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Cocktail pictures and notebook

I like mixology

Some pictures of the drinks i’ve made, in the last years.

Most are in my notebook, i can perfect the drink now individually for a person.

I really have to put the names of the drinks on this page.
(And the tasting notes!)

Skittles Vodka

Update (2022) Something i’ve been doing for years now.

Making skittle vodka.

If i remember it well, is was a students solution to get a cheap ‘fancy’ drink. Vodka is cheap, and skittles or other candy was easily obtainable.

Buy a bottle of vodka, not too cheap, but certainly not a pricy one.
Get some bag’s of kittles. (does are mixed so you have to sort them by color/taste)
Take some small bottles and fill them each with a skittle color, and fill the rest of the bottle with Vodka.
Now we wait from the skittles to dissolve completely.
Strain the dissolved foamy mixture using a paper kitchentowel into another bottle.
( i have 6 bottles, 5 for each color skittle and one to transfer one to the other )
Sometimes i’ll do it a second time, to get a clearer result.

Ready to drink

Most of the times, i take a longdrink glass, pour some skittle vodka in it add ice and fill the rest with 7-UP.

Planning for a Cocktail night

I love making cocktails for my ladies, but for the occasional drink, now for a cocktail night.

See my other post about my cocktail bar in another post.

30th Juli I’m entertaining Arja, Coline and Monique by serving cocktails.

So i made a little list of cocktails to choose from.
I say choose, i could not have guessed i’d have to make them all!

One page of the cocktail list, with scorecards

So i made a little generator

Using a blank template png and a bash script i generated above.

#!/bin/bash
cp cocklist-leeg.png 1.png
xstart=450
ystart=300
xspace=30
yspace=40
# deze straks uitrekenen
nextitem=170
nextrow=550
ls drinks | sort -n  | grep -v totallist | while read drink; do
if [ $(echo $drink | cut -c-2 ) -gt 90 ] 
then 
	color="#ffcc00"  
else 
	color="#ff7406" 
fi
convert -font Impact.ttf -fill "$color" -pointsize 43 -annotate +$xstart+$ystart "$(echo $drink | cut -c3- )" 1.png 2.png
echo $drink
xstart2=$[$xstart + $xspace]
ystart2=$[$ystart + $yspace]
convert -font Trebuchet_MS_Bold_Italic.ttf -fill black -pointsize 30 -annotate +$xstart2+$ystart2 "$(cat "drinks/$drink")" 2.png 3.png
cp 3.png 1.png
echo -n "       "
echo $(cat "drinks/$drink")
lines=$[ $(cat "drinks/$drink"|wc -l) * 36 ]
lines=$[lines + 65]
ystart=$[$ystart + $lines]

if [ $ystart -gt 1900 ] ; then ystart=300 ; xstart=$[$xstart + $nextrow]
fi



done
cp 3.png cocktailist.png

Directory structure

makecock        # above script
Impact.ttf      # used font
Trebuchet_MS_Bold_Italic.ttf # used font
cocklist-leeg.png            # Empty template
drinks/01Alien (shooter)     # Drinks dir
drinks/07Half and half (Shooter)

Files in the drink directory have the short list of ingredients.

Blue curacau,
Whisky cream

Run the script and you end up with the above images. Have fun.

Empty template

Some drinks that evening:

I made a better cocktail bar after this adventure.
Well .. i gave three ladies an orgasm this night, not bad 🙂

I made a very bad playlist .. but I was even dancing the Macarena at 4am.

# some of the tunes LOL
01-george_ezra-budapest.mp3
01 - Nakatomi - Sing a Song.mp3
01 - Turn Down For What.flac
02.Sak Noel - Loca People - WTF.mp3
03 - Here Comes The Hotstepper.mp3
04_daft_punk-harder_better_faster_stronger-wax.mp3
[05] Mas Que Nada - Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66.mp3
084 - Tune Up! - Ravers Fantasy (Tibby Remix).mp3
09-pendulum_-_out_here-boss.mp3
15 - DJ Aligator - The Whistle Song (Blow My Whistle Baby).mp3
201) Shaggy - Boombastic [1995].mp3
All that she wants - Ace of Base.mp3
Anders Nilsen - Salsa Tequila.mp3
Aqua  Barbie girl.mp3
Bellini-_-samba_de_janero_club_mix.mp3
Benni Benassi - Satisfaction.mp3
Black Eyed Peas - My Humps.mp3
Bloodhound Gang - The Bad Touch - discoverychannel.mp3
Bloodhound Gang - Uhn Tiss Uhn Tiss Uhn Tiss.mp3
Blumchen - Heute Ist Mein Tag.mp3
Boom Boom Boom - Venga Boys.mp3
Café Del Mar.-.Volume 1.-.04.-.Penguin Cafe Orchestra  Music For A Found Harmonium.-.3astUpRoaR.mp3
Carrapicho - Tic Tic Tac.mp3
Colette - Think You Want It.mp3
Doop - Doop.MP3
Dreams.mp3
Eternal I wanna be the only one.MP3
Fire Burning - Sean Kingston.mp3
From Paris To Berlin.mp3
GANGNAM STYLE.MP3
Geen idee klinkt wel leuk.mp3
Hengelo-o-o.mp3
Hot Tamale.mp3
Iets met moonlight shadow.mp3
Ievan Polka
Jerry C - Canon Rock (backing track).wma
Kim Kay - Li La Li (From Videoclip).mp3
Kim Kay - Li la li la li.mp3
Kim Kay - Lilali.mp3
kp ft. young sam   hot tamale (a. eyvaz) - [MP3JUICES.COM].mp3
L.C.D. - Zorba's Dance.mp3
Lily Allen - Fuck You.mp3
Lloyd-Dedication_to_My_Ex_(Feat_Andre_3000__Lil_Wayne).mp3
[Los Del Rio] Macarena.mp3
LosUmbrellos_NoTengoDinero.mp3
Music For Cocktails Moments
Odorikuruu Mamboleo - Best AMV 2001.mp3
Polka power!.mp3
Populair met geinige beat
Professional widow (Remix) - Tori Amos.mp3
refugee camp-Avenues.mp3
Sail.mp3
Sander Hoogendoorn - Volvo IKEA (Official lyric video).mp3
Tamale.mp3
Tenacious D - Tribute.mp3
TOKYO GHETTO PUSSY - I KISS YOUR LIPS.MP3
V.A. - Q-Music - De Foute 111 (2011) DutchReleaseTeam
Ylvis - The Fox.mp3
YOLANDA BE COOL &  DCUP   WE NO SPEAK AMERICANO (Official Video).mp3