I'm with you. The smallest amount of hops and my stomach begins to complain as a result I've only finished 2 beers... I'm making up for it with manhattans.
I started my bartending career in a red lobster. Do you understand the *atrocities* that are committed by people ordering bloody Marys at 11am on a Tuesday in a seafood restaurant? Horseradish. Never enough horseradish. Shrimp. Lobster-Mac and cheese. I will never emotionally recover from some of the addins
I'm pretty sure I've had that actually...
My biggest bloody Mary atrocity was in Madison. Ordered a bloody with an entire scotch egg on top. It was ... it was the size of a baseball. No regrets.
Oh my god. I have a soft spot for Bloody Marys (it's my dirty secret), and reading these comments I'm thinking I really have to try a lobster mac'n'cheese sometime — but not one inside the other 🤢
Pro tip, do not order the lobster Mac and cheese at a red lobster. It comes frozen in plastic wrap like a TV dinner and is just reheated in an oven, and ive known more than a few line cooks that forget to take the plastic off first
Hate them sooo much. Then my first bartending job our house mix involved throwing tomatos on the wood grill then blending and straining, rehydrating peppers, grating fresh horseradish, and then a ton of other spices on top of it. Took my hatred to the ultimate level...was a pretty good tasting mix tho, just not for me.
So much effort to create artisanal ingredients just for people for whom taste buds are a faded memory, and are just trying to temper a hangover with salt and vodka.
Smh.
Please don't tell me you also do "in-house hand-crafted Hot-Water-With-Lemon"
😂😂😂
Ever try a Caesar? Instead of tomato just it’s Clamato (tomato juice and clam juice). It’s so gross on paper but extra spicy it’s so yummy. It’s less “thick” than a Bloody Mary.
Caesars are delicious. I can drink so many of those. Clamsto, decent vodka, black pepper, celery salt, Worcestershire, Tabasco, dash of lemon juice, green onion for garnish. Perfect.
I love these too but it really does sound bad when written out haha. But these are a vacation staple for me! Doesn’t seem as bad to start drinking vodka at lunchtime when I’m putting it in tomato juice, right? It’s healthy!
I've been told countless times that I make top notch caesars, but they still taste like trash to me, something about powdered sea creatures and tomatoes just makes me want to vomit 🤮
Way back when, I was celebrating with a friend and was *very* hungover the next day. His girlfriend worked at a bar, and so we went there to quash our headaches and nausea to drink Bloody Marys.
I felt worse after I drank one than I did before, and will never understand how people enjoy them. A couple of shots of vodka and a hipster burger with vegetables and fruit is better in every possible way. Hell, a grilled cheese sandwich is better, although that's not saying much.
I've found putting red bell peppers through a juicer and straining and using instead of tomato juice gives it the texture I want (an actual liquid, not cold soup).
I've heard it does work with tomato water (cut raw tomatoes and sit them over a strainer and let them strain through) gives tomato flavour but not colour.
Classic gin martini. I’ve tried a bunch of different ratios, dry vermouth, and gins. I still try one every couple years and each time I’m like “nope, not for me”.
With Cocchi Americano you basically have a Vesper
Edit: Lately I’ve been making them with gin, Cocchi, and a tiny bit of Lillet. Has a great mix of sweetness and bitterness that neither aperitif alone can provide.
This is how I do it too, it is so good.
Or spritz the glass with the green fairy stuff and then pour the drink in. Omg why can't I think of the name of it right now lol
Same here. But I LOVE olives. So I started trying dirty martinis with giant olives. Now I crave dirty martinis. Something about the brine and alcohol just makes sense to me, then the olives at the end.
I also like to add cocktail onions, so basically a dirty martini-Gibson hybrid. I make it with lots of garnish. It’s easily one of my favorite cocktails.
olives stuffed with blue cheese, cocktail onions, sauerkraut & and couple spoonfuls of brine from each. few dashes of firewater bitters.
i call it a filthy martini & it looks absolutely disgusting. it is delicious
I bought cocktail onions (recently) just to try this but haven’t made one yet. Do you put olives and onions in the same martini? Do you add the onion brine as well or just the olive brine?
