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[Anonymous No.15288741]

Got a shaker and a bunch of related bartender tools for Christmas. I've never really made mixed drinks aside from a screwdriver. What are some good cocktails to try? Also I'm trying to find a cocktail that a girl that hates the taste of alcohol would enjoy.

[Anonymous No.15288826]

>>15288741
Give her a White Russian, bitches love White Russians.

[Anonymous No.15288833]

>>15288741
Espresso Martini's are pretty banging

[Anonymous No.15288838]

>>15288741
Not every cocktail is shaker worthy.

I'd start with mojitos for the alcohol hater. It goes down like sweet minty sugar. It can be muddled with your muddling stick, and also shaken. but no need to strain it.

[Anonymous No.15288843]

>>15288741
Old Fashioneds and Whiskey Sours are classics. Tequila Sunrise if you want to learn a fancier, more presentation-heavy drink to impress women. Zombies for tiki night theme parties.

[Anonymous No.15288845]

>>15288838

>Mojitos
You mean possibly the most famous built not shaken cocktail there is?

[Anonymous No.15288854]

Manhattans are classic for a reason.

[Anonymous No.15288856]

>>15288854
>Manhattans
A classic stirred-not-shaken cocktail

[Anonymous No.15288858]

>>15288843
>Tequila Sunrise
>Fancier
Tequila Sunrise is a trashpeople drink that is only acceptable to drink when you have those ingredients and nothing else available to you

Old fashioneds and whisky sours are good though.

[Anonymous No.15288867]

>>15288856
You can stir in a boston tin.

[Anonymous No.15288894]

>>15288867
You can stir in almost any vessel
>Inb4 metal keeps it colder
You're better to stir in a glass vessel or it will take 5x longer to dilute the drink down to the proper volume/strength

[Anonymous No.15288912]

>>15288741
Daquiris. They've only got a few ingredients and are really easy to get good at. Would recommend.

[Anonymous No.15288941]

>>15288912
Oh yeah, bitches love daquiris. Margaritas too for Cinqo de Mayo parties.

[Anonymous No.15288985]

Why do people think those are good gifts? Their only purpose is speed of use in a bar setting. Any retard can mix one or two drinks over the course of a night,

[Anonymous No.15289068]

>>15288985
If you don't have a shaker, how are you making shaken drinks?

[Anonymous No.15289635]

>>15288741
Any sour is excellent practice and works well as a jumping off point for loads of other drinks. I would suggest getting good at making syrups, too.

>>15288894
I'm going off just Liquid Intelligence here, but Dave Arnold does have a preference for stirring in half of a boston tin. It's perfectly fine.

>>15288985
It's tools of the trade. You can't muddle without a muddler; while you can stir with any spoon, it's easier to stir with a barspoon because of the long handle; you can't shake without a shaker, and straining is way harder.

[Anonymous No.15289699]

>>15289635
>Dave Arnold does have a preference for stirring in half of a boston tin
It's fine to have preferences but its less practical and in a commercial setting, it's less theatrical which might be wanky but it matters

[Anonymous No.15289713]

>>15288741
I was tasked with making several 'beetus cocktails over Christmas. The recipe is as follows
2 parts rum
1 part blue curacao
1 part rum chata
1 part pineapple juice
Blended

I couldn't taste the alcohol at all, it just tasted like sugar.

[Anonymous No.15289752]

Daiquiris
Mai tais
Whiskey sours

[Anonymous No.15289754]

>>15288741
Start with sours. It's always 2 parts spirit, 1 part lemon or lime juice and 1 part simple syrup shaken over ice.
The citrus juice and sugar cut off the alcoholic taste while giving the drinks some freshness.
Start with Daiquiris. Girls often like them. You can go fancy and mix Hemingway Daiquiris, but those are more complicated and you need more ingredients.

[Anonymous No.15289761]

>>15289754
2 part spirit 1 part citrus and 1 part syrup is a bit sweet, I'd half the amount of syrup

[Anonymous No.15289779]

Motherfucking gin sour with egg and Peychaud's bitters, nigger

[Anonymous No.15289780]

>>15289779
Fuck aye

[Anonymous No.15289807]

>>15289761
Never half the sugar when you want to mask the alcohol for girls. For some even 2:1:1 is to sour/tard.

[Anonymous No.15289809]

>>15289761
>1 part citrus and 1 part syrup
That's called balance and it isn't sweet.

[Anonymous No.15289920]

>>15289809
>>15289807
It is sweet, it's not appropriate for a "sour"

[Anonymous No.15289941]

>>15289754
You forgot to add egg white

[Anonymous No.15290001]

>>15289920
A balanced sour is still sour. You're just not chilling your drinks enough. Sweetness fades with decreased temperature.

