I’m judging you for drinking Sprite in general.
I had an ok bar cart a couple years ago, but keeping it stocked with a lot of variety was kind of a pain. I would tend to default to something with fresh citrus, like a whiskey sour (2oz whiskey, 1oz lemon or lime, 1/2-1oz simple syrup, an egg white), or a Negroni variant (1oz each of bourbon or gin, Campari or other aperitif, sweet vermouth). Simple syrup is dead easy to prepare and keep on hand, so I just always have a bottle around. Also don’t drink much soda outside of sparkling water.
For me, I think if it’s 100% agave it’s gonna be fine tequila. Maybe I could get something better for my headache the next day, but I suspect it’s due to the amount. I had bought Tres Agaves margarita mix once when I saw it bundled together with the tequila, and it was good, but I’ll opt to just make one with fresh lime now. I found an orange liqueur that comes in a green bottle shaped like Grand Marnier for half the price (literally just says Licor de Naranja on the label), and it mixes into a good margarita at 1.5oz tequila, .75oz orange liqueur, .5oz lime juice/one lime’s worth.
I want to like gin, but by itself it just tastes so similar to vodka, I do like the botanicals and would opt to use gin over vodka in most applications, but it might depend on the drink. I had a celery flavored gin that was great in a Bloody Mary. I’d drink more gin and tonic if I kept more tonic, but I’ve been going gin with lemonade as the weather is warming up (2oz gin, 1oz lemon juice, 1oz simple syrup, top with water or sparkling).
I haven’t done a lot of mixing recently, so I don’t have a lot coming to mind. I’m fine with just sipping aperitifs alone. A little garnish and a special glass goes a long way to making a home cocktail feel like a treat. I was shaking up eggnogs in the winter, and that is definitely my preferred type now.
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