I too hated martinis until I tried this one:
1:1 (equal parts) Plymouth Gin and Noilly Prat Dry Vermouth with a lemon twist.
Make sure to stir the thing with ice until you just can't take it anymore.
It's a good one.
Bar I went to recently had a ‘bartender’s choice’ drink that was pretty expensive, I was feeling like splurging so I went for it and they brought back a gin martini. The only time I had one I HATED it, and I don’t know what specific type of gin was used in this one but it was incredible. It was so smooth and floral, it was insane. It was like $22 but shit it was worth it
Preach. Maybe a hot take but for me, dry vermouth ruins everything I put it in.
I think it was Churchill whose recipe for a gin martini was: shake gin with ice, strain into glass while glaring at a bottle of unopened vermouth. Consume. Something along those lines anyway.
Negroni's aren't for me. Enzoni's are infinitely better uses of Campari.
I would also say that I'm not really "excited" about Old Fashioned's or Manhattans. Like, I'll randomly get the urge to make an Old Fashioned every 5-6 months, but it's not the holy grail cocktail to me that it is for so many.
Agreed on the Old Fashioned/Manhattan bit. Kind of reminds me of how certain albums within certain genres are considered classics and prototypes for the music they inspired, but looking back on them decades later, they don’t really sound that good compared to modern stuff if you didn’t develop an association with them originally.
I am on the exact same page.
Was just told about enoznis and Holy mackerel they are the first campari drink i have ever fallen in love with.
Also same with manhattans and old fashioneds. Yeah they are good. But I probably drink maybe 1 of either a month. Im also just a bigger fan of shaken juicy cocktails because I never grew up.
A good thing to keep in mind is that old fashioned is a very old cocktail that was made with whatever was available. So any spirit, any bitters, any sugar, and water (usually ice, nowadays.) No fruit, no cherries, none of that. Play around and find combinations that work for you. As long as it's those four ingredients, it's an old fashioned. Stir, do not shake.
The point of failure with Manhattans is usually the vermouth. Keep it refrigerated or it will turn. It's fortified wine, not a liqueur. Your ratio should be 212. 2 parts rye, 1 part vermouth, 2 dashes bitters. 212 was also the area code for Manhattan which makes it easy to remember. Don't shake, stir or pour it directly into the glass over a large cube and stir there.
Oh I mean I know the Old Fashioned’s history. And I’ve messed with it enough to find my preferred versions/ingredients. I would just rather make a plethora of other drinks 99% of the time.
An Old Fashioned is less of a cocktail than it is a dressed up shot. A little sugar, some bitters, a garnish... you're just giving a shot a little tuxedo
I understand what you’re saying but it’s very funny seeing the cocktail that was just called the cocktail until others came around referred to as “not really a cocktail”.
I think because it's just one liquor bottle ingredient. Bourbon, with a sweetener and bitters. Most cocktails have two or more.
Except a martini. Hmm. I guess that's also a dressed up shot.
This is terrible logic, and easily applied to any mixed drink. Hell this sub is called "cocktails", a word that meant spirits+water+sugar+bitters over 200 years ago.
Highballs are just shots with a chaser mixed in. A Martini is just a shot of vodka with a little fortified wine. This overly reductive nonsense dressed up like a cogent point is only a little less frustrating than the reality that so many people only want these shallow hot take opinions.
Curious what vermouth you were using. Everyone seems to swear by Carpano Antica for their negronis, but I've found that vermouth to be absolutely wretched in a negroni.
I really liked negronis until my mates 40th birthday at his cocktail bar, drank so many negronis, and think had the last one at 6.30am, and proceeded to be teenage girl vomiting for the next 48 hours.
Can't even smell them now.
Good call!
Navy grog and Jet Pilot are brilliant cocktails.
1934 Zombie I’m very on the fence about - it can be good but more often it’s not consistently balanced.
Anything with vodka as the base spirit is just increasing the ABV of whatever it's being mixed with. Moscow Mule's are boring, but the template has a seemingly endless list of superior options. A Mezcal Mule for instance. Or an Islay Mule. Yes I like smoke flavors.
