How many drinks can you make?

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How many drinks can you make?

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Got bored today, made a list of all the cocktails I can make. I came up with 62, not including variations on a standard theme....that is, "martini" is one, even though you can make it wet, dry, dirty, et cetera. Things like lemon drops and flavored fauxtini's can count as seperate, but I doubt people here touch too many of them.

So, drunkards, how many different ways can you get your drunk on?

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Probably only a dozen or so "real" drinks before I bust out one of my three cocktail guides. I don't commit much to memory to leave room for experimentation and the wonderful "let's look in the index for what all I can make with X liquor I bought today".

62 is pretty good.

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Good question.

About 2 dozen core drinks. Maybe 20-30 more abstract one's if I really stretch the brain cells out over a barrel.
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I can make pretty much any drink that involves one kind of booze, ice and a glass.
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Hmmm, i would have to say about 50 or 60 off the top of my head. I used to know about 100 when we had bands and i worked in a more of a drinking kinda place, but not using those skills regularly, I lost them. I got the ones i make all the time, but other than that out i need to get out the guide.
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Does opening a beer count?

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I was a bartender for the better part of 15 years at the Jersey Shore. Whadda ya want?
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Tipsy McStagger wrote:I was a bartender for the better part of 15 years at the Jersey Shore. Whadda ya want?
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Just because I can remember how to make it doesn't mean I'll drink it.

Case in point. #34:

Sloe Gin Fizz

2 oz. Sloe Gin
4 oz. Club Soda
Lemon Juice

Mix ingredients in desperation over ice, stir until you develop carpal tunnel syndrome. It doesn't matter. Because if you're drinking sloe gin, there's nothing else available, and no amount of mixer will disguise the taste. Not even those who remember Prohibition first hand get nostalgic for this crap.
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Badfellow wrote:Just because I can remember how to make it doesn't mean I'll drink it.

Case in point. #34:

Sloe Gin Fizz

2 oz. Sloe Gin
4 oz. Club Soda
Lemon Juice

Mix ingredients in desperation over ice, stir until you develop carpal tunnel syndrome. It doesn't matter. Because if you're drinking sloe gin, there's nothing else available, and no amount of mixer will disguise the taste. Not even those who remember Prohibition first hand get nostalgic for this crap.
Loretta Lynn seems to like it--and it's my current home (not for much longer, thankfully).

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Badfellow wrote:Just because I can remember how to make it doesn't mean I'll drink it.

Case in point. #34:

Sloe Gin Fizz

2 oz. Sloe Gin
4 oz. Club Soda
Lemon Juice

Mix ingredients in desperation over ice, stir until you develop carpal tunnel syndrome. It doesn't matter. Because if you're drinking sloe gin, there's nothing else available, and no amount of mixer will disguise the taste. Not even those who remember Prohibition first hand get nostalgic for this crap.

When I was young, about 14 or so, my mother told my best friend and I that she didn't want us drinking at home, but if we ever did we should drink the slo gin because no one else ever would.
My folks had a tiny, flask sized bottle of the stuff that had been in the liqour cabinet for years. Now, many years later, I beleive that same tiny bottle is still sitting in my parent's liqour cabinet.
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You mean from memory, or from a bartending manual?

From memory - about 15. But I have the ingredients on hand for about 200 if I can cheat.
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KaosDad wrote:You mean from memory, or from a bartending manual?

From memory - about 15. But I have the ingredients on hand for about 200 if I can cheat.
I'm gifted (or cursed) with a pretty good memory. I like a lot of semi obscure drinks, and if I get the hankering for one in a bar I realize I'll probably have to explain how I want it made, so I make a point to keep recipes committed to memory. Or, if I'm tending bar at home, a lot of people I know will just say "I want something fruity," or "Make something to get me fucked up." Or something like that. So it's good to know recipes off the top of your head.

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I bartend seasonally, and I can't remember a single drink in the offseason. Honestly, though, you don't really need to remember too many drinks. Pulling beers and mixing jack and cokes is 80% of the job. At least in the places I've worked, which have been either college bars, beach bars, or restaurants. There are also so many different variations of just about every single drink that you just generally need to know what goes in it. If someone doesn't like it, tell them they probably use the old recipe that no one uses anymore (thus making them feel smart), and then re-make the drink to their specifications. Good way to make lemonade out a potential lemon. Usually get a good tip out of it too. People tend to like the little bit of individual attention.
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Very few, but I'm beginning to make real bloody mary's and I like them very much. Little voddy as someone round here calls it, some tomoato juice, some worshetshire (or however the fuck its spelt) sauce, some tobasco, a little pepper, and bam, some goo drinkin. I also started pouring alcohol into my eveing green tea with honey. For some reason it's pretty fucken good. Hot alcy. DIg it.

Screwdrivers suck balls with orange juice. Just tastes like spoiled shit butt orange juice. Grape fruit juice is where dat shit is at.!@

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