Cocktails Flashcards
4th Regiment
Equal parts Rye Whiskey and Sweet Vermouth with a dash of three different bitters (Peychaud’s, Orange, Celery)
1.5oz rye whiskey
1.5oz sweet vermouth
1 dash celery bitters
1 dash orange bitters
1 dash Peychaud’s bitters
lemon twist garnish
Combine ingredients in a mixing glass with ice. Stir and strain into a chilled glass and garnish with a Lemon Twist (or Orange)
Abbey Cocktail
Excellent Brunch Cocktail made with London Dry Gin, Orange Juice, Lillet or Cocchi Americano, Orange or Agnostura Bitters, and a cherry for garnish.
1.5oz London Dry Gin
3/4oz Orange Juice
3/4oz Lillet or Cocchi Americano or Dry Vermouth
2 dashes bitters (Orange or Angostura)
Cherry garnish
Shake and Strain into a cocktail glass with a cherry garnish.
Absinthe Frappé
1.5oz Absinthe
1/2oz simple syrup
6-8 mint leaves
Muddle mint on the bottom of a frappe, absinthe, or old fashioned glass and top with absinthe, simple syrup and pack with crushed or “cobbled ice”.
What makes a cocktail a frappé?
By definition a frappé cocktail is any cocktail served chilled but in reality is often a cocktail that is served with crushed or cobbled ice or even served from a blender.
What makes a cocktail a cobbler?
A cobbler is a cocktail that is typically shaken and served in a collins glass over crushed or “cobbled ice” with a straw and fruit as a garnish.
Cobblers became famous in the 1830s when ice became more readily available. The Sherry Cobbler is quite possibly the first shaken cocktail ever produced.
Adonis
Perfect aperitif style cocktail. Named after the first successful Broadway musical of the same name. This is the sweet vermouth variation of a Bamboo. Equal parts Fino or Manzanilla Sherry and Sweet Vermouth plus 2 dashes of Orange Bitters.
1.5oz fino or manzanilla sherry
1.5oz sweet vermouth
2 dashes orange bitters
orange peel garnish
Stir and strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with orange peel
Bamboo
Equal parts Fino or Manzanilla Sherry and Dry Vermouth with 2 dashes each Angostura and Orange Bitters. Dry Vermouth take on an Adonis.
1.5 oz fino or manzanilla sherry
1.5oz dry vermouth
2 dashes orange bitters
2 dashes Angostura bitters
Stir and strain into a cocktail glass and garnish with orange and/or lemon twist. It’s important that this cocktail is served chilled but NOT diluted. Chilling of both the cocktail glass and the mixing glass is recommended prior to stirring.
Brandy Alexander
Equal parts VS Cognac/Brandy, White Creme de Cacao, and Heavy Cream
3/4oz VS Cognac or brandy
3/4oz white crème de cacao
3/4oz heavy cream
Shake and strain into a cocktail glass and garnish with grated nutmeg
What are the two variations to the Brandy Alexander known as the No. 1 and the other which is known as Alexander’s Sister?
No. 1:
2 parts gin plus 1 part each creme de cacao and cream shaken and strained into a cocktail glass. Garnished with nutmeg
Alexander’s Sister:
Equal parts gin, creme de menthe, and cream shaken and strained into a cocktail glass. No additional garnish.
Algonquin
1.5oz rye whiskey
3/4oz dry vermouth
3/4oz pineapple juice
2 dashes Peychaud’s bitters (optional)
lemon peel or pineapple garnish
Shake and strain the ingredients and serve into a cocktail glass. Bitters can be incorporated and shaken or applied to the top after straining.
Americano
Named after the first non-American boxer, Primo Carnera, to win the US heavyweight boxing championship. Also thought to be named after the flurry of American expats to Italy during prohibition that favored the cocktail.
1.5oz Campari
1.5oz sweet vermouth
soda water
orange slice garnish
Combine Campari and sweet vermouth into an ice-filled glass, stir to combine, and top with soda water. Garnish with orange slice.
Antibes
Supposedly first concocted by Ernest Hemmingway in the town of the same name where he, F Scott Fitzgerald, and Pablo Picasso frequented on the French Riviera between Cannes and Nice. It is said that he made this instead of a Daiquiri because he didn’t have any rum.
