How I Built My Perfect Summer Bartenders

If you open the spirits (plural) at my house, you will find an eclectic collection of spirits ranging from the worldly to the random and unique bottles my husband and I have bought in a small or unknown city during our travels. My husband likes to joke that I gave him a basic barten course, and now I take advantage of it, but in my mind it was a good financial investment for both of us.

The problem, however, is that it is not a course that was varied enough to cover all our niche spirits, and sifting through many online recipe pages for a strange ingredient often provides super -complex cocktails with multiple ingredients that I do not have for hand. In the meantime, it is sad to see dozens of bottles sitting unopened, waiting for the perfect cocktail or recipe inspiration to hit. So I decided to take the matter in my own hands, or in The Gemini model’s proverbial handsAnd make a bartender who understands me and my ingredient list. The results are often hits, sometimes miss, but you bet I have a lot of fun to “test” this feature of science, and work, of course …

My first experience with Gemini Bartender was a quick chat with Gemini live. I had many remains of celery with some mint, and I wondered if they could be used in a cocktail. I asked Gemini if ​​they would fit into a cocktail, and that suggested a celery and mint mojito. No fancy, but nothing I would think of on top of my head – I’m still a bartender on the baby.

The result, however, was so nice and refreshing that I had to do a few double paths because I didn’t think celery leaves would work This well in a cocktail. The relationship was perfectly balanced with the coin. The mixture was so good that when I have had some celery for other purposes since the fateful day, I have cut off some extra leaves to redo the same cocktail. It’s a fantastic summer winner. Points, Gemini.

From that day I knew I had a tool to help me create interesting cocktails from scratch (or from other online recipes that I am too lazy to sifting through), but what about recreating existing? Look, when I order a drink at a bar or restaurant, and I like it, I have trouble recreating it at home. I do not depend on alcohol enough to go through many stages of trials and errors; I’d rather just get the recipe right from the start. But no bar or restaurant will ever share their specialty, so I turn to Gemini.

I have shared the ingredient description of the best specialty cocktails I find and ask Gemini to find out the recipe. The results are better than what my personal approach would be, to be honest, with the right balance between spirits, syrup, lemon juice, simple syrup and others. It feels less like fumbling and more like an educated guess; Gemini puts me on the right path, and I can make minor adjustments to get so close to the original creation.

Thanks to this, I have been able to recreate the most balanced and refreshing summer cocktail I have ever had at any restaurant/bar (Smäak in Tours, France) with Rosmarin-infused Gin, Elderflower liqueur and Crème de Cassis. Gemini’s original recipe included no lemon juice, but in my fading memories there was some acidity for the original cocktail, so I asked Gemini to add it, and the result was absolute perfection. Now, two years later, Smäak is unfortunately closed on trips, but the cocktail lives on in my home. Another Gemini victory.

After all that experimentation, I realized that the final boss of my fight would be to make my own bartender – an agent who knows me, what I have in my liquor storage, what I don’t always have on hand, what I like and what I don’t like. And it required building my personal bartending Gemini gem.

I started by creating a spreadsheet with all spirits and cocktail ingredients in our deep cabinets. It is a simple Google sheet with an ingredient per row that I can easily keep up to date by adding or removing goods. Then I went to Gemini, clicked on Explore pearls> new pearland connected my Google Drive file to Knowledge Panel at the bottom. That way, I don’t have to learn my gemini ingredients every time; I can update the document and it has access to the new additions or recent removes.

On top of that, I gave Gemini extra instructions, and explained the founding ingredients I have, what I like, and always asked it to give me three suggestions when building recipes. It took a few adjustments, but the instructions are now well suited for my use. Every time I want some fresh inspiration, I ask Gemini for a new cocktail by giving it a main ingredient or taste, and it delivers.

This has led to strange experimentation with fresh basil and space in a daiquiri (not recommended), then with anise liqueur instead (a surprising new favorite!), And with licorice liqueur (a medium result).

I have had fun since February, and at a speed of a new cocktail per week or two weeks, you can guess that there are several non-photographed creations here, from a fig and thyme sparkles with gin (recommended) to a berry and yogurt liqueur like Gemini Cheekily hinted can be a good breakfast and cocktail in one. There is always 17.00 somewhere, as they say!

Of all the Gemini use cases and all the special pearls I made, I have to admit that this is the best – and not just because of the delicious cocktails! It is so easy to keep the spreadsheet updated, and it is great to have all the instructions ready in a gem, so I do not need to re -write all them or forget about anything. In addition, it has been fun to push Gemini with random ingredients or just let it be creative by telling it “surprises me.”

Honestly, if I had time to read or see all the bartenders out there, I would; I prefer the personal touch, recommendations and tips. But unfortunately, this is a quick hobby for me, so I like the Ai -Snarveien and have a massive smarter search engine at my disposal, if just because it won’t waste my time by surfing cocktails with ingredients I don’t have for hand. If you are a Spirits Collector like me, I suggest you build your own spreadsheet and pearl as well. You can be surprised by all the inspiration it will provide.