gr’s Bottled Cocktail Recipes
Jun/091
In order to mostly keep up with orders during cocktail parties at my house, I routinely prepare several bottled cocktails, in 1 L surplus US military (World War II era, I think, but plausibly replica) bottles marked “poison” in three languages (”gift” and “veleno”), in advance of the event and encourage my guests to serve themselves from those, preferably pouring over ice. Three common ones are:
Margarita (1 L)
This is a shameless rip from Mr. Regan’s recipe, but it is 1.5 times the volume.
12 oz white tequila (preferably 100% agave; Cuervo actually makes a decent one, the Tradicionale)
9 oz Cointreau (or triple sec, but I only bother keeping the former around)
4.5 oz lime juice
7.5 oz filtered / bottled water
Fish House Punch (1 L)
There are various, relatively divergent, recipes for this out there in the world, and this is cobbled together from several. Apologies for the ⅓ measures: it took that to hit the right balance in 1 L. Obviously, I just eyeball it between ¼s.
500 mL dark rum (I use Gosling’s)
6 oz brandy (not really worth using cognac or armagnac here)
2⅔ oz peach brandy or crème de pêche
2⅔ oz simple syrup
3⅓ oz fresh lime juice
3⅓ oz fresh lemon juice
fill with filtered / bottled water (if there’s any space left)
Bottled Stiles (1 L)
This isn’t enormously clever, but it is something that I came up with when I first had a bottle of St-Germain. (It’s named for a street on which I’ve lived.)
300 mL gin (I use either Plymouth or Bluecoat usually)
150 mL St-Germain Elderflower Liqueur
150 mL Lillet Blonde
fill to 1 L with filtered / bottled water