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
Tom Colins
2 oz gin 1 oz lemon 0.5 oz simple top soda build in colins glass and stir
Paloma
2 oz tequila
0.5 oz lime juice
grapefruit soda to top
build in salt-rimmed glass
Sidecar
2 oz VS or VSOP cognac
1 oz cointreau
0.75 lemon juice
shake, coupe, sugar rim, lemon twist
Mint Julep
2 oz bourbon
mint leaves
0.25 oz simple
muddle in julep cup, add bourbon and fill with crushed ice. Garnish with mint sprig
Daquiri
2 oz light rum
1 oz simple
1 oz lime juice
shake and strain into coupe garnish with lime wheel
Dark & Stormy
1.5 oz black rum (like cracken)
0.5 lime juice
0.5 simple
top ginger beer over in highball
2 dashes angostura bitters
Martinez
2 oz gin 1 oz sweet vermouth 0.25 maraschino liquer 2 dashes ango or orange stir in mixing glass, pour into coupe with orange peel
Ramos Gin fizz
2 oz gin 1 oz half and half cream 0.5 oz lemon 0.5 oz lime 0.5 oz simple egg white top soda 1 dash orange flower water
Mai Tai
1.5 oz white rum
0.75 oz dark rum
0.5 oz orange curacao
0.5 oz lime juice
0.5 oz orgeat syrup
Garnish mint sprig and lime wheel
White Russian
2 oz vodka
1 oz Kahlua
1 oz heavy cream
build and top with cream
Black Russian
2 oz vodka
1 oz kahlua
no cream, this is just white russian with no cream
Long Island Ice Tea
0.75 oz vodka
0.75 oz white rum
0.75 oz silver tequila
0.75 oz gin
0.75 oz triple sec
0.75 oz lemon juice
0.75 oz simple
cola top
Aviation
2 oz gin 0.5 oz maraschino 0.25 oz creme de violette 0.75 oz lemon juice Shake, coupe, brandied cherry
Rusty Nail
- 5 oz scotch
0. 75 oz drambuie
Boulvardier
1.25 oz bourbon
1 oz campari
1 oz sweet vermouth
Garnish: orange twist
Corpse Reviver #2
Absinth to rinse 1 oz gin 1 oz Lillet blanc 1 Cointreau 1 oz lemon juice garnish with lemon peel
Paper Plane
1 oz bourbon
1 oz Amaro Nonino
1 oz Aperol
1 oz Lemon Juice
Last Word
1 oz gin 1 oz green chartreuse 1 oz marashino 1 oz lime juice 1 brandied cherry
French Martini
1:1:2 1 oz vodka 1 Chambord or black raspberry liquer 2 oz pineapple juice shake, serve coupe garnish with raspberry
