Bar Terminology Flashcards
Do you know how to properly decant a wine? How to strain, stir, and shake a cocktail? Learn how to properly mix and prepare any drink with these essential bartending terms.
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Add
To put in an ingredient
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Chill
To freeze a glass or to let ice and/or water stand in a glass
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Color
To add a few drops of liquid for its coloring effects
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Dash
The smallest bar measure, also “Splash”
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Decant
To pour wine from a bottle that has deposits into another container, often in a carafe that will allow the wine to breathe
(Usually done with red or port wine)
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Fill
To add an ingredient to the remainder of a cocktail
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Float
A very small amount of liquor carefully poured on top of a cocktail, often done over the back of a spoon, also “Layering”
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Frost
To rub sugar on the rim of a glass
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Crusta
A sugar-rimmed glass
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Garnish
To decorate with pre-cut fruit or vegetables
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Muddle
To crush an ingredient with another, for sugar, mint, etc.
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Salt
To rub salt on the rim of a glass
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Shake
To mix in a shaker with ice
(As to use a more violent technique)
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Stir
To mix in a shaker with ice
(As to use a more gentle technique with a spoon)
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Strain
To pour from shaker into a cocktail glass through a straining device
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Back up
Another round (of the same drink)
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Brut
Used to describe Champagne as “dry”
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Call drink
A drink ordered by a call name, e.g. Tanqueray and tonic instead of a gin and tonic
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Chaser
Liquid used to follow a drink,usually non-alcoholic like juice or soda
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Dry
Less sweet
