Cocktail attempts

So honestly, not a huge alcohol fan at all yet. Keep trying, because there have to be great drinks out there. So far I’ve liked one fuzzy navel, but hated the other one. Most mojitos and cherry mojitos have impressed me. I will drink butterscotch schnapps in just about anything, but especially with creme soda or as a shot with Irish cream. Disarrono is still awesome in Dr. Pepper. Rum and snowcones, a new summer fave. Still not a fan of wine. White zinfandel was pretty ok, but no others have been good to me yet. Will keep trying. Lots of people seem to like it, there has to be something. Various Mike’s lemonades and punches are good, as are Smirnoff ices, but they drown out the alcohol quite nicely.

I need strong OTHER flavors. I have always maintained that the smell of alcohol makes me ill, now I can say, yeah, a strong taste of it really does make me want to retch. Still, too many drinks do not work with just soda water. They are just bland and limp without the right ingredient. If I can make the proportions right, I might find several great things.

So, got some cocktail books at the library, and have mixed a few of my own recently. (not putting measures on here because honestly, I always lower the alcohol and up the fruit or sugar)

Bacardi cocktail: bacardi, grenadine, lime, powdered sugar or simple syrup
I thought this would be better. But it wasn’t.

Vodka stinger: vodka and creme de menthe
I can definitely see why this is a stomach settler. Pretty much like pure spearmint.

Brandy Alexander: brandy, creme de cacao, heavy cream
Was told chocolate lovers love it, it’s not too alcoholy… Nope. Man, brandy can overpower anything, in my opinion. Yeesh. I ended up having to drink some, remix it with MORE heavy cream and cacao, then put some chocolate syrup and nutmeg in there to drown it out more…then I still didn’t like it much. Looks like I’m not a brandy fan. Boo. But I will probably continue making heavy cream and creme de cacao mixtures LOL

Cuba libre: white rum, lime, coke
YES.

T-punch: white rum, lime, brown sugar, soda water.
Pretty OK. Would smash the brown sugar BEFORE the lime next time.

Kiwi Martini: vodka, simple syrup, fresh kiwi
Yeah, I don’t like tons of alcohol, so I splash the syrup and cut the vodka by half an ounce. And it’s very nice after that.

What do you think? I have many others to try and I find this very fun.