Cocktails

Question 1

What is the name of the famous bitters?

Answer 1

Angostura

Question 2

Where is Angostura from?

Answer 2

Trinidad and Tobago
Angostura bitters is a concentrated bitters (herbal alcoholic preparation) based on gentian, herbs, and spices, by House of Angostura in Trinidad and Tobago.

Question 3

What is in a Bloody Mary?

Answer 3

60ml Vodka
a few dashes of worcestershire sauce
a few dashes of tabasco (to taste)
salt
lemon
tomato juice
Method: Stir or shake the vodka with the sauces and the spices. Fill up with tomato juice in a highball glass with ice. Garnish with a celery stick, if you like it and want to add some vitamins. If you don't have any fresh celery at home add celery salt.

Question 4

What is in a hairy Mary?

Answer 4

1 oz vodka
1 tbsp lemon juice
8 oz tomato juice
1 celery
3 dashes black peppers
1 dash salt
1 pinch horseradish
1 tspdijon mustard
3 dashes Tabasco® sauce
2 dashes Worcestershire sauce

Question 5

What is a Mimosa?

Answer 5

Sparkling wine
Orange Juice
Optional extras like vodka, Grand Marnier, Chambord, and even whiskey

Question 6

What is in a Bellini?

Answer 6

Ingredients
4 white peaches (can use peach juice)
1 part sugar syrup
4 parts Martini Rossi Prosecco
How to mix
Whip up your peach puree – just peel and blend the peaches, then strain it strain and refrigerate until cold
Mix 2 parts of peach puree with one part of sugar syrup
Add about 20ml of the peach puree mix to your Champagne flute, then gently pour Prosecco into the glass. You want to leave the peach puree undisturbed at the bottom of the glass at this stage
Just before serving, stir to mix the peach and Prosecco well

Question 7

What is in a Man Tai?

Answer 7

30ml light rum
30ml gold rum
15ml orange curacao
15ml Almond Syrup or Amaretto
15ml fresh lime juice
30ml dark rum
Method: Shake all but the dark rum with ice. Strain into old fashioned glass. Top with the dark rum. Garnish with a maraschino cherry. Note: Always use fresh lime juice. The float of dark rum on the top is an important addition, so be sure you use straws.

Question 8

What is in a Manhattan?

Answer 8

60ml quality Bourbon or Rye Whiskey
25ml Rosso Vermouth (sweet)
4 dashes Angostura Bitters
Method: Pour the whiskey and Vermouth into a cocktail shaker. Add bitters, plenty of ice cubes and shake. Strain into tall glass or a Martini glass.
Note: Canadian Whisky can be used as a substitute.

Question 9

What is in a Mojito?

Answer 9

60 ml Havana Club White Rum
1-2 tbsp sugar syrup
1 Lime
a handful of fresh mint sprigs
club soda
Method: Place the mint leaves into a long glass and squeeze the juice from a cut lime over it. You’ll want about 60ml of lime juice, so it may not require all of the juice from a single lime. Add the powdered sugar, then gently smash the mint into the lime juice and sugar with a muddler (a long wooden device with a bulbous end, though you can also use the back of a fork or spoon if one isn’t available). Add ice (preferably crushed) then add the rum and stir, and top off with the club soda. Garnish with a mint sprig.
Alternative: While the following isn’t the original recipe for a Mojito, some people will take half of the juiced lime and cut into into four wedges to add to the glass. Another variation is to add Angostura bitters to cut the mojito’s sweetness. Some Cubans also use “guarapo” in place of the powdered sugar, which is a sugar cane syrup.

Question 10

What is in a Negroni?

Answer 10

30ml Bombay Saphirre Gin
30ml Campari
30ml Sweet Red Vermouth
Garnish: Orange slice.
Method: Stir briefly in a mixing glass filled with ice then strain into an ice-filled rocks glass or tumbler. Twist an orange zest over the surface of the drink to release fresh aromatic oils then drop into the glass.

Question 11

What is in a Martini?

Answer 11

75 ml Tanqueray Ten London Dry Gin (or other super premium Dry Gin)
15 ml Dry Vermouth
Method: Stir with ice. Strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with either a lemon zest or a green olive. The Gin to Vermouth ratio listed here is 5 to 1. An “extra-dry” martini can take this to such an extreme as to have no vermouth at all

Question 12

What is in a Cosmopolitan?

Answer 12

2 parts Lemon/Citrus Flavoured vodka
1 part Cointreau
2-3 parts cranberry juice
(squeezed lemon or lime)

Question 13

What’s in a Strawberry Daiquiri?

Answer 13

40 ml White Rum
20 ml Strawberry liqueur
3-4 strawberries (depending on their size)
40-60 ml lemon juice
a cup of crushed ice
Method: Mix in a blender until you have a thick mesh. Serve in a cocktail glass.

Question 14

What is in a Pina Colada?

Answer 14

30ml white rum
15ml Malibu
30ml milk
Pineapple Juice
Method: Shake rum, Malibu and milk with ice in a cocktail shaker. Strain into a glass with ice. Fill up with pineapple juice

Question 15

What is in a Side Car?

Answer 15

2 pt cognac
1 pt Cointreau
2 pt lemon juice
sugar to taste but not necessary
Method: Ingredients and proportions are very important with this drink. Cointreau and fresh squeezed lemon juice are critical. Add the Cognac, Cointreau, and lemon juice to a shaker with ice, shake well, and strain into a well chilled cocktail glass. You can also wet the rim of the glass with the wedge of lemon, then coat the rim with sugar. Garnish with a twist of lemon peel

Question 16

What is in a Singapore Sling?

Answer 16

35 ml Plain Gin
1 shot(s) HEERING - Cherry Liqueur
8 ml Cointreau
8 ml Benedictine - D.O.M.
75 ml Pineapple Juice
1 dash(es) ANGOSTURA - Aromatic Bitters
2 dash(es) Grenadine Syrup
10 ml Lime Juice
Club Soda
slice(s) Orange
1 Cherry
Method: Shake all the ingredients except the soda with ice and strain onto a highball glass. Top with soda. Garnish with the orange slice and cherry.
Darkwood Sling recipe:
1 part cherry heer