2oz gin
1oz Grapefruit Juice
3/4oz Benedictine
orange slice garnish
Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into an old fashioned glass and garnish with orange slice
Aviation
2oz London Dry gin
3/4oz lemon juice
1 bar spoon Maraschino Liqueur
1 bar spoon crème de violette
cherry or lemon peel garnish
Shake all ingredients, double strain into a chilled cocktail glass and garnish with cherry or lemon peel
A Blue Moon, Moonlight, and Casino are variations of what classic cocktail? What does each entail?
Aviation
Blue Moon is made without Maraschino
Moonlight is made with lime juice and Cointreau instead of lemon juice and Maraschino
Casino is made by replacing creme de violette with 2 dashes of orange bitters.
Bee’s Knees
1.5oz Gin
3/4oz honey
3/4oz lemon juice
lemon twist garnish
Shake all ingredients and strain into cocktail glass and garnish with lemon twist. Important to note that the honey must be diluted with an equal part of hot simple syrup or hot water depending on desired level of sweetness.
Bellini
2 parts Prosecco
1 part white peach purée
1 dash raspberry purée
Pour purees into a Champagne flute and top with Prosecco and stir gently.
What are three variations of the Bellini?
Rossini: made with strawberry puree instead of peach
Tintoretto: made with pomegranate juice
Puccini: made with half peach puree half mandarin juice
Bijou
Equal parts Gin, Chartreuse, and Sweet Vermouth plus a dash of Orange Bitters.
1oz Gin
1oz Green Chartreuse
1oz Sweet Vermouth
1 dash orange bitters
lemon twist garnish
Stir all ingredients in a mixing glass and strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with a lemon twist.
What is the name of the variation on the Bijou that is layered instead of stirred?
Amber Dream
Black Russian
1.5oz Vodka
3/4oz Kahlua liqueur
Pour ingredients over an ice-filled lowball.
If a guest would like Dirty, Tall, or Australian Black Russian what is this?
Black Russian served in a highball topped with Cola.
Black Magic
Black Russian with a squeeze of lemon
Black Irish Russian
Black Russian topped with a head of Guiness
White Russian
2oz vodka
1oz Kahlua
1oz cream
1/2oz fresh-brewed coffee (optional)
Shake and pour into an ice-filled lowball
Blood and Sand
Equal parts Scotch, Sweet Vermouth, Cherry Heering, and Orange Juice
3/4oz Scotch
3/4oz sweet vermouth
3/4oz Cherry Heering
3/4oz Orange Juice
cherry garnish
Shake and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with a cherry
Bloody Mary
The most variable cocktail in the book. Everyone makes their own different recipe but the most common ingredients are tomato juice, lemon juice, worcestershire sauce, tobasco, horseradish, salt, celery salt, and black pepper to taste with a celery stick.
Pour ingredients into a ice filled highball and stir. Celery stick is the mandatory garnish but many add much more than that.
1.5oz vodka
4oz tomato juice
1/2oz lemon juice
1/2 teaspoon horse radish
3 dashes Tobasco
3 dashes Worcestershire
salt, celery salt, and black pepper to taste
celery stick garnish (mandatory)
Bobby Burns
Craddock’s Recipe (Savoy Cocktail Book)
2oz Blended Scotch or Highland Malt Whisky
3/4oz Sweet Vermouth
1/2oz Benedictine
Lemon Twist Garnish
Crocket’s Recipe (Old Waldorf Bar Days)
1.25oz Blended Scotch
3/4 oz Sweet Vermouth
1 dash Orange Bitters
1 dash Absinthe
Lemon Twist Garnish
Stir ingredients in a mixing glass with ice and strain into a cocktail glass. Traditionally served with a shortbread cookie.
Boothyby Cocktail
1.5oz whiskey (Bourbon or Rye)
3/4oz sweet vermouth
2 dashes Angostura Bitters
2 dashes Orange Bitters
1oz Champagne
Orange Peel Garnish
This Manhattan variant with Champagne requires the first four ingredients stirred in a mixing glass with ice, strained into a cocktail glass and topped with Champagne. Garnished with orange peel.
Boston Cocktail
3/4oz gin
3/4oz apricot brandy
1/4oz lemon juice
1/4oz grenadine
lemon twist garnish
Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with lemon twist.
