Went to a party last night where people were drinking Dark and Stormies. Very good.
What are other good July 4th drinks?
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Went to a party last night where people were drinking Dark and Stormies. Very good.
What are other good July 4th drinks?
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Dcrefugee
Beer.
lamh35
I’ve never been much if a drinker so I’m simple I guess. I hate beer (reminds me of piss), being from NOLA I’m partial to daiquiris, but here in Texas a simple margarita works for me
DougJ
@lamh35:
You know, there are a lot of great NOLA drinks: Vieux Carre, Sazeracs…
c u n d gulag
If you can deal with the “Britishness” of it – a nice Gin & Tonic in a tall glass, over ice, with a thick slice of lime.
A good Mint Julip also is pretty good – with, or without, a splash of seltzer water.
Or, on his hot day – MOJITO’S!!!
Cassidy
Coors Light in a can.
Violet
I like the look of the layered drinks, like cranberry juice, blue Gatorade and Sprite. Non-alcoholic, though. They look cool for a 4th of July party.
HinTN
Cold white wine
Iced tea (unsweetened, despite the fact that I’m a southern boy)
Margaritas are tasty
Lots of water
George Dickel on the rocks
We’ve been making Gimlets: One ounce fresh lime juice + 2 oz. Tanqueray gin, shake with lots of ice, strain and serve in martini glass
J.W. Hamner
Any summer drink I would think, but if you like a Dark and Stormy then try a Mark and Stormy (i.e. bourbon instead of rum). Similarly on the bourbon tip, I like the Bourbon & Brine.
lamh35
@DougJ: Yeah see I really have never been much of a drinker before moving to Texas. Before that I can honestly count in one hand how many actual drinks I’ve had while living in NOLA.
But yeah NOLA knows from drinks…lol
Bruce S
I would recommend rye whiskey, neat. Like the Founding Fathers.
lamh35
Speakinh of drinks, i am here sipping some left over pina colada and watching a Superman marathon on one of the movie channels. I’m officially ready for a new Superman movie.
They are showing all 4 superman movies with Christopher reeves. Man special effects sure were simple back then huh.
Btw, is it bad that I actually like the one where Superman goes all bad Superman? It’s actually the only thing good about the 3rd one other than Richard Pryor?
Valdivia
oh I love a Dark and Stormy. Just the name itself is wonderful, it makes me think of the song Stormy Weather.
rikyrah
the heat index here is 108 degrees.
the only drink I can handle is ice water
gnomedad
@Violet:
The Captain America.
James E. Powell
Hard to beat a good beer. Liquor in the afternoon gives me a headache by dinner time.
Dr. Squid
Is a Dark and Stormy where the bartender serves a run and Coke with a really overwrought Bulwer-Lytton story?
Mike in NC
I like to try exotic foreign beers. We spent a few days in Charleston and came back with a nice selection of brews from Armenia, Slovakia, Estonia, Bosnia, and New Zealand.
Valdivia
Sticking to Campari these days. Mixed with a little prosecco. Very refreshing.
Mayur
Punch would be historically appropriate. It’s what I do.
Mayur
Punch would be historically appropriate. It’s what I do.
Yutsano
@Valdivia: Lemonade for me. But I just went for a drive for no reason too. :)
Amir Khalid
Right now I’m drinking boiled water from the kitchen.Here’s wishing you Americans a happy fourth of July.
Valdivia
@Yutsano:
:) because you have to enjoy being able to do it! now that your back is better.
schrodinger's cat
Good drinks for summer
1. Indian style limeade, use key limes instead of lemons and add a dash of rock salt you get in Indian Grocery stores (not sure if it is from the Himalayas) can be spiked with gin or vodka if you want.
2. Watermelon juice, cut up watermelon in bite size chunks add
a dash of salt and some sugar, the night before. you will have water melon juice, the next day, add some lemon or lime just before serving. Is good with vodka.
3. Mojitos.
Other more exotic summer drinks
4. Amrut Kokum (mangosteen nectar)
5. Panha (like lemonade but with green mango)
JPL
Earlier this season, the big bad republican heron ate most of my fish in the pond. In order to prevent the imminent death of the two remaining fish, I covered it with a net. Last week when the temps were above 100 degrees in the Atlanta area, I emptied the upper pond and circulated cooler water along with chlorine remover to cool them off. Since then they seemed happy and just swimming around. In order to make a long story short, today they were sluggish and without thinking dumped all my ice into the pond.
