u/Midgetsdontfloat

I asked the community it's favorite uses of St Germain a few days ago and got an overwhelming amount of suggestions. Seriously, you are all rock stars.

After spending a few hazy evenings trying most of what I could with the ingredients available to me, I believe this one is my favorite. I can't believe how much it tastes like biting into the juiciest, sweetest grapefruit you've ever had.

My coupe glasses are enormous so I had to up the recipe quantity, to 1.5 oz from 1 oz of all ingredients

1.5 oz gin

1.5 oz St Germain

1.5 oz Aperol

1.5 oz lemon juice

Add to a shaker with ice, shake violently, strain into chilled coupe.

Special mention to the Time Traveller and Sunflower, as well. It was close, I adored those two, but the Shaddock has taken a place as one of my all time favorite cocktails now.

I haven't had St Germain in a long time, so I picked up a bottle and have been messing with some of my favorite recipes trying to incorporate it. I know this stuff is known as "bartenders ketchup" and I love elderflower anything, so I figured I'd replace some of the sweetener in a daiquiri with it. The result was... Okay. I basically omitted the simple entirely and replaced it with St Germain, and I think the drink needs more balance.

Spec is:

1.5oz Havana 3

0.5 oz Appleton signature

1 oz lime juice

1 oz St Germain in place of 0.75oz simple

Throw it all into a shaker with ice, shake until cold, strain into a coupe.

The elderflower flavor was definitely there but the fact that I replaced sugar syrup with a sweet liqueur definitely threw off the balance so some more testing is needed. Maybe half an oz of St Germain and a half oz of simple next time.

I can follow a recipe but I'm new to riffing on drinks, so any help or suggestions are appreciated!

I made a post some time back about being well and properly underwhelmed by the Jungle bird. Well, I'm not sure if it was the recipe I used or the pineapple, but I gave it another shot and it was actually delicious. Still not my favorite drink (Mai Tais, my beloved) but much further up there than before.

I followed the Smugglers Cove recipe, just without blending it and with regular simple instead of demarara because I was out.

1.5 oz dark rum (I used Havana Club 7)

0.5 oz Campari

0.5 oz lime juice

0.5 oz simple syrup (SC calls for Demarara but I was out)

2oz fresh pineapple juice

Add all ingredients to a shaker with 1 big cube, shake, then strain into a rocks glass filled with crushed ice. Garnish with pineapple crown leaf so you can impress your wife