Sharkbait’s Cocktail of the Week: Throwing Haymakers

It’s a special day before Thanksgiving edition of the Cocktail of the Week! As a service, I like to provide you fine readers with some ideas to serve at your own Thanksgiving celebrations. Or, for our Canadian friends, Thirsty Thursday celebrations. This week/year I’m providing a drink that should play well as a day drinker, both as a single serving, or as a punch that can be scaled up to fit however many people you may be planning on entertaining (or in some cases, be dealing with). It is the aptly named Haymaker.

I came across this one not too long ago (thanks Google!) and held onto it especially for this week. I wanted to offer a punch or large batch offering like the last time I wrote up a guide like this. I think it’s important to add something to scale when entertaining. Of which, on a personal note, I am extremely excited to be hosting some family this year. Last year sucked, and this one is only marginally better, but I can finally host people for holidays again, and I am definitely looking forward to tomorrow.

Anyway, on to the Haymaker:

.75 oz. Maker’s Mark
.75 oz. triple sec
.75 oz. dry vermouth
.75 oz. lime juice

Fill a cocktail shaker 3/4 of the way with cracked ice, pour the ingredients in and stir. Strain the mixture into an old-fashioned glass.

A quick word on presentation here. As noted above, the recipe calls for a strain into an old-fashioned (rocks) glass. Without garnish or ice, there is way too much headroom in the rocks glass for me. I decided to change glasses to a coupe:

 

Much better.

Now, the nose has a distinct whiskey aroma to it. I subbed in Rittenhouse Rye, so not exactly bourbon, but rye should fill in just as easily here. The lime juice also gives off a nice citrus-y aroma that mixes nicely with the rye on top.

Oh the sip is excellent. It starts off with whiskey notes, but the rye quickly becomes an underlying flavor to a good balance of lime/triple sec citrus flavors. The rye doesn’t completely disappear though, you can still detect it under the lime/triple sec flavor bomb, and it somewhat regains flavor intensity as the sip finishes. Speaking of the finish, I think it might be the rye I used (as opposed to bourbon) but I get a nice little whiskey bump at the end, that reminds you that you’re drinking straight booze here (sans the lime, but that doesn’t really count). I enjoyed that extra little hit of flavor. The vermouth flavor is next to non-existent here. I suspect it acts as a base to the heavily acidic lime juice, as well as the lime and hints of orange flavor from the triple sec. I can’t taste it, but I think this drink wouldn’t be as good if it wasn’t here.

Hopefully you’ve got most of these ingredients on hand. If not, I highly suggest grabbing the ingredients to make a couple of these, or even scale it up into a punch to serve to anyone that you may have over tomorrow.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

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Sharkbait has not actually been bitten by a shark, but has told people in bars that he was for free drinks. Married to a Giants fan, he enjoys whisk(e)y, cooking, the Rangers, and the Patriots.
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Fronkenshteen

Latest Grateful Dead output is December 1971 at the Fox Theater in St. Louis. Amazeballs.

2Pack

Happy Thanksgiving prep day to you all. The Martini girls are here to help. All basting remarks welcome.

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Fronkenshteen

Jesus, they look like the Donnas.

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King Hippo

TELL THE ONE ON TEH LEFT HER SHOULDERS are il perfecto!

Fronkenshteen

THAT is Tory Castellano. Had to retire from drumming due to wrist tendinitis and a degenerative shoulder condition. Went on to attend Stanford & then Harvard Law. Fascinating woman. Great shoulder game, too.

Fronkenshteen

I like beautiful women as much as the next dope, but my christ, why does Kate Abdo need to be dressed that way for Champions League coverage? Is it her choice? Because I absolutely suspect that it is not. She is essentially doing the same job as Rebecca Lowe, so why is she so tarted up? If guys can’t jerk off between matches, they’ll tune out? Fuck, this bugs me.

King Hippo

I noticed, but in a pervert/shoulder fetish way, and am now (righty) ashamed.

ballsofsteelandfury

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ballsofsteelandfury

My fantasy is that Kate Abdo runs a leather dungeon when she’s not announcing soccer games and these are just the outfits she wears every day.

Horatio Cornblower

Every time I re-realize that Bruce Pearl is getting paid millions to coach NCAA basketball instead of rotting in prison, I die a little more inside.

King Hippo

THIS SIDE Inter Milan, I call “In the Ear” because they keep scoring but it doesn’t count!

King Hippo

/fuckers took 3 seconds to ruin my joke attempt

Gumbygirl

Arbury verdicts in . All three guilty on almost all counts. Yay! Wasn’t expecting them to do the right thing.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Thank BLEERGH.

Redshirt

THE SYSTEM (sort of) WORKS!!!!!

Redshirt

Good thing too. Brunswick is next to St Simons Island, which is where my family went for vacation when I was a kid. I would’ve hate to see it burnt to the ground.

However right next to it is Sea Island, a private resort is where the very rich people live. I’d be okay watching that burn. Hell, I’d probably drive down there to direct the mob in that direction.

“NO JUSTICE! NO PEACE! TURN LEFT ON SEA ISLAND ROAD!”

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

The riots following an acquittal here would have made the original George Floyd riots look like Hands Across America.

Gumbygirl

I lived 30 minutes south in Kingsland for about 7 years. I’m shocked they got it right, it was pretty much Klan central around there. St. Simons was nice, we used to go to the beach there. Sea Island was full of assholes.

yeah right

Now we can actually celebrate Thanksgiving properly!

Gumbygirl

Waiting for Gumby at the urologjst. You youngins have some fun coming to you!

BrettFavresColonoscopy

This sounds delicious, but I drank all my remaining maker’s mark in the airport bathroom yesterday.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

You gave a nip or two to Larry Craig at least, right?

ballsofsteelandfury

Everyone has stopped working and started drinking, right?

BrettFavresColonoscopy

I wish

Game Time Decision

Is there something special this week? it’s only Wednesday, and it’s noon, so no

ballsofsteelandfury

I believe you just answered your own question.

Senor Weaselo

Gig later tonight until at least 11, probably 11:30.

Redshirt

No yet but my liver is shivering with anticipation.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly
LemonJello

“It only affects toes, right?”
-JPP, flexing his remaining fingers

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

“THIS IS NO LAUGHING MATTER, JASON!” – Rex Ryan, with increasing trepidation

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BrettFavresColonoscopy

It’s terrible news that he doesn’t have worse symptoms.

Redshirt

Just wait. He could get more. Mine didn’t show up until about a month after I got COVIDed.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Not to mention that they have lost two of three games since his diagnosis.