GreatGrub - Drinking

What is the best rum for making mojitos?

GuthrieMARGARITA31 — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 19:34:53 +0000

I just read a great recipe for Mojitos and I am thinking about making them for our holiday party. What is the best rum to serve? I want to impress my guests with a delicious cocktail but not break t

What's you're favorite cocktail?

Al Dente — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:47:03 +0000

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

What is the meaning of " xxx " on rum bottles

bejin123 — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 04:41:22 +0000

What is the meaning of ” xxx ” printed on the label of a RUM bottle?

Thanks,

Sex-on-the-beach

Al Dente — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:16:55 +0000

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 — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 01:46:49 +0000

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 07:29:16 +0000

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 18:28:04 +0000

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 11:06:13 +0000

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

anon — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 23:52:02 +0000

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 23:46:18 +0000

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.