Classic Cocktail Recipes Flashcards
Bay Breeze
1.5oz Vodka
1.5oz Pineapple Juice
3oz Cranberry
Build in a Highball and top with ice.
Bellini
1oz Peach Puree
Build in a Champage Glass and top with sparkling wine.
Bloody Mary
1.5oz Vodka
Build in Highball and top with ice and bloody mix.
Garnish: Lemon Wedge & Pickle Slice
Bloody Maria
Substitute Tequila and finish like above
Bourbon Bramble
1oz Bourbon
1oz St. Germaine
1/2oz Creme de Cassis
1/4oz Lemon Juice
Shake with ice and serve in Rocks Glass
Garnish expressed lemon peel
Bramble
1.5oz Gin
1.5oz Lemonade
1/2oz Creme de Cassis
Shake with ice and serve in Rocks Glass
Garnish expressed lemon peel
Cape Cod (Vodka & Cranberry)
1.5oz Vodka
Top with ice and cranberry juice in Highball
Garnish: Lime Wedge
Cosmopolitan
1.5oz Vodka
3/4oz Cranberry Juice
3/4oz Lime Juice
1/2oz Simple Syrup
Shake with ice and strain into Martini Glass
Garnish: Lime Wedge
Cuba Libre (Rum & Coke)
Add ice to Highball
1.5oz White Rum
Top with Coca Cola
Garnish: Lime Wedge
If Diet Coke garnish with lemon wedge
Daiquiri
1.5oz White Rum
3/4oz Lime Juice
3/4oz Simple Syrup
Shake with ice and strain in Martini Glass
Garnish: Lime Wedge
Dark n’ Stormy
Add ice to Rocks Glass
1.5oz Goslings Dark Rum
Top with Ginger Beer
Garnish: Lime Wedge
Gimlet
2oz Gin
3/4 Lime Juice
3/4 Simple Syrup
Shake with ice and strain in Martini Glass
Garnish: Lime Wedge
Greyhound
Build
Add ice to Highball
1.5oz Gin or Vodka
Top with Grapefruit Juice
Salty Dog
Above made with salt rim
Hot Toddy
1.5oz Whiskey
3/4oz Honey
3/4oz Lemon Juice
Build in Clear Coffee Cup
Top with hot water and stir to dissolve honey
Garnish: Lemon Wedge
Irish Coffee
1.5oz Jameson
3/4oz Simple Syrup
Coffee in a clear coffee cup
Top with heavy cream float
French 75
1oz Gin
1 bar spoon simple syrup
1/2oz lemon juice
Shake with ice and add to champagne glass
Top with sparkling wine
Lemon Drop
1.5oz Vodka
3/4oz lemon juice
3/4oz simple syrup
Shake with ice and strain into a martini glass
Garnish: lemon wedge dipped in sugar
Long Island Iced Tea
3/4oz Gin
3/4oz Tequila
3/4oz Rum
3/4oz Vodka
3/4oz Triple Sec
Splash sour mix
Build in pint glass with ice and shake
Top with Coke and lemon wedge
Malibu Bay Breeze
Build
Fill highball with ice
1.5oz Coconut Rum
1.5oz Pineapple Juice
1.5oz Cranberry Juice
Garnish: Lime Wedge
Manhattan
Ask “rye or bourbon”
Add ice to mixing glass
Chill Martini Glass
2oz Rye or Bourbon
1oz Sweet Vermouth
2 dashes angostura bitters
Stir and strain into martini glass
Garnish: 1 cherry in bottom of glass
Martini
Ask “gin or vodka”
3 oz of gin or vodka of choice
3/4 oz of dry vermouth
Cocktails made with only alcohol should be stirred for 30 seconds unless asked otherwise
Dry Martini
Less Vermouth
Dirty Martini
Add 1oz olive juice
With a twist
Add lemon zest
Mimosa
1 oz orange juice
Top with sparkling wine in champagne glass
Mojito
1.5oz white rum
1oz lime juice
1/2 oz simple syrup
5 mint leaves
Shake with ice and serve in highball glass
Top with club soda (if a lot of space left)
Garnish mint tops
Negroni
1oz gin
1oz sweet vermouth
1oz Campari
Stir with ice and serve in rocks glass
Garnished expressed orange peel
Mezcal Negroni
Substitute gin above with Mezcal
Follow same instructions above
Old Fashioned
Ask “rye or bourbon”
2 oz rye or bourbon
1/2 oz simple syrup
2 dashes angostura bitters
Stir 30 seconds and serve in rocks glass
Garnish expressed orange peel
Sea Breeze
1.5 oz vodka
1.5 oz grapefruit juice
3 oz cranberry juice
Build in highball and top with ice
Sex on the Beach
1.5 oz vodka
1/2 oz peach schnapps
Build in highball and top with ice
Fill half cranberry juice, half orange juice
Sidecar
1.5 oz Brandy
3/4 oz triple sec
3/4 oz lemon juice
Shake with ice and strain into sugar rimmed martini glass
Tequila Sunrise
1.5 oz tequila
1/2 oz grenadine
Build in curvy chilled beer glass or highball
Top with ice and orange juice
Garnish lime wedge
Tom Collins (also Gin Fizz)
1.5 oz gin
1.5 oz lemonade
Build in highball and top with ice and seltzer
Garnish: lemon wedge
Whiskey Sour
1.5 oz whiskey
Build in rocks glass
Add ice and top with sour mix
Garnish: 1 cherry
White Russian
1 oz vodka
1.5 oz coffee liqueur
Build in rocks glass, add ice and float heavy cream on top using bar spoon