Can Veeky Forums recommend some good drinks and cocktails for a dude to order? I'm a huge beer guy, with a little old-man liquor thrown in (brandy, bourbon, port, etc.) But I've been spending a lot more time going out on the town, including dating an older women who's a real cocktail bar fan.
I don't know anything about most hard liquor drinks. Suggestions? Most of the ones I see are super girly shit I'd rather not embarrass myself with in front of an experienced drinker.
Landon Thomas
>select liquor >take it straight >????? >profit
Jason Richardson
Sitting at a bar with a glass of brandy while the 40 year old Filipino women next you is drinking a fruity cocktail the size of her head seems kinda fedora-tier.
Grayson Gomez
Old fashioned- bitters, little bit of sugar, club soda, bourbon
Aiden Murphy
Bloody mary
Liam White
Gin and Tonic
Samuel Perez
Order a peener collader. Tastes like pine apples and cocnauts
Tyler Wilson
Rusty Nail is the manliest of manly drinks.
Joshua Ross
>adding a sweet liquor
It certainly is not manly.
Jacob Nelson
>Most of the ones I see are super girly shit I'd rather not embarrass myself with in front of an experienced drinker Cmon m8 nobody actually cares.
Get a whisky-based drink like an old fashioned or a whisky sour if you're really that afraid.
Brody Bell
lmao. 20 year old detected.
>my grandpa drank rusty nails and he hunted!
Isaac Martinez
This isn't totally correct. There are certain people who will legitimately thing of you in a different way but who wants to be their friend anyway
But yeah if you order a cocktail called the Pretty Princess you're going to get shit, but if you can't handle it a little friendly shit talk then you shouldn't be in a bar.
Oliver Gonzalez
read a little bit about sours, martinis, manhattans, etc and then just make shit up using those ratios out of whatever looks good on the backbar
drinks don't need to have names
one part this half part that splash of whatever, up in a cocktail glass, build over rocks, garnish
these days just read the cocktail menu; any place that cares is going to describe the hell out of the drinks and if you're familiar with old-man liquor you should be able to tell if you're in for a syrupy mess or not
Lincoln Gutierrez
>Cmon m8 nobody actually cares.
I just want to look like I know what I'm doing. Mixed drinks are alien to me.
Jeremiah Murphy
>but if you can't handle it a little friendly shit talk then you shouldn't be in a bar.
I walked into a pub with a girl and I got a prosecco in a hugeass champagne flute. Probably looked gay as hell but I felt like a goddamn prosecco and she's an F-cup so fuck it.
Kayden Gray
>liquor Did you mean liqueur?
Fun fact: All alcohol is sweet because alcohol is fermented sugar. Ergo; real men drink milk.
Aiden Jenkins
>Ergo; real men drink milk.
Straight from the tap.
Brandon Rivera
See it's totally fine to order shit like this when you do it with a sense of humor and you're willing to take shit from the entire bar in stride and with a smile. No one can dislike you when you do shit like that.
Aaron Young
just ask your bartender what he likes like a non-sperg
Lincoln Garcia
Order a Manhattan, have them make it with Woodford Reserve or 1792.
Yes people will change their opinion of you based on what you order, not judge mind you, just form an opinion. No different to what you wear, how you have your hair etc, so take from that what you will. If you're worried about what other people think of you based on what you drink you're probably too much of a shut in to go to a decent bar anyway.
Back to the drinks, honestly, order based on what kind of a bar it is. Not only will you fit in as you so desperately need, but you'll generally get a better quality drink if you go with the bars theme.
Is it a Gin Palace? Get a martini. A prohibition speakeasy? Get a whisky neat or an Old Fashioned. A bright, outdoors bar? Get a spritz. A cocktail bar that doesn't favour any one spirit? Look from the list or order any classic.
Nobody can tell you what you like, and you know what? They shouldn't. Have fun user.
Jayden Evans
Don't be that guy who treats ordering a drink like he's browsing the dollar menu when the bartender has forty other people trying to get his attention at once during happy hour. You aren't shopping for a reasonably-priced car, Steve Urkel, know what you want before you bother the man.
Liam Jenkins
Is there even such a thing as a girly cocktail? Just order your blueberry lemonade whatever and get it over with.
James Scott
If your drink has an umbrella in it then I'm sorry but you're gay.
I'm not sorry.
William King
>woodford fan >goes on cruise ships for vacation How expected
Mason Miller
club soda. in an old fashioned. absolutely haram
Juan Watson
Summer day; negroni (equal parts Gin, Campari and sweet vermouth)
Winter day: Sazerac or Oaxacan Old Fashioned
Leo Morris
That's just the view from my apartment famalam.
Woodford reserve is pretty great mid-tier and nearly available everywhere, and fairly cheap.
There are plenty of other whiskeys that are better but once you get above $35 for a fifth for it, I don't see those as daily drinkers. Got a recommendation?
Blend the liquour, syrup, and grapefruit Shake over ice, strain into a goblet and Serve with a slim slice of frozen grapefruit
William Anderson
Vodka saz, with bison grass vodka
Jacob Gomez
>Is there even such a thing as a girly cocktail? A shirley temple
Mason Ramirez
>Sazerac Agreed
Aaron Adams
Define old man liqour
Christopher Peterson
>Long island iced tea. Slam a couple and smack the shit out of anyone that judges you for enjoying them. Side note, i normally order doubles because i hate waiting for refills.