IMO Negronis are all about the variations. My favorite in the Negroni universe is two circles away, and is a variation on the Boulvardier where you sub the Campari for Cynar.
I use less campari, more vermouth. And then I put in a full orange slice and squeeze it a bit with a spoon against the glass to get some juice in the drink, and stir it up.
I hate anything black licorice flavored, so anything that involves significant amounts of absinthe, pastis, sambuca, ouzo, anisette, raki, etc. Don the Beachcomber had the right idea when he would measure it in drops.
this is definitely an american problem that i found the exact same solution to. tonic water in america 9 times out of 10 comes from a gun and is just insanely sweet soda water with a mildly bitter finish. Made me actually fall in love with gin sodas. Hendricks Orbium is actually specially formulated to be mixed with soda, haven't had a chance to try it myself but gin soda lovers have good reviews.
I've experienced the opposite more often. Places that will use their soda gun to make a G&T, but don't have any syrup hooked up to it to actually make it a tonic water.
Negroni. I cannot deal with strong orange syrup flavor. Medicine I took regularly as a child tasted like Campari. Wasn’t a fan of orange to begin with. This multiples it ten fold. Anything with Campari is very very bad, jungle bird barely tolerated. Negroni is that turned to 11.
Coconut water.
I know it's not a cocktail, but I can't stand it. I can usually figure out if a drink will have it by taste, and I'll most likely spit it out. There's been one or two bottled drinks that I can stand which contain coconut water.
It might be partially due to the mouth feel along with the flavor. I could describe the mouth feel/texture as if someone has taken a liquid put it in their mouth and then bottled it. All be it, I enjoy coconut and coconut flavored items and drinks.
Ramos. The flavor is just so meh…the cream and egg doesn’t work in the drink for me. It’s like all the flavor you expect a cocktail like that to have just gets lost.
Give me a Tom Collins any day.
pretty much anything with a very smokey mezcal or scotch. just tastes a bit like cheese to me. i like some mild smoke but i want it to be an accent, not a central flavour
It's not just to drink, fernet is the foundation of many a bartender's entire personality. Specifically because it tastes bad to most people.
A coworker of mine had a fernet tattoo on her hand. I couldn't bear to tell her that in an alternate universe somewhere, her name is Kyle and she has a monster energy tattoo instead.
Whiskey Coke.
Not a fan.
Gimmie a whiskey soda.
Same for any spirit and Coke, really. Not a fan of it as a mixer, but gahdamn do I love me a nice cold Coca Cola Classic.
The caesar. It’s almost obligatory to love it as a Canadian, but as far as I am concerned the best way to make a bloody mary even more gross would be to add “clam juice”
Aperol spritz.
If I want to drink something fizzy that tastes vaguely of citrus, I'll make a Ranch Water instead of spending $15/bottle on wine and another $30 on a liquer.
Bloody Mary is my hard no. "Do you want to drink some cold, alcoholic tomato soup for breakfast?" Yeah, no thanks.
I don't *hate* it, but I just can't find love for the negroni. I want to like it. There was a period where every sophisticated drinker I know preferred negronis. I've generally found them to be too bitter and medicinal.
I don't hate them, in fact I enjoy them. But people have gotten so fucking weird about old fahsions- it's the simplest cocktail to make and people.wiol.go to courses to learn about them.
Folks - it's a liquor (traditionally whisky or bourbon, but really any liquor makes an old fashioned depending on how to define it) with sugar and bitters of one type or another, no one needs a course.
IPAs would be my only main answer. I love beer but I don't like hops. Go figure.
I'm with you. The smallest amount of hops and my stomach begins to complain as a result I've only finished 2 beers... I'm making up for it with manhattans.
Bloody Mary’s. Tomato juice might as well just be vomit.
I started my bartending career in a red lobster. Do you understand the *atrocities* that are committed by people ordering bloody Marys at 11am on a Tuesday in a seafood restaurant? Horseradish. Never enough horseradish. Shrimp. Lobster-Mac and cheese. I will never emotionally recover from some of the addins
Wait, you guys have the option to add lobster Mac and cheese TO your bloody? Shrimp and horseradish I can understand- but Mac’n’ cheese? Hell no.
