Classic Cocktails

Question 1

Aviation

Answer 1

2oz Beefeater Gin
1/2oz Maraschino Liqueur
1/2oz Lemon Juice

Prep: Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Optional reduce the maraschino to 2tsp and add 1tsp creme de violette.

Question 2

Bellini

Answer 2

1 1/2oz white peach puree
4oz Perrier-Jouet Champagne

Prep: Put peach pure in bottom of mixing glass, no ice. Slowly pour Champagne flute.

Question 3

Blood and Sand

Answer 3

3/4oz Chivas Regal Scotch
3/4oz Cherry Herring
3/4oz Italian sweet vermouth
3/4oz Fresh squeezed OJ

Prep: Shake and strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with an orange peel.

Question 4

Bloody Mary

Answer 4

1 1/2oz Absolut Vodka
2 dashes Worcestershire
4 dashes Tabasco
Pinch of salt and pepper
1/4 oz fresh lemon juice
4oz tomato juice

Prep: Combine all ingredients in mixing glass and roll back and forth into mix. Strain into and iced goblet. Garnish with wedge of lemon and lime on a side plate. A dash of celery salt is a nice touch and New Yorkers traditionally and horseradish.

Question 5

Caipirinha, Caipirissima, Caipiroska

Answer 5

2oz Janeiro cachaca
1 1/2 barspoon of sugar or 3/4 simple syrup
1/2 lime, quartered

Prep: Place lime quarterrs in the bottom of mixing glass, add the sugar or syrup and muddle, extracting there juice and the oil in the skin from the lime quarters. Chill a rocks glass with cracked ice. Add cachaca (or white rum, for a Caipirissima, or vodka for a Caipiroska) to the mixture in the mixing glass and toss the ice into the mixing glass and shake well. Pour the entire contents of the mixing glass into the chilled rocks glass and serve. Another method is to build the whole drink in the glass that will receive it, omitting the shaking.

Question 6

Collins ( Tom, John, vodka)

Answer 6

1 1/2 oz Gin, Bourbon, Vodka
3/4oz lemon juice
3/4oz simple syrup
club soda

Prep: Shake spirits, sugar and lemon juice with ice and strain into an iced Collins glass and fill with soda. Garnish with a cherry and an orange slice.

Question 7

Cosmopolitan

Answer 7

1 1/2oz Absolut Citron vodka
3/4oz Cointreau
1/4oz fresh lime juice
1oz Cranberry juice

Prep: shake all ingredient with ice. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with an orange peel.

Question 8

Daiquiri

Answer 8

1 1/2oz white rum
3/4oz simple syrup
3/4oz fresh lime juice

Prep: Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into a small cocktail glass. Optional: juice of half a lime, half a teaspoon superfine sugar 2oz rum ( stir sugar into lime juice before rum.

Question 9

Gimlet

Answer 9

2 1/2oz Beefeater Gin
1/2oz preserved lime juice

Prep: Shake ingredients well with ice and strain into a chilled martini glass or serve over ice in an old fashioned glass. Garnish with lime wedge.

Question 10

Gin Fizz

Answer 10

1 1/2oz Beefeater Gin
3/4oz fresh lime juice
3/4oz simple syrup
club soda

Prep: Shake and strain into a highball glass. Fill with club soda. No garnish. Note: proper fizz is served without ice in the glass.

Question 11

Hot Toddy

Answer 11

2oz Scotch or Irish whiskey
1 well filled bar spoon demerara sugar or 1/4oz honey
1 strip of thin cut lemon peel
2-4oz boiling water

Prep: Rinse out mug with boiling water, to warm. This is as essential a step with hot drinks as chilling the glass is with cold ones. Add the sugar or honey, the lemon peel and half an ounce or so boiling water. Stir until sugar or honey has dissolved. Add the whiskey and another 1 1/2oz to 2 1/2oz water. depending on stiffness of drink.

Question 12

Irish Coffee

Answer 12

1 1/2oz Jameson Irish Whiskey
1oz simple or brown sugar
4oz coffee
Lightly sweetened cream

Question 13

Mai Tai

Answer 13

2oz aged rum
3/4oz lime juice
3/4oz orange curacao
1tsp orgeat syrup

Prep: shake well with ice and strain into an Old Fashioned glass filled with ice. Garnish with a wheel of lime, a mint sprig, and if possible a Sonya orchid

Question 14

Manhattan/ Rob Roy/ Emerald

Answer 14

2oz straight rye or bourbon whiskey
1oz italian sweet vermouth
2-3 dashes Angostura Bitters

Prep: Pour all ingredients over ice in a mixing glass and stir as you would a Martini. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with a cherry, although many discriminating drinkers prefer theirs with a twist.
Rob- Scotch. Emerald-Irish

Question 15

Margarita

Answer 15

2oz Avion Silver
1oz Cointreau
3/4oz fresh lime juice
Coarse salt
Lime wedge

Prep: Combine first three ingredients in a mixing glass with ice. Shake well and strain in to a chilled salt-rimmed cocktail glass. Salting the rim of glass

Question 16

Dry Martini

Answer 16

1 1/2oz Beefeater London dry gin
1 1/2oz French dry vermouth
1-2 dashes orange bitters

Prep: Stir all ingredients with ice to chill and twist orange peel or lemon peel over the top.

