GreatGrub - Drinking

What's you're favorite cocktail?

Al Dente — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:47:03 -0400

I like them big, I like the small, I like them all
Give me sweet ones with fruit, hot ones with cream
Pour me strong ones, sour ones, bitter ones on the side
I like them, I mean I really like them, I like all kinds of cocktails

Sex-on-the-beach

Al Dente — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:16:55 -0400

Granted its a shallow name for a sickly sweet cocktail designed to get the girls drunk, but someone mentioned something that really caught my attention. They claimed that the sex-on-the-beach cocktail was invented by bartenders in Miami Beach, Florida during the (first) William Kennedy Smith rape trial back in 1991. As the story goes Smith and the woman he met at a bar took a walk on the beach where the alleged rape took place. Smith was acquitted of all charges, but in the media storm that surrounded the proceedings much hay was made about the drunken state of the woman and bartenders began serving this drink as sick little play on the cultural obsession of the moment.

Festive winter party drink

jackieyale — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 21:46:49 -0400

I am helping to plan a large benefit at the Pierre Hotel in NYC to be held in February. The hotel is very elegant old New York and the theme of the evening is Winter Wonderland. We need suggestions for a signature drink for the evening.

Cocktails

victoria — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 03:29:16 -0400

Hi all,

I am kinda new to this website as well and need some advice from those of you that drink cocktails or make them. Went out for dinner last night and we sampled three drinks that I would love to make but can’t find the quantities for them. Two I can remember the ingredients, the Jiminy Cricket, I can’t as my friend had that one.

Boxed Wine - would you buy it?

Andrew — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:28:04 -0400

My favorite wine writers (off of GreatGrub) Dorothy Gaiter and John Brecher of the Wall Street Journal have tested some of the new boxed wines to hit the market. They investigated vineyard claims that the wine lasts up to six weeks after opening. Low and behold it does!

Hangover

David — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 07:06:13 -0400

The words horse, stable and bolted come to mind as I struggle to write this, but I need a hangover cure. Any suggestions from this learned community?

Mudslide

Sat, 17 Mar 2007 19:52:02 -0400

I have guests coming who love “mudslides” or “mudslings” have been looking for recipe but not sure I have the right name because keeping coming up blank. They’re made with kalua, bailey’s, and amaretto.

Lime from a Lemon: Sussing out the bartender

Al Dente — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 18:46:18 -0500

Since trying JC Wilson’s recipe I have become a big fan of the sidecar. It’s easy to make and tastes great at home. But whenever I order it in a bar it never measures up. Finally I asked a bartender how she made it. She admitted that she was trained to make it as a margarita with Brandy instead of Tequila.

Frozen wine

Andrew — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 20:44:34 -0500

I have a good friend who shall remain nameless since he is active on this website. This nameless fellow was staying in my place while I was away and I came home to find a bottle of of my favorite white wine in stuffed into the freezer. He had put it in there for a fast chill and forgot about it.

Cork & Corkcsrews

MichaelJKL — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 15:18:20 -0500

So, here comes a topical and critical question about drinking fine wine - does it matter if the stopper is cork, imitation cork, plastic or a screw top?

When people question the quality of a wine without a traditional cork, is this not another example of wine snobbery? If it is not, do we have a corkscrew preference; I do.