Classic Cocktails Flashcards

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French 75

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2oz London Dry Gin
3/4oz Lemon Juice
3/4oz Simple Syrup
2oz Champagne
Garnish with Lemon Twist

Shake and Strain Gin, Lemon Juice, and Simple Syrup into a flute and top with Champagne. Garnish with Lemon Twist

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Cosmopolitan

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2oz Vodka
1oz Cranberry Juice
3/4 oz Fresh Lime
3/4 oz Triple Sec

Shake with ice and Strain into a martini glass and garnish with Lime Wheel

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4th Regiment

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1oz Rye Whiskey
1oz Sweet Vermouth
1 dash each orange bitters, celery bitters, Peychaud’s bitters

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail coup, garnish with lemon peel

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Abbey Cocktail

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1 1/2 oz Gin
3/4 oz Orange Juice
3/4 oz Cocchi Americano
2 dashes bitters

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail coup. Garnish with Cherry

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Old Fashioned

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2oz American Whiskey/Bourbon
2 dashes of Bitters
1 sugar cube

Add enough water to dissolve sugar cube. Add bitters, stir, and strain over fresh ice.

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Sazerac

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2oz Sazerac Rye Whiskey
5 Dashes Peychaud’s Bitters
Splash of Absinthe
Half of a Sugar Cube

Muddle sugar cube and water in a mixing glass. Chill the glass with ice water. Rinse the glass with absinthe. The residual water in the glass should cause the absinthe to loosh and become more aromatic. Add whiskey, bitters, and lemon peel to the mixing glass with the muddled sugar and stir with ice to chill. Strain into absinthe-rinsed lowball glass.

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Pisco Sour

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2oz Pisco
1oz Lime/Lemon Juice
3/4oz SS
1 Egg White 
1 Dash of Angostura Bitters

Shake all ingredients except bitters with ice and strain into the glass. Garnish glass with a dash of bitters.

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Manhattan

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2oz Rye Whiskey
1oz Sweet Vermouth
2 Dashes Angostura

Stir all ingredients with ice and strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with Cherry.

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Mint Julep

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2oz Bourbon
10-12 Mint Leaves
1/2oz SS

Add Syrup and Mint Leaves to the Base of the Glass. Add crushed ice and 1oz of the Bourbon and mix. Cap with ice and add rest of Bourbon. Garnish with Mint Leaves.

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Gin Fizz

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2 oz Gin
3/4oz Lemon Juice
3/4oz SS
Soda Water

Shake Gin, Lemon Juice, and SS in a shaker with ice. Strain into a collins glass WITHOUT ICE (this is the fundamental difference between a gin fizz and a collins cocktail.

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Side Car

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1.5oz Cognac
3/4oz Lemon Juice
3/4oz Cointreau/Orange Liqueur

Shake and strain ingredients with ice. Strain into a sugar rimmed cocktail glass and garnish with Orange Twist.

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Gin Rickey

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2oz London Dry Gin
1oz Lime Juice
Soda Water

Build in a highball and garnish with lime rind

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Aviation

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1.5oz London Dry Gin
3/4oz Lemon Juice
2 Dashes Maraschino Liqueur
2 Dashes Crème Yvette

Combine all ingredients into a cocktail shaker. Add ice and shake to chill. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with Cherry or Lemon Peel.

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Gimlet

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2oz Plymouth Gin
3/4oz Lime Juice
3/4oz SS

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Martini

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2.5oz Gin

1/2oz Dry Vermouth

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