Question 17

Classic Dry Martini

Answer 17

3oz Beefeater London Dry gin or Absolut vodka
1/8oz Dry french vermouth

Prep: Prepare a tall mixing glass with ice. Pour vermouth over ice and swirl to season, then strain vermouth off the ice. Pour gin or vodka over seasoned ice and stir to chill. Strain into a chilled marin glass. Garnish traditionally with a small pitted Spanish cocktail olive ( no pimento)

Question 18

Mint Julep

Answer 18

2 1/2oz straight bourbon or rye whiskey, or cognac
1oz simple syrup or 2tsp superfine sugar
2-4 sprigs of mint

Prep: Put the simple and 1/2oz water in the bottom of a high ball glass. Add 5 or 6 mint leaves then press lightly with a muddler. Add half of the spirits and fill with crushed or finely cracked ice. Swirl with a bar spoon until the outside of the glass frosts. Add more crushed ice and the remaining liquor. Stir again to frost the glass. Garnish with at least 1 sprig of mint, and preferably 3. Add a straw.

Question 19

Mojito

Answer 19

1 1/2oz white rum
3/4oz fresh lime juice
3/4oz simple syrup
1 mint sprig and 4 mint leaves
1oz soda

Prep: In a mixing glass muddle mint leaves with simple syrup. Add juice and rum and fill with ice. Shake vigorously and strain over fresh ice into a highball glass. Top with soda and garnish with a fresh mint sprig.

Question 20

Negroni

Answer 20

1oz Beefeater London Dry Gin
1oz Campari
1oz Italian sweet vermouth

Prep: Combine all ingredients in an iced Old Fashioned glass and stir. Garnish with an orange peel or orange slice. The Count liked his topped with a splash of soda.

Question 21

Old Old Fashioned

Answer 21

2oz straight rye or bourbon whiskey
3 dashes Angostura Bitters
1 sugar cube or a well filled bar spoon of superfine sugar
1 lemon peel
splash of water or soda

Prep: Muddle the sugar and the Angostura bitters in the splash of soda until the sugar is dissolved, forming a syrup in the bottom to ht glass. Add the whiskey and the ice, and stir. Garnish with a fresh twist of lemon peel.

Question 22

Old Fashioned

Answer 22

2oz straight bourbon or ry whiskey
3 dashes Angostura Bitters
1 sugar cube or a well-filled bar spoons of superfine sugar
2 orange slices
2 maraschino cherries
splash of water or soda

Prep: Muddle the sugar, Angostura, one orange, one cherry, and a splash of soda carefully in the bottom of an old fashioned glass. Remove the orange rind, add bourbon and ice and stir thoroughly. Garnish with a fresh orange slice and a cherry.

Question 23

Pisco Sour

Answer 23

2oz Pisco
1oz fresh lime juice
1oz simple syrup
several drops of Angostura Bitters
one small egg white

Prep: Shake all ingredients very hard with ice and strain into a small cocktail glass. Garnish with several drops of Angostura bitters on top of the foam created by the egg whites.

Question 24

Sazerac

Answer 24

2oz straight rye whiskey
2 dashes Peychaud’s Bitters
Splash of Pernod 68 absinthe
1/2oz simple syrup or one sugar cube and a tiny splash of water
Twist of lemon peel

Prep: Take 2 small Old fashioned glasses and chill one with ice while preparing the drink in the other by combining the rye, syrup or sugar, and the bitter and stirring with ice to chill. Empty the first glass of its chilling ice, splash a little absinthe into ti , swirl it around to coat the inside, and pour it out. Strain the contents of the second glass into it and twist the lemon peel over the top.

Question 25

Sidecar

Answer 25

1 1/2oz Cognac
3/4oz Cointreau
1/2 to 3/4 fresh lemon juice

Prep: Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into a cocktail glass with sugared rim. Garnish with an orange peel.

Question 26

Stinger

Answer 26

2oz Cognac
1oz white creme de menthe

Prep: Shake both ingredients with ice and strain into an old fashioned glass filled with crushed ice or serve up in a chilled cocktail glass.

Question 27

Whiskey Sour

Answer 27

1 1/2oz bourbon or rye whiskey
3/4oz simple syrup
3/4oz fresh lemon juice

Prep: Shake all ingredients with ice and stain into an old fashioned glass or a special sour glass. Garnish with a flag. This drink is equally delicious when made with Irish whiskey.

Question 28

French 75

Answer 28

1½
ounces gin, such as Hendrick’s
¾
ounce fresh lemon juice
¾
ounce simple syrup
2
ounces Champagne
Long spiral lemon twist (for serving)

Question 29

Paper Plane

Answer 29

3/4 ounce bourbon
3/4 ounce Aperol
3/4 ounce Amaro Nonino Quintessentia
3/4 ounce lemon juice, freshly squeezed

Question 30

RUM RUNNER

Answer 30

1 ounce light rum
1 ounce navy-strength rum
1 ounce banana liqueur (such as Giffard Banane du Bresil)
1/2 ounce blackberry liqueur (such as Giffard Creme de Mure)
2 ounces pineapple juice
1 ounce lime juice, freshly squeezed
1/2 ounce grenadine
Garnish: brandied cherry
Garnish: pineapple wedge

Question 31

French Martini

Answer 31

INGREDIENTS
1 1/2 oz. French Vodka
2 oz. pineapple juice
1/2 oz. raspberry liqueur
Raspberries, for garnish

Question 32

Sidecar ( Dirty)

Answer 32

1 tsp sugar
2 lemon wedges
2 maraschino
2 orange wedge
MUDDLE
Fill glass with ice
3oz Brandy
0.5 oz Triple Sec
Shake/ Strain into chilled glass.
Garnish: flag