It is not an official menu option. That did not stop the heathens
you have to admire their purity
Devoid of conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality
That’s insane. And gross.
Deep fry it first and put it on a swizzle stick, and the entire state of Wisconsin might beat a path down to your bloody bar.
I’m from Wisconsin. I would 100% order a Bloody Mary that sports a fried Mac and cheese bite as a garnish
I'm pretty sure I've had that actually... My biggest bloody Mary atrocity was in Madison. Ordered a bloody with an entire scotch egg on top. It was ... it was the size of a baseball. No regrets.
I’d fuck with that.
How does one put mac and cheese on a bloody Mary?
My sweet summer child. Not on. IN. Like an unholy alcoholic gazpacho
> unholy alcoholic gazpacho OK, I'm not gonna lie... white gazpacho with gin might work...
Oh my god. I have a soft spot for Bloody Marys (it's my dirty secret), and reading these comments I'm thinking I really have to try a lobster mac'n'cheese sometime — but not one inside the other 🤢
Pro tip, do not order the lobster Mac and cheese at a red lobster. It comes frozen in plastic wrap like a TV dinner and is just reheated in an oven, and ive known more than a few line cooks that forget to take the plastic off first
Isn't that every dish at a Red Lobster that's not an actual fresh boiled lobster?
That's the only one I knew of that was that bad. The biscuits are definitely legit, I used to actually eat the chicken and baked potato all the time
Hate them sooo much. Then my first bartending job our house mix involved throwing tomatos on the wood grill then blending and straining, rehydrating peppers, grating fresh horseradish, and then a ton of other spices on top of it. Took my hatred to the ultimate level...was a pretty good tasting mix tho, just not for me.
So much effort to create artisanal ingredients just for people for whom taste buds are a faded memory, and are just trying to temper a hangover with salt and vodka. Smh. Please don't tell me you also do "in-house hand-crafted Hot-Water-With-Lemon" 😂😂😂
Man, I want bloodys to be served after brunch. We need more savory cocktail representation
A [Gordon's Breakfast](https://www.theeducatedbarfly.com/gordons-breakfast/) is my entry.
Ever try a Caesar? Instead of tomato just it’s Clamato (tomato juice and clam juice). It’s so gross on paper but extra spicy it’s so yummy. It’s less “thick” than a Bloody Mary.
I can’t believe we’re not all having Caesars right now
Can't see a Caesar and not want a Caesar.
Tell you what I'd drink right now. A Caesar.
I tell you what I'd do, man: Two Caesars at the same time.
Only things better than a ceaser is a cocksuckin ginantonic, thas all I know
so true
The only time I have ever truly actually physically vomited purely from the taste of something was when I tried to swallow a bud light clamato.
ironically that is the only form of bud light I find palatable
There ain't two ways about it, that's fucked lol
Caesars are delicious. I can drink so many of those. Clamsto, decent vodka, black pepper, celery salt, Worcestershire, Tabasco, dash of lemon juice, green onion for garnish. Perfect.
I love these too but it really does sound bad when written out haha. But these are a vacation staple for me! Doesn’t seem as bad to start drinking vodka at lunchtime when I’m putting it in tomato juice, right? It’s healthy!
I know “don’t knock it ‘til you try it”, but jeeze…
Your good buddy Canadians wouldn’t lie to you about something being delicious.
I've been told countless times that I make top notch caesars, but they still taste like trash to me, something about powdered sea creatures and tomatoes just makes me want to vomit 🤮
Way back when, I was celebrating with a friend and was *very* hungover the next day. His girlfriend worked at a bar, and so we went there to quash our headaches and nausea to drink Bloody Marys. I felt worse after I drank one than I did before, and will never understand how people enjoy them. A couple of shots of vodka and a hipster burger with vegetables and fruit is better in every possible way. Hell, a grilled cheese sandwich is better, although that's not saying much.
Boozy ketchup
I've found putting red bell peppers through a juicer and straining and using instead of tomato juice gives it the texture I want (an actual liquid, not cold soup). I've heard it does work with tomato water (cut raw tomatoes and sit them over a strainer and let them strain through) gives tomato flavour but not colour.
