Cocktails Flashcards
What is in an Americano?
Brief description
Highball 25ml Campari 25ml Sweet Vermouth Topped with soda Orange slice
- First served in cafe Campari in Milan in the 1860s and originally known as ,the Milano Torino owing to the fact Campari comes from Milan and the sweet vermouth in use was from Torino.
- In the early 1900s visiting American tourists took a liking to the drink but found it too strong, hence the addition of soda and a high ball glass. The name is a complimentary nod to Americans
What is in an Aperol spritz?
Brief description
Wine glass
50 ml Aperol
100ml Sparkling wine/champagne
Orange slice
- Born in Venice
- Aperol is an Italian aperitif with predominant flavours of rhubarb, bitter orange and gentian. Similar to campari but less bitter and lower abv
What is in a Daiquiri?
Brief description
50ml White Rum
20ml Lime Juice
10ml Sugar syrup
- Created sometime in the early 1900s by an American engineer by the name of Brian Cox who was working in the mine near the town of Santiago Cuba. While entertaining guests one night he ran out of gin so went out and purchased the most readily available liquor which was rum. Cox mixed the rum into a punch with lemon, sugar and mineral water and named the mixture after a nearby beach named daiquiri
- Hemingway’s version of the Daiquiri aka Papa Doble called for half the sugar and twice the booze creating an unbalanced drink that bartenders righted with the addition of grapefruit juice and maraschino liqueur
What is in a Classic Champagne Cocktail
Fluite 15ml Cognac 3 Dashes Angostura Bitters Cube of sugar Topped with champagne
Angostura bitters were developed as a health tonic by Johan Siegert who was a surgeon in Simon Boliver’s army in Venezuela. Siegert started selling the bitters in 1824 and in 1830 established a distillery for production. In 1875 the distillery moved to Trinidad where it remains
Tastes of spices, gentian, oranges and raisins. ABV 44.7%
What is in a Dark and Stormy?
150 ml Goslings
15ml Lime Juice
Top with Ginger Beer
- National drink of Bermuda where Goslings Rum is blended and is a member of the mule family of cocktails
- The name dark and stormy is trademarked so that only Goslings may be used as the base rum
What is in a French 75?
30ml Gin
20ml Lemon Juice
10ml Sugar Syrup
Top with Champagne
Legend goes this drink was created by Harry MacElhone at Harry’s American Bar, Paris in 1926 and was named after the 75mm Howitzer Field gun used by the French in the first World War. The gun was known for it’s accuracy and speed and the French 75 is said to have such a kick that it feels like being hit with such a weapon
What is in a Manhattan
Rye Whiskey
Sweet or Dry Vermouth
Angostura Bitters
Maraschino Cherry or twist
The true Manhattan cocktail is always made with Italian Vermouth. Can be made sweet/dry or perfect
What is in a classic Margarita
40 ml Calle 23 Blanco Tequila
20ml Lime Juice
20ml Triple Sec
Salt Rim
- Belongs to the sour family of cocktails.
- Margarita is the Spanish word for daisy and it is highly likely that the Margarita cocktail is simply a tequila based daisy (a sub section of the sour family)
What is in a Martinez?
25ml Gin 25ml Sweet Vermouth 2.5 ml Maraschino 3 Dashers Bokers bitters Lemon Zest
- Regarded as the drink that evolved from the Manhattan and that preceded the Martini
- Boker’s bitters are a once extinct bitters revived by Adam Elmegirab. Originally the bitters were launched in New York in 1828.the original recipe was lost forever and today there is a pronounced cardomom note. These bitters have eucalyptus, pine and cardomom on the nose and gentian and cardomom on the palate
What is in a Negroni
25ml Gin
25ml Sweet Vermouth
25ml Campari
Orange twist
Evolved from an Americano which evolved from a Milano-Torino
- In 1919 Italian born Count Camilo Negroni was a regular at Casoni bar in Florence. One day he asked his bartender for a bit more kickin his Americano, so the bartender swapped out the sparkling water for gin and the combination became the Count’s usual order. Or so the story goes…
What is in a Sbagliato
25ml Sweet Vermouth
25ml Campari
100ml Sparkling wine/Champagne
- Sbagliato in Italian means mistake. The story goes that are bartender in Milan grabbed a bottle of prosecco instead of gin whilst making a Negroni one night
What is in an Old Fashioned
50 ml Rye Whiskey
10ml Sugar Syrup
7 Dashes Angostura Bitters
Orange zest
The literal definition of a cocktail is spirit, bitters, sugar and water. Traditionally made with Bourbon or Rye sweetened with sugar, complexity added through bitters and a spritz of citrus oil
For the first few decades of it’s life this drink went simply by the name of Whiskey cocktail. As bartenders began to gain access to new cordials and liqueurs they began making new ‘improved’ Whiskey Cocktails which were spiked with dashes of absinthe, curacao and maraschino liqueur most notably. This led the old school drinkers to start asking for old fashioned whiskey cocktails the way they used to be made, just the booze, bitters, sugar and water
What is in a Sazerac
50ml Cognac / Rye
10ml Sugar
6 Dashes Peychauds Bitters
3 Dashes Absinthe
Traditionally based on cognac or rye whiskey and created in New Orleans, it is the city’s official cocktail and one of America’s oldest
- Antoine Peychaud came to New Orleans as a refugee fleeing San Domingo and his family’s coffee plantation after the slaves rebelled. Peychaud grew up to become a pharmacist and in 1834 bought his own drug and apothecary store where he created an ‘American Bitter Cordial’ which was marketed as a medicinal tonic.
At the same time a New Orleans Entrepreneur by the name of Sewell Taylor decided to become and agent for a French cognac company Sazerac-du-forge et Fils. The cocktail was created in his old bar sometime between 1850-60 as SAzeraccognac with Peychauds bitters and sugar
Phyloxera decimated cognac vineyards in the 1870s and it was at this time that cognac was replaced with Rye in the cocktail. Itb was also around this time that the newly fashionable and available absinthe was added.
What is in a sidecar?
2 parts brandy
1 part cointreau
Lemon Juice
Optional sugar rim
A classic cocktail made with cognac, orange liqueur and lemon juice
- Possibly named after a motorcycle side car in which a captain was driven to and from the bistro where the drink was born
What is in a Tom Collins
50ml Gin 25ml Lemon 20ml Sugar Syrup Soda Lemon Wedge
- Morphed from the gin punch at Limmers hotel in London
