Classic Cocktails Flashcards
Americano
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Campari
Red Vermouth
Soda Water
Orange slice garnish
Ingredients:
1 oz Campari
1 oz Red Vermouth
Soda Water
Preparation: Pour the Campari and vermouth over ice into glass, add a splash of soda water and garnish with half orange slice
Served: On the rocks; poured over ice
Standard garnish: Half an Orange Slice
Drinkware: Old Fashioned glass
Aviation
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Gin
Lemon juice
Maraschino Liqueur
Crème de violette or Creme Yvette
Cherry garnish
Preparation:
Add all ingredients into cocktail shaker filled with ice
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass
Garnish with a cherry.
Served: Straight up; without ice
Standard garnish: Cherry
Drinkware: Cocktail glass
IBA specified ingredients†: 45 ml gin; 15 ml maraschino Luxardo; 15 ml lemon juice; 1 barspoon crème de violette
Caipirinha
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Cachaça
Brown sugar
Half a lime cut into 4 wedges
Ingredients:
1 2/3 oz Cachaça
2 Teaspoons brown sugar
Half a lime cut into 4 wedges
Preparation:
Place lime and sugar into old fashioned glass and muddle
Fill the glass with crushed ice
Add the Cachaça
Served: On the rocks; poured over ice
Standard garnish: Lime, Sugar cane
Drinkware: Old Fashioned glass
IBA specified ingredients†: 60 ml cachaça; 1 persian lime cut into small wedges; 4 teaspoons white cane sugar
Champagne Cocktail
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Champagne
Sugar cube
Cognac
Angostura bitters
Ingredients:
1 Sugar cube
1/3 oz Cognac
2 dashes Angostura bitters
3 oz Champagne
Preparation:
Add dash of Angostura bitter onto sugar cube and drop it into champagne flute
Add cognac
Gently pouring chilled champagne
Garnish with orange slice and maraschino cherry.
Served: Straight up; without ice
Standard garnish: Maraschino cherry, Orange slice
Drinkware: Champagne flute
Cosmopolitan
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Vodka
Cointreau
Fresh lime juice
Cranberry juice
Lime twist garnish
Ingredients:
1 1/2 oz Vodka Citron
1 oz Cranberry juice
1/2 oz Cointreau
1/2 oz Fresh lime juice
Preparation:
Add all ingredients into cocktail shaker filled with ice.
Shake well and double strain into large cocktail glass
Garnish with lime wheel
Served: Straight up; without ice
Standard garnish: Lemon slice, Lime wedge
Drinkware: Cocktail glass
IBA specified ingredients†: 40 ml Vodka Citron; 15 ml Cointreau; 15 ml Fresh lime juice; 30 ml cranberry juice
Daiquiri
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White rum
Lime juice
Simple syrup
Ingredients:
1 1/2 oz White rum
1 oz Lime juice
1/2 oz Simple syrup
Preparation:
Pour all ingredients into shaker with ice cubes
Shake well
Strain in chilled cocktail glass
Served: Straight up; without ice
Standard garnish: Half a lime slice
Drinkware: Cocktail glass
French 75
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Gin
Lemon juice
Simple syrup
Champagne
Ingredients:
1 oz Gin
1/2 oz Lemon juice
2 Dashes Simple syrup
2 oz Champagne
Preparation:
Combine gin, syrup, and lemon juice in a cocktail shaker filled with ice
Shake vigorously and strain into an iced champagne glass
Top up with Champagne
Stir gently
Drinkware: Champagne flute
Served: Straight up: chilled, without ice
French Martini
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Pineapple
Raspberry Liqueur
Vodka
Egg white
Lime juice
Combine all drink ingredients in a shaker, and shake without ice to emulsify the egg white for 15 seconds or until you start seeing foam form
Fill the small shaker with regular ice and shake vigorously for 20 seconds
Strain into a chilled, large cocktail coupe, and garnish with the pineapple wedge
Ingredients are shaken with ice, then strained into a chilled cocktail glass.
The lemon peel should be squeezed to release its oils on top of the cocktail.
Gibson
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Gin
Dry Vermouth
Ingredients:
Gin
Dry vermouth
Preparation:
Shaken gin and vermouth with ice
Strained into a chilled martini glass
Garnished with a pickled cocktail onion
Invented in San Francisco in late 1800s by Walter D.K. Gibson
Gimlet
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Gin
Lime Cordial
Ingredients:
Four parts Gin
One part sweetened Lime Juice
Preparation:
Mix and serve. Garnish with a slice of lime.
Served: Straight or on the rocks
Standard garnish: Lime
Drinkware: Cocktail glass
Greyhound
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Vodka
Grapefruit juice
Served On the rocks: poured over ice
Preparation Shake gin or vodka and grapefruit juice in cocktail shaker. Strain into a highball glass.
John Collins
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Gin
Lemon juice
Angostura bitters
Sugar syrup
Soda water
Served on the rocks: poured over ice
Standard garnish:
Lemon slice and maraschino cherry
Standard drinkware: Collins glass
Preparation:
Pour all ingredients directly into a Collins glass filled with ice
Stir gently.
Kamikaze
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Vodka
Triple Sec
Lime Juice
Preparation:
Shake all ingredients together in a mixer with ice. Strain into glass, garnish and serve.
Served: Straight up; without ice
Standard garnish: Lime slice
Drinkware: Cocktail glass
Kir Royale
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Champagne
Crème de Cassis
Preparation:
Add the crème de cassis to bottom of glass
Top up champagne
Drinkware: Champagne flute
Mai Tai
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Jamaican Rum
Martinique Rum
Orange Curaçao
Orgeat Syrup
Rock Candy Syrup
One lime
Garnish with lime shell and mint leaves
Preparation:
Shake all ingredients except the dark rum together in a mixer with ice
Strain into glass and float the dark rum onto the top
Garnish and serve with straw.
Served: On the rocks; poured over ice
Standard garnish: Lime peel, Pineapple spear
Drinkware: Highball glass
Standard drinkware: Old fashioned glass
Manhattan
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Whiskey
Red Vermouth
Angostura Bitters
Maraschino Cherry
Lemon Peel
Preparation:
Stirred over ice, strained into a chilled glass, garnished, and served straight up.
Served: Straight up; without ice
Standard garnish: Cherry
Drinkware: Cocktail glass
Marguerita
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Tequila
Cointreau
Lime Juice
Salt rim and lime
Ingredients:
Tequila
Cointreau
Lime juice
Preparation:
Add all ingredients into a shaker with ice
Shake and strain into a chilled cocktail glass
Served: On the rocks; poured over ice
Standard garnish: Lime slice, Salt on the rim
Drinkware: Margarita glass
Mint Julep
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Bourbon Whiskey
Water
Powdered Sugar
Preparation:
Highball glass: muddle mint, sugar and water
Fill glass with cracked ice, add Bourbon
Stir well until the glass is well frosted
Garnish with a mint sprig
Served: On the rocks; poured over ice
Standard garnish: Mint sprig
Drinkware: Highball glass
Standard drinkware: Julep stainless steel cup
Mojito
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Negroni
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Moscow Mule
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Old Fashioned
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Pimm’s Cup
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Pisco Sour
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