Cocktails. Advice please!

Excellent. This is about to get serious!

First. Aperol, much recommended in this thread, has £2 off at Sainsbury's online. I was buying lots of other things so I got free delivery (midweek). Not sure if the offer is in-store as well.

http://www.sainsburys.co.uk/groceries/index.jsp?bmUID=1351200785743

Looks like I'll need soda or lemonade to add to it.

I've also bought three different Ginger Ales / Ginger Beers! Sorry annodomini yr post came too late otherwise I'd have just bought the Crabbies.

Luckily I did choose that and also have bought Belvoir and Sainsbury's.

Early start tomorrow, so it looks like serious "cocktail research" may have to wait until the weekend!

Any more recipes please.....

Crabbie's alcoholic ginger beer, good enough on its own.

Any advice on the best ginger beer(s) for cocktail mixing, pls??

Naaah, nelliemoser why?

Drinking in moderation.

You're only old/young once.

My advice is steer clear and think of your livers!

Thanks Isthisallthereis for the Aperol website info. Got 2 bottles of Aperol last time I was in duty free in Greece. Will be trying out new cocktail recipes now.

Advice please: some of these recipes contain Ginger Beer (ie NOT Dry Ginger or Ginger Ale).

So which Ginger Beer does anyone favour??

I know there are Fiery Jamaican ones in a cheap can (good?) and I have NEVER been impressed with any Fentiman product, they seem way overpriced. Cheap supermarket stuff in a giant 2 litre plastic bottle can't be any good, can it?

And are we talking alcoholic (in a cocktail, phew!) or non-alcoholic ie making a "long" drink?

Favourites for either please.

Wow tattynan never heard of Aperol, but see this - a page of Aperol cocktails!

www.aperol.com/?page_id=12

Yum!

Made by the people who make Campari and it originates in Parma (gorgeous place) so can't be bad. And it contains cinchona en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinchona

Fascinating stuff! "Every day's a schoolday"

Try and get a bottle of Aperol a lovely ltalian drink mixes well with lemonade.
Avoid the dry ice though - can't believe cocktail bars have been putting this in peoples drinks!

Bless.

I'll try!

jeni Get well – and coherent – soon.

I'm still not well POGS. I THOUGHT THAT WAS ABSENT CALLED HER FOLLOWING COCKTAIL. Oops, left caps lock on!
Think id better go back to bed.

Isthis

I haven't got a cocktail recipe but blimey can I come round to your place?. It sounds just my sort of house. (PARTY PAD).

Moscow Mule Yes that's the one thanks absent . Its such a lovely drink. My daughter says its also nice with a decent Whisky.

gillybob That's a Moscow Mule. isthisallthereis It is still good if gin is substituted for the vodka when it's called a Delft Donkey. jeni The Suffering Bastard was a different post from the Bellini and isn't at all like a Bellini, not least because it contains no peach juice, wine or grenadine but does contain gin, brandy, lime juice and ginger beer.

Ooops sorry isthisallthereis perhaps said while looking in the drinks cupboard and finding that there was no Vodka !!

aaaagh, not vodka please gillybob (see above)

Your suffering bastard

My favourite at the minute isthisallthereis is :

Vodka
Fresh Lime juice
Ginger Beer

Not sure if I can remember it's name but it is a lovely drink.

jeni Isn't what a version of a Bellini?

absentisnt this a version of a Bellini?

Now this is what I was hoping to see on Gransnet - I only joined yesterday and my horizons are widening no end!

Personal favourite is a Vodka Martini, very boring but I figure it can't be as calorific as some of these PUDDINGS!

Isthisallthereis - I'm abreviating your name, henceforth I TAT I - easier to remember when you've worked your way through the suggestions!!

isthisallthereis I'm not sure whether it's called a suffering bastard because it makes you feel that way if you drink too many or if it acts a hair of the dog when you've had too many the previous evening.

This is fruity, easy and refreshing.
Bellini: Stir together 2 measures chilled peach juice, 4 measures chilled Champagne or sparkling white wine and a dash of grenadine in a large wine glass. Thread a slice of peach and 2 raspberries on to a cocktail stick and use to decorate the glass.

Brandy Alexander, my favourite.
Brandy
Creme de cocoa
Cream
A little nutmeg
Shaken over ice!

My champagne cocktail
1/2measure brandy
1/2measure Cointreau
Top up with champagne
Serve poured over a sugar lump garnish with orange and lemon