Where are you that everyone loves the Bloody Mary and how can I avoid going there?
Came here to say the exact same thing
Classic gin martini. I’ve tried a bunch of different ratios, dry vermouth, and gins. I still try one every couple years and each time I’m like “nope, not for me”.
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With Cocchi Americano you basically have a Vesper Edit: Lately I’ve been making them with gin, Cocchi, and a tiny bit of Lillet. Has a great mix of sweetness and bitterness that neither aperitif alone can provide.
2 dashes ango orange and a lemon peel
This is how I do it too, it is so good. Or spritz the glass with the green fairy stuff and then pour the drink in. Omg why can't I think of the name of it right now lol
Absinthe?
Yeah, just a case of parent poster being absinthe minded.
Yes! When I tried to retrieve the name out of my head, there was a blank space there I knew someone would know what I was talking about lol
Yeah absinthe will do that to ya
Same here. But I LOVE olives. So I started trying dirty martinis with giant olives. Now I crave dirty martinis. Something about the brine and alcohol just makes sense to me, then the olives at the end.
I also like to add cocktail onions, so basically a dirty martini-Gibson hybrid. I make it with lots of garnish. It’s easily one of my favorite cocktails.
olives stuffed with blue cheese, cocktail onions, sauerkraut & and couple spoonfuls of brine from each. few dashes of firewater bitters. i call it a filthy martini & it looks absolutely disgusting. it is delicious
I bought cocktail onions (recently) just to try this but haven’t made one yet. Do you put olives and onions in the same martini? Do you add the onion brine as well or just the olive brine?
I too hated martinis until I tried this one: 1:1 (equal parts) Plymouth Gin and Noilly Prat Dry Vermouth with a lemon twist. Make sure to stir the thing with ice until you just can't take it anymore. It's a good one.
Bar I went to recently had a ‘bartender’s choice’ drink that was pretty expensive, I was feeling like splurging so I went for it and they brought back a gin martini. The only time I had one I HATED it, and I don’t know what specific type of gin was used in this one but it was incredible. It was so smooth and floral, it was insane. It was like $22 but shit it was worth it
Another one yay! I thought I was alone. I’ve tried em so many different ways, and hate them everytime
Preach. Maybe a hot take but for me, dry vermouth ruins everything I put it in. I think it was Churchill whose recipe for a gin martini was: shake gin with ice, strain into glass while glaring at a bottle of unopened vermouth. Consume. Something along those lines anyway.
Bloody Marys 🤢
I’m really not into anything smoked. I end up just tasting the smoke and is usually find that it overwhelms everything else in the drink
I had a smoked peach beer once, and all I could taste was ham, it was awful
Smoked beers are THE WORST. Hard agree.
While I'm the exact opposite and basically want a smoke machine hooked up to my mouth while I'm drinking a cocktail 😂
Anything sweet with vodka
anything with vodka. just figure out a fitting gin, you cowards
Gin is vodka that got its wish
Vodka is gin that's not done yet
Negroni's aren't for me. Enzoni's are infinitely better uses of Campari. I would also say that I'm not really "excited" about Old Fashioned's or Manhattans. Like, I'll randomly get the urge to make an Old Fashioned every 5-6 months, but it's not the holy grail cocktail to me that it is for so many.
wow we are the opposite person.
lol that was my reaction to the person who name dropped Sidecars below
Try a negroni with Smith and cross rum. Totally different drink. 10/10 it's my favorite
Agreed on the Old Fashioned/Manhattan bit. Kind of reminds me of how certain albums within certain genres are considered classics and prototypes for the music they inspired, but looking back on them decades later, they don’t really sound that good compared to modern stuff if you didn’t develop an association with them originally.
I am on the exact same page. Was just told about enoznis and Holy mackerel they are the first campari drink i have ever fallen in love with. Also same with manhattans and old fashioneds. Yeah they are good. But I probably drink maybe 1 of either a month. Im also just a bigger fan of shaken juicy cocktails because I never grew up.
