Do you plan to do any day drinking, or is it strictly night drinking? They are two different beasts and need to be treated as such. For example, you wouldn't drink an Open Grave at 8 a.m.: Basically, you make a long island, but then you add Disaronno, Midori and blue curacao, with a Sprite floater. I've just looked at recipes to confirm, but it appears that the place I used to work made them differently. Anyway, you don't want to drink this as soon as you wake up, because you'll go right back to sleep. And you'd probably want to shake this hard. Uh, looking at your pictures, none of that looks impossible to replace, should one go overboard. Honestly, the bulk of it looks like stuff I'd just drink straight (not the right hand part of the first shelf of picture 3, of course). cgod is a bartender, right? That dude will probably have some good ideas for you.
I work at a bar that serves no long islands or variations on the long island. It keeps the pukers and the kids out, I like the policy. There is a laundry list of other stuff we don't serve, like energy drink's and apple pucker all based on the same theory. We serve huge pores, but not pours of kiddy shit. Personally I'd probably drink the Jamesons neat, with a beer back. I like the Hendrix, at it's price it's an excellent gin. The "Campground" served in a pint glass 4 count of gin half soda half grapefruit juice float of campari orange slice for garnish It's a nice summery drink, people love em. Don't know what the weather was like in your neck of the woods, but it was almost 90 here today. Use tequila for gin and you have a camp slut. Negroni's are nice with hendrix, keep the summer going.
equal parts of each booze served in a rocks glass with orange slice garnish, shake it if you like. Gin Sweet Vermouth Campari For some reason Old Fashions are selling like mad, nice drink but you really want to use a rye whiskey. Actually looking at your booze selection I'd probably make myself a Rusty Nail. Equal parts Drambuie and Scotch on ice, it's one of my favorite drinks, unfortunately you don't see much Drambuie now a days. If you get shitty and really want to have some fun try this ecib classic,
The Three Amigos. serve in three separate shot glasses. 1 half shot of lime jucie 1 shot of tequila 1 shot of tomato or V8 1. take a sip of the lime juice and hold it in your mouth. 2. Drink the tequila shot down with the lime juice. 3. Chase with tomato or V8. 4. Party. It's a sick fun drink, the quality of the tequila really doesn't matter.
Actually looking at your booze selection I'd probably make myself a Rusty Nail. Equal parts Drambuie and Scotch on ice, it's one of my favorite drinks, unfortunately you don't see much Drambuie now a days.
my fathers favorite drink. It's a good one.
I have heard various bartenders attribute Mad Men with the rash of Old Fashioneds. I can't remember the last time I had one. I prefer my whiskeys neat. The Campground sounds pretty good. I'll have to give that a whirl. Why do you have to hold the lime juice in your mouth for The Three Amigos?
It's all personal taste. Some people think Jack Daniels is fantastic, personally I think a booze that has a major advertising budget is a sure sign of rotgut, it might be just the thing for you. I prefer rye, but to each his own. I hate when people ask me if a beer is good, I can tell you many things about a beer but whether you like it if I don't know you is beyond me. I'm really into sampling, a small taste of scotch or a few ounces of beer if that's what it takes to find what a person will like is well worth the good will and happiness it engenders. I loath IPA's for the most part, but I understand that you might not, and there is nothing wrong with that (lager man myself). I don't like kiddie shit, I like mature drinks for mature drinkers, It's not about the drink, It's about the drinker.
Probably no day drinking. Although it is one of my favorite pastimes, I have too much on my plate to spend any time during the day + nap + hangover to deal witht hat shit. Even right now im guilty of not finishing all the shit on my friday night todo list