Making drinks sounds fun!
Cocktail Recipes:
Helen’s Favorite
- Malibu Coconut rum
- Pineapple juice
- Blend with ice
Derek Krise’s Morning Tonic
- Elderberry Syrup
- Lingonberry
- Aronia
- Black Currant
- 1 shot Dr. Pepper
- 1 shot coconut rum.
- Dash of half-n-half
- Juice
- Black Currant Juice
- Grape Juice
- Apple Juice
- White/Sweet Wine
- Cognac or Brandy
- Spices
- Cloves
- Cinnamon
- Cardamom
- Ginger
- Flavors
- Citrus Peel
- Raisins
- Almonds
- Start with white or sweet wine, brandy, or cognac.
- Simmer water with spices
- Sieve and add fruit juice and wine/spirits
- Warm wine, spirits, and sugar (simmer but never boil)
- Add spices and let steep overnight
- Option – Rum-based Glögg
- Always warm up before drinking
- Do not boil if any alcohol is involved
- Optionally add whole almonds or raisins before serving
- 4 parts water
- 1 part rum (95.5 proof – British Navy rum)
- Citrus added to prevent scurvy
- 1 shot butterscotch schnapps
- 1/2 shot irish cream on top
- 1/2 shot jagermesiter
- 1/2 shot goldschlager
- 2/3 can PBR
- 1/3 PBR can Jack
- Shotgun and die
Root Beer Mind Float (Vootbeer)
- Vanilla Rum, Vodka, or Bourbon Cream
- Root Beer
- Coffee Creamer
- 2 part jagermeister
- 1 part goldschlager
- 1/2 oz jager
- 1/2 oz goldschlager or rumplemintz
- 1/2 oz Bacardi 151 proof rum
- 1 part Jager
- 1 part Rumple
- Dead RICH Nazi Variant: add 1 part Goldschlager
The Melting Pot 1975 – ChatGPT Recreation & from r/TopSecretRecipes
- 1.5oz Hendrick’s Gin
- 0.75oz lemon juice
- 0.5oz cupcake / vanilla syrup
- 2oz La Marca Prosecco (or other dry Prosecco)
- Blue Cotton Candy garnish
- ¼ oz blue curaçao (if blue cotton candy is not used) — Torani carries this, but is probably Blue Lake 2. Use a natural spirulina-based curacao if possible.
- Edible gold/luster
- Shake together gin, lemon and syrup
- Strain into chilled coupe or martini glass
- Top with prosecco
- Add very small pinch of gold dust
- Serve with cotton candy over or on a skewer alongside, and dissolve in
- Should be lightly sweet; reduce syrup to 0.25oz if too sweet or blue curaçao is used.
- Taste: floral gin, bright lemon, vanilla frosting, dry bubbles
Actually… ‘top with prosecco’ makes no sense, HOWEVER….from my memory:
- Shake gin, lemon, & syrup & strain into glass.
- Skewer blue cotton candy and sprinkle with gold dust, dangling over glass.
- Pour over prosecco ONTO the cotton candy and into the drink.
- Watch the whole mess dissolve into a swirling vortex of gold-in-blue until it settles and looks like underwater sand.
I ALSO REMEMBER A SWIZZLE STICK for some reason.





Straight Recommendations
Blarney Irish Cream – CHEAP but Derek likes it even better than Bailey’s
Coole Swan – good irish Cream that Kim Krise likes.
Andrew Koerselman recommends Admiral Rodney Barbados brand, and HMS Barbados rum
- https://caskcartel.com/products/hms-skipjack-spiced-rum-700ml
- https://admiralrodneyrum.com/collection/3
Andrew also recommends 25yo Macallen Whiskey – $2k per bottle.
ALSO – he drinks Jim Beam straight. Smooth and little burn.
I LOVED Limavady whiskey, but nobody carries it.. I wanted to try Green Spot (the cheaper version of Yellow Spot), but not terribly interesting (though according to online reviews it’s VERY GOOD, VERY BALANCED). We ended up buying Andy Rudy a 15-year bottle of Lismore Scotch for his 35th birthday in 2026 (Helen gets good vibes from it). Not cheap (about $60), but it feels good and has a nice presentation.
Also, as far as vodka goes, Andrew K. confirms that corn or wheat vodka is crap (Smirnoff, Absolut, Grey Goose, Tito’s). Stick with potato!!! Luksusowa and Monopolowa are excellent potato vodkas. There’s also an Irish potato vodka we might try – the internet recommends Ballykeefe and Muff.
Ellis likes Smithwick’s Red Ale.
For my bachelor party, the boys got me Bumbu Spiced Rum. It was fantastic. They also make a CREAM rum?? We saw it came in a fun tin…
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