Classics + Specs

Question 1

Champs-Élyseés

Answer 1

Sidecar Variant
2 oz Cognac
3/4 lemon
1/2 simple 
1/4  Green Chartreuse

Question 2

Modern Riff - Cosmonaut

Answer 2

2 oz Gin
3/4 oz Lemon Juice
Heaping barspoon of raspberry (or other preserves)

Question 3

Ginger Cocktail

Answer 3

2 oz Gin
1/2 lime
3/4 ginger syrup

Shake with One large cube, Strain into Coupe
Garnish with Candied Ginger

Question 4

The Gold Rush - Penicillin’s orgin

Answer 4

3/4 oz Honey Syrup 3:1
3/4 oz Lemon Juice
2 oz Burbon

Question 5

Harvest Old Fashioned

Answer 5

White Sugar Cube or dash of Simple Syrup
Dash of Angostura
Dash of Peychauds
Dash Soda water
1 oz Lairds applejack
1 oz Rye Whiskey
Combine sugar with bitters and soda, add spirits, add rock, stir slowly to chill
Garnish with Lemon and Orange peel

Question 6

Kentucky ‘Maid’
What is a Maid?
Include style of cocktail and alternatives

Answer 6

Maid is a cocktail consisting of Mint, Lime, and Cucumber shaken and strained into a ice filled Rocks Glass.
Irish Maid - Scotch
London/English Maid - Gin
Kentucky Maid
2 oz Bourbon
1 oz lime
3/4 Simple syrup
2 thin cucumber slices
8 leaves of mint
Shaken and Fine Strained into Ice filled Rocks Glass
Garnish with Mint Sprig and 1 Cucumber Slice.

Question 7

Daisy

What is a Daisy Style Cocktail

Answer 7

A Daisy is Julep garnished with seasonal fruit,usually paired with lemon juice, simple syrup, and a dash grenadine or orange liqueur.
Daisy means Margarita in Spanish. Tequila daisy is a margarita!
Gin Daisy
2 oz Gin
1/2 oz Lemon juice
Splash Grenadine
Top with Splash of Soda water, lemon wheel garnish

Question 8

The Medicina Latina - Smokeh Penicillin Riff

Answer 8

2 oz blanco Tequila
Scant 1/2 oz Honey Syrup 3:1
1/2 oz Ginger Syrup
3/4 lime juice 
Shake and strain into Rocks glass, add in 1 large Cube
Garnish with candied Ginger
Top with barspoon of mezcal

Question 9

Rye Hummingbird Down

Answer 9

2 oz rye whiskey
3/4 Honey Syrup
3/4 lemon juice
1 teaspoon green chartreuse 
Shaken with 1 Large Rock
Strain into chilled Coupe

Question 10

Sugarplum

Answer 10

1 oz Grapefruit
1/2 oz Grenadine
2 oz Gin
Add into tin, fill with ice, shake and strain into Coupe

Question 11

What is a Smash, what is a Julep and what is a Cobbler?

Answer 11

A Smash is a spirit forward drink consisting of mint, muddled fruits or juices, usually over crushed ice.

A julep is a type of Smash, a Bourbon Smash, without any additional fruits.

Smashes includes the use of seasonal fruits to be muddled with mint.

A Cobbler is a