Classic Cocktails Flashcards

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Gimlet

A
2 oz vodka
1 oz lime juice
Stir with ice 
Serve in coup 
Lime twist
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Hurricane

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1.25 oz Meyers dark rum 
4 oz pineapple
2 oz OJ
Splash grenadine 
Combine over ice 
Highball(?)
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Long Island iced tea

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0.5 oz vodka
0.5 oz rum
0.5 oz gin
0.5 oz triple sec
0.5 oz tequila
0.5 oz lime
Splash of coke
Shake liquors, strain into highball
Add ice, coke

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Mai tai

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0.75 oz white rum
0.25 oz Bacardi 151
0.25 oz orange curaçao
.75 oz lime
1 oz simple
0.5 orgeat syrup
Stir with ice, garnish with mint/cherry/piña

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Margarita

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1 oz tequila 
1 oz Cointreau/triple sec 
1 oz lime 
0.5 oz simple 
Salt rim; shake; coup + lime wheel
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Martini

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3 oz gin or vodka
0.5-1 oz dry vermouth

Shake or stir
Strain into coup

Lemon twist (dry) or olive (dirty) 
Olive brine = dirty 

Extra dry

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Paloma

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2 oz tequila
0.5 oz lime 
Grapefruit soda 
Add tequila + lime to highball with ice 
Fill with grapefruit soda, stir 
Lime wheel in glass
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Gin Fizz

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2 oz gin
1 oz lemon 
0.75 oz simple 
1 egg white 
1 oz club soda 
Gin + lemon + simple + egg
Dry shake for 10 secs 
Add ice, shake 
Double strain into chilled rocks glass, top w soda
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Sazerac

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2.5 oz rye
0.5 oz simple
3 pumps absinthe rinse
4 dash peychaud bitters

Spray coup with absinthe
Stir with ice, strain into rocks/coup
Lemon peel

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Julep

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5 mint leaves
0.25 oz simple
2 oz bourbon

Muddle mint + simple in Collins
Add crushed ice, bourbon, stir
Mint sploof

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Moscow mule

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2 oz vodka
1 oz lime
3 oz ginger beer

Add all to highball with ice
Lime wedge

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Dark and stormy

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2 oz goslings dark rum
1 oz lime
0.5 oz simple
Ginger beer

Shake lime and simple with ice;
Strain into highball over ice, add rum, top with ginger beer
Lime wheel

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Negroni

A
1 oz gin
1 oz Campari
1 oz sweet vermouth 
Stir with ice; strain into rox 
Orange peel
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Mezquito

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  1. 5 oz mezcal
  2. 5 oz Campari
  3. 25 oz ginger
  4. 5 oz lemon
  5. 5 oz simple
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Old Fashioned

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2.5 oz bourbon 
4 dash angostura bitters 
0.5 oz simple 
Stir in mixing glass with mad ice
Pour over large rock
Orange peel
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16
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Martinez

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3 oz gin
1 oz dolin sweet vermouth
2 bar spoons maraschino liqueur
4 dash orange bitters

Stir with tons of ice, strain into coup
Orange twist

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Manhattan

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2 oz bourbon
1 oz dolin sweet vermouth
3 dash angostura bitters (or 2 Ang and 1 orange bitters)

Stir with ice, strain hot coup
Cherry or lemon peel

Perfect - 0.5 dry 0.5 sweet vermouth

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Gibson

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2 oz gin

  1. 5 oz dry vermouth
  2. 5 pickled onion juice

Shake with ice, strain into coup
3 cocktail onions

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Daquiri

A

2 oz white rum
1 oz lime
0.5 oz simple

Shake hard, strain into coup
Lime wheel on rim

20
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French 75

A

1 oz gin
0.5 oz lemon
0.5 simple
Brut

Shake with ice, strain into flute
Top with Brut
Lemon twist

21
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Corpse Reviver #2

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1 oz American gin 
1 oz Lillet Blanc or cocchi americano 
1 oz lemon juice 
1 oz Cointreau or clockwork orange 
Dash of absinthe 

Absinthe rinse on coup
Shake hard, strain into coup
Lemon peel

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Caipirinha

A

2 oz cachaca
4 lime wedges
1 spoon sugar

Muddle lime and sugar
Add cachaca and little ice
Shake and pour contents into rocks glass
Lime wedge

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Brown derby

A

2 oz bourbon
1 oz grapefruit
1 oz honey

Combine and shake well, strain into coup
Grapefruit wheel

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Vesper

A

2 oz gin
1 oz vodka
0.5 oz cocchi americano

Stir with mad ice, strain into coup
Lemon peel

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Boulevardier

A

2 oz bourbon
1 oz Campari
1 oz sweet vermouth

Stir with mad ice, strain into coup/rocks
Lemon twist/orange peel

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Pisco sour

A
2 oz pisco
1 oz lemon juice
0.5 oz simple 
10 drops vegan cocktail foamer
4 dashes angostura bitters 

Dry shake, then add ice and shake hard
Strain into rocks glass and 4 dashes bitters

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Sidecar

A
2 oz cognac
1 oz lemon 
0.5 oz orange liqueur 
0.5 oz simple 
1/2 sugar rim

Rim a coup with sugar
Shake well and strain into coup
Lemon peel

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Cosmopolitan

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1.5 vodka
.5 Cointreau
.5 cranberry
.75 oz lime

Shake hard with ice, strain into coup
Orange twist

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South side

A
2 oz gin
0.75 lime
.75 simple 
Mint 
Shake hard, Double strain, coupe
30
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Cucumber Basil Vodka Gimlet

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2oz vodka 
1oz cucumber 
1 oz lime 
0.5 simple 
Bunch of basil 
Shake hard and double strain in coup