BAR smarts Classic 25 Flashcards
Bellini
Bellini 1.5 oz white peach puree
4 oz Perrier-Jouët champagne
(optional .5 oz peach liqueur)
Put peach in bottom of mixing glass, no ice. Slowly add PJ while gently stirring, dragging peach up sides. Strain into champagne flute.
(Optional: float 0.5 oz peach liquer)
Aviation
2oz beefeater gin
.5oz maraschino liqueur
.5oz lemon juice
Shake/strain coupe.
Blood and Sand
.75 oz Chivas Regal scotch
.75 oz Cherry Heering
.75 oz sweet vermouth
.75 oz orange juice
Shake, cocktail glass, orange peel
Caipirinha
2 oz cachaça
1.5 barspoons sugar (or .75 oz simple)
1/2 lime, quartered.
Muddle sugar and lime, add cachaça and ice, shake, pour (no strain) into chilled rocks glass.
Collins
1.5 oz gin, bourbon, or vodka
.75 oz simple syrup
.75 oz lemon juice
club soda
Shake, collins with ice, top with soda. Cherry and orange slice.
Cosmopolitan
1.5 oz lemon vodka
.75 oz Cointreau
.25 oz lime juice
1 oz cranberry juice
Shake, chilled cocktail glass, orange peel
Daiquiri
1.5 oz white rum
.75 oz simple syrup
.75 oz lime juice
Shake, cocktail glass, garnish with lime wheel.
Gimlet
2.5 oz Beefeater gin
.5 oz Rose’s (preserved lime)
Shake, cocktail glass (or old fashioned with ice), lime wedge IN the drink?
Gin fizz
1.5 oz Beefeater gin
.75 oz lemon juice
.75 oz simple syrup
club soda
Shake, highball (no ice), top with soda, no garnish
Irish coffee
1.5 oz Jameson’s whiskey
1 oz simple syrup (or brown sugar)
4 oz coffee
unsweetened whipped cream
Build, float cream
Mai tai
2 oz aged rum (Jamaican)
.75 oz lime juice
.75 oz orange curaçao
1 tsp orgeat
Shake, old fashioned with ice, garnish with lime wheel, mint sprig, and sonya orchid.
Manhattan
2 oz Wild Turkey rye or bourbon
1 oz sweet vermouth
2 dashes Angostura
Stir, cocktail glass, cherry (or sometimes twist of lemon)
(Perfect Manhattan uses .5 sweet and .5 dry vermouth)
Margarita
2 oz Avión silver tequila 1 oz Cointreau .75 oz lime juice (optional: 0.5 oz simple syrup) coarse salt lime wedge (for rimming glass)
Shake, cocktail glass with salt rim, lime or no garnish.
Dry martini
1.5 oz Beefeater London Dry gin
1.5 oz dry vermouth
1-2 dashes orange bitters
Stir, twist of lemon or orange
Extra dry martini
3 oz Beefeater gin or Absolut vodka
1/8 oz dry vermouth
Stir gin with vermouth-seasoned ice, cocktail glass, olive.
Mint julep
2.5 oz straight bourbon or rye (or Martell VSOP cognac)
1 oz simple (or 2 teaspoons superfine sugar)
2-4 sprigs of mint
Sugar and 6 mint leaves in highball and lightly press. Add half of spirits and fill with crushed ice. Swirl to frost. Add more ice and rest of liquor. Garnish with 3 sprigs of mint. Add straw.
Mojito
1.5 oz rum .75 oz lime juice .75 oz simple syrup 1 mint sprig and 4 mint leaves club soda
Muddle mint and syrup, add lime, rum and shake, highball glass with ice, top with soda. Mint garnish
-or- build in a highball glass.
Negroni
1 oz gin
1 oz Campari
1 oz sweet vermouth
Build, old fashioned with ice, orange peel / slice (optional splash of soda)
-or-
Stir, cocktail glass, orange peel
Old fashioned
2 oz bourbon or rye
3 dashes Angostura
1 tsp sugar
splash water or soda
In old fashioned glass, muddle sugar and bitters in water, add whiskey and ice, stir. Lemon peel.
Muddled old fashioned
2 oz bourbon 3 dashes Angostura 1 tsp sugar 2 orange slices 2 maraschino cherries splash water or soda
In old fashioned glass, muddle sugar, bitters, one orange, one cherry, soda. Remove orange rind and add bourbon, ice and Stir. Garnish with additional orange slice and cherry.
Pisco sour
1.5 oz pisco 1 oz lime juice 1 oz simple syrup 1 egg white Drops of Angostura bitters
Dry shake, Shake, cocktail glass, garnish with Angostura
Rob Roy
2 oz Chivas Regal scotch
1 oz sweet vermouth
2 dash Angostura (or Orange)
Stir, cocktail glass, cherry (or orange twist)
Sazeracp
2 oz rye 2 dashes Peychaud's splash absinthe (Pernod 68) 0.5 oz simple syrup (or 1 sugar cube and water) Lemon twist
Chill 1 old fashioned glass. In other, combine rye, simple and bitters, stir. Dump ice from first glass. Splash absinthe and swirl. Dump absinthe. Strain second glass into first glass and twist lemon peel over top.
Sidecar
1.5 oz cognac (Martell VS, VSOP)
.75 oz cointreau
.5 - .75 oz lemon juice
Shake, cocktail glass with sugar rim, orange peel.
Stinger
2 oz cognac (Martell VS, VSOP, or Cordon Bleu)
1 oz white creme de menthe
Shake, cocktail glass -or- old fashioned glass with crushed ice. - One of the only drinks that is shaken and 100% pure liquor.
Whiskey sour
1.5 oz bourbon or rye
.75 oz simple syrup
.75 oz lemon juice
Shake, old fashioned glass (or sour glass), orange slice and cherry.
Bloody Mary
1.5 oz Absolut vodka 2 dash Worcestershire 4 dash Tobasco Pinch of salt & pepper .25 oz fresh lemon juice 4 oz tomato juice
Combine in mixing glass. Roll into tin and back. Strain into iced goblet. Garnish: wedge lemon, lime. Improvise.
(Ferdinand Petiot)
Hot toddy
2oz glen lover single malt scotch or redbreast Irish whiskey
1 bs dem or .25 honey
1 strip of thin cut lemon peel
2-4 oz water
Caiprioska
2 oz vodka
1.5 barspoons sugar or .75 simple syrup
half lime, quartered
Silver fizz
1.5 oz gin .75 oz lemon juice 1 oz simple syrup egg white club soda
Dry shake, shake, strain into a highball, no ice. No garnish