Boulevardier
1oz bourbon
1oz sweet vermouth
1oz campari
orange twist garnish
Stir all ingredients with ice and strain into a cocktail glass. Essentially a negroni made with bourbon.
Bronx Cocktail
2oz gin
1/2oz sweet vermouth
1/2oz dry vermouth
1oz fresh orange juice
orange twist garnish
Shaken with ice and strained into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with orange twist
What variation of the Bronx Cocktail includes an egg white addition to the recipe?
Golden Bronx
Brooklyn Cocktail
1.5oz rye whiskey
1.5oz dry vermouth (sweet was used in the original)
dash Maraschino Liqueur
dash Amer Picon bitters
lemon and/or orange twist garnish
Stir all ingredients with ice and strain. Served up or on the rocks with lemon and/or orange twist. Cherry sometimes used in lieu of both.
Bull Shot a.k.a. Bloody Bull Shot
1.5oz vodka
3oz beef broth
1/2oz lime juice
salt to taste
Build in an ice-filled highball and stir. Garnish with lime wedge. Some add Tabasco, Worcestershire, celery salt, tomato juice, and pepper to make it more akin to a Bloody Mary.
Caipirinha
2oz cachaça
2 limes muddled
1-2tsp superfine sugar (to taste)
Muddle two limes in a shaker and add 1-2tsp (to taste) sugar add ice, shake and pour unstrained into a lowball glass.
Cape Codder
1.5oz Vodka
4oz Cranberry Juice
1/4oz Lime Juice
lime wedge
Pour into an ice-filled highball, stir, and garnish with lime. Omit the lime juice to make a Cape Cod
What is the difference between Cape Codder and Cape Cod?
Cape Cod is a Cape Codder without the lime juice.
Champagne Cocktail
4oz Chilled Champagne
1 sugar cube
3-4 dashes Angostura bitters
lemon peel expressed and then discarded
Place a sugar cube on a napkin over the top of a Champagne glass and pour 3-4 dashes of bitters on the sugar cube. Fold the napkin and deposit the sugar cube into the bottom of the glass. Top with Champagne, express oils from a lemon peel and discard peel.
Champs Elysée
1.5oz cognac
1/2oz lemon juice
1/2oz simple syrup
1/2oz Green Chartreuse
1 dash Angostura bitters
lemon twist
Shake the first 5 ingredients with ice and strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with lemon twist.
What are three cocktails that use Green Chartreuse?
Bijou
Last Word
Champs Elysé
Clover Club
1.5oz gin
3/4oz lemon juice
3/4oz raspberry syrup
1 egg white
Dry shake all ingredients to emulsify and then add ice, shake, and strain into cocktail glass. Chambord may be used instead of raspberry syrup in a variation.
Garnish with raspberry
Collins
2oz gin
3/4oz lemon juice
3/4oz simple syrup
chilled soda water
lemon slice and cherry
Shake the first three ingredients and strain into an ice-filled highball, top with soda, and garnish with a lemon slice and cherry.
What is the difference between a Tom Collins and a John Collins?
John Collins uses bourbon whiskey instead of gin and is garnished with an orange/cherry instead of lemon/cherry.
Corn ‘n’ Oil
2oz blackstrap rum (Cruzan)
1/2oz Velvet Falernum
1/4oz lime juice
2-3 dashes Angostura
lime wedge
Build over ice in a highball and garnish with lime wedge
Corpse Reviver No. 1
1.5oz Cognac
3/4oz Calvados or apple brandy
3/4oz sweet vermouth
lemon twist
Stir with ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass and garnish with lemon twist
Corpse Reviver No. 2
3/4oz gin
3/4oz Cointreau
3/4oz lemon juice
3/4oz Lillet Blanc
1 dash absinthe (rinse)
cherry garnish
Shake ingredients with ice and strain into a cocktail glass and garnish with cherry.
What is a Kentucky Corpse Reviver?
Corpse Reviver No. 2 with Bourbon instead of Gin.
Cosmopolitan a.k.a. Cosmo
1.5oz vodka
1/2 oz triple sec
1/2oz cranberry juice
1/2oz lime juice
lime twist garnish
Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with lime twist
Daiquiri
2oz rum
3/4oz lime juice
3/4oz simple syrup
lime wedge wheel garnish
Shake all ingredients and strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with lime wheel wedge.
