vodka gimlet appreciation thread

beachy · **Posted:** Wed May 24, 2006 10:07 pm

Prince of Darkness Wrote:

f4df Wrote:

dnorwood Wrote:

Ha, drinking and biking... now that's an experience. And I've been told you can still get a ticket for that!

Like that guy that got a ticket for drunk driving on his tractor..

Where was that?

Um, sir, do you know how fast you were going? Yeah, 7 mph in a 35, and that's fine and all, but have you been drinking? No? Then you're intentionally plowing the pavement under...

It was some country music guy, like George Jones maybe.
I'm prone to mojitos, as I actually have a guy whose ONLY JOB is to make them all night long, but I'm a fan of what I guess you could call a

Tequila Gimlet
3oz Patron or Don Julio anejo
1/2 oz frsh lime juice
over ice...Nice!

Oh, and I should note, Casa Picasso never uses powdered sugar in a gim[p]let.

duckyboy · **Posted:** Wed May 24, 2006 10:17 pm

Prince of Darkness Wrote:

come to think of it, I would kick my OWN ass on G.P. for ordering this at a bar. But i've got all the ingredients here, I'll make one for deena, she's had a hard day at work. And I'll have to taste it to make sure it's not horrible.

Phillip Marlowe drinks one in one of Raymond Chandler's hardboiled detective novels--but I forget which one it is. He should be masculine enough for you, even if it is a fictional character.

I like gimlets with gin...no powdered sugar. If you look on the back of a bottle of Rose's Lime Juice it tells you how to make a gimlet, and it says nothing of powdered sugar.

The Dreaded Marco · **Posted:** Wed May 24, 2006 10:23 pm

Yeah, a gin gimlet is pretty good---definitely no powdered sugar added.

I prefer a martini or G&T, though.

ptrck · **Joined:** Wed Oct 27, 2004 10:55 pm **Posts:** 5568

I feel validated. No sugar.

Prince of Darkness · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:41 am **Posts:** 11048

Rose's has sugar?

Radcliffe · **Posted:** Wed May 24, 2006 10:31 pm

One of my friends used to tend bar, and she makes the kind of gimlet that keeps taxi cabs in business. Great drink. Won't ever pull me away from the Manhattan, but a good change of pace.

Promethium · **Posted:** Wed May 24, 2006 10:33 pm

The first two recipes I found online say to add sugar, the other four I looked didn't mention rimming the glass with sugar.

neuroboy · **Posted:** Wed May 24, 2006 10:55 pm

huh huh. rimming the glass. that's right, i said it!

neuroboy · **Posted:** Wed May 24, 2006 10:57 pm

and let me just say i'm proud of my mlle for starting a multi-page post on booze.

...though i'm currently running on

Kerre Li (xix) · **Posted:** Wed May 24, 2006 11:04 pm

neuroboy Wrote:

and let me just say i'm proud of my mlle for starting a multi-page post on booze.

...though i'm currently running on

that would be rice-based thai whiskey
and oh my god prince is on american idol. peace out.

ayah · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 12:03 pm **Posts:** 6402

SpontaneousPoet Wrote:

Prince of Darkness Wrote:

dnorwood Wrote:

Prince of Darkness Wrote:

It's the powdered sugar that makes it a little femme.

The only places powdered sugar and straight men can co-exist are on french toast, donuts, and naked women.

Heh, I had a friend who dated (and ended up marrying) a guy who loved Lemon Drops with that sugar around the rim. I knew he was a loser right then and there.

And he loves her strap-on action too, eh?

Where's ayah when you need her. ayah, haha.

you are so dead.
and shut up.

Kerre Li (xix) · **Posted:** Wed May 24, 2006 11:42 pm

lesbian stereotypes are lame.

ayah · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 12:03 pm **Posts:** 6402

Françoise Hardly Wrote:

lesbian stereotypes are lame.

ummm...i guess so...yeah.

mutty · **Posted:** Wed May 24, 2006 11:46 pm

ayah Wrote:

Françoise Hardly Wrote:

lesbian stereotypes are lame.

ummm...i guess so...yeah.

Lame, but never limp.

Senator LooGAR · **Posted:** Thu May 25, 2006 1:00 am

billy g Wrote:

f4df Wrote:

Prince of Darkness Wrote:

Where was that?

Here in michigan if I remember correctly, he rode his lawnmower or tractor to and from the bar..

I thought you were talking about George Jones when he got pulled over for driving his lawnmower down the Nashville freeway. He'd run out of booze and his wife had hidden the car keys. :lol:

To all SEVEN of his cars.

Phil I admire your vigilance, but if your grandfather drank it is a harder drink than anything you're sippin on...

HaqDiesel · **Posted:** Thu May 25, 2006 1:23 am

'preesh

(yeah, e-stone, i know... you caught me...)

no guru · **Posted:** Thu May 25, 2006 1:27 am

There's an old guy a few streets off who travels everywhere on his lawn tractor, like the lawn tractor dude from the movie. Except he's not charismatic and winsome like Richard Farnsworth. Looks like a 70-year old Julian Tavarez, actually.

shiv · **Posted:** Thu May 25, 2006 2:52 am

billy g Wrote:

Françoise Hardly Wrote:

a caiparhina (sic) is effectively a mojito but made with cacacha (ca-sa-shuh) which is a sugar-based alcohol from brazi that's like 140 proof. VERY strong and VERY good.

[img][300:300]http://www.heatherfreemanpr.com/fogo/photos/caipirinha.jpg[/img]

Yeah that's about right... except mojitos also have mint leaves. I was going to make them if we'd had the obners over for dinner one night. I should have made them anyway one night. Drink 'em if you go to Fogo de Chao again.

i want one of those.

telescope · **Posted:** Thu May 25, 2006 8:14 am

billy g Wrote:

Françoise Hardly Wrote:

a caiparhina (sic) is effectively a mojito but made with cacacha (ca-sa-shuh) which is a sugar-based alcohol from brazi that's like 140 proof. VERY strong and VERY good.

[img][300:300]http://www.heatherfreemanpr.com/fogo/photos/caipirinha.jpg[/img]

Yeah that's about right... except mojitos also have mint leaves. I was going to make them if we'd had the obners over for dinner one night. I should have made them anyway one night. Drink 'em if you go to Fogo de Chao again.

I had (several) mojitos for the first time the other week. Good stuff, exponentially improved by the fact that I wasn't making them.

These vodka/tequila/gin gimlets sound intriguing as well

Kerre Li (xix) · **Posted:** Thu May 25, 2006 2:19 pm

bluestar Wrote:

gimlets lead to this:

ha ha ha ha ha

Cotton · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 6:12 pm **Posts:** 17155

Luksowa (sp? - the Polish triple-distilled potato vodka) totally stole my drink idea (this was the most recent incarnation of the "Bloody Diaper") and are marketing Aronia juice and vodka. BASTARDS.

Gimlats are okay, but I stick to vodka tonics or greyhounds if I'm at the bar.

Modem · **Posted:** Thu Jun 01, 2006 1:57 pm

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