Recommend me a REFRESHING manly cocktail for bars:

[Zeze]

I'm a scotch snob. I'm not a big fan of wine (too filling), and beer is only great with food. When I go out to a bar, sometimes I get sick of drinking scotch straight when I can just pour that at home.

What's an effort-worthy manly cocktail? It can be semi-sweet at most.

Mojito is too sweet and just terrible at most bars where they suck at it.

Gin & Tonic? Never tried. Does sound 'refreshing'.
Martini - not refreshing though.

I just heard of Manhattan. How is that? Sounds good.

Recommend away.

 

[Bateluer]

I like simple, Goose&Sprite.

 

[Ns1]

gimlets

 

[Brigandier]

7 & 7

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Gin & Tonic is good.

I like a good screwdriver.

 

[Zeze]

I like simple, Goose&Sprite.

No soda drinks. Too sweet and simple for them to make. I want them to make something bar-worthy that I can't just make easily at home.

 

[Crusty]

G&T and Manhattans are some of my favorites. Can't go wrong with Rum and Cokes either.

 

[Ns1]

No soda drinks. Too sweet and simple for them to make. I want them to make something bar-worthy that I can't just make easily at home.

they were banging these out at the last event i was at. took them forever

http://blogs.laweekly.com/squidink/2011/03/coles_old_fashioned.php

 

[Zeze]

7 & 7

Again, that's just 7up and whiskey. :\

 

[unxpurg8d]

Tom Collins <- Totally manly sounding!

 

[Brigandier]

Again, that's just 7up and whiskey. :\

Sorry, bro, time machine is on the fritz.

 

[The Boston Dangler]

g&t, tom collins

 

[richardycc]

rusty nail, if you love Scotch.

 

[zinfamous]

Gin and Tonic. very manly, super refreshing.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

A gin and tonic is a fine cocktail. Light enough and refreshing enough for warm summer evenings, manly enough that nobody will think you're gay if you order one.

 

[zinfamous]

No soda drinks. Too sweet and simple for them to make. I want them to make something bar-worthy that I can't just make easily at home.

I believe the manliness of a drink and complicated recipes are inversely proportional.

Once you've gone more complicated than the perfect Martini: Gin (AND ONLY GIN!!!), hint/splash/lacing of vermouth, olive juice + olives, shaken with ice and strained--then you are no longer manly.

 

[zinfamous]

A gin and tonic is a fine cocktail. Light enough and refreshing enough for warm summer evenings, manly enough that nobody will think you're gay if you order one.

yep. Just don't order Sapphire, though.

:hmm:

 

[mmntech]

Cuba Libre, aka the classic Rum & Coke.

Bloody Caesar, Bloody Mary's Canadian cousin.

• 6 oz. Clamato Juice
• 1&#8211;1&#189; oz. Vodka
• 2 Dashes hot sauce
• 4 Dashes Worcestershire sauce
• Celery salt
• Freshly ground pepper
• Lime wedge
• 1 Crisp celery stalk

 

[zinfamous]

Oh, a Capirinhia is very refreshing. Not terribly complicated, but does require effort. As manly as you would expect the manliness of the ave. Brazillian male.

:hmm:
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[zinfamous]

Oh frack! i forgot about the Bloody Mary. that is the manliest of all man drinks. And it's freaking awesome, especially for breakfast!

 

[ahenkel]

Oh frack! i forgot about the Bloody Mary. that is the manliest of all man drinks. And it's freaking awesome, especially for breakfast!

I was just reading on the science of a perfect Bloody Mary http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/8413989/The-science-of-a-perfect-Bloody-Mary.html

 

[Kadarin]

Adios MFer...

 

[tcsenter]

Anything with cranberry juice. Manhattans are pretty yummy - two cherries, please.

I'm fond of whiskey sours, too, but they can be anti-refreshing (tangy/sour).

 

[JulesMaximus]

I believe the manliness of a drink and complicated recipes are inversely proportional.

Once you've gone more complicated than the perfect Martini: Gin (AND ONLY GIN!!!), hint/splash/lacing of vermouth, olive juice + olives, shaken with ice and strained--then you are no longer manly.

Barf-o-rama :thumbsdown:

Vodka only, just whisper the word vermouth over the shaker, shake and strain. Serve with a rinsed olive so that it doesn't overpower the vodka with olive juice. Oh, and fill the shaker all the way with ice. Do not let the booze sit in the shaker. Once you pour, shake immediately and vigorously and strain into cocktail glass right away.

 

[zerocool84]

Adios MFer...

That'll get his party started for sure.