Essential Cocktails Flashcards
Old Fashioned
2 oz Bourbon
2 Dashes Angostura Bitters
1 sugar cube, or 1 tsp sugar
orange twist garnish
Stir
Margartia
2 oz silver tequila
1 oz cointreau
1 oz lime juice
Salt the rim, shake
Cosmopolitan
1.5 oz vodka 1 oz couintreau 0.5 oz lime juice 0.25 oz cranberry juice shake, garnish with lime twist
Negroni
1 oz gin
1 oz campari
1 oz sweet vermout
stir, serve with orange peel
Moscow Mule
2 oz vodka
4-6 oz ginger beer
.5 lime juice
Build in copper mug, garnish with lime
Martini
3 oz gin or vodka
0.5 oz dry vermout
lemon peel or olive
stir
Mojito
2 oz white rum 0.75 oz lime juice mint leaves clapped 0.5 simple shake and pour into highball/colins top with soda if desired
Whiskey Sour
2 oz whiskey 1 oz lemon or lime juice 1 oz simple 1 egg white Dry shake, then shake with ice strain into rocks glass
French 75
1 oz gin 0.5 oz simple 0.5 oz lemon juice shake and strain into champ glass, top with prosecco garnish with lemon twist
Manhattan
2 oz rye whiskey
1 oz sweet vermouth
2 dashes angostura bitters
stir and garnish with maraschino
Gimlet
2 oz gin or vodka
0.75 simple
0.75 lime
Shake and strain, serve up with lime
Aperol Spritz
3 oz prosecco
2 oz aperol
splash of soda
orange wedge
Sazerac
2 oz rye whiskey 0.5 oz simple 2 dashes peychaud's bitters absinthe rinse glass with absinth and discard. Stir other ingredients in mixing glass, transfrer to chilled glass neat garnish with lemon peel
Pimm’s Cup
1.75 oz pimps pimm's No 1 5 oz lemonade mint, orange, strawberries cucumber to garnish pile in tall glass and stir
Vesper
2 oz gin
1 oz vodka
0.5 oz lillet blanc
Shaken, not stirred. garnish with lemon twist