Cocktails Flashcards
What is an ancestral cocktail
the first cocktails
Spirit, sugar, bitters, water
Like sazerac and old fashioned
Spirit forward cocktail
Ancestral base, includes vermouth
traditional examples are Manhattan, Martini, Negroni, bijou
what is it in a Martinez
Gin
Sweet vermouth
Luxardo
Orange bitters
Saratoga cocktail
Whisky
Brandy
Vermouth
Bitters
Antibes
2 oz gin
3/4 oz benedicine
1 oz grapefruit juice
What is in a horses neck
2 ounces bourbon
2 to 3 dashes Angostura bitters
ginger ale
What’s in a French martini
2 ounces vodka
1/2 ounce Chambord
2.5 ounces pineapple juice
What’s in an aviation
One and 1/2 ounce London dry gin
3/4 ounce lemon juice
two dashes maraschino liqueur
2 dashes creme Yvette
What is in a Corpse Reviver #1
One and 1/2 ounce cognac
3/4 ounce Calvados or Apple brandy
3/4 ounce sweet vermouth
what is in a corpse reviver #2
3/4 ounce gin
3/4 ounce Cointreau
3/4 ounce Lillet blanc
3/4 ounce lemon juice
one dash absinthe
what is in a cardinale
Dry gin
Campari
dry vermouth or riesling
What is a Dubonnet cocktail
Manhattan with Gin instead of Rye
what is in a Vesper
Three measures London dry gin
1 measure vodka
1/2 measure lillet blanc
what is in a painkiller
2 ounces Pussers navy strength rum
2 ounces pineapple juice
1 ounce Coco Lopez
1 ounce orange juice
grated nutmeg
What is in a Tipperary
1 oz Irish whiskey
1 oz Sweet vermouth
1 ounce green Chartreuse
What is in a bamboo
One and 1/2 ounce Fino sherry
one and 1/2 ounce dry vermouth
two dashes Angostura bitters
two dashes orange bitters