John Berges, aka TwoBitOperation, is a Professional Game Designer, Independent Composer, and hobbyist mixologist.
Below, you'll find a growing list of drinks that John has invented, usually at times his friends didn't know what they wanted but could at least provide some vague flavor guidelines.
A reminder that the best drink is a big bourbon in a small glass.
Revel + Italicus= Repticilus, which is ALSO the name of an MST3K episode
Ingredients:
1.5 oz Italicus liqueur
1 oz Revel Stoke root beer whiskey
1/2oz Bourbon
Orange rind
Procedure:
Stir all alcohol with ice
Strain into a rocks glass over one large cube
Express orange rind and garnish
My take on a Vieux Carré
Ingredients:
1 oz Bourbon
1 oz Cognac
1 oz Rammazzati Amaro
1/2oz Benedictine
2-3 dashes Fee Brothers Bitters
orange twist
Procedure:
Shake all with ice, then strain into rocks glass over 1 large cube
Rim with Orange Rind
Ingredients:
2 oz Barley Creek Bacon Vodka
1 oz Tippleman's burnt sugar syrup
brown sugar
cinnamon stick
Procedure:
Rim a rocks glass with brown sugar, then fill it with ice
Add all ingredients to a shaker with ice
Shake, then strain into the glass
Add the cinnamon stick and give a quick swirl
If you want to be extra fancy, freeze some tonic ice cubes before you make it.
Ingredients:
1.5 oz Stoli Grapefruit Crush vodka
1.5 oz gin
1 oz white Lillet
Tonic ice cubes (or 2oz tonic)
Procedure:
Half fill a lowball glass with tonic ice
Add all alcohol to a shaker with normal ice
Shake and strain into the lowball glass
Ingredients:
2 oz strong rock-and-rye (60+ proof)
1 oz Meletti Amaro
2 dashes Orange bitters
Lemon twist
Procedure:
Add all alcohols to a rocks glass filled with ice
Stir
Express lemon and garnish
Ingredients:
1.5 oz Applejack
1 oz Fireball
0.5 oz brandy
Cinnamon powder
Apple slice
Procedure:
Add all alcohols to a small rocks glass with a large ice cube
Douse the apple slice with cinnamon.
Toast apple with a flame if you're feeling fancy
Drop cinnamon apple in and stir for 5-10 seconds
A fusion of a French Martini and a French 75
Ingredients:
2 oz gin
1 oz Chambord
1 oz lemon juice
~½ oz simple syrup (optional to taste)
1-2 oz champagne or prosecco
Lemon rind
Procedure:
Add first four ingredients into shaker with ice
Shake well and strain into a martini glass
Top with the champagne, and garnish with lemon rind
A cooler looking version of a lemon drop martini.
Advice: Run the squeezed lemon around the rims of your martini glasses before dipping in the sugar. It will stick better, and taste better.
Ingredients:
2.5 oz citron vodka
1 oz blue curacao
1/4 - 1/2 lemon's worth of juice
Orange rimming sugar
Procedure:
Add first three ingredients into shaker with ice
Rim the martini glass
Shake well and strain the beverage into the glass
A fancy fall drink with a sidecar feel to it
Ingredients:
1 oz St. George Spiced Pear Liqueur
1.5 oz vodka
1oz ginger brandy
Procedure:
Rim martini glass with sugar (optional)
Add all ingredients to a shaker with ice
Shake and strain into glass
Ingredients:
2 oz iced tea vodka
1 oz limoncello
¼ lemon, squeezed
Lemon-lime soda
Procedure:
Add alcohol and lemon highball glass filled with ice
Top with soda and stir well
Two shortcuts for impressive, easy, tropical drinks:
1: Use fruit nectars, especially mango nectar.
2: A small splash of amaretto is a drink-hack for making anything drink taste more tropical.
Ingredients:
2.5 oz mango nectar
2 oz light rum
1 oz triple sec
½ oz amaretto
Strawberry or raspberry seltzer
Procedure:
Add all alcohol to highball glass filled with ice
Top with the seltzer and stir well
Ingredients:
2 oz Fireball cinnamon whiskey
1 oz blended scotch
Root Beer (or Birch Beer)
Procedure:
Add all alcohol to a highball glass filled with ice
Top with soda and stir
This fall drink almost feels like a spiced sangria.
I make it in batches for 4, served as a mule in copper mugs.
Ingredients (per serving):
1 oz vanilla vodka
½ oz liquor 43
½ oz brandy
½ oz cinnamon syrup
2 oz cranberry juice
1 oz seltzer water
Cinnamon sticks
Procedure:
Add all alcohol and the syrup to shaker glass filled with ice
Shake and strain into tall glass or mule mugs half filled with ice
Add cranberry juice and seltzer to each mug
Stir each with a cinnamon stick and leave in
A 'Godfather' is scotch and amaretto.
