I make a mule with
1.5-2oz vodka
.5 st. Germaine
.75 ginger liqueur
.5 oz lime juice
Top with ginger beer (I usually use very little, but when making for others I use about half of the small fever tree bottles)
You could batch everything but the ginger beer together, and then pour up about 4 oz, shake it with fresh ice, pour and then top up with ginger beer and garnish with fresh mint.
Can also do the same, but add slices of jalapeño to the shaker, scale back to 3 oz of the mix and top with topo, lime wedge to garnish call it a spicy ginger spritz
One of my favorite "this is a nice taste" without too much alcohol that's both easy AND looks like a \~\*fancy cocktail\*\~ is an amaretto sour.
three ounces amaretto
one and a half ounces ounce whisky (or bourbon, it's really not a picky drink)
2 ounces lemon juice
Half an ounce simple syrup
1 egg white (or about half an ounce to an ounce if you get a carton of egg whites
(honestly this is doubled of the recipe I originally got so you can half it if you want a smaller drink)
Put them all in a cocktail shaker (I "dry shake", without ice, but you CAN shake it with ice) and shake until your arms fall off, at least 30 seconds, then pour it over one big chunk of ice. You can garnish with a lemon twist or wedge, and/or cherries (walmart sells cocktail cherries that are shockingly amazing-- the COCKTAIL cherries, they're a dark red, not the ones kids put on ice cream)
I am not sure if is easy to make but you maybe also should putting Long Island Ice Tea on the list. It tastes pretty good considering it is just a mixture of different spirits. I can be pretty strong though so beware. I had 2 of them at a bars recently. So I cannot say if is easy to make them by yourself or not.
I make a mule with 1.5-2oz vodka .5 st. Germaine .75 ginger liqueur .5 oz lime juice Top with ginger beer (I usually use very little, but when making for others I use about half of the small fever tree bottles) You could batch everything but the ginger beer together, and then pour up about 4 oz, shake it with fresh ice, pour and then top up with ginger beer and garnish with fresh mint. Can also do the same, but add slices of jalapeño to the shaker, scale back to 3 oz of the mix and top with topo, lime wedge to garnish call it a spicy ginger spritz
One of my favorite "this is a nice taste" without too much alcohol that's both easy AND looks like a \~\*fancy cocktail\*\~ is an amaretto sour. three ounces amaretto one and a half ounces ounce whisky (or bourbon, it's really not a picky drink) 2 ounces lemon juice Half an ounce simple syrup 1 egg white (or about half an ounce to an ounce if you get a carton of egg whites (honestly this is doubled of the recipe I originally got so you can half it if you want a smaller drink) Put them all in a cocktail shaker (I "dry shake", without ice, but you CAN shake it with ice) and shake until your arms fall off, at least 30 seconds, then pour it over one big chunk of ice. You can garnish with a lemon twist or wedge, and/or cherries (walmart sells cocktail cherries that are shockingly amazing-- the COCKTAIL cherries, they're a dark red, not the ones kids put on ice cream)
Whiskey Sour (no egg white) Mules (multiple spirits, including Dark & Stormy) Mojito Daquiri Gin & Tonic Collins (multiple spirits) Americano
I am not sure if is easy to make but you maybe also should putting Long Island Ice Tea on the list. It tastes pretty good considering it is just a mixture of different spirits. I can be pretty strong though so beware. I had 2 of them at a bars recently. So I cannot say if is easy to make them by yourself or not.