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Classic Cocktails Flashcards

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Aviation

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2 oz Gin
1/2 oz maraschino liqueur
1/2 oz lemon juice

Shake and strain into cocktail glass
Cherry garnish

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Bellini

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1 1/2 oz white peach purée
4 oz champagne

Gently stir in mixing glass. Strain into flute

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Blood & Sand

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3/4 oz scotch
3/4 oz cherry herring
3/4 oz sweet vermouth
3/4 oz Orange Juice

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Orange peel garnish

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Bloody Mary

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1 1/2 oz vodka
2 dashes Worcestershire sauce
4 dashes Tabasco 
Salt & pepper
1/4 oz lemon juice
4 oz tomato juice

Combine all ingredients in mixing glass and roll

Strain into goblet over ice.

Lemon/lime on the side with salt

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Caipirinha

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2 oz cachaça
3/4 oz simple syrup
1/2 lime, quartered

Muddle lime and simple syrup.
Add cachaça and shake.
Dirty dump into rocks glass

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Collins

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1 1/2 oz gin, bourbon or vodka
1 oz simple syrup
3/4 oz lemon
Top with soda

Shake with ice and strain into Collins glass with ice.

Orange flag garnish

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Cosmopolitan

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1 1/2 oz citrus vodka
3/4 oz Cointreau
1/4 oz lime juice
1 oz cranberry juice

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass

Orange peel garnish

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Daiquiri

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

Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into cocktail glass

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Gimlet

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2 1/2 oz gin
1/2 oz Rose’s Lime

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass

Lime wedge garnish

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Gin Fizz

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1 1/2 oz gin
3/4 oz lemon juice
1 oz simple syrup
Club soda

Shake and strain into highball; no ice. Fill with soda. No garnish

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Irish Coffee

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1 1/2 oz Irish Whiskey
1 oz brown sugar syrup
4 oz coffee
Lightly whipped unsweetened cream

Combine first three ingredients in Irish coffee glass. Ladle 1” cream on top

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Mai Tai

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2 oz aged rum
3/4 oz lime juice
1 teaspoon orgeat syrup

Shake with ice and strain into old fashioned glass with ice

Lime and mint garnish

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Manhattan

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2 oz rye or bourbon
1 oz sweet vermouth
2 dashes Angostura bitters

Stir all ingredients over ice. Strain into cocktail glass. Cherry garnish. Some may want an Orange peel.

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Margarita

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2 oz Tequila
1 oz Cointreau
3/4 oz lime juice
1/2 oz agave syrup

Salt rim & Lime wedge garnish

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Dry Martini

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1 1/2 oz dry gin
1 1/2 oz dry vermouth
1 - 2 dashes orange bitters

Stir all ingredient with ice. Strain into cocktail glass.
Orange or lemon twist garnish

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Mint Julep

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1/2 oz simple syrup
2 mint sprigs
2 oz bourbon

Gently bruise one sprig of mint in bottom of highball glass with simple syrup.

Add half the bourbon and fill glass halfway with crushed ice.

Swirl with bar spoon

Add more crushed ice and remaining bourbon and stir again.

Mint sprig garnish

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Mojito

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

Middle mint with simple syrup
Add lime juice and rum, full with ice, shake and strain over fresh ice

Top with soda

Mint sprig garnish

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Negroni

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1 oz dry gin
1 oz Campari
1 oz sweet vermouth
Soda (optional)

Combine all ingredients in glass with ice and stir.

Top with soda. (Optional)

Orange peel garnish.

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Old Fashioned

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2 oz. Rye or bourbon whiskey

2-3 dashes Angostura bitters

1 sugar cube or a well-filled barspoon of superfine sugar

Splash soda

Muddle the sugar and the Angostura bitters in the splash of soda (about a barspoon—no more) until the sugar is dissolved, forming a syrup in the bottom of the glass.

Add the whiskey and the ice, and stir. Garnish with a fresh twist of orange peel.

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Pisco Sour

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2 oz Pisco
1 oz lime
1 oz simple syrup 
1 small egg white
Several drops of angostura bitters

Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Garnish with several drops of Angostura bitters on top of foam

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Rob Roy

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2 1/2 oz Scotch
3/4 oz vermouth
Dash Angostura bitters

Pour all ingredients over ice and stir.

Strain into cocktail glass

Lemon peel garnish

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Sazerac

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2 oz rye
2 dashes Peychaud’s bitters
Splash of absinthe 
1/2 oz simple syrup 
Herbsaint Anise liqueur

Chill one rocks glass while preparing drink in another. Splash herbsaint in second glass, swirl and discard.

Add rye, syrup and bitters over ice and stir.

Strain into rocks glass.

Lemon peel garnish.

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Sidecar

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1 1/2 oz cognac
3/4 oz Cointreau
3/4 oz lemon juice

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass

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Stinger

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2 oz cognac
1 oz white creme de menthe

Shake with ice and strain into old fashioned glass with crushed ice.

Optional: served up in cocktail glass

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Whiskey Sour

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

Shake with ice and strain into old fashioned glass

Cherry flag garnish

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