Classic Cocktails Flashcards
4th Regiment
1 oz Rye
1 oz Sweet Vermouth
1 dash each: orange bitters, Peychaud’s, celery bitters
Shake with ice and strain into cocktail coupe
Garnish with lemon peel
Abbey Cocktail
1.5 oz Gin
.75 oz OJ
.75 oz Cocchi Americano
Shake with ice and strain into cocktail coupe
Garnish with cherry
Absinthe Frappé
1.5 oz Absinthe
0.5 oz simple
6-8 mint leaves
Muddle Mint at bottom of glass.
Add absinthe and simple
Pack with Crushed ice
In Frappe glass or absinthe or Old Fashioned glass.
Mint garnish, serve with straw
Adonis
2 oz Fino
1 oz Sweet Vermouth
2 dashes orange bitters
Stir all briefly in a mixing glass, with ice, and strain into cocktail coupe
Garnish with orange twist
Alexander Cocktail
.75 oz VS Cognac
.75 oz white creme de cacao
.75 oz cream
Shake with ice and strain into cocktail coupe
Garnish with grated nutmeg
Algonquin
1.5 oz Rye
.75 oz Dry vermouth
.75 oz pineapple juice
2 dashes Peychaud’s
Shake with ice and strain into coupe.
Americano
1 oz Campari
1 oz Sweet Vermouth
Soda Water
Build on Old Fashioned Glass
Garnish with orange slice
Antibes
2 oz gin
,75 oz Benedictine
1 oz grapefruit juice
Shake with ice and strain into Old Fashioned Glass
Garnish with orange slice
Aviation
1.5 oz London Dry Gin
.75 Lemon Juice
2 dashes Maraschino liqueur
2 dashes Creme Yvette
Combine in cocktail shaker.
Add ice to shake and chill.
Strain into chilled cocktail glass
Garnish with cherry or lemon peel
Bamboo
1.5 oz Fino
1.5 oz Dry Vermouth
2 dashes Angostura
2 dashes orange bitters
Combine in mixing glass and stir with ice briefly to chill.
Strain into cocktail coupe.
Garnish with Orange or Lemon Twist
Bee’s Knees
1.5 oz gin
.75 oz honey
.75 oz lemon juice
Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass
Garnish with lemon twist
Bellini
2 parts prosecco
1 part white peach puree
Dash raz puree
Pour Prosecco over purees into flute. Stir gently.
Bijou
1 oz gin
1 oz green Chartreuse
1 oz sweet vermouth
Stir with ice and strain into coupe.
Garnish with lemon twist
Black Russian
1.5 oz vodka
0.75 oz Kahlua
Pour over ice into lowball glass
Blood and Sand
0.75 oz Scotch
0.75 oz Sweet Vermouth
0.75 oz Cherry Heering
0.75 oz orange juice
Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass
Garnish with flamed orange twist
Bloody Mary
1.5 oz vodka
4 oz tomato juice
0.5 oz lemon juice
Half teaspoon horseradish
3 dashes Tobasco
3 dashes Worcestershire
Salt
Cracked Black Pepper
Celery Salt
Build in Mixing Glass.
Roll with ice to mix and chill.
Garnish with celery stick and optional others.
Bobby Burns
1.25 oz Blended Scotch
0.75 oz Sweet Vermouth
1 dash orange bitters
1 dash absinthe
Stir with ice and strain into cocktail glass
Garnish with lemon twist
Boothby Cocktail
1.5 oz bourbon or rye
0.75 oz sweet vermouth
2 dashes Angostura
2 dashes orange bitters
1 oz Champagne
Stir ingredients in mixing glass, transfer to coupe, and then top with Champagne
Garnish with orange peel
Boston Cocktail
0.75 oz gin
0.75 oz apricot brandy
0.25 oz lemon juice
0.25 oz grenadine
Shake with ice and strain into coupe
Garnish with lemon twist
Boulevardier
1 oz bourbon
1 oz Campari
1 oz sweet vermouth
Stir with ice and strain into cocktail glass
Garnish with orange twist
Bronx
1 oz gin
0.5 oz sweet vermouth
0.5 oz dry vermouth
0.5 oz OJ
Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass.
Garnish with orange slice
Brooklyn
1.5 oz Rye
1.5 oz dry vermouth
Dash Maraschino liqueur
Dash Amer Picon bitters
Stir with ice and strain up or on the rocks.
Garnish with lemon twist, orange twist, or both
Bull Shot
1.5 oz vodka
3 oz beef broth
0.5 oz lemon juice
Salt to taste
Build in ice filled highball glass.
