Classic Cocktails Flashcards
Gimlet
2 oz vodka 1 oz lime juice Stir with ice Serve in coup Lime twist
Hurricane
1.25 oz Meyers dark rum 4 oz pineapple 2 oz OJ Splash grenadine Combine over ice Highball(?)
Long Island iced tea
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
Mai tai
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
Margarita
1 oz tequila 1 oz Cointreau/triple sec 1 oz lime 0.5 oz simple Salt rim; shake; coup + lime wheel
Martini
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
Paloma
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
Gin Fizz
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
Sazerac
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
Julep
5 mint leaves
0.25 oz simple
2 oz bourbon
Muddle mint + simple in Collins
Add crushed ice, bourbon, stir
Mint sploof
Moscow mule
2 oz vodka
1 oz lime
3 oz ginger beer
Add all to highball with ice
Lime wedge
Dark and stormy
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
Negroni
1 oz gin 1 oz Campari 1 oz sweet vermouth Stir with ice; strain into rox Orange peel
Mezquito
- 5 oz mezcal
- 5 oz Campari
- 25 oz ginger
- 5 oz lemon
- 5 oz simple
Old Fashioned
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
Martinez
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
Manhattan
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
Gibson
2 oz gin
- 5 oz dry vermouth
- 5 pickled onion juice
Shake with ice, strain into coup
3 cocktail onions
Daquiri
2 oz white rum
1 oz lime
0.5 oz simple
Shake hard, strain into coup
Lime wheel on rim
French 75
1 oz gin
0.5 oz lemon
0.5 simple
Brut
Shake with ice, strain into flute
Top with Brut
Lemon twist
Corpse Reviver #2
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
Caipirinha
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
Brown derby
2 oz bourbon
1 oz grapefruit
1 oz honey
Combine and shake well, strain into coup
Grapefruit wheel
Vesper
2 oz gin
1 oz vodka
0.5 oz cocchi americano
Stir with mad ice, strain into coup
Lemon peel