The Mixology Talk Podcast, Episode Eighty Six
Preparing for a dinner party, smoked cocktails and struggling with bad service.
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In today’s Episode…
We’re answering three more questions from listeners like you. Got a question? Scroll down and click the blue button to send us your questions!
The Questions:
From Mario in Fort Carson, Colorado:
I’m planning a party and I want it to be a crowd pleaser. Trying to keep from going broke I’m wanting to stick with my wife’s and my favorite drinks margaritas for her and old fashioned for me. I plan to also make Manhattans and lime daiquiris, I’ll be having about 10-15 people and was wondering some other drink choices that I may be able to make with the ingredients ill have for those? I’m definitely not a professional and hardly a enthusiast more of a beginner on the fast track.
Cornelio from India:
What kinds of wood can you use for smoked cocktails?
Greg from the Sierra Mountains in California
How do you handle it when you’re in a bar and the bartender has no idea how to make a cocktail? I’m amazed at how often I have to ask for a Manhattan “stirred” because too many bartenders seems to shake every drink. But I recently asked for a Manhattan “stirred” and here’s what the bartender did: She put ice in a martini glass with water to pre-chill it. Then she built my drink in an old fashion glass, added no ice at all, stirred it with a cocktail straw, dumped out the ice from the chilled glass and poured the room temperature Manhattan into the chilled glass.
This is not the first time I’m been in a bar where they have no idea that cocktails are stirred nor do they know what a bar spoon looks like.
Do I teach her how to stir a cocktail (which I have done at other bars)? Do you just drink it, go home, and never go to that bar again? Or is there a middle way? Seriously,
I’m amazed at how few working bartenders seem to have any idea how to mix a drink. Your thoughts?
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Thanks again to Cornelio, Mario and Greg. If you have questions about cocktails, bartending, hospitality or mixology, we’d love to hear them! Scroll down and click that blue button to send them over and we’ll answer on a future episode.