[Anonymous No.15290067]

>>15290001
I've been a cocktail bartender for 8/9 years, I know how to chill a drink and I know how to make a sour. And 1:1 citrus to syrup is not a sour unless you're underage.

[Anonymous No.15290070]

>>15288741
Moscow mule is pretty comfy, but you won't be able to flex your shaker skills. Still recommend tho, it's easy and tasty.
Your girl might like it as the alcohol used is vodka mixed with ginger beer and lime

[Anonymous No.15290094]

>>15289941
fuck off, egg white is shit in sours

[Anonymous No.15290154]

>>15290094
You literally cannot make a sour without one unless you're a yankedoodle americant

[Anonymous No.15290161]

>>15290154
you literally can, you manbaby faggot. don't be such a gatekeeping pedant like some italian nonna shitting her Depends about carbonara.

[Anonymous No.15290183]

>>15290067
>I've been a cocktail bartender for 8/9 years,
Sad you've been making unbalanced shit for so many people. But yeah, bartenders are generally room temp IQ shit for brains.

[Anonymous No.15290190]

>>15290161
You're the idiot that needs a gallon of sugar to consume your alcohol you ignorant childish fuck

[Anonymous No.15290201]

>You're the idiot that needs a gallon of sugar to consume your alcohol you ignorant childish fuck
cool strawman, bro. I didn't say anything of the sort but please, keep trying.

[Anonymous No.15290206]

>>15289754
>>15289807
>>15289809
>>15290001
>>15290094
>>15290183

Source is Diffords Guide. Read it and weep faggots.

[Anonymous No.15290219]

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Perfect eggnog cocktail because you probably have some lying around

[Anonymous No.15290220]

>>15290206
>"one way is the right way"
god this whole board has the collective reasoning skills of a pack of middle schoolers

[Anonymous No.15290233]

>>15290220
Difford's Guide is internationally recognised as a default reference for bartenders. It's not that that there is only one way to do things, but this is the most widely recognised source.

[Anonymous No.15290251]

>>15290206
Op asked for cocktails for a girl, who doesn't like alcohol. So stop recommending drinks that are way to strong and sour/bitter. Are you retarded?

[Anonymous No.15290269]

>>15290251
Women loves sours you basic bitch, especially when they're made properly

[Anonymous No.15290272]

[Anonymous No.15290287]

>>15290206
Ahem, get a real cocktail book.

[Anonymous No.15290297]

>>15290233
I know what Difford's is, you ponce. But I don't pretend there's only one way to do things.

[Anonymous No.15290300]

>>15290272
thats not very much rum, i dont think anyone would get buzzed from that

[Anonymous No.15290302]

>>15290287
Quoting liquid intelligence written by an American attempting to write a recipe for a non-traditional drink in his country versus the internationally recognised standard for cocktails doesn't make you smart, it highlights the glaring knowledge gaps in your pretence.

[Anonymous No.15290305]

>>15290272
Nutcrackers are delicious

[Anonymous No.15290308]

>Quoting liquid intelligence written by an American attempting to write a recipe for a non-traditional drink in his country versus the internationally recognised standard for cocktails doesn't make you smart, it highlights the glaring knowledge gaps in your pretence.

[Anonymous No.15290312]

>>15288741
French Martini's? The raspberry hides the alcohol quite well

[Anonymous No.15290317]

>>15290272
>can of diet soda
>entire bottle of gatorade
>2 bananas
>6 ounces of rum
6 ounces is 4 shots. Do incels really believe they can get a girl passed out drunk by slipping her 4 shots of rum by way of having her choke down all that other garbage? At most you're going to make them vomit - even without the rum.

[Anonymous No.15290318]

>>15288741
>a girl that hates the taste of alcohol
If she can't handle alcohol she can't handle cum so why waste your time

[Anonymous No.15290357]

>>15290206
>>15290302
Ok how about meehans Pisco Sour.

[Anonymous No.15290381]

>>15290302
>believes IBA is somehow relevant
Have you tried to fucking make their cocktails following their exact recipes?

I started working through the entire list of IBA cocktails and too many of their ratios are undrinkable. I'll still continue my IBA journey but they are only a starting point. My disappointment is immeasurable with the IBA. What a fucking joke. I'm fucking mad and I wish there as an IBA list alternative I could work through.

Also
>not knowing that America is more responsible for cocktails than any other country on the planet
Pathetic, anon.

[Anonymous No.15290398]

>>15290381
Kek, you're literally the first person to mention IBA you fucking retard