Three jiggers of Spiced Rum (I prefer old-fashioned spiced rums like Sailor Jerry's instead of the sweeter Captain Morgan, Coruba or Appletons - but match to taste and availability)
• Squeeze of fresh lime
• Top with Bunderburg ginger beer (Or any full-brewed ginger beer will do - the ginger-beer sodas are NOT acceptable)

Decorate with a slice of lime or spiralled citrus peal & serve. Pirates don't do umbrellas or straws. You crusty dog you.

Enjoy!

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Cocktails destroy weekends (or in this case, weeknights and their following weekdays). Stay safe OP.

[smitty]

Crocos' Chocolate Martini of EVIL.

Evil? No, that's the wrong word. Tasty is the word. VERY very tasty.

Oh, and fair warning: Follow the below to the letter and it will not taste alcoholic at all. :-)

Please let me know if you give this a go!

Chocolate Martini / Vodkatini (Serves 2)

Drinkables:

• White Crème de Cacao (lots) - Keep on ice
• Vanilla Vodka (I usually use Absolut - will need twice as much as the White CdC) - Keep on ice
• 42 Below Manuka Honey Vodka - Keep on ice
• Brown Crème de Cacao - Room temp (helps with layering)

Gear:

• Shaker (Classic, Bullet or Boston, doesn't matter) & strainer
• Ice
• 2x Cocktail glasses (aka Martini glasses) per shaker-full

Decorative Ideas:

• Curls of dark chocolate to float on top, or finely grated good milk chocolate
• Dark chocolate Pocky (sometimes sold as "Mens Pocky", oh you crazy Japanese)

Methodé:Into shaker with small handful of ice:

• 2 double-jiggers of Vanilla Vodka
• 1 double-jigger of White Crème de Cacao
• single jigger of Manuka Honey Vodka
• Cap and shake it like an unwanted step-child* until the damn thing gets too cold to hold uncomfortably, let alone comfortably.
• Ratio clarification: 4 parts Vanilla Vodka, 2 parts White Crème de Cacao, 1 part Manuka Honey Vodka.

Then:

• Split the shaker's contents between the two cocktail glasses
• Layer Brown Crème de Cacao to bottom of glass by holding bar-spoon to wall of glass - fill until 1/4 Brown CdC 3/4 other by volume
• Decorate & serve immediately

Tips:

This recipe can easily be doubled and still fit in most shakers, but it will take more shaking to get to the level of Arctic cold this recipe calls for.

* Note: The author does not condone violence towards step-children, even red-headed ones. Even if they're Lightspeed or moo.

[crocos]

♪♫ Ban, ban, ban all my ten accounts ♪♫

[GM]

I don't see the first one working, there's no way a shot of Laphroaig would find its way into into a mix of other drinks in my household.