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Sun, 26 Aug 2007 15:55:00 +0000

[...] Use fresh juices…always (sorry Doug). Take the time to squeeze the lemons, the limes, the oranges, etc. because that sweet & sour [...]

By: Doug

Doug — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 19:28:16 +0000

Heh. The sage once said, “Do not let children mix your cocktails. It is inappropriate, and they use too much Vermouth!”

By: Gabriel

Gabriel — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 19:24:26 +0000

Hehe, you don’t get to play the kiddie card with me, buckaroo. 5, 6, and 8 year-olds running around here thank you very much. The trick is to get them squeezing the limes to earn dessert.

Actually, I’ve found a hand squeezer works best for individual cocktails, you get .5-1 oz of juice per lime half which covers most recipes. So, all I do is cut the lime in half, toss it in the hand-squeezer, squeeze directly into my jigger, and pour into the mixing glass. Then I have a plastic bag I dispose all citrus trash into now and get rid of in the main trash at the end of the night to avoid the fruitfly issue.

I will say when hosting cocktail parties it works much better to pre-squeeze about 6-10oz into a pour bottle, otherwise you want to shoot yourself.

By: Doug

Doug — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 19:08:38 +0000

Boy, I post my first deliberate flame-bait, all I get is one response!
I agree about the acidity, and as I said, I appreciate the taste of fresh. My point was simply that I have too much else to do to manage and squeeze fresh all the time. I have a four and a six year old running around that pushes squeezing fresh limes from an elegant extravagance, over the edge into a total pain in the backside!

By: Gabriel

Gabriel — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 19:10:10 +0000

Even though I wholeheartedly disagree with using the bottled lime juice, even at home (the acidity just throws everything off for me), I have to agree that’s it’s always inexcusable to not get fresh juice when out and about and paying $9+ for you handmade drink.

On the flipside, I do run out of limes, I do have a fruitfly problem I’m constantly managing, and it does slow things down to use fresh juice all the time. But, fresh limes, I just can’t quit ya’.