Old Man Drinks

[CAJUNLAWYER]

or Grown up cocktails. Didn't want to hijack the Martini thread so I started thin one.Well made cocktails seem to have gone south in favor of shooters, beer and what have you.
I like ones made with the dark liquors
Rusty Nails
Old Fashions
Manhattans
Sazeracs
You get the drift. Different drinks for different moods. Martini's have their place as does a good rocks Marguerita. The key here is properly made.
Peychaud bitters, angustora bitters-how many home bars have these stocked?? My parents' did. My dad had shakers strainers, muddlers cocktail stirring spoon and other implements used ot make a satisfying drink. And it was usually only one because when you had a well made manhattan with 2-3 oz of whiskey that is really all you needed.
Any I'm not talking about what is the best way to make ***** I'm talking about the pleasure of putting one together and then enjoying it.
I'll go one step further-Although today I eschew tobacco in any form; for a while in my yout, I really enjoyed a cocktail as fit the mood together with deep draws of a Marlboro. Hell my mother in law used to have ashtrays that matched her good china that were placed at the place settings of the family members that smoked.
Different times for sure and I miss them sometimes. Better??? In light of what we know now probably not-but as us Boomers die off reminisces such as this will disappear into the haze of history.

 

[Erich]

Negroni . . . and they're great when made with mezcal instead of gin, too.


I'm not drinking much these days, though - trying to lose weight.

 

[A-37]

Noticed

Very good, Caj........''in my yout".

Ref: Joe Pesci's court scene in "My Cousin Vinny": "...dese two youts..."

 

[Marshwheeling]

There is a steakhouse here that has a kind of old-time roadhouse feel to it, with knotty pine walls. Although it has been overtaken by spreading suburbia, its immediate setting is a wooded enclave that creates the illusion that it is well out in the country.

My pop used to take me in there as a kid, but the first time I went in there as an adult after a fifteen-year hiatus, my first thought was, I think I’d like an Old Fashioned. The decor and surroundings spoke to me in that way. They made a good one, too, and still do some fifty years later.

My pop used to make a variation that he called a corn toddy, using bourbon instead of rye, starting off by muddling the sugar and bitters, a bit more soda and no decorative fruit.

He also did a monster quickie julep in a quart mason jar, using a lot of very cold, hard ice cubes to bruise the mint. The point of the drink was to allow you to settle into a hammock and stay there most of the afternoon, without having to get up too often to replenish your drink.

 

[pawngal]

I'm a late comer to the "proper cocktail" Just in the past couple of years discovered the pleasure of a well-made Manhattan or Old Fashioned. Yes, I have the proper ingredients and equipment. Reminder to self: buy more vermouth.
And Grasshoppers made with real ice cream!

 

[Doug627]

Old Man Drink: Warm milk at bedtime.

 

[redlevel]

I like to keep it very simple.
About four nights a week, just about an hour before bedtime, one drink,
Consisting of about 3-4 ounces of 100 proof Evan Williams Bourbon,
ice, and a 7.5 ounce canned coke. Starts as very strong, almost straight whiskey
over the ice. Sip, add Coke. Repeat until finished. Then, go to bed.
Working on one right now.

 

[rubiranch]

Cadillac Margarita
Gold tequila, triple sec, lime juice on the rocks with a splash of grand marnier in a short glass and no salt.

 

[Benchrest1]

Old man drink- Ensure

 

[Rustyt1953]

When dining out my standard aperitif is Tanqueray & tonic with a lime wedge.

 

[LoboGunLeather]

Some people call them 6-packs. To me they are support groups.

Some people call them 12-packs. I prefer to think of them as a 12-step program.

24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? I think not; most likely part of God's sense of balance in the universe.

I think I'll have another beer now.

 

[BourbonCowboy]

My old man drink routine:

1. Take a lowball glass and add 4 cubes of ice (or about 1/3 full)

2. Add Old Forester (86 proof) until glass is just over 1/2 full

3. Add a splash of water (and go light on that splash)

4. Drink contents.

5. Go to bed.

It's pretty simple. I don't want soda or any other flavoring interfering with my bourbon - just a splash of water to cut the bite.

 

[Cdog]

I keep it simple, bourbon neat. If it needs something added it ain't for me. Most evenings two to three fingers in a rocks glass.

I usually keep several bottled in bond and single barrel "barrel proof" in the cabinet. "I still enjoy the search for that undiscovered bottom shelf gem."

WT101 is my most common daily pour. Yea, occasionally I'll slip up and let a Glenfiddich 14 enter said rocks glass!

 

[Daniel Howe]

2 fingers of Makers Mark and 2 ice cubes.

Repeat if needed be.

 

[keith44spl]

WT Rare Breed barrel proof 116.8 neat....

Make mine a true double.


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[CCantu357]

Iced tea is a great start for a cocktail on a Southern night. But sugar is bad for you. Sweeten with rum instead, preferably Jamaican.

Gin or John Daniel's goes well with iced tea as well, if you don't mind a more bitter drink. You can even add a dash of Angostura or Peychaud's for effect.

 

[ACORN]

Here I thought this was going to be about prune juice.

 

[JcMack]

Years ago the croaker asked me how much beer I drank. When I told him he said "God determines how much beer you can drink in your lifetime. You drank all your share and half of mine already."
Half the liquor stores in town closed when I quit. They miss me, I miss them. Sniff, I can't talk about it.

 

[tedog]

I like to keep it very simple.
About four nights a week, just about an hour before bedtime, one drink,
Consisting of about 3-4 ounces of 100 proof Evan Williams Bourbon,
ice, and a 7.5 ounce canned coke. Starts as very strong, almost straight whiskey
over the ice. Sip, add Coke. Repeat until finished. Then, go to bed.
Working on one right now.

For me, this would = 3-4 trips to the john.

 

[max]

Crown Royal on store bought CLEAR ice cubes.