Cocktails

Question 0

Maria Pepina

Answer 0

Espolon blanco tequila, pickled pepper juice (from house made pickled peppers) lime juice, spiced tomato.
Garnish: pickled pepper, olive, lime

Question 1

Bacon Bloody

Answer 1

8oz. Fat: 1 liter Skyy vodka in bacon infused vodka.
Worcestershire, pepper, Sargent peters spiced tomato
Garnish: bacon strip

Question 2

Last Man Standing

Answer 2

Homage to the person that lasted the longest the night before.
Old overholt rye whiskey, pickle juice, tobasco, salt and peppered rim on glass.
Garnish: pickle spear

Question 3

The Banjo Strum

Answer 3

Uses our well gin, New Amsterdam, a light and citrusy gin. Clements sweet orange liqueur, and OJ, topped with bud light. Like a shandy or mimosa. No garnish, pub glass.

Question 4

Partly Cloudy

Answer 4

Cruzan #9 spiced rum, hints of baking spices, lime and ginger beer. A lighter twist on a “dark and stormy”

Question 5

Room Service

Answer 5

A twist on a classic French 75 cocktail. Gin, Lemon, strawberry simple syrup (use monen brand in winter when berries are out or season) and prosecco.

Question 6

El Matador

Answer 6

Like a ginger margarita. Anejo tequila, homemade ginger agave syrup, Lemon juice, st. Germain, and club soda, orange bitters.
Garnish: flamed orange peel (drip oils over drink)

Question 7

Criada Rosada

Answer 7

“The tequila drinker’s drink”
Muddled sugar and cucumber, st. Germain, with lime and white tequila. Garnished with peychauds bitters across top of cocktail for the layer of pink on top.
Garnish: slice of cucumber.

Question 8

After School Special

Answer 8

A michelada style beer cocktail.
This is a shandy made with raspberry black tea infused tequila, ginger agave syrup, and topped with modelo especial table side, and the guest is given the rest of the beer but not told how to drink it. It is up to them!
Garnish: lime wheel

Question 9

Negroni Bianchini

Answer 9

A white negroni, a gateway negroni. This drink is on tap, made from aperol, Campari, white vermouth, and beefeater gin.
Cornelius keg, 5.2 gallons
Garnish: orange peel

Question 10

Two Long Vodka

Answer 10

Suggest this to someone when they order a cosmopolitan or a vodka cranberry. This is a take on the classic “long vodka”. Combines orange and cranberry bitters (mongrose), with lemon, simple syrup, and belvedere. Easy drinking.
Garnish: Lemon twist

Question 11

Moscow Mule

Answer 11

Served in a copper mug ($40/each). Uses ginger agave syrup, vodka, like juice and club soda.
Garnish: candied ginger and mint

Question 12

The Persuasion

Answer 12

This cocktail uses sparkling sake, Japanese yuzu, martin miller gin and diluted honey (1:9). Served up.
Garnish: thyme sprig and lemon twist

Question 13

Pineapple Pisco Sour

Answer 13

Meant to be drank without a straw, sipped on. Pineapple infused Pisco (a Peruvian grape based liquor). Infused for 4 days. Shaken (without ice!! this is called dry whipping) with egg white, lemon and simple syrup.
Garnish: flowers made of ango drops

Question 14

Singapore Sling

Answer 14

A traditional gin cocktail from Singapore. Made with Cointreau, Benedictine, grenadine, lime and pineapple. Pineapple gives the drink its froth on top from shaking the cocktail.
Garnish: orange and mint

Question 15

Clown Punch

Answer 15

Peach brandy, white rum and fresh OJ. Garnished with pomegranate foam on top, served for one or two!

Question 16

Angostura Smash

Answer 16

Great summertime drink. Mint, bullet rye whiskey, Lemon, simple syrup and angostura bitters. Shaken, strained.
Garnish: ango drops, lemon and mint

Question 17

Smashed Irishman

Answer 17

Main stay cocktail! Jameson, honey, mint, Guinness reduction (reduced in half), lemon juice.
Garnish: smacked mint leaf or sprig

Question 18

Clydesdale

Answer 18

Modernization of the Mayme Taylor. Rinsed with Laphroaig 10year scotch, ginger agave syrup and lime juice.
Garnish: mint leaf

Question 19

Bells & Whistles

Answer 19

Homemade bell pepper and jalapeño syrup (roasted, peeled, seeded and blended with simple), makers mark bourbon, and basil.
Garnish: basil leaf

Question 20

Mint Julep

Answer 20

Muddled sugar and mint with bourbon

Garnish: fistful of mint!

Question 21

The Old Fashioned

Answer 21

Muddled sugar, luxardo (brandy soaked) cherries, orange peel, angostura bitters and stirred.
Garnish: luxardo cherry

Question 22

Three Bitter Manhattan

Answer 22

Three bitters: ango, peychauds, and black walnut. Bourbon, luxardo cherries and sweet vermouth.
Garnish: luxardo wrapped in orange peel

Question 23

What does “Maid” mean when describing a cocktail?

Answer 23

It is cucumber mint and citrus smashed with some spirit.

Question 24

What does “smash” mean?

Answer 24

Mint is incorporated into the cocktail.

Question 25

The order in which we taste…

Answer 25

Eyes, nose, palate.

Question 26

Well liquor program

Answer 26

Everything gets a 1.5 oz pour.  Can be made a double, 3 oz. for $3.50 up charge.  A well drink (i.e. vodka soda) will cost $6.50. Premium $8.50 and top shelf $9.50
Vodka: Skyy
Gin: New Amsterdam
Bourbon: Jim Beam White Label
Scotch: Cutty Sark
Tequila: Suaza Silver
Rum: Cruzan

Question 27

Difference between Aperol and Campari.

Answer 27

Aperol: Italian liqueur of orange, sweet and bitter.

Campari: Italian deep red liqueur, grapefruit zest, more bitter and less sweet.