Garnish with lime wedge
Caipirinha
2 oz Cachaca
Juice of half lime
2 teaspoons sugar
Muddle sugar and lime quarters.
Add crushed ice and cachaca in lowball glass.
Garnish with lime wedge.
Cape Codder
1.5 oz Vodka
4 oz cranberry juice
.25 oz lime juice
Pour ingredients over ice.
Highball glass garnished with lime wedge.
Champagne Cocktail
Sugar Cube
2-4 dashes Angostura
Champagne
Place Sugar Cube on spoon and douse with bitters
Drop the cube into the glass.
Fill glass with Champagne
Garnish with lemon twist.
Champs Élysées
1.5 oz Cognac
0.5 oz lemon juice
0.5 oz green Chartreuse
0.5 oz simple
Dash Angostura
Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass.
Garnish with lemon twist.
Clover Club
1.5 oz gin
0.75 oz lemon juice
0.75 oz raspberry syrup
1 egg white
Shake and strain into coupe
Collins
2 oz bourbon or gin
0.75 oz lemon juice
0.75 oz simple
Chilled Club Soda
Shake spirit, lemon juice, syrup with ice and strain into ice-filled glass. Top with club soda.
Highball or collins glass.
Garnish with orange slice or cherry
Corn N Oil
2 oz blackstrap rum (like Cruzan)
0.5 oz Velvet Falnernum
0.25 oz lime juice
2-3 dashes Angostura
Build over ice in Old Fashioned Glass.
Garnish with lime wedge.
Corpse Reviver No 1
1.5 oz Cognac
0.75 oz Calvados
0.75 Sweet Vermouth
Stir with ice and strain into cocktail glass
Garnish with lemon twist
Corpse Reviver No 2
0.75 oz gin
0.75 oz Cointreau
0.75 oz Lillet Blanc
0.75 oz Lemon Juice
1 dash absinthe, to be used as glass rinse
Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass
Garnish with Cherry
Cosmopolitan
1.5 oz Vodka
.5 oz triple sec
.5 oz cranberry juice
.5 oz lime juice
Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass.
Garnish with lime twist
Daiquiri
2 oz rum
.75 oz lime juice
.75 oz simple
Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass
Garnish with lime wedge or lime wheel
Dark N Stormy
2 oz Gosling’s Black Seal Rum
.5 oz lime juice (optional)
Ginger beer
Build drink over ice in highball.
Garnish with lime wedge
Death in the Afternoon
Absinthe
Champagne
Can add sugar and bitters depending on brand.
Want it to be cloudy.
Delmonico
0.75 oz gin
0.5 oz Cognac
0.5 oz dry vermouth
0.5 oz sweet vermouth
2 dashes Angostura
Stir with ice and strain into cocktail glass
Garnish with lemon twist
Dempsey Cocktail
1 oz gin
1 oz Calvados
2 dashes grenadine
2 dashes absinthe
Shake with ice and strain into cocktail class
Dubonnet Cocktail
1.5 oz gin
1.5 oz Dubonnet rouge
Dash of bitters
Stir with iec and strain into cocktail glass
Garnish with lemon twist
El Presidente
1.5 oz rum
0.75 oz dry vermouth
0.5 oz Curacao liqueur
1 barspoon grenadine
Stir with ice and strain into cocktail glass
Garnish with orange peel
Fallen Angel
1.5 oz gin
1 teaspoon creme de menthe white
Juice of 1 lemon
1 dash Angostura
Shake and strain into cocktail glass
Garnish with cherry
Fog Cutter
2 oz white rum
1 oz brandy
.5 oz gin
1 oz lemon juice
1 oz OJ
.5 oz orgeat syrup
Cream Sherry Float
Shake with ice and strain into tiki or highball.
Float Sherry
Garnish with mint sprig
French 75
1.5 oz gin
.75 oz lemon juice
.5 oz simple
Champagne
Shake with ice and strain into ice-filled glass or chilled flute.
Top with Champagne
Garnish with lemon twist
French Martini
2 oz vodka
0.5 oz Chambord
2.5 oz Pineapple juice
Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass
Garnish with lemon twist
Gibson
2.5 oz gin
.5 oz dry vermouth
Stir with ice and strain into cocktail glass
Garnish with pearl onion
Gimlet
2 oz Plymouth Gin
.75 oz lime juice
.75 oz simple
Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass
Garnish with wedge of lime
Gin Fizz
2 oz gin
.75 oz lemon juice
.75 oz simple
Soda water
Shake and strain in ice into collins glass without ice.
Top with soda water