Contemporary classics

Question 1

Cuba libre

Answer 1

Highball glass

50 ml White Rum
120ml Coca Cola
10 ml Fresh Lime Juice

Build all ingredients in a highball glass filled with ice.

Garnish with lime wedge.

Question 2

Golden dream

Answer 2

Cocktail glass

20 ml Galliano (vanilla-like liqueur)
20 ml Triple Sec
20 ml Fresh Orange Juice
10 ml Fresh Cream

Pour all ingredients into shaker filled with ice. Shake briskly for few seconds. Strain into chilled cocktail glass.

Question 3

Sex on the beach

Answer 3

Highball glass

40 ml Vodka
20 ml Peach Schnapps
40 ml Fresh Orange Juice
40 ml Cranberry Juice

Build all ingredients in a highball glass filled with ice.

Garnish with a half orange slice.

Question 4

Bellini

Answer 4

Flute glass

100 ml Prosecco
50 ml White Peach Puree

Pour peach puree into the mixing glass with ice, add the Prosecco wine. Stir gently and pour in a chilled flute glass.

PUCCINI – Fresh Mandarin Orange Juice;
ROSSINI – Fresh Strawberry Puree;
TINTORETTO – Fresh Pomegranate Juice.

Question 5

Champagne cocktail

Answer 5

Champagne coup

90 ml Chilled Champagne
10 ml Cognac
2 dashes Angostura bitters
Few drops of Grand Marnier (optional)
1 sugar cube

Place the sugar cube with 2 dashes of bitters in a large Champagne glass, add the cognac. Pour gently chilled Champagne.

Garnish with orange zest and maraschino cherry.

Question 6

French 75

Answer 6

Flute glass

30 ml Gin
15 ml Fresh Lemon Juice
15 ml Sugar Syrup
60 ml Champagne

Pour all the ingredients, except Champagne, into a shaker. Shake well and strain into a Champagne flute. Top up with Champagne. Stir gently.

Question 7

Grasshopper

Answer 7

Cocktail glass

20 ml Crème de Cacao (White)
20 ml Crème de Menthe (Green)
20 ml Fresh Cream

Pour all ingredients into shaker filled with ice.
Shake briskly for few seconds. Strain into chilled cocktail glass.

Optionally garnish with a leaf of mint

Question 8

Irish coffee

Answer 8

Irish coffee glass

50 ml Irish Whiskey
120 ml Hot coffee
50 ml Fresh cream (Chilled)
1 teaspoon Sugar

Warm black coffee is poured into a pre-heated Irish coffee glass. Whiskey and at least one teaspoon of sugar is added and stirred until dissolved. Fresh thick chilled cream is carefully poured over the back of a spoon held just above the surface of the coffee. The layer of cream will float on the coffee without mixing.
Plain sugar can be replaced with sugar syrup

Question 9

Long Island iced tea

Answer 9

High ball glass

15 ml Vodka
15 ml Tequila
15 ml White rum
15 ml Gin
15 ml Cointreau
30 ml Lemon juice
20 ml Simple syrup
Top with Cola

Add all ingredients into a highball glass filled with ice.
Stir gently.

Garnish with Lemon Slice (Optional)

Question 10

Black Russian

Answer 10

Old fashioned glass

50 ml Vodka
20 ml Coffee Liqueur

Pour the ingredients into the old fashioned glass filled with ice cubes. Stir gently.

WHITE RUSSIAN – Float fresh cream on the top and stir in slowly.

Question 11

Bloody Mary

Answer 11

Rocks glass

45 ml Vodka
90 ml Tomato Juice
15 ml Fresh Lemon Juice
2 dashes Worcestershire Sauce
Tabasco, Celery Salt, Pepper (Up to taste)

Stir gently all the ingredients in a mixing glass with ice, pour into rocks glass.
Note:
If requested served with ice, pour into highball glass.

Celery, Lemon Wedge (Optional)

Question 12

Caipirinha

Answer 12

Double old fashioned glass

60 ml Cachaça
1 Lime cut into small wedges
4 Teaspoons White Cane Sugar

Place lime and sugar into a double old fashioned glass and muddle gently. Fill the glass with cracked ice and add Cachaça. Stir gently to involve ingredients.

CAIPIROSKA – Instead of Cachaça use Vodka

Question 13

Corpse Reviver #2

Answer 13

Cocktail glass

30 ml Gin
30 ml Cointreau
30 ml Lillet Blanc
30 ml Fresh Lemon Juice
1 dash Absinthe

Pour all ingredients into shaker with ice. Shake well and strain in chilled cocktail glass.

Garnish with orange zest

Question 14

Cosmopolitan

Answer 14

Cocktail glass

40 ml Vodka Citron
15 ml Cointreau
15 ml Fresh Lime Juice
30 ml Cranberry Juice

Add all ingredients into a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake well and strain into a large cocktail glass.

Garnish with a lemon twist.

Question 15

French Connection

Answer 15

Old fashioned glass

35 ml Cognac
35 ml Amaretto

Pour all ingredients directly into an old fashioned glass filled with ice cubes. Stir gently.

Question 16

Hemingway special

Answer 16

Large cocktail glass

60 ml Rum
40 ml Grapefruit Juice
15 ml Maraschino Luxardo
15 ml Fresh Lime

Pour all ingredients into a shaker with ice. Shake well and strain into a large cocktail glass.

