Cocktail Recommendations

paddylonglegs

Wanna try my hand at a few cocktails as might be having a bit of a bash in the coming weeks.
Anyone got any recommendations on cocktails?

I suppose using liqour that is fairly common.I know I could buy a book but they never actually tell you what they taste like or a review of the drinks

Ideas appreciated, Cheers

The Sweeper

www.webtender.com

Blisterman

I put everything I have in the house into that thing, to see what I could make, and got some prettty disgusting suggestions.
Like this
http://www.webtender.com/db/drink/1027
And this, who's name pretty much describes what it must taste like.
http://www.webtender.com/db/drink/2855
This one doesn't even have alcohol
http://www.webtender.com/db/drink/3721

This sound's interesting
http://www.webtender.com/db/drink/3290
Might have a few of them, some night.

The Sweeper

My list of personal favourites would include:

Cosmopolitan
Margherita
Mai Tai
Pina Colada
Manhattan
Dirty Martini
Vodka Martini
Sea Breeze

Most of those would be easy enough to make without having to roger your bank account buying 30 different spirits...

Pepe LeFrits

1 pint glass:

30% lucozade
30% wicked blue

fill the rest evenly with: vodka, redbull, bacardi

a cocktail fit for the gods!

Blub2k4

A tom collins of sorts.

Ginger ale (ginger beer is better to make the proper tom collins)
Lime juice
Cheapo tesco imperial vodka, 20.96 per litre bottle.
Ice

Add 1 shot of vodka, 1/2 shot of lime juice over ice then top up with ginger ale.
Cheap to make cos the tesco vodka is such good value and seeing how it is in a mixdrink the quality is of no consequence.

FoxyChild

My fav cocktails would be:

Black Russian
Frozen Marguerita with Strawberries
Sex on the Beach
Flirtini

Maccattack

My advice if yr having a cocktail party is to limit the spirits to two.

That is have say whisky and gin, or vodka.

Then base yr drinks around those two.

Each have plenty of options.

Dont get too adventerous either. Dont try making wild concoctions because you will be run off yr feet.

Plan which drinks you will be making before hand and stick to it.

Also make sure you have plenty of good clean glasses. Hopefully you have a dushwasher.

ad probably most important of all. Make sure you have loads of ice!

Make as much ice as you can. THEN DOUBLE IT!!!

You WILL run out of ice. get yr neighbours to make some too!

The Sweeper

I'd agree the ice, not the spirits choice.

If I were completely limited and was trying to throw a cocktail party, I wouldn't bother even starting it unless I had, at the very least, vodka, rum and tequila. My second line defenders would be bourbon and peach schnapps.

Then mixers of orange, pineapple and cranberry juice.

Then soda water, lemonade, tonic water and coca cola.

I could manage a pretty decent range of drinkies with those five spirits and seven mixers.

Macattack's comments about the ice though?

I second those.

In otherwords, make as much ice as he says, then double it like he says, then read my post seconding his suggestions on ice and make the same amount over yet again.