As I am going out today I've made up a list of both my favourite drinks and variations of those that I've found on the net.
This is a drink list for well-stocked bars, but there are also plenty here for the less coctail-y places.
I'll put it it here - these are simple, and are also easy to make at home, of transform into punches. As a punch, you could make one batch and just throw in some spirits if you are to serve them at a party.
The one problem I run into is that bartenders tend to be somewhat unwilling to make AF drinks. I don't know why, really.
I usually see their unwillingness and raise them an ulcer operation, but even that does not always work.
What I do then is order the drink in part.
For instance, one ginger beer and one plain mineral water, on ice, with a slice of lime.
Get the drinks, and mix them together. I now have a simple ginger fizz.
Or, a soda and a glass of grapefruit juice with ice - mix them together and you got two glasses of a refreshingly bitter Rock Shandy, the bartender be damned!
Here's ma list:
Virgins & Drivers
->Ginger beer + soda, lime twist
Ginger beer + Iced tea, possibly seltzer
Ginger beer + bitters
Ginger beer + juice + seltzer
Ginger beer + soda + lemon juice
->Tonic + bitters, lime slice
Tonic + lemon juice + seltzer
->Virgin Daiquiris
->Virgin Mojito
->Shirley Temple - Sprite + grenadine, garnish
Monday Shirley Temple - seltzer + grenadine, garnish
Sunset Temple - Sprite + grenadine + orange juice, garnish
Monday Sunset Temple - seltzer + grenadine + orange juice, garnish
->Bitter Virgin: Soda, a few drops of bitter, garnish
Angry Virgin: seltzer, a few drops of bitters, garnish
Bittersweet Virgin: Juice, seltzer, a few drops of bitter, garnish
->Boston Cooler - Ginger beer+ ice cream
->Thin Man: Alcohol-free beer, seltzer (seltzer), massive lime twist
->Juice spritzer: Juice with soda /seltzer, lime garnish
->Rock Shandy: Soda, lemonade, bitter
->Roy Rogers: Cola, grenadine, coctail cherry for garnish
->Muddy Water: Cola, orange juice
->Pomme Noir: Apple juice, cola
->Mock Campagne: Apple juice, Ginger beer, lemon juice/grapefruit juice, mix to get right colour
Mock Campagne coctails are easy, fun and nice - put in crushed raspberries, curly orange zest and a drop of cranberry juice, add a sugar cube and atwo-three red chili "straws" (jardiniere). Sky's the limit!