Dark ‘n’ Stormy
2oz Gosling’s Black Seal Rum
1/2oz lime juice
ginger beer
lime wedge garnish
Build the drink over ice in a highball and garnish with lime wedge.
Death in the Afternoon
1/4oz to 1/2oz Absinthe
Champagne
Pour desired serve of absinthe in a champagne flute and top with champagne until the beverage turns cloudy or gives off the louche effect.
What causes absinthe to louche or turn cloudy?
The louche effect or the cloudy effect that absinthe shows when water is added is due to ingredients in the spirit that are insoluble in water, mainly fennel and star anise that fall out of solution when the spirit is hydrated. enough.
Delmonico
3/4oz gin
1/2oz cognac
1/2oz dry vermouth
1/2oz sweet vermouth
2 dashes Angostura bitters
lemon twist
Stir all ingredients with ice and strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with lemon twist.
Dempsey Cocktail
2.5oz gin
1oz apple brandy
2 dashes grenadine
2 dashes absinthe
Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into a cocktail glass. Named after heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey.
Dubonnet Cocktail
1.5oz gin
1.5oz Dubonnet Rouge
1 dash of bitters
lemon twist
Stir all ingredients with ice and strain into a cocktail glass and garnish with lemon twist.
El Presidente
1.5oz rum
3/4oz dry vermouth
1/2oz Curaçao
1 barspoon Grenadine
Stir with ice an strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with orange peel and maraschino cherry (optional)
Fallen Angel
2oz gin
1/2oz lime juice
1 dash Angostura bitters
2 dashes white creme de menthe
mint sprig garnish
Shake ingredients with ice and strain into cocktail glass. Garnish with mint sprig.
Fog Cutter
2oz white rum
1oz brandy
1oz lemon juice
1oz orange juice
1/2oz gin
1/2oz orgeat syrup
cream sherry float
Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into an ice filled tiki mug or highball and float cream sherry. Garnish with mint sprig.
French 75
1.5oz gin
3/4oz lemon juice
1/2oz simple syrup
Champagne
Shake first three ingredients with ice and strain into a flute or ice-filled highball and top with Champagne. Garnish with lemon twist.
Essentially a Tom Collins that subs Champagne for soda water.
French Martini
2oz vodka
1/2oz Chambord
2.5oz pineapple juice
Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into a cocktail glass and garnish with lemon twist.
Gibson
2.5oz gin
1/2oz dry vermouth
stir ingredients with ice and strain into a cocktail glass and garnish with a pearl onion
Gimlet
2oz Plymouth Gin
3/4oz lime juice
3/4oz simple syrup
Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with wedge of lime.
What is a Bennet cocktail?
Gimlet with a couple dashes of Angostura
Gin Fizz
2oz gin
3/4oz lemon juice
3/4oz simple syrup
soda water
Combine gin, lemon juice, and simple. Shake with ice and strain into a collins glass without ice and top with soda water. Essentially a Collins without ice.
What are the three variations of a Gin Fizz not Ramos?
Silver Fizz uses an egg white
Golden Fizz uses an egg yolk
Diamond Fizz uses sparkling wine instead of soda water
Gin-Gin Mule
1.5oz London Dry Gin
1/2oz lime juice
1/2oz simple syrup
ginger beer
10 mint leaves
mint sprig, lime wedge, or candied ginger garnish.
Lightly muddle the leaves at the bottom of a shaker. Add gin, lime juice, and simple. Shake with ice and strain into an ice-filled highball and garnish with mint sprig, lime wedge, or slice of candied ginger.
Gin Rickey
2oz London Dry gin
1oz lime juice
soda water
Build ingredients into an ice-filed highball, garnish with lime rind.
God Father
1.5oz Scotch Whiskey
3/4oz Amaretto
Build ingredients into an ice-filled Old Fashioned Glass. Got its name as it was the favorite cocktail of Marlon Brando.
What is a God Father called when it’s made with Voka? Cognac?
Godmother when made with vodka.
French Connection when made with Cognac.
God Mother
Equal parts vodka and amaretto.
What makes a cocktail a “duo”?
When it is comprised of two ingredients consisting of a dry spirit and liqueur.
Golden Dawn
Equal parts gin, apricot brandy, apple brandy, orange juice, dash of grenadine.
