What is a good drink to mix brandy with?!
What is a good drink to mix brandy with?
Answers:
Brandy, and for that matter cognac and armenac are all best served as is. No mixing required. When served at the proper temperature (just slightly above a cozy ambient temperature) there arre nuances that will dance across your tastebuds; like no sugary cocktail could emulate.
The Sidecar! My favorite summer drink!!!
1 cup good brandy
1/2 cup Triple Sec or Cointreau
1/4 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice
Maraschino cherries or lemon peel, to garnish
If you want to frost the glasses, dip the rim or 4 martini glasses in a shallow plate of lemon juice and then in the sugar. Allow to dry for 15 minutes.
Combine the brandy, Triple Sec, and lemon juice in a pitcher. Pour some into a cocktail shaker with ice, shake well and pour into the glasses. Garnish with a cherry or lemon peel.
A Brandy Alexander is YUMMY!
Scale ingredients to servings
1 1/2 oz brandy
1 oz dark creme de cacao
1 oz half-and-half
1/4 tsp grated nutmeg
In a shaker half-filled with ice cubes, combine the brandy, creme de cacao, and half-and-half. Shake well. Strain into a cocktail glass and garnish with the nutmeg. That's "traditional".
Even BETTER:
2 ounces Creme de Cacao
2 ounces brandy
3 scoops vanilla ice cream
1/2 cup half-and-half cream
fresh grated nutmeg or chocolate curls (to garnish)
Put all except garnish in blender and whirl til smooth.
Pour into stemmed goblets.
Garnish.
Serve immediately.
Brandy, cognac and grand marnier in equal parts. Best if you heat it.
she's right a sidecar is the best brandy cocktail by far.
If it is good Brandy, have it neat in a proper brandy balloon glass. That enables you to warm it with the palm of you hand as you gently swirl it.
The bottle should be at room temperature, but not in the sun.
Use Brandy instead of the super expensive Irish Wiskey in Irish coffee and you get what is called a Venetian.
If you must mix brandy, should drink it neat. Try a hot brandy.
Two parts brandy, one part hot water and a twist of lemon peel.