My ingredients..fresh mint, limes, rum, sugar and no ice.
I do have cold root beer though, so might try that.
Yutsano
@Valdivia: @efgoldman: It was definitely my first pleasure cruise. I’ve been driving to work and to get back to Seattle.
JPL
WhiteHouse.gov is streaming starting at six…
wahoo I assume it’s not from Paris since it is kinda late over there.
Valdivia
@Yutsano:
nothing like a pleasure cruise! to many more Yutsano
Baud
@JPL:
I hope they have English subtitles.
Baud
@Valdivia:
Nah. Yutsano is one of a kind. There will never be another.
MattR
Can’t help but think of this Kids in the Hall skit.
Turgidson
@J.W. Hamner:
Valdivia
@Baud:
blush, badly structured sentence. I am blaming the drink. ;)
but you are right, though. he is one of a kind.
Maude
@Amir Khalid:
My kitchen sink and the upstairs kitchen sin in the apartment building is clogged. Upstairs, the gas is shut off because there is a leak in a pipe.
Yesterday I watched as the contractor took close to 2 hours to force a toilet waste pipe to fit. Wrong kind of pipe, but, you can’t have everything.
Yutsano
@Baud: My mother is eternally grateful for this.
@efgoldman: Back to the grind saving people from themselves. I did take Monday off because of my uncle but otherwise settling back to normal life. Until the PT starts.
currants
Tequila and ginger beer, with lime?
Baud
@Valdivia:
It’s important to always remain at least a little tipsy to ensure absence of culpability.
Cacti
@Dcrefugee:
End of thread.
Maude
@efgoldman:
Thank you. It’s the land of money and a guy that thinks he knows but doesn’t. The owners believe he knows what he is doing.
He tried with the sink clog for over an hour.
This guy is doing the gas pipe. I want my Mommy.
I see it as a movie.
Valdivia
@Baud:
That right there should be life’s motto! ;)
ellie
I am having a cranberry vodka right now.
Sly
@Bruce S:
Through they were all drunks (except, ironically, Ben Franklin), the Founding Fathers usually preferred hard cider to whiskey. It was inexpensive and less labor intensive to brew, and people used to keep barrels of the stuff on their front porches and take a ladle of it every time they came or went, and at the pub they’d mix it with other spirits.
Jack Curtin
I have a Dark & Stormy story you all might enjoy. Many years ago, when the world was young and so was I, I vacationed in Bermuda with my wife’s family at a very exclusive locale, a huge house and waterside cottage nestled high in the hills above Hamilton. This place was owned by a family who had, in the day, lent money to Henry Ford to start his auto company. Old money and you had to know somebody who knew somebody to stay there. There was actually a security check on all guests and you could have your reservation cancelled up to the last week should a family member decide he/she wanted to stay there rather than one of the family’s other and similar places around the world.
So the second day there, I was looking through the guest book we were invited to sign and, right below (honest) Princess Grace of Monaco, was “Richard M. Nixon.” I asked the butler who ran the place (theoretically, the large female chef, a Bermuda native, truly did) If it really was Tricky Dick. He assured me that it was and that the staff marveled that he would dress up in coat and tie and explore the beach every day with a metal detector (we had a path down to the water and the guest house where wife’s parents resided and we had lunch every day).
To get to the point, most people signing the guest book left a message. The one from Richard M. Nixon was “Pat lost in dark and stormies, going to the beach.”
Additional Fun Fact: back home, we lived right around the corner from David and Julie Nixon Eisenhower and whenever her father came to visit, we’d see him walking the road with secret service agents in tow and, yes, always in suit and tie.
Be really nice, and I’ll tell you about the day the secret service almost shot my cat.
JPL
WhiteHouse.gov is now streaming. I was watching the last episode of Chuck for the umpteenth time and while they were talking about Irene Demova, the Marines started playing America. Seem fitting.
lamh35
Has anyone ever watched Superman IV in it’s entirety, cause I’m bout to watch it now and I honestly can’t remember what the heck is was about? I vaguely remember a “nuclear man” or something, but I still have no idea what the plot was. I’m about to find out I guess.
Still it’s gotta be bad cause as bad as Superman III is, I still remember what the plot was.
