60 Hillcrest

Probably I just didn't do it right. But regardless of its all-good ingredients, it was bland and sweet for me.
Wouldn't make it again.

1 oz. Bacardi White Rum
1 oz. Beefeater Dry Gin
Orange Juice
Sprite

Jedi

1 oz Blue Curacao
1/3 oz Creme de Cacao
milk

Sounds quite funky.
Looks? Inedible.
Tastes too sweet.

It's not bad as the ingredients sound, but I won't eat it again.

French Dream

1 oz Bailey's
1 oz Kahluah
1 oz Chambord or Creme de Cassis

Of course, I don't have money for Chambord, so used cassis.
Looks from the outside, think of milk + acid.
Better than it looks.

Royal Cassis

I guess I kind of like cassis.

Brandy 2 oz
Creme de Cassis 1 oz

Egg nog

I didn't know that the day I make this kind of the drink in my life.

We had a Christmas cocktail party, in which all the participants should make one cocktails of their own. So, I decided to make one that really sounds like christmas.
Egg nog.

But wait, all the ingredients are telling me that this isn't going to be my favorite drink.
Anyways, for the bunch of foreigners in this country celebrating Christmas,
Eggnog will be a good option.

I, again followed Jefferey's recipe.

2 Large eggs
-> Beat it for a minute in a blender
3 oz granulated sugar
-> Add it to a blender and beat it for an additional minute.
1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
2 oz Brandy
2 oz Spiced rum
6 oz Whole milk
4 oz Heavy Cream

Pretty handful.
It wasn't very good for me, but I guess everybody else liked it.
Well paid effort.

Arnaud

1.5 oz Gin
1.5 oz Creme de Cassis
1.5 oz Dry Vermouth

Heard that it's after the name of some French Actress.

Sounds very berry, and yes, it is.
Strong scents of cassis and vermouth almost erases the
unwanted and unique smell of gin.

Pretty pleasant mix.
(though it isn't very much to my taste.)

Sunnier Sour

Right to my taste.
All the ingredients are of my favor. Couldn't go wrong, I guess.
Proportions are a bit quirky, but worth trying it.

4 oz. Club Soda
1 1/2 oz. Grapefruit Juice
1 1/4 oz. Dark Rum
1/2 tsp. Superfine Sugar
1/4 oz. Lemon Juice

Stinger

Leo without vermouth.
It was more predictable. And pretty much as expected.

Would be pretty good for those who like the taste of mint, and some heavy alcohol volume.

2oz Brandy
3/4oz White creme de menthe
-> Shake

Leo the Lion

I guess the source of my recipes are either of one, mostly.
One is from the comic book, and the other one is http://haromk2.egloos.com


Had no idea how it will come out, but it was better than I expected.
Pretty good. By the time, I had to believe the power of the brandy.

Dry Vermouth 2 oz
Brandy 1/2 oz
White mint 1tsp
(4:1:1/3)

Blood Orange

I don't even remember where I found this recipe, nor have I tried it yet.

Just for future reference.

Blood Orange
1.5 oz Bombay Sapphire Gin
.75 oz Campari
.75 oz dry vermouth
1.5 oz fresh orange juice
-> Shake

Spumoni

In a comic book that I mentioned earlier, it was written that there are some golden combination, that can never go wrong. One of them was grapefruit juice and tonic water.
Well, those two are my own preferred drinks, so why not try the recipe?
The name seems to be more frequently used to refer the italian desserts, but who cares.

Version found on the web:
3/4 Campari
1 part Grapefruit juice
1 part Tonic water

Version on the comic book:
Campari 2
grapefruit Juice 3 -> stir
+ Tonic Water

Campari Orange

I guess I have some issues with Campari. It's even more bitter than actual bitters to me.
I don't know it this is normal or not, but it's simply bitter.
Adding one part more of OJ gave me an acceptable balance between the bitterness and other flavors., but the resulting product doesn't qualify as an alcoholic drink, at least for me.


Campari 1
Orange Juice 3
->Stir

Tequila Slammer

One drink that occurs to me when I recollect back of drinking days in college.
The rare occasion of being in my favorite bar by myself was with this drink.

Bad hangover follows, but a good killer. And it actually tastes quite good.
It's one drink you have to drink at a bar.
Well, not only it gets messy around, what fun is it if you do that in your kitchen?

Tequila 1/2
Sprite 1/2
-> Slam it!

Mojito

One of my all time favorite. For me, regardless of the weather.
I just can do it any time of the season.

Keep changing the recipe, and believe I haven't reached the best.
(I guess, now that I stopped measuring for this, I will just hit the random low and random high for the drink. But, however it's made, good enough for me.)

I even bought a plant of mint for this.

By far the best recipe I followed was from Jefferey Morganthaler.

Side Car, or Blue Fleet?

I guess Side car is one of the old classic cocktails that became a base for many.

It was a classic, and worked well on me. Nice fragrance of brandy with good sour lemon juice.
Frankly, can't find very much of the difference between blue and white curacao, thus I'll post the thing called blue fleet together.

Seems like the only difference there is the color of the curacao.

White/Blue Curacao 1
Brandy 1
Lemon Juice 1
-> Shake

Amalfi Dream

Ah, what was I thinking when I mindlessly picked up the limoncello.
I didn't have the slightest idea how sweet it will be and how it will lack of tartness.
I just couldn't resist the name of lemon and alcohol.

Smell of the liquor was just as good as I imagined, but the taste is too sweet for me.
However, this is the best yet recipe for me using the liquor.

Should try it with ice cream someday.

Vodka 3
Limoncello 2
Lemon Juice 1
Ice
-> shake

Polar short cut

Just like many of my recipes, I found this in a comic book called, bartender.

The cocktail is said to be made to celebrate the new air route to get to polar in a short cut, or was it pass the polar, to somewhere else.

Nah, I don't remember.

Dark rum 1
Cherry Brandy 1
Dry Vermouth 1
-> Stir

Not very familiar taste for me, and wasn't enough to live up to my expectation when I read the comic book, but definitely a new try for me.
Say, taste of being an adult.

Beginning...again

I don't know when I'll stop this madness of keep leaving stuffs after me, but I just needed some place to keep records for the recipes of the cocktails. I expect this to be not very long, though.

Hoped that labeling will make myself keeping track of what's and what's not able to make with my stock. It's just a personal record.

Where do I stand in terms of making cocktail? Mediocre beginner, who is just curious what it's gonna be like to mix all that drinks. So, don't make comments like, argh, that's not real. I know it's just good to have your own lime juice made than lazy lime. I'm just not that diligent, nor very keen to the high end of the taste.

Anyways, why on earth am I using english?
Well, all the ingredients are in english, so for the sake of my english, let's just keep it this way for now.