Cocktail Families Flashcards
Beer & Cider-based mixed drinks
Contain beer or cider; ratio doesn’t matter
Black and Tan Black Velvet Boilermaker Lager and Lime Shandy
Bottled cocktails
Mixed drinks made for large groups in advance. Add water to compensate for lack of ice (approx 1/3 the sum of the total ingredients).
Cosmopolitan Jack Rose Manhattan Margarita Martini, c. 1900 Sidecar Deluxe
Champagne cocktails
Contain champagne or sparkling wine; ratio doesn’t matter
Alfonso Bellini Champagne Cocktail Esquivel Cocktail Eve's Seduction Apple Martini Fallen Angel French 75 Kir Royal Mimosa Punt y Mes Cocktail Ritz of New York
Cobblers
Cobblers call for a base spirit, sweetening agent such as a simple syrup, grenadine or a liqueur; they are built in glasses filled with crushed ice and are garnished with fresh fruits
Bourbon Peach Cobbler
Brandy Cobbler
French Connection Cobbler
Jamaican Cobbler
Duos & Trios
DUOS are composed of 2 ingredients (usually a base spirit and a liqueur) and are normally served in and Old-Fashioned glass.
TRIOS are duos to which cream or cream liquor is added.
Note: Not all Duos can be made into Trios, and not all Trios start as Duos
Alaska Alexander Apple Martini Black Russian/ White Russian Chocolate Martini Dubonnet Cocktail Godfather Grasshopper Mudslide Pink Squirrel Rusty Nail
French-Italian Drinks
Contain base spirit and sweet or dry vermouth (sometimes both). They can be modifies with other ingredients.
GIN/VODKA BASED: Bronx Cocktail Martinez Martini Vesper
WHISKEY/BRANDY BASED: Algonquin Blood and Sand Corpse Reviver #1 Manhattan Rob Roy
Highballs
Highballs are built in a highball glass and call for a base spirit and mixer such as soda or or water.
Dark and Stormy
Gin and Tonic
Scotch and Soda
Hot Drinks
Contain hot water, tea or coffee
Hot Buttered Rum
Hot Toddy
International Coffees
Juleps
Drinks that depend on fresh mint as a flavoring agent.
Mojito
Mint Julep
Mojito
Milanese Drinks
Drinks that call for Campari, Aperol or amaro
Americano
Blood Orange
Negroni
Muddled Drinks
Made my crushing some of the ingredients with a muddler before adding ice and spirits.
Caipirinha
Whiskey Old-Fashioned
Mojito (Julep family)
Outliers
Drinks that do not fit into any other category
Chocolate Martini Gimlet Kir Monkey Gland Sazerac
Pousse-Cafes
Drinks made by layering ingredients
Angel’s Tit
AWOL
B-52
Punches
Like Bottled Cocktails, Punches are made in large quantities for gatherings
Snappers
Drinks made with savory ingredients (tomato juice, beef bouillon or clam juice) and seasoned with a variety of condiments.