Speaking of Superman, have ya’ll seen the new Superman …woo he’s a big one (click on da link for pic)! If I hadn’t know what I was looking at, I would have thought I was looking at a new “Wolverine” movie.
Maude
@efgoldman:
Guy is not a plumber. He’s a general contractor.
MattR
@JPL: I do miss going to see the fireworks in DC. The Macy’s fireworks over the Hudson River are fantastic and I enjoyed watching them from a friend’s Manhattan rooftop, but there is just something about the atmosphere on the Mall in DC.
Violet
Wonder how the fireworks on the Mall are going to work this year. Do they have power for the concert and all that stuff? Can people get around the city okay?
Rugosa
Pomegranate juice in a tall glass over ice, a splash (to taste) of Rose’s Lime Juice, fill with soda water and garnish with a lime wedge. A jigger of vodka or gin if you are so inclined.
JPL
@MattR: Hopefully future Presidents will keep the Obama traditions of entertaining the military. Previous Presidents played golf (Eisenhower) or entertained staff. This tradition has to be really special for those that served us.
@Jack Curtin: more..more
did your cat have super, duper decoder ring around his/her neck?
Gozer
@Dcrefugee: Only thing better than a beer is multiple beers.
elmo
I’m partial to gin and tonics, but my partner has discovered the gods’ own nectar: Firefly Sweet Tea Flavored Vodka. Drink that neat in a highball glass, and you will go to heaven.
Till the next day, anyway.
Maude
@efgoldman:
I am looking to move, gee I wonder why?
elmo
@MattR:
isn’t the Mall crazy crowded tho? I live about an hour and a half from downtown, and we just moved here last August. We considered going down to see the fireworks, but it seemed like an invitation to hell…
Valdivia
@Jack Curtin:
I loved that story. Define nice, because I want to hear about the cat.
Valdivia
@Violet:
the district is ok, except tons of fallen trees, and has power pretty much everywhere. The worst affected areas where in Virginia and Maryland.
MattR
@elmo: Yeah. It is pretty nuts. I was going to add to my original comment that I was pretty sure I couldn’t handle the massive crowds and lack of bathrooms like I did when I was in my early 20’s. I can’t remember if my friends would camp out on the Mall the night before or just get there super early to grab some space. Trying to find them in those pre cell phone days was always an interesting experience.
(EDIT: I would recommend against making that drive. There will be horrible traffic trying to get out after. The Metro stations back up to the streets. You need to have a place nearby to go to or just be willing to hang out for a while before trying to head home, though you will get questioned by police and/or secret service if you hang out too long)
Tripod
Cachaça and lime on the rocks.
PS- I think the founders would have been drinking rum.
jl
Dark and Stormies, at night?
Sounds like an ominous combination.
I like the Indian limeade idea from schrodinger. Thanks.
Happy fourth. I will should recover from picnic food coma by tomorrow. Now, to the ‘Q!
elmo
@Valdivia:
Virginia was harder hit, I think, but Maryland has it worse because Pepco can’t find their ass n the dark with a flashlight. We got our power back on in only 21 hours here in NoVA. Lucky!
JPL
why did whitehouse.gov just conclude?
Valdivia
@Tripod:
I have not fond memories from a hangover from it. Evil evil drink :)
ETA: brave soul you are!
@elmo: that’s what I heard. Maryland takes forever. Always.
Punchy
I believe Sullivan expects something diff when he “orders” a Dark and Stormy.
Violet
@Valdivia: Glad to hear it’s all up and running okay.
Goblue72
All y’alls need to up your cocktail game, except for the punch drinkers.
Gin Rickey – highball or Collins glass filled with ice, 2 oz. gin, juice half a lime & spent lime shell, top with club soda
Philadelphia Fish House Punch – 2 oz dark Jamaican rum, 1 oz brandy, 1 oz lemon juice, 1/8 oz peach brandy, 2 oz spring water, 2 tsp sugar – shake & strain over ice filled highball
Richmond Gimlet – 2 oz gin, 1 oz lime juice, 1 oz simple syrup, large mint sprig – shake & strain into cocktail glass
Singapore Sling – 2 oz gin, 1 oz cherry Heering, 1/2 oz brandy, 1 oz lime juice – shake & strain into ice filled Collins glass. Top with club soda. Cherry garnish.