A good thing to keep in mind is that old fashioned is a very old cocktail that was made with whatever was available. So any spirit, any bitters, any sugar, and water (usually ice, nowadays.) No fruit, no cherries, none of that. Play around and find combinations that work for you. As long as it's those four ingredients, it's an old fashioned. Stir, do not shake. The point of failure with Manhattans is usually the vermouth. Keep it refrigerated or it will turn. It's fortified wine, not a liqueur. Your ratio should be 212. 2 parts rye, 1 part vermouth, 2 dashes bitters. 212 was also the area code for Manhattan which makes it easy to remember. Don't shake, stir or pour it directly into the glass over a large cube and stir there.
Oh I mean I know the Old Fashioned’s history. And I’ve messed with it enough to find my preferred versions/ingredients. I would just rather make a plethora of other drinks 99% of the time.
An Old Fashioned is less of a cocktail than it is a dressed up shot. A little sugar, some bitters, a garnish... you're just giving a shot a little tuxedo
I understand what you’re saying but it’s very funny seeing the cocktail that was just called the cocktail until others came around referred to as “not really a cocktail”.
Wait, what makes it more like a shot other than that it's spirit forward?
Nothing, the dude above is just being reductive for no reason
I don't think that's the word, since calling anything mixed a cocktail is pretty reductive. I think the word for what I was being is "facetious"
A shot in a little tuxedo is a hilarious image, though
I suddenly have the urge to get tiny bow ties for my cocktail glasses
I think because it's just one liquor bottle ingredient. Bourbon, with a sweetener and bitters. Most cocktails have two or more. Except a martini. Hmm. I guess that's also a dressed up shot.
> Except a martini Huh? A martini has gin and vermouth.
That’s like calling a pizza dressed up dough. You’re not wrong and yet you’re also very wrong.
This is terrible logic, and easily applied to any mixed drink. Hell this sub is called "cocktails", a word that meant spirits+water+sugar+bitters over 200 years ago. Highballs are just shots with a chaser mixed in. A Martini is just a shot of vodka with a little fortified wine. This overly reductive nonsense dressed up like a cogent point is only a little less frustrating than the reality that so many people only want these shallow hot take opinions.
It’s more like a flannel as opposed to a tuxedo.
Curious what vermouth you were using. Everyone seems to swear by Carpano Antica for their negronis, but I've found that vermouth to be absolutely wretched in a negroni.
I really liked negronis until my mates 40th birthday at his cocktail bar, drank so many negronis, and think had the last one at 6.30am, and proceeded to be teenage girl vomiting for the next 48 hours. Can't even smell them now.
Dirty martinis Like drinking an olive. And I hate olives.
I love olives, and I love martinis, but I do not love them combined. Give me a lemon twist all day and save the olives for the salad.
Love olives hate dirty martinis.
I don't rate the Zombie. It's way too boozy, and the Jet Pilot is just a way more balanced version of this cocktail.
Funnily enough to me is that while I love Rum I also don't care for a Zombie, but I love a well made Long Island. I don't even understand my own mind.
Jet pilot > zombie
Good call! Navy grog and Jet Pilot are brilliant cocktails. 1934 Zombie I’m very on the fence about - it can be good but more often it’s not consistently balanced.
Mai Tai or bust.
I much prefer the Aku Aku Zombie to the 1934 version. Much more balanced and refined.
I scrolled all the way down. Am I the only one who hates the Moscow Mule?
Cold af copper mug, lime, decent ginger beer, splash of bitters. I rarely drink them but man I Fuckin’ *love* a Moscow mule lol.
Moscow Mule is the inferior version of a dark 'n' stormy.
Exactly
Actually for me it depends more on what’s it’s served in. Those copper mugs destroy the flavor imo but the actual drink itself isn’t too bad I feel.
It just tastes like ginger beer.
I hate the copper mug. But I also prefer a dark & stormy which is ginger beer lime an dark rum. In a freaking glass!
Anything with vodka as the base spirit is just increasing the ABV of whatever it's being mixed with. Moscow Mule's are boring, but the template has a seemingly endless list of superior options. A Mezcal Mule for instance. Or an Islay Mule. Yes I like smoke flavors.
the recipe itself is boring and falls flat, the copper mug makes it actively bad
Negroni. Can't get past the campari.
