Drinks Flashcards
What’s the ingredients of an old fashioned?
2 teaspoons simple syrup
1 teaspoon water
2 dashes bitters
1 cup ice cubes
1 (1.5 fluid ounce) jigger bourbon whiskey
Garnish
What’s the process of making an old fashioned?
Pour simple syrup, water, and bitters into a whiskey glass; stir to combine. Add ice cubes and pour in bourbon. Garnish with orange slice and maraschino cherry.
Ingredients for a cosmopolitan?
1 oz Cointreau
2 oz Vodka
1 oz Cranberry Juice
1 oz Fresh lime Juice
Orange Twist (to garnish)
Process of a cosmopolitan
Step 1
Combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker
Step 2
Add ice and shake until well-chilled
Step 3
Strain into a chilled coupe or cocktail glass
Step 4
Garnish with an orange twist
Ingredients for a Manhattan
2 ounces rye whiskey
1 ounce sweet vermouth
2 dashes Angostura bitters
Garnish: brandied cherry (or lemon twist, if preferred)
Process for a Manhattan
Add the rye whiskey, sweet vermouth, and bitters into a mixing glass with ice and stir until well-chilled.
Strain into a chilled Nick & Nora or coupe glass.
Garnish with a brandied cherry (or a lemon twist, if preferred).
Ingredients of a Martini
2 1/2 ounces gin
1/2 ounce dry vermouth
1 dash orange bitters
Garnish: lemon twist
Process of a Martini
Add the gin, dry vermouth, and orange bitters into a mixing glass with ice and stir until very cold.
Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
Garnish with a lemon twist.
Daiquiri
2 ounces light rum
1 ounce lime juice, freshly squeezed
3/4 ounce Demerara sugar syrup
Garnish: lime twist
Process of a Daiquiri
Add the rum, lime juice and demerara sugar syrup to a shaker with ice, and shake until well-chilled.
Strain into a chilled coupe.
Garnish with a lime twist.
Whiskey Sour
2 ounces bourbon
3/4 ounce lemon juice, freshly squeezed
1/2 ounce simple syrup
1/2 ounce egg white (optional)
Garnish: Angostura bitters
Process of a Whiskey Sour
Add bourbon, lemon juice, simple syrup and egg white, if using, to a shaker, and dry-shake for 30 seconds without ice.
Add ice and shake again for 15–20 seconds, until well-chilled.
Strain into a rocks glass over fresh ice, or into a coupe without ice.
Garnish with 3–4 drops of Angostura bitters.
Ingredients for a Tom Collins
2 ounces London dry gin
1 ounce lemon juice, freshly squeezed
1/2 ounce simple syrup
Club soda, to top
Garnish: lemon wheel
Garnish: maraschino cherry
Process of a Tom Collins
Add the gin, lemon juice and simple syrup to a Collins glass.
Fill with ice, top with club soda and stir.
Garnish with a lemon wheel and maraschino cherry (optional).
Ingredients of a Moscow mule
2 ounces vodka
1/2 ounce lime juice, freshly squeezed
3 ounces ginger beer, chilled
Garnish: lime wheel
Process of a Moscow mule
Fill a Moscow Mule mug (or highball glass) with ice, then add the vodka and lime juice.
Top with the ginger beer.
Garnish with a lime wheel.
Ingredients of an Irish coffee
1 1/2 ounces Irish whiskey
2 teaspoons brown sugar
Hot brewed coffee, to top
Garnish: whipped cream
Process of an Irish Coffee
Fill an Irish Coffee mug with hot water, let sit for 2 minutes, then discard the water.
Add the whiskey and sugar to the heated glass, fill with the coffee, and stir.
Top with an inch of unsweetened lightly whipped cream.
Ingredients for a Mojito
3 mint leaves
1/2 ounce simple syrup
2 ounces white rum
3/4 ounce lime juice, freshly squeezed
Club soda, to top
Garnish: mint sprig
Garnish: lime wheel
Process of a Mojito
Lightly muddle the mint with the simple syrup in a shaker.
Add the rum, lime juice and ice, and give it a brief shake, then strain into a highball glass over fresh ice.
Top with the club soda.
Garnish with a mint sprig and lime wheel.
Bloody Mary ingredients
Celery salt
1 lemon wedge
1 lime wedge
2 ounces vodka
4 ounces tomato juice
2 teaspoons prepared horseradish
2 dashes Tabasco sauce
2 dashes Worcestershire sauce
1 pinch ground black pepper
1 pinch smoked paprika
Bloody Mary process
Pour some celery salt onto a small plate.
Rub the juicy side of the lemon or lime wedge along the lip of a pint glass.
Roll the outer edge of the glass in celery salt until fully coated, then fill the glass with ice and set aside.
Squeeze the lemon and lime wedges into a shaker and drop them in.
Add the vodka, tomato juice, horseradish, Tabasco, Worcestershire sauce, black pepper, smoked paprika, plus a pinch of celery salt along with ice and shake gently.
Strain into the prepared glass.
Garnish with parsley sprig, 2 speared green olives, a lime wedge and a celery stalk (optional
Margarita ingredients
2 ounces blanco tequila
1/2 ounce orange liqueur
1 ounce lime juice, freshly squeezed
1/2 ounce agave syrup
Garnish: lime wheel
Process of a Margarita
Add tequila, orange liqueur, lime juice and agave syrup to a cocktail shaker filled with ice, and shake until well-chilled.
Strain into a rocks glass over fresh ice.
Garnish with a lime wheel and kosher salt rim (optional).