New Orleans Buck – 1.5 oz light rum or Agricole blanc, 1/2 oz lime juice, 1/2 oz orange juice, 2 dash peychaud’s bitters- shake & strain into ice filled highball, top with ginger beer
JBerardi
Sam Adams. Duh.
different-church-lady
I’m a huge fan of craft cocktails, but on a hot holiday you want to keep it simple: margaritas (real lime juice, please), mojitos, various Collins and highballs.
@Dr. Squid:
You… out!
Hawes
Dark and Stormies are NOT appropriate for July 4th. That is a product of those fucking fence sitters in Bermuda. Those colonial prats should not be given one shilling on this day.
EIGRP
+3 on margaritas. Use Wegmans limeaid.
Eric
EIGRP
FYWP, I wanted to edit and add this but it won’t let me:
and supplement with real lime or lemon juice. We use some organic kind we purchased at Wegmans, or we use Nellie & Joe’s to get a more intense lime flavor.
Tony J
@lamh35:
Until the movie version of Wolverine isn’t 6ft+ and manfully studly you really, really, don’t need to see any new ‘Wolverine’ movie.
SiubhanDuinne
@efgoldman:
I do that with white wine. It’s great, unless you forget you stashed the bottle in the freezer. Then it’s an icy mess.
SiubhanDuinne
@lamh35:
‘Scuse me please, but what is this “left over” piña colada of which you speak?
Steeplejack
@elmo:
Damn you, sir! My power is still out (Falls Church).
Elmo
@Steeplejack:
Oo. Sorry about that, chief. I was expecting to be out for days, because way out in horse country I can’t be a high priority. But we got lucky.
On the other hand, you probably have water, right? I’m on a well – when I lose power, the water goes with it. Going a week without a shower would suck massively.
On Saturday when it was super hot I rigged up a fan, plugged into an inverter plugged into the cigarette lighter in my truck. Ran that sucker in the kitchen across the ice in the cooler for a while. It helped.
Allen
Summertime, A screwdriver made with blood oranges. Really hot out, a gin and tonic with a twist of lemon. was on a week long rafting trip on, got to a good place to stay, got out my little portable weather instrument and said it was 104. Had the makings for gin and tonics, then had a hailstorm with quarter size hail. Ahh, a gin, tonic, twist of lemon and hailsones.
Valdivia
@Steeplejack:
so sorry to hear this!
Hope you get it back soon. are you still a refuge?
Steeplejack
@Valdivia:
Still hiding out at my brother’s (air-conditioned) house in Arlington. I go back to the man-cave every day to check the power situation, and I continue the search for a new place to live (by August 1).
I do feel like a refugee. I have that disconnected, outside-regular-space-and-time feeling. And I feel like I am not getting enough sleep, or maybe the right kind of sleep.
Oh, well. Not big problems in the grand scheme of things, but they are my own.
Are you enjoying “spinning along the Gulf Coast”? I am. Bookmarking and annotating on the Nook as I go.
Valdivia
@Steeplejack:
Oy I hope you can get back home soon, even if it is only to find a place to live after. I didn’t know you were looking, if I hear of anything I will pass it on. District, NoVa? Preferences?
I am much enjoying it btw, and also taking notes (by hand, I am such an old schooler in that, hhis) We have a pretty good group going (a few others chimed in on some threads) so if you’re ok with it I am going to approach the powers that be. Sound ok?
Steeplejack
@Valdivia:
Go for it. I’m looking forward to the discussion, now that I have convinced myself I didn’t foist off a turkey on the crowd.
Apartment: I’m looking for something roughly in the Ballston-Falls Church corridor. Don’t need much–studio or one-bedroom–and I don’t need health club, marble countertops, etc. Would like peace and quiet and maybe a kitchen that works. Was out in the car today tagging and banding some more places to call tomorrow. Search has been hampered this last week because of the surprising number of companies whose phones have been out because of storm damage and/or no power.
Valdivia
@Steeplejack:
I will get the ball rolling then. Yay, so excited, we have a reading collective! :)
I will check and see if any of my peeps here know about a place in that area and will let you know.
Steeplejack
@Valdivia:
Thanks.
I’m packing it in for the night now, so that my brother’s sighthounds can wake me up at 3:00 a.m. because they’re sure they saw something
dangerousmildly interesting in the backyard and demand to check it out.JWL
(Burp). Beer.