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Marek Vranka

Marek Vranka

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Red Raider
5 Comments
Marek Vranka

my wife liked it because you can’t really taste the alcohol under all the lemon juice and grenadine. but since I like to actually taste my bourbon, it’s not really my thing...

Wiffin
9 Comments
Marek Vranka

Sometimes a drink is just a sum of its parts – but in the Wiffin, the ingredients undergo an almost alchemical transformation, merging into something uniquely delicious... An instant favourite!

Quarter Century
3 Comments
Marek Vranka

I liked it better before I added the bubbles, so either it is not my kind of a drink or I have a subpar brut... in any case, now I am going to explore more drinks with campari + absinth combination

Ryan Harrold

The Aperol Spritz is quite refreshing, however I find 60ml or 2oz of Aperol to be a bit much, which I personally find an Aperol Spritz to be better with 45ml or 1 1/2oz of Aperol Instead, which overall it’s still a solid cocktail worth trying if you haven’t in my opinion

Marek Vranka

seconded! I tried 1/3, 1/2 and 2/3 and 45 ml aperol to 90 ml proseco works best for me as well

Atta Girl
5 Comments
Frederic Yarm

Cheers! My mashup of 2 drinks from the 1930 Savoy Cocktail Book -- the Hanky Panky and the Attaboy (both drinks good enough to have world class bars named after them).

Marek Vranka

And what a great mashup it is! Thanks!

Darb
6 Comments
Marek Vranka

at first, it was clearly well balanced but also a bit underwhleming, but after couple of sips, it grew on me...

Two-Two (2-2)
1 Comment
Marek Vranka

based on my previous experience with drinks containing absinth, I had pretty low expectations, but was pleasantly surprised. still, I would lower absinth by 1/3 and increase lemon a bit, maybe also add more water

Hunter
13 Comments
Chris Brislawn

Made 2 changes. Didn’t understand the tiny amount of maraschino so just went with 3/4 oz (22.5 ml) of cherry liqueur. This was, surprisingly, not too desperately sweet with 1.5 oz Stranahan’s cask strength Rocky Mountain single malt whiskey, but it needed something else. That turned out to be 1 tsp (5 ml) of Italian red bitter liqueur; tried both Campari and Martini & Rossi Speciale Bitter with good results. Was unable to find any other whiskey-cherry liqueur drinks in Difford’s database!

Marek Vranka

great suggestion, thank you!