3/4oz gin
3/4oz apricot brandy
3/4oz apple brandy
3/4oz orange juice
dash of grenadine
cherry garnish
Add a dash of grenadine to the bottom of a cocktail glass. Combine gin, apricot brandy, apple brandy, and orange juice into a shaker with ice, shake and strain into the cocktail glass. Garnish with cherry.
Grasshopper
1oz Creme de Menthe
1oz Creme de Cacao
1oz cream
Shaken with ice and strained into a cocktail glass. Garnish with shaved chocolate.
Greyhound
1.5oz Voka or Gin
5oz grapefruit juice
Served over an ice-filled highball glass. Garnish with lime wedge or wheel.
Harvey Wallbanger
1oz Vodka
1/2oz Galliano
4oz Orange Juice
orange slice garnish
Pour vodka and orange juice into an ice-filled highball glass and float Galliano. Orange slice garnish.
Hemmingway Daiquiri
2oz white rum
1oz grapefruit juice
1/2oz lime juice
1/2oz Maraschino
lime wedge/wheel garnish
Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into a cocktail glass and garnish with a lime wedge/wheel
Horse’s Neck
2oz bourbon
2-3 dashes Angostura bitters
ginger ale
lemon twist garnish
Build the ingredients in an ice-filled highball. Garnish with lemon twist.
Hurricane
2oz orange juice
2oz unsweetened pineapple juice
1oz dark Jamaican rum
1oz white rum
1/2oz Galliano
1/2oz passionfruit nectar
3/4oz lime juice
dash of Angostura bitters
Shake with ice and pour into a ice-filled hurricane glass without straining. Garnish with pineapple, orange slice, and/or cherry or other fresh fruit.
Irish Coffee
1.5oz Irish whiskey
1tsp sugar
2/3cup fresh brewed or hot cup of espresso
1/3 cup heavy cream
freshly grated nutmeg
Add whiskey, coffee, and sugar to the mug. Top with cream and grate with nutmeg.
Jack Rose
1.5oz Applejack or apple brandy
3/4oz lime juice
3/4oz grenadine
Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into a cocktail glass and garnish with lime wedge or wheel. Do not use Rose’s Grenadine. Will not work. Must use grenadine made from pomegranate reduction.
Kamikaze
1oz vodka
1oz triple sec
1oz lime juice
Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into a cocktail glass and garnish with lime slice.
Last Word
3/4oz Gin
3/4oz Maraschino
3/4oz Green Chartreuse
3/4oz lime juice
Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with maraschino cherry
Long Island Ice Tea
1/2oz vodka
1/2oz tequila
1/2oz gin
1/2oz white rum
1/2oz triple sec
3/4oz lemon juice
1oz simple syrup
1oz coca cola
Stir all ingredients with ice in a highball glass and garnish with lemon twist
Madras
2oz vodka
2oz cranberry juice
2oz orange juice
Shake all ingredients with ice into a ice filled highball and garnish with orange slice.
Mai Tai
1oz Dark Jamaican Rum
1oz Amber Martinique Rum
1/2oz lime juice
1/4oz Curaçao Liqueur
1/4oz Orgeat
Shake and strain into an old fashioned glass filled with crushed ice. Garnish with mint, lime, pineapples, and umbrellas.
Manhattan
2oz rye whiskey
1oz sweet vermouth
2 ashes Angostura bitters
Stir all ingredients and strain into a cocktail glass and garnish with cherry
Margarita
2oz silver tequila
1oz lime juice
3/4oz Cointreau
Shake and strain into a salt-rimmed glass with or without ice and garnish with lime wedge.
Martinez
2oz sweet vermouth
1oz Old Tom gin
1/4oz Maraschino liqueur
2 dashes of Boker’s or Angostura bitters
Stir all ingredients with ice and strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with lemon peel or twist.
Martini
2oz gin
1oz dry vermouth
Stir ingredients with ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with olives or lemon peel.
Mimosa
4oz Brut Champagne
2oz orange juice
1 barspoon Grand Marnier (optional)
Build all ingredients in a Champagne flute.
Mint Julep
2oz Bourbon
10-12 Mint Leaves
1/2oz simple syrup
Add syrup and mint leaves to the base of a glass and muddle. Add crushed ice and 1oz of Bourbon and stir. Add the rest of the Bourbon, cap with crushed ice and serve with straw and mint sprigs for garnish.
