Sunday evening vice

You just stop at a friend's for a chat, and all of a sudden gin fizz is being made.



one without milk for me

and one with a sliver of milk to get it frothy (this involved two separate cocktail shakers)

Unfortunately we didn't know the exact quantities of the ingredients (lemon/lime juice, sugar cane syrup, gin, ice and milk for the amateurs). So a bit of adjusting was needed.

Cosmopolitan

I like to drink this cocktail at L'Archiduc, but the one we got served on New Year's Eve tasted even better. And I got the recipe!


2 measures vodka
2 measures cointreau
3 measures cranberry juice
1/2 measure lime juice

Shake with ice and serve!

Note: The cocktail maker advised to use fresh unsweetened lime juice from the brand Pulco.

Later that night I tasted a great rum from Barbados.

This was after wine and champagne.
Don't know how I managed to play Jenga without making the tower fall once.

Negroni

Just went for a few days to Süd-Tirol in the north of Italy, where we sampled quite a lot of this local cocktail.

We also watched the barman make it:

Take a tumbler glass, fill it with ice cubes, fill 1/3 of the glass with Campari, 1/3 with red Vermouth (e.g. Martini Rosso), stir, then add a shot of gin, stir, and add 2 slices of lemon.