[Ladybug09]

Based on another thread "Ever Feel Like Getting Drunk During the Day," it got me to thinking, What is your signature drink of choice? You know, that drink you alway like to order when you go out with friends.

My drink I always order is a Vodka Gimlet. There was this game I used to play where you had to mix drink for your customers, and one of the drinks in the game was a Vodka Gimlet. So one day I decided to order it and I really like it. So, since it's light on the tummy and on the Head, I always order this when I got out to bars. I have a lot of people ask me, "What is that?"

Please feel free to tell your story, and if you like, share a recipe of your favorite drink. Here is my recipe, and it's pretty easy to make. I mostly get mine on the rocks.

Vodka Gimlet

The Bartender's Bible by Gary Regan lists the recipe as:

• 2 oz. gin/Vodka
• 1/2 ounce Rose's lime juice
• Garnish with lime wedge

or...

4 parts gin/vodka
1 part sweetend lime juice

serve in an old fashioned glass

Here is a little history on the drink...
The gimlet is a cocktail typically made of gin or vodka and lime juice (such as Rose's)
A 1928 description of the drink was: "gin, a spot of lime, and soda" (D. B. Wesson, I'll never be Cured III). A 1953 description was: "a real gimlet is half gin and half Rose's Lime Juice and nothing else" (Terry Lennox in Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye).


I thought this way would be a neat way to make it for a Cocktail party:

The following vodka gimlet recipe is from the novels of Stuart Woods: "Pour six ounces of vodka from a 750 ml bottle; replace with six ounces Rose's Sweetened Lime Juice (available from nearly any grocery), add a small amount of water for ice crystals, shake twice and store in the freezer overnight. Pour into a martini glass and serve straight up. The glass will immediately frost over. With this recipe, no cocktail shaker is required and the cocktail is not watered down by melting ice. You may use even the cheapest vodka, and no one will ever know."

[cristalena56]

i like strawberry daquiris but most places where you go out at dont make frozen drinks i like mudslide shots

[twin53]

chablis or champagne

[Virginia]

Long Island Ice Teas

[Ladybug09]

Long Island

A Long Island Iced Tea is a highball made with, among other ingredients, vodka, gin, tequila, and rum. A popular version mixes equal parts vodka, gin, tequila, rum and triple sec with 1 1/2 parts sour mix and a splash of cola. Close variants often replace the sour mix with sweet and sour mix or with lemon juice, and the cola with actual iced tea. Some chain restaurants even take the liberty of substituting brandy for the tequila.
Fans and historians claimed that the drink, like most highballs, was invented during the Prohibition era, as a way of taking the appearance of a non-alcoholic drink (iced tea). A lemon slice is often added to enhance this resemblance.
The drink has a much higher alcohol concentration (~28%) than most highballs because of the proportionally small amount of mixer. The soda is just for color.
This highball is often altered in other countries, due to the unpopularity of sour mix. Long Island Iced Tea served outside the States is often made of liquors and cola alone (without sour mix), with lemon or lime juice, or with lime cordial.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Island_Ice_Tea



Strawberry Daiquari
Daiquiri (properly spelled with an acute accent on the final letter ["daiquirí"] and pronounced [daiki'ɾi] but commonly anglicized to ['dækəɹi] and written without the accent) is a family of cocktails whose main ingredients are rum, lime juice, and sugar or other sweetener[1]. There are several versions, but those that gained international fame are the ones made in the El Floridita bar [2] in Havana, Cuba.
The Daiquiri is one of six basic drinks listed in David A. Embury's classic The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks. In the book, he also suggests some variations, such as substitute part or all of syrup with grenadine.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strawberry_daiquiri

[truegem]

I am a plain jane...amaretto sour or malibu and coke.

[louis loves fendi 818]

Vodka on the rocks.

[LV&Lexus07]

Jack Daniel's & Coke.

[Ladybug09]

^^^^Om Goodness...that is my Friend's most favorite drink.

[lvuittonaddict]

either cosmos or bellini's

[chellabratz]

My younger days I would always get mudd slides n long island ice tea :) those were the days...
Now i love to get mango martinis n mango mojitos :) yummm

[sil]

I quite enjoy Caesar's that are made with Clamato and a spicy pickled bean for garnish instead of the celery stick.

[Sophie-Rose]

Vodka & Lime :)

[laureenthemean]

Mango margaritas! Yum!

[Nymph]

Lychee martinis or champagne