Question 17

Horse’s neck

Answer 17

Highball class

40 ml Cognac
120 ml Ginger Ale
Dash of Angostura Bitters (optional)

Pour Cognac and ginger ale directly into a highball glass with ice cubes. Stir gently.
If preferred, add dashes of Angostura Bitter.

Garnish with a rind of one lemon spiral.

Question 18

Kir

Answer 18

White wine glass

90 ml Dry White Wine
10 ml Crème de Cassis

Pour Crème de Cassis into glass, top up with white wine.

KIR ROYAL – Use Champagne instead of white wine

Question 19

Mai-Tai

Answer 19

Double rocks glass or highball glass

30 ml Amber Jamaican Rum
30 ml Martinique Molasses Rhum*
15 ml Orange Curacao
15 ml Orgeat Syrup (Almond)
30 ml Fresh Lime Juice
7.5 ml Simple Syrup

Add all ingredients into a shaker with ice. Shake and pour into a double rocks glass or a highball glass.
* The Martinique molasses rum used by Trader Vic was not an Agricole rum but a type of “rummy” from molasses.

Garnish with pineapple spear, mint leaves, and lime peel.

Question 20

Margarita

Answer 20

Cocktail glass

50 ml Tequila 100% Agave
20 ml Triple Sec
15 ml Freshly Squeezed Lime Juice

Add all ingredients into a shaker with ice.
Shake and strain into a chilled cocktail glass

Half salt rim (Optional)

Question 21

Mimosa

Answer 21

Flute glass

75 ml Fresh orange juice
75 ml Prosecco

Pour orange juice into a flute glass and gently pour the sparkling wine. Stir gently.
Note:
Also known as Buck’s Fizz.

Garnish with an orange twist (optional).

Question 22

Mint Julep

Answer 22

(Julep) Stainless Steel Cup

60 ml Bourbon Whiskey
4 fresh Mint sprigs
1 tsp Powdered Sugar
2 tsp Water

In Julep Stainless Steel Cup gently muddle the mint with sugar and water. Fill the glass with cracked ice, add the Bourbon and stir well until the cup frosts.

Garnish with a mint sprig.

Question 23

Mojito

Answer 23

Highball glass

45 ml White Cuban Ron
20 ml Fresh Lime Juice
6 pcs Mint Sprigs
2 tsp White Cane Sugar
Soda Water

Mix mint springs with sugar and lime juice. Add splash of soda water and fill the glass with ice. Pour the rum and top with soda water. Light stir to involve all ingredients.

Garnish with sprigs of mint and slice of lime.

Question 24

Moscow Mule

Answer 24

Mule Cup

45 ml Smirnoff Vodka
120 ml Ginger Beer
10 ml Fresh lime juice

In a Mule Cup or rocks glass, combine the vodka and ginger beer. Add lime juice and gently stir to involve all ingredients.

Garnish with a lime slice

Question 25

Pina Colada

Answer 25

Large highball glass

50 ml White Rum
30 ml Coconut Cream
50 ml Fresh Pineapple Juice

Blend all the ingredients with ice in an electric blender, pour into a large glass, and serve with straws.

Note:
Historically a few drops of fresh lime juice were added to taste. 4 slices of fresh pineapple can be used instead of juice

Garnish with a slice of pineapple with a cocktail cherry.

Question 26

Pisco Sour

Answer 26

Goblet Glass

60 ml Pisco
30 ml Fresh Lemon Juice
20 ml Simple Syrup
1 Raw Egg White

Add all ingredients into a shaker with ice.
Shake and strain into a chilled goblet glass.

Few dashes of Amargo bitters on top as an aromatic garnish.

Question 27

Sea Breeze

Answer 27

Highball glass

40 ml Vodka
120 ml Cranberry Juice
30 ml Grapefruit Juice

Build all ingredients in a highball glass filled with ice.

Garnish with orange zest and cherry

Question 28

Singapore Sling

Answer 28

Hurricane Glass

30 ml Gin
15 ml Cherry liqueur
7.5 ml Cointreau
7.5 ml DOM Bénédictine
120 ml Fresh Pineapple Juice
15 ml Fresh Lime Juice
10 ml Grenadine Syrup
A dash of Angostura bitters

Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker filled with ice cubes. Shake well. Strain into Hurricane glass.

Garnish with pineapple and maraschino cherry

Question 29

Tequila Sunrise

Answer 29

Highball glass

45ml Tequila
90 ml Fresh Orange Juice
15 ml Grenadine Syrup

Pour tequila and orange juice directly into highball glass filled with ice cubes. Add the grenadine syrup to create chromatic effect (sunrise), do not stir.

Garnish with half orange slice or an orange zest

Question 30

Vesper

Answer 30

Cocktail glass

45 ml Gin
15 ml Vodka
7.5 ml Lillet Blanc

Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker filled with ice cubes. Shake and strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

Lemon zest

Question 31

Zombie

Answer 31

Tall Tumbler Glass

45 ml Jamaican dark rum
45 ml Gold Puerto Rican rum
30 ml Demerara Rum
20 ml Fresh lime juice
15 ml Falernum
15 ml Donn’s Mix*
1 tsp Grenadine syrup
1 dash Angostura bitters
6 drops Pernod

Add all ingredients into an electric blender with 170 grams of cracked ice. With pulse bottom blend for a few seconds. Serve in a tall tumbler glass.

Note:
*Donn’s Mix: 2 parts of fresh yellow grapefruit and 1 part of cinnamon syrup

Garnish with mint leaves.