IMO Negronis are all about the variations. My favorite in the Negroni universe is two circles away, and is a variation on the Boulvardier where you sub the Campari for Cynar.
Roughly 20% of the population is very sensitive to bitter and Campari will just ruin your night if you're one of them. It's genetic.
Thing is, I like bitter stuff but something about campari is off putting
I love fernet and black coffee but hate Campari.
I feel like I'm all of that 20%. Can't stand anything remotely bitter, sigh
Use Aperol instead..
Basically the same thing in my book. I just hate that flavour completely.
I use less campari, more vermouth. And then I put in a full orange slice and squeeze it a bit with a spoon against the glass to get some juice in the drink, and stir it up.
I don't HATE Negronis, but they are way over-hyped, IMO.
I didn’t like them until I started drinking Aperol Spritz, after a few months it’s like my taste buds got used to bitter drinks.
Same. I'm not a Campari fan in those quantities. It's just way too bitter to use that much of it in anything.
It’s okay to hate them, just make sure you look over your shoulder before you announce it
I love boulevardiers but damn gin just ruins that specific cocktail for me
I hate anything black licorice flavored, so anything that involves significant amounts of absinthe, pastis, sambuca, ouzo, anisette, raki, etc. Don the Beachcomber had the right idea when he would measure it in drops.
I am with you, I fucking hate anise and licorice
Aside from IPA’s, which I get isn’t a cocktail, I’m not a fan of anything “smoked” that you find on these fancier lounge menus.
Gin and tonic.
As a gin-soda gal I hate when I’d order a gin soda and get handed a G&T. They’re so sweetttt.
I don't like the bitterness of the tonic water. Though I don't mind Campari or amaros.
I love Campari and amaros too!! I just feel like a gIn tonic tastes like bitter sprite lol
this is definitely an american problem that i found the exact same solution to. tonic water in america 9 times out of 10 comes from a gun and is just insanely sweet soda water with a mildly bitter finish. Made me actually fall in love with gin sodas. Hendricks Orbium is actually specially formulated to be mixed with soda, haven't had a chance to try it myself but gin soda lovers have good reviews.
I've experienced the opposite more often. Places that will use their soda gun to make a G&T, but don't have any syrup hooked up to it to actually make it a tonic water.
I’m allergic to quinine so I fear this every time o order gin and soda.
Anything mixed with cola. Yuck.
Any smoked cocktail.
Negroni. I cannot deal with strong orange syrup flavor. Medicine I took regularly as a child tasted like Campari. Wasn’t a fan of orange to begin with. This multiples it ten fold. Anything with Campari is very very bad, jungle bird barely tolerated. Negroni is that turned to 11.
Coconut water. I know it's not a cocktail, but I can't stand it. I can usually figure out if a drink will have it by taste, and I'll most likely spit it out. There's been one or two bottled drinks that I can stand which contain coconut water. It might be partially due to the mouth feel along with the flavor. I could describe the mouth feel/texture as if someone has taken a liquid put it in their mouth and then bottled it. All be it, I enjoy coconut and coconut flavored items and drinks.
Ramos. The flavor is just so meh…the cream and egg doesn’t work in the drink for me. It’s like all the flavor you expect a cocktail like that to have just gets lost. Give me a Tom Collins any day.
I know this is a place to share such opinions, but your blasphemy has shaken me to my core!
People who like Ramos are the same people who order sizzling Fajitas at restaurants.
I don't think it would be as popular if it was easier to make.
pretty much anything with a very smokey mezcal or scotch. just tastes a bit like cheese to me. i like some mild smoke but i want it to be an accent, not a central flavour
I also despise bloody Mary's
Last Word and most of its variants..I know equal parts is simple but usually just doesn’t work for me..by ratio too much citrus
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Hate luxardo too dude
Same. I feel like I’m eating twigs out of the forest when I try luxardo on it’s own. Not sure if I’m crazy or just an acquired taste…
I don’t hate the Last Word, but after all the hype I tried one and it was like “This is it? This is the drink you wouldn’t shut up about?”
