Cocktails Flashcards
What does the term ‘buck’ mean in cocktail culture?
A highball made with ginger ale and lime
What turns a Manhattan into a Martinez?
swap gin for whiskey
What species of lemon coming from Atacama, Chile is considered classic for a pisco sour?
pica lemon
What are the ingredients in an old fashioned?
- rye
- angostura bitters
- sugar cube
What are the ingredients in a sazerac?
- rye
- demerara cube
- peychauds
- angostura
- absinthe rinse
What is the term for a negroni made with rye?
Boulevardier
In addition to ice cream, what two liqueurs are used in a grasshopper?
- creme de menthe
- creme de cacao
What are the ingredients in a Champs-Elysees?
- cognac
- green chartreuse
- lemon
- simple syrup
- dash of angostura bitters
What are the ingredients in a Cosmo?
- citron vodka
- cointreau
- lime
- cranberry
- simple
What are the 3 ingredients in a Vesper?
- Plymouth Gin
- vodka
- lillet blanc
What are the ingredients in a 20th Century?
- gin
- lillet blanc
- creme de cacao
- lemon
What are the ingredients in a blood and sand?
- scotch
- OJ
- carpano antica
- cherry heering
What are the ingredients of a Corpse Reviver #2?
- gin
- cointreau
- tempus fugit amaro
- lemon
- absinthe rinse
What is in a Pimms Cup?
- Pimms
- ginger ale
- lemon
- simple
What is in a Manhattan?
- 2 oz bourbon
- 1 oz martini rossi vermouth
- 2 dashes angostura
What 2 liqueurs are in an Aviation?
- luxardo maraschino
- creme de violette
What is the recipe for a French 75?
- 1 oz gin
- 1 oz Champagne
- .5 oz lemon
- .5 oz simple
What is the formula for making a cocktail in the Daisy family?
- spirit
- citrus
- liqueur
- soda
What are the 4 ingredients in a Margarita?
- tequila
- cointreau
- lime
- agave
What are the primary flavors of a mojito?
- mint
- lime
How do you make a negroni?
equal parts:
- gin
- campari
- martini rossi vermouth
What was the traditional wine used in a Kir?
aligote
What is the recipe for a rusty nail?
- 2 oz scotch
- .5 oz drambuie
What is in a Jack Rose?
- apple brandy
- grenadine
- lemon juice
List every ingredient in a Ramos Gin Fizz
- gin
- club soda
- heavy cream
- simple
- lemon
- lime
- egg white
- orange flower water
What is the recipe for an Aperol Spritz?
- 2 oz Aperol
- 1 oz prosecco
- 1 oz club soda
What 4 ingredients in equal parts make up a Last Word?
- gin
- luxardo maraschino
- green chartreuse
- lime
What spirit is used to make a Moscow Mule?
vodka
What is the name of a Daisy made with cognac?
Sidecar
What is the name for the cocktail comprised of Campari and sweet vermouth?
Americano
What two ingredients additional ingredients are called for in a Hemingway Daiquiri?
- grapefruit
- maraschino liq
A Dark and Stormy calls for what brand of rum?
Goslings (plus lime and ginger beer)
What is the name for an Americano topped with sparkling wine?
Sbagliato (mistake)
What spirit was called for in a Tom Collins?
old tom gin
What is in a White Lady?
- gin
- cointreau
- lemon
What is in a Pina Colada?
- white rum
- pineapple juice
- coconut cream
What are the ingredients in a Mai Tai?
- light rum
- dark rum
- orange curacao
- orgeat
- lime
Swapping gin for rum turns a daiquiri into what?
Gimlet
A Harvey Wallbanger is a vodka/OJ plus what?
Galliano
What is in a Bee’s Knees?
- gin
- honey
- lemon
What is in a French Martini?
- vodka
- Chambord
- pineapple juice
What hotel invented the Singapore Sling?
The Raffles, Singapore
Where was the Bellini invented?
Harry’s Bar, Venice
