25 Classic Bartender Cocktails Flashcards
Aviation
Ingredients:
2 oz. Beefeater Gin
1/2 oz. Maraschino Liqueur
1/2 oz. Lemon Juice
Prep:
Shake all with ice, strain, serve up
Optional:
Reduce maraschino to 2 tsp and add 1 tsp of creme de violette or Monin violet syrup
Blood and Sand
Ingredients:
3⁄4 oz. Chivas Regal Scotch Whisky 3⁄4 oz. Cherry Heering
3⁄4 oz. Italian Sweet Vermouth
3⁄4 oz. fresh-squeezed orange juice
Preparation:
Shake and strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with an orange peel.
Bloody Mary
Ingredients: 11⁄2 oz. Absolut vodka 2 dashes Worcestershire sauce 4 dashes Tabasco sauce Pinch of salt and pepper 1⁄4 oz. fresh lemon juice 4 oz. tomato juice
Preparation:
Combine all ingredients in mixing glass and roll back and forth into tin to mix (that will prevent the tomato juice from foaming).
Strain into an iced goblet.
Garnish with wedge of lemon and lime on a side plate.
A dash of celery salt is a nice touch and New Yorkers traditionally add horseradish.
Caipirinha
Ingredients:
2 oz. Janeiro cachaça
3⁄4 oz. simple syrup
1⁄2 lime, quartered
Preparation:
Place lime quarters in the bottom of mixing glass, add the sugar or syrup and muddle, extracting the juice and the oil in the skin from the lime quarters.
Chill a rocks glass with cracked ice.
Add cachaça to the mixture in the glass, toss in the ice and shake well.
Pour the entire contents of the mixing glass back into the chilled rocks glass and serve.
Another method is to build the whole drink in the glass that will receive it, omitting the shaking.
Tom Collins
Ingredients: 11⁄2 oz. Beefeater Gin or genever gin 3⁄4 oz. fresh lemon juice 3⁄4 oz. simple syrup Club soda
Preparation:
Shake spirits, lemon juice and simple syrup with ice, strain into an iced Collins glass and fill with soda.
Garnish with a cherry and an orange slice.
John Collins
Ingredients: 1 1/2 oz. bourbon 3⁄4 oz. fresh lemon juice 3⁄4 oz. simple syrup Club soda
Preparation:
Shake spirits, lemon juice and simple syrup with ice, strain into an iced Collins glass and fill with soda.
Garnish with a cherry and an orange slice.
Cosmopolitan
Ingredients: 1 1⁄2 oz. Absolut Citron vodka 3⁄4 oz. Cointreau 1⁄4 oz. fresh lime juice 1 oz. Cranberry Juice
Preparation:
Shake all ingredients with ice. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with an orange peel.
Daiquiri
Ingredients:
1 1⁄2 oz. white rum
3⁄4 oz. simple syrup
3⁄4 oz. fresh lime juice
Preparation:
Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into a small cocktail glass.
Garnish with a lime wheel.
Vodka/Gin Gimlet
Ingredients:
2 1/2 oz. Beefeater gin or vodka
1/2 oz. lime juice
1/2 oz. simple syrup
Preparation:
Shake ingredients well with ice and strain into a chilled martini glass or serve over ice in an old-fashioned glass.
Garnish with lime wedge.
Irish coffee
Ingredients: 1 1/2 oz. Jameson Irish whiskey 1 oz. simple or brown sugar syrup (equal parts of water and brown sugar, dissolved) 4 oz. brewed coffee Lightly whipped unsweetened cream
Preparation:
Combine whiskey, coffee, and syrup in an Irish coffee glass.
Ladle a layer 1 inch (2.5 mm) thick of cream on top.
Manhattan
Ingredients:
2 oz. Rye whisky or bourbon whiskey
1 oz. Sweet vermouth
2 Dashes Angostura bitters
Preparation:
Stirred. Served up or rocks with an ice cube. Garnish with cherry or lemon wedge.
Margarita
Ingredients: 2 oz. Tequila Blanco 3/4 oz. fresh lime juice 1/2 oz. agave nectar ( 1/2 oz. simple syrup is optional but necessary for many guests.) Coarse salt
Mint Julep
Ingredients:
2 1/2 oz. straight bourbon or rye whiskey, or Martell VSOP cognac
1 oz. simple syrup
2 to 4 sprigs of mint (use tender, young sprigs, since they last longer and look better)
Preparation:
Put the simple syrup or the sugar and 1⁄2 oz. water in the bottom of a highball glass.
Add 5 or 6 mint leaves (from the bottom of the sprig) and press lightly with a muddler.
Add half of the spirits and fill with crushed or finely cracked ice.
Swirl with a barspoon until the outside of the glass frosts.
Add more crushed ice and the remaining liquor.
Stir again to frost the glass.
Garnish with at least 1 sprig of mint, and preferably 3.
Add a straw.
Mojito
Ingredients: 1 1/2 oz. white rum 3/4 oz. fresh lime juice 3/4 oz. simple syrup 1 mint sprig and 4 mint leaves (use tender, young mint tops; peppermint is best because it doesn’t wilt and retains its shape). 1 oz. soda
Preparation:
In a mixing glass, muddle mint leaves with simple syrup.
Add lime juice and rum and fill with ice.
Shake vigorously and strain over fresh ice into a highball glass.
Top with soda and garnish with a fresh mint sprig.
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Muddle the mint leaves gently with the simple syrup and the lime juice in the bottom of a highball glass.
Add the rum, stir, add ice, and top with no more than two oz. of club soda.
Garnish with a generous sprig of mint.
Negroni
Ingredients:
1 oz. Beefeater London dry gin
1 oz. Campari
1 oz. Italian sweet vermouth
Preparation:
Combine all ingredients in a mixing glass and stir.
Garnish with an orange peel or orange slice.
Served up or with a rock in rocks glass.