A 'Godmother' is a variation with vodka and amaretto.
This is a variation variation that's sweeter.
Ingredients:
2 oz whipped cream vodka (vanilla works)
1.5 oz amaretto
~3 dashes chocolate bitters (optional)
Procedure:
Add ingredients to a rocks glass filled with ice
Stir
Ingredients:
1.5 shot vanilla vodka
1.5 shot coffee liquor
1 shot eggnog
Pinch of cinnamon or nutmeg
Procedure:
Add all ingredients to a shaker with ice
Shake, then strain into a rocks glass filled with ice
Sprinkle with the cinnamon or nutmeg
PLEASE CAREFUL WITH FIRE. Mix and light in an open area with a fire extinguisher nearby. Never, EVER, drink a drink while it’s on fire. You don’t look cool, you look like a moron with burnt lips. ALSO, not all barware is fireproof; do some research and be careful.
Ingredients:
1 oz Rumchata
1.5 oz banana rum
1 oz dark rum
1 tsp brown sugar + some for rimming glass
1 oz triple sec (optional)
½ oz over-proof rum
Procedure:
Rim a martini glass with brown sugar
In shaker, combine all except the over-proof rum
Add some ice and give a quick shake
Strain into the martini glass
Gently float the high-proof rum on top
Light the rum on fire
Extinguish!
Ingredients:
1.5 oz vanilla vodka
1 oz Liqueur 43 vanilla liqueur
1 oz heavy cream
1 tbs (½ shot) matcha powder
0-5 dashes of lavender water, to taste
Procedure:
Add all ingredients to a shaker
Shake very well to dissolve matcha powder
Add ice to the shaker, and shake again
Strain into a martini glass
A dark and sophisticated drink that I definitely didn't just create for the pun
2oz Gin
1oz Yellow Chartreuse
½oz Aperol
2-3 dashes Peychaud bitters
~½ tsp butterfly pea powder (for color)
1. Shake all ingredients vigorously with ice
2. Strain into a martini glass
3. Garnish with lemon rind
1 shot gin
2 shots light rum
1 shot Midori
1 shot lemonade
Lemon-lime soda
Shake all but the soda with ice
Strain over fresh ice in a highball glass
Add soda to taste (1-2 shots)
Garnish with a slice of lime
Very strong, yet somehow still sweet
1oz Averna amaro
1oz Galliano
2oz Bourbon
Shake all ingredients with ice
Strain over a large cube in a rocks glass
Garnish with an flamed orange rind
1 pint strong stout
1 shot Frangelico
Pour beer into stout glass or mug
Add shot to beer.
Drink
Sanguine sipper for 4, that's as easy to drink as a juice box!
1 Bottle cheap red wine
4oz Brandy
4oz Aperol (or other orange amaro)
4oz Orange Juice concentrate
1 orange
Stir all ingredients in a pitcher until concentrate melts
Add ice some sliced orange
Share, making sure to mock the quality
2 shots BarenJager honey liqueur
1 shot Irish Whiskey
1 shot cranberry juice
Ginger Beer
Stir first three ingredients in a mule mug filled with ice
Top with ginger beer
Proposition someone
2 shots mezcal
1 shot blue curaçao
½ shot Montenegro amaro
2 lime wedges
Packet of blue raspberry Pop-Rocks
Rim a rocks glass with a lime wedge
Add all liquids to shaker, including juice from 2nd lime wedge
Shake briefly
Roll the rim of the glass into the pop rocks to coat
Fill glass with crushed ice
Pour shaker contents over ice
Drink before it’s too late
1 ½ shot blended scotch
1 ½ shot Punt-e-Mes (or good sweet Vermouth)
1 bar-spoon sugar syrup
5 dashes chili bitters
1 dried Thai pepper
Shake all liquid ingredients with ice
Strain into a martini glass
Garnish with pepper
2 shots vodka
1 shot raspberry liquor
½ shot elderflower liqueur
1 shot cranberry juice
Juice from a lemon slice
Shake all ingredients with ice
Strain into a goblet
~¼ shot of absinthe
~¼ shot Fernet Branca
1.5 shots brandy
1.5 shot rye
Orange rind
Add 1 large ice cube to a rocks glass
Swirl absinthe and fernet around the glass too coat
Pour these OUT into a shot glass. That’s for Boo.
Add the brandy and rye to the rocks glass
Give another quick swirl
Squeeze the orange rind over the glass and drop it in