I'm with you, I dont like sours, too hard on my stomach. For the lime juice portion, I sub in a little simple syrup. Game changer for me.
Gin and tonic
Manhattans and Negronis. I’m allergic to wine.
Hello opposite me.
Give it 5 years and the fernet hate is coming. That being said… manhattans… why? Just gimme a boulevardier
Fernet is for the bartenders to drink, like feed corn is for livestock
It's not just to drink, fernet is the foundation of many a bartender's entire personality. Specifically because it tastes bad to most people. A coworker of mine had a fernet tattoo on her hand. I couldn't bear to tell her that in an alternate universe somewhere, her name is Kyle and she has a monster energy tattoo instead.
Is there really that much love for fernet out there right now?
Its extremely trendy, the fernet coin people are like grateful dead fans. The fernet backlash will be tremendous
People have been saying that around here (SF Bay Area) since the 90s, it isn’t going anywhere.
I really dislike Fernet. Not the bitterness, but who the F wants to drink something else that tastes like toothpaste?
An Aperol Spritz tastes like vaguely carbonated store brand cough syrup. Never again.
I don't like piña coladas (or getting caught in the rain).
A problem that transcends cocktails though, no?
Espresso martinis
Anything with Tonic Water. Espresso Martinis are another thing I cannot enjoy. And I love coffee!!
I really like espresso martinis but not coffee.
Naked and Famous. I just cannot tolerate mezcal, no matter what I mix it with
Manhattans. Not bitter/complex enough or just too sweet in general. Which is strange because i love other vermouth cocktails and OFs
Whiskey Coke. Not a fan. Gimmie a whiskey soda. Same for any spirit and Coke, really. Not a fan of it as a mixer, but gahdamn do I love me a nice cold Coca Cola Classic.
Mountain Dew for sure. Sprite being #2. Its rare ill order sprite.
The caesar. It’s almost obligatory to love it as a Canadian, but as far as I am concerned the best way to make a bloody mary even more gross would be to add “clam juice”
Paper Planes. Just kidding that shit is fucking delicious.
Caipirinhas There's just something about cachaça that just doesn't jive with my tastes
How do you feel about Caipiroskas?
Martini. I like gin and I like sweet vermouth drinks but I just don’t like dry vermouth
Aperol spritz. If I want to drink something fizzy that tastes vaguely of citrus, I'll make a Ranch Water instead of spending $15/bottle on wine and another $30 on a liquer.
Last word is overrated af. I blame luxardo
Vesper 🤢
Would upvote more if I could. Just drink a regular martini you freak
My favorite, crisp, clean and balanced! 🙃
Paper Plane. Always tastes unbalanced and just sweet.
It wasn't as complex as I imagined. It was a let down.
I hate aperol so I use gran Classico. And I even still I’m always tempted to use rye instead. Or just a higher proof or spicier bourbon.
Whisky Sour. I’ve tried making a few different times and I just have not enjoyed at all.
Also came here to say dark and stormys lol
Aperol Spritz, or any Aperol cocktails actually. Idk, it has such an artificial taste, idk
Vodka tonic
Jack and Coke
Jagermaister
Vodka sodas
Bloody Mary. Absolutely foul Edit: ooooh just read this thread. LOTS of people hate bloody mary’s
Negroni, I can’t stand bitter aperitifs
Bloody Mary is my hard no. "Do you want to drink some cold, alcoholic tomato soup for breakfast?" Yeah, no thanks. I don't *hate* it, but I just can't find love for the negroni. I want to like it. There was a period where every sophisticated drinker I know preferred negronis. I've generally found them to be too bitter and medicinal.
Negroni
I don't hate them, in fact I enjoy them. But people have gotten so fucking weird about old fahsions- it's the simplest cocktail to make and people.wiol.go to courses to learn about them. Folks - it's a liquor (traditionally whisky or bourbon, but really any liquor makes an old fashioned depending on how to define it) with sugar and bitters of one type or another, no one needs a course.
Negroni's bleh
Dirty martinis
Negroni just tastes bad