Mojito
1.5 oz. White Rum
3/4 oz. Lime Juice
2 tsp. Sugar
8-10 Mint Leaves
Soda Water
Muddle mint, lime and sugar, add ice and rum. Shake briefly and pour into a fresh glass.Top with fresh ice before adding the soda water. Serve in lowball or highball and garnish with Mint Sprig
Monkey Gland
1.5 oz. Gin
1/2oz. Orange Juice
3 dashes of Grenadine
3 dashes of Absinthe
Combine all ingredients and shake with ice. Strain and serve up with an Orange Twist
Moscow Mule
2 oz. Vodka (originally Smirnoff’s)
1/2 oz. Lime Juice
4 oz. Ginger Beer
Pour vodka and lime juice into ice-filled copper mug and top with ginger beer. Garnish with Lime Wedge
Naked and Famous
3/4 oz. Mezcal
3/4 oz. Yellow Chartreuse
3/4 oz. Aperol
3/4 oz. Lime juice
Shake all ingredients with ice and strain. Serve up with a Lemon Twist
Napoleon Cocktail
2 oz. Gin
1/2 oz. Dubonnet Blanc
Dash Curaçao
Dash Fernet Branca
Stir all ingredients with ice and strain. Serve up with a Lemon Twist.
Negroni
1 oz. Gin
1 oz. Sweet Vermouth
1 oz. Campari
Stir ingredients together with ice in an old fashioned glass and serve with Orange Peel
New York Sour
2 oz. Rye or Bourbon
3/4 oz. Lemon Juice
3/4 oz. Simple Syrup
One Egg White
1 oz. Red Wine (fruit-driven)
Shake all ingredients except for the wine vigorously and strain into an ice filled Old Fashioned Glass. Use the back of a bar spoon to gently layer the red wine on top of the drink. Garnish with a flag(orange/lemon slice with a cherry)
Old Cuban
1 1/2 oz. Aged Rum
3/4 Fresh Lime Juice
3/4 Simple Syrup
6-8 Mint Leaves
2 oz Sparkling Wine
Shake all but the sparkling wine with ice and strain into a cocktail glass Top with sparkling wine. Garnish with mint springs and/or lime wheel.
Old Fashioned
2 oz. Spirit(Typically American Whiskey)
2 Dashes of Bitters
1 Sugar Cube
Add enough water to the sugar cube to dissolve with muddling. Add bitters and Spirits, stir with ice, and strain over fresh ice. Garnish with Orange Peel
Old Pal
1 oz. Rye Whiskey
1 oz. Dry Vermouth
1 oz. Campari
Stir ingredients with ice and strain into a cocktail glass and garnish with Lemon Twist
Paloma
2 oz. Tequila
One-half Lime
Chilled Grapefruit Soda
Muddle lime in Highball glass. Rim with salt and add ice. Build the drink over the ice in a highball glass and stir gently. Garnish with lime wedge.
Paper Plane
3/4 oz. Bourbon
3/4 oz. Aperol
3/4 oz. Amaro Nonino
3/4 oz. Lemon Juice
Combine in a shaker with ice. Chill and double strain. Serve up with Lemon Twist.
Parisienne
3/4 oz. Gin
3/4 oz. Noilly Prat
2 dashes Crème de Cassis
Stir ingredients with ice and strain. Serve up and garnish with lemon peel.
Pegau Club
2 oz. London Dry Gin
1/2 oz. Curaçao
1/2 oz. Lime Juice
1 dash Angostura Bitters
1 dash Orange Bitters
Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with lime wedge.
Pimm’s Cup
2 oz. Pimm’s No. 1
1/2 oz. Lime Juice
1/2 oz. Lemon Juice
1/2 oz. Simple Syrup
1/2 oz. Gin
Soda Water
Muddle cucumber and simple syrup in tin. Add remaining ingredients, shake with ice, and fine-strain into a highball glass. Top with soda. Garnish with cucumber slice and mint sprig.
Pink Gin
2 oz. Plymouth Gin
3-4 dashes Angostura bitters
Stir with ice and strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with Lemon Twist
Pink Lady
1.5 oz. London Dry Gin
1/4 oz. Grenadine
1 Egg White
Dry shake all ingredients first, then shake with ice and strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with Cherry.
