Classics Flashcards
BSS Old-Fashioned
2 oz Rye or Bourbon
1 demerara cube
4 dashes Regan’s #6 orange bitters
1/2 oz soda
Garnish with lemon or orange twist.
Muddle sugar, soda, bitters. Add whiskey and 1/2 ice, stir. Top with ice.
Add garnish after running twist around edge of glass.
Manhattan
2 oz Rye
1/2 oz sweet vermouth
Dash Angostura
Garnish with cherry
Stir with ice, strain into chilled cocktail glass. Add garnish.
Can be done with “Dry” w/ dry vermouth. Perfect means 50/50 dry and sweet.
Martini
1.5 oz London dryGin
3/4 oz Dry Vermouth (may use sweet as well)
Lemon or green olive twist garnish
Margarita
1.5 oz blanco Tequila 3/4 cointreau 3/4 oz lime juice Lime wedge garnish Rim chilled glass with lime and salt, Shake with ice, strain into glass.
Daiquiri
2 oz light rum
3/4 oz fresh lime juice
3/4 oz simple
Shake with ice, strain into chilled cocktail glass
Sidecar
1oz cognac
1 oz triple sec
1/2 oz lemon juice
Shake with ice, strain into chilled cocktail glass.
Corpse Reviver #1 (Cognac)
2 oz cognac
1 oz calvados (apple brandy or applejack)
1 oz sweet vermouth
Stir with ice, strain into chilled cocktail glass
Aviation
2 oz London Dry Gin 1/2 oz maraschino liqueur 1/4 oz lemon juice 1/4 creme de violette Garnish with Luxardo cherry Shake with ice, strain into chilled martini glass with cherry at bottom
Corpse Reviver #2 (Gin)
Joe Reviver
3/4 oz London dry gin 3/4 oz fresh lemon juice 3/4 oz Cointreau 3/4 oz Lillet blanc Dash absinthe or pastis Shake with ice, strain into chilled martini glass
French 75
1.5 oz London dry gin 3/4 oz lemon juice 1/2 oz simple Chilled champagne (cava?) Shake first three ingredients with ice, strain into chilled flute, top with champagne.
Gimlet (Gin)
2 oz London dry gin
3/4 oz lime juice
3/4 oz Simple
Can sub 1oz Rose’s lime juice for lime/simple
Shake with ice, strain into chilled cocktail glass.
Last Word
3/4 oz gin 3/4 oz green chartreuse 3/4 oz lime juice 1/4 oz maraschino liqueur Shake with ice, strain into chilled cocktail glass
Negroni
3/4 oz London dry gin 3/4 oz Campari 3/4 oz sweet vermouth Orange twist garnish Stir with ice, strain over large cube in rocks glass. Garnish with twist
Tom Collins
2 oz London dry gin
1 oz lemon juice
1 oz simple
Top with soda
Garnish with lemon and orange wheels, maraschino cherry
Shake first three with ice, strain into collins glass, add ice cube, top with soda, stir, garnish.
Vesper
3 oz London dry gin 1 oz vodka 1/2 Cocchi Americano Garnish with large lemon twist Shake with ice, strain into chilled martini glass, garnish
Caipirinha
Whole lime, cut into quarters
1/2 oz simple
2oz cachaca
Muddle lime and simple in old fashioned glass, cachaca and stir, add ice and stir again
Mojito
3 lime wedges 8-10 fresh mint leaves 3/4 oz simple 2 oz light rum Soda Garnish with mint sprig Muddle limes, mint and syrup in collins glass. Add rum with ice and stir. Top with soda, and garnish
Moscow Mule
1.5oz Vodka 1/2 oz lime juice Ginger beer Garnish with lime wedge Vodka and lime juice into mule mug, add ice and fill with ginger beer. Stir. Squeeze lime wedge, add to mug.
Sazerac
1 sugar cube 3 dashes Peychaud's bitters 2 oz rye whiskey 1/4 oz absinthe Lemon twist Fill one old fashioned glass with ice. In separate old fashioned glass muddle bitters and sugar. Add whiskey and stir. Discard ice from first glass, add absinthe, swirl to coat glass, discard excess absinthe. Pour second glass into first, twist lemon over glass but do not add the twist.
Vieux Carre
3/4 oz rye whiskey 3/4 oz brandy 3/4 oz sweet vermouth 1/4 oz benedictine Dash each Peychaud's and Angostura Pour into ice filled old fashioned glass and stir
Boulevardier
1.5 oz rye or bourbon 1 oz Campari 1 oz sweet vermouth Orange twist Combine first three in mixing glass with ice, stir, strain into rocks glass over large cube, garnish
Paper Plane (Sidecar Stuntman)
3/4 oz rye
3/4 oz Amaro nonino
3/4 oz Aperol
3/4 oz lemon juice