Pisco Sour
2 oz. Pisco
1 oz. Lime or Lemon Juice (or combination of both)
3/4 oz. Simple Syrup
1 Egg White
1 dash Angostura Bitters
Shake all ingredients except bitters with ice and strain into cocktail glass. Garnish the glass with a dash of bitters.
Piña Colada
1 oz. White Rum
1 oz. Cream of Coconut
3 oz. Pineapple Juice
Shake all ingredients with ice or blend until smooth. If blended, use a Hurricane glass, if shaken serve in a crushed ice filled mug or old fashioned glass. Garnishes should be creative, and often include an umbrella.
Pousse Café
1 oz. Maraschino Liqueur
1 oz. Curaçao
1 oz. Cognac
It is recommended to pour the ingredients on top of eachother from another glass and not from a bottle. The back of a bar spoon will work too. Bottom up, this should start with the Maraschino, then the Curaçao, and then the Cognac. Serve in a fluted cordial glass.
Presbytarian
2 oz. Scotch Whisky
Ginger Ale
Soda Water
Pour Scotch over ice and fill with equal parts ginger ale and soda water in a Highball Glass.
Ramos Gin Fizz
1.5 oz. Dry Gin
1 oz. Heavy Cream
1 oz. Simple Syrup
1/2 oz. Lemon Juice
1/2 oz. Lime Juice
5 drops Orange Flower Water
2 drops Vanilla Extract (optional)
1 Egg White
Soda Water
Vigorously shake all ingredients except soda water and strain into highball glass without ice. Top with soda water. Garnish with grated nutmeg.
Red Lion
1 oz. Gin
1 oz. Grand Marnier
1/2 oz. Lemon Juice
1/2 oz. Orange Juice
Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into a sugar-rimmed cocktail glass.
Rob Roy
2 oz. Blended Scotch Whisky
1 oz. Sweet Vermouth
1 dash Angostura Bitters
Stir all ingredients with ice and strain into chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with cherry.
Russian Spring Punch
1 oz. Vodka
3/4 oz. Lemon Juice
1/2 oz. Simple Syrup
1/4 oz. Crème de Cassis
Sparkling Wine
Combine first three ingredients in a shaker. Fill with ice and shake. Strain over fresh ice in a highball. Top with bubbles and add the créme de cassia last to create a cascade effect. Garnish with Lemon Slice (seasonal berries optional)
Rusty Nail
2 oz. Blended Scotch Whisky
1 oz. Drambuie
Stir with ice and strain into an ice-filled old fashioned glass. Garnish with Lemon Twist
Satan’s Whiskers
3/4 oz. Gin
3/4 oz. Dry Vermouth
3/4 oz. Sweet Vermouth
3/4 oz. Orange Juice
1/2 oz Grand Marnier
1 dash of Orange Bitters
Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into a cocktail glass.
Sazerac
2 oz. Sazerac Rye Whiskey
5 Dashes Peychaud’s Bitters
Splash of Absinthe
Half of a Sugar Cube
Chill the low ball glass with ice water. Muddle the sugar cube and a splash of water in a mixing glass
Pour the ice water out of the lowball glass and add absinthe to rinse the glass. The residual water in the glass should cause the absinthe to loosh, and therefore become more aromatic. Add whiskey, bitters and the lemon peel to the mixing glass with the muddled sugar and bitters and stir with ice to chill.
Strain into the absinthe rinsed lowball glass.
Scofflaw
1oz. Canadian or Rye Whiskey
1oz. Dry Vermouth
1/2 oz. Lemon Juice
1/2 barspoon Grenadine
1 dash Orange Bitters
Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into a Cocktail Glass. Garnish with Orange Peel
Screwdriver
2 oz. Vodka
4 oz. Orange Juice
Serve over ice into an ice-filled highball. Garnish with orange slice.
Sea Breeze
2 oz. Vodka
2 oz. Grapefruit Juice
4 oz. Cranberry Juice
Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into ice-filled Highball. Garnish with lime wedge.
Sex on the Beach
1 oz. Vodka
1 oz. Peach Schnapps
1 oz. Chambord
2 oz. Pineapple Juice
dash Cranberry Juice
Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into highball glass filled with ice. Garnish with lime wedge.
Sherry Cobbler
3 1/2 ounces Amontillado Sherry
1/2 table spoon of sugar
2-3 orange slices
Muddle the orange slices and sugar at the bottom of the serving glass. Add the sherry on top and cover with crushed (cobbled) ice.
Singapore Sling
2 oz. Gin
2 oz. Pineapple Juice
3/4 oz. Cherry Heering
3/4 oz. Lime Juice
2 tsp. Benedictine
2 tsp. Cointreau
2 dashes Grenadine
1 dash Angostura Bitters
Soda Water
Shake all ingredients except soda water with ice and strain into hurricane glass filled with ice. Top with Soda Water. Garnish with cherry, pineapple slice and orange.
Southside
2 oz. Dry Gin
3/4 oz. Lemon Juice
3/4 oz. Simple Syrup
10 Mint Leaves
Muddle the mint in a shaker with the liquid ingredients. Add ice and shake, strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with mint sprig.
Stinger
2 oz. Brandy
1 oz. white créme de menthe
Stir with ice in a mixing glass and strain into a cocktail glass.
Tequila Sunrise
1.5 oz. Tequila
3 oz. Orange Juice
1/2 oz. Grenadine
Pour tequila and orange juice into an ice-filled highball glass. Add grenadine but do not stir to create the “sunrise” effect. Garnish with orange slice and cherry.
Tipperary
1 oz. Irish Whiskey
1 oz. Sweet Vermouth
1 oz. Green Chartreuse
Stir ingredients with ice and strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with cherry.
The Bramble
2 oz. Gin
3/4 oz. Lemon Juice
1/2 oz. Simple Syrup
3/4 oz. Creme de Mure (float)
Combine all ingredients (except Creme de Mure) in a tin. Shake and strain over a crushed ice-filled Old Fashioned glass. Top with 3/4 oz Creme de Mure float. Garnish with lemon wedge. Blackberry optional.
Toddy
Scotch Whisky
Water
Lump of Sugar
Serve warm or cold. This is a cocktail made to be tinkered with. Mug if served warm. Old fashioned glass if served at room temp.
Tom and Jerry
12 eggs
3 oz. over proof Jamaican Rum
1 1/2 Tsp ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp ground cloves
1/2 tsp ground all spice
granulated sugar
Separate the yolks from whites. Beat the whites stiff, and the yolks until watery. Combine the yolks and whites and mix thoroughly while adding all of the spices and rum. Then, while mixing add sugar until the mixture achieves a batter like texture. This base will keep well refrigerated as it is full of sugar and alcohol.
Take 1 table spoon of the batter, add 2 ounces of brandy and stir in boiling water to desired dilution based on taste. Serve with a spoon in a mug.
Vesper
3 measures London Dry Gin
1 measure Vodka (preferably grain)
1/2 measure Lillet Blanc
Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with lemon peel.
Vieux Carré
1 oz. Rye Whiskey
1 oz. Cognac
1 oz. Sweet Vermouth
1/4 oz. Bénédictine
2 dashes Peychaud’s Bitters
2 dashes Angostura Bitters
Stir ingredients with ice and strain into old fashioned glass. Garnish with lemon peel.
Ward 8
2 oz. Rye Whiskey
1/2 oz. Lemon Juice
1/2 oz. Orange Juice
1/4 oz. Grenadine
Shake and strain into an ice-filled old fashioned glass. Garnish with Cherry.
Whiskey Sour
2 oz. Bourbon or Rye Whiskey
3/4 oz. Lemon Juice
3/4 oz. Simple Syrup
Shake and strain into an ice-filled glass Old Fashioned Glass. Garnish with Cherry and Half Orange Wheel.
White Lady
1 oz. Gin
1 oz. Cointreau
1 oz. Lemon Juice
Shake all ingredients and strain into cocktail glass. Garnish with Cherry.
Zombie
1.5 oz. Gold Puerto Rican Rum
1.5 oz. Aged Jamaican Rum
1 oz. Lemon Hart 151
3/4 oz. Lime Juice
1/2 oz. Don’s mix*
1/2 oz. Falernum
1 tsp. Grenadine
1 dash Pernod
1 dash Angostura Bitters
Shake with Ice and strain into an ice filled highball glass. Crushed Ice may be used. Garnish with Fruit and Umbrellas.
White Lady
2oz London Dry Gin
1/2oz Cointreau
1/2oz Lemon Juice
Egg White
Dry shake first then add ice, shake, and strain into a chilled martini glass.
