Essential Cocktails Flashcards

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1
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Old Fashioned

A

2 oz Bourbon
2 Dashes Angostura Bitters
1 sugar cube, or 1 tsp sugar
orange twist garnish

Stir

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Margartia

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2 oz silver tequila
1 oz cointreau
1 oz lime juice
Salt the rim, shake

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Cosmopolitan

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1.5 oz vodka
1 oz couintreau
0.5 oz lime juice
0.25 oz cranberry juice
shake, garnish with lime twist
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Negroni

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1 oz gin
1 oz campari
1 oz sweet vermout
stir, serve with orange peel

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5
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Moscow Mule

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2 oz vodka
4-6 oz ginger beer
.5 lime juice
Build in copper mug, garnish with lime

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Martini

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3 oz gin or vodka
0.5 oz dry vermout
lemon peel or olive
stir

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Mojito

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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
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Whiskey Sour

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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
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French 75

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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
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Manhattan

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2 oz rye whiskey
1 oz sweet vermouth
2 dashes angostura bitters
stir and garnish with maraschino

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Gimlet

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2 oz gin or vodka
0.75 simple
0.75 lime
Shake and strain, serve up with lime

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Aperol Spritz

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3 oz prosecco
2 oz aperol
splash of soda
orange wedge

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Sazerac

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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
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Pimm’s Cup

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1.75 oz pimps pimm's No 1
5 oz lemonade
mint, orange, strawberries
cucumber to garnish
pile in tall glass and stir
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Vesper

A

2 oz gin
1 oz vodka
0.5 oz lillet blanc
Shaken, not stirred. garnish with lemon twist

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Tom Colins

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2 oz gin
1 oz lemon 
0.5 oz simple
top soda
build in colins glass and stir
17
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Paloma

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2 oz tequila
0.5 oz lime juice
grapefruit soda to top
build in salt-rimmed glass

18
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Sidecar

A

2 oz VS or VSOP cognac
1 oz cointreau
0.75 lemon juice
shake, coupe, sugar rim, lemon twist

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Mint Julep

A

2 oz bourbon
mint leaves
0.25 oz simple
muddle in julep cup, add bourbon and fill with crushed ice. Garnish with mint sprig

20
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Daquiri

A

2 oz light rum
1 oz simple
1 oz lime juice
shake and strain into coupe garnish with lime wheel

21
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Dark & Stormy

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1.5 oz black rum (like cracken)
0.5 lime juice
0.5 simple
top ginger beer over in highball
2 dashes angostura bitters

22
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Martinez

A
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
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Ramos Gin fizz

A
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
24
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Mai Tai

A

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

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White Russian

A

2 oz vodka
1 oz Kahlua
1 oz heavy cream
build and top with cream

26
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Black Russian

A

2 oz vodka
1 oz kahlua
no cream, this is just white russian with no cream

27
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Long Island Ice Tea

A

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

28
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Aviation

A
2 oz gin
0.5 oz maraschino
0.25 oz creme de violette
0.75 oz lemon juice
Shake, coupe, brandied cherry
29
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Rusty Nail

A
  1. 5 oz scotch

0. 75 oz drambuie

30
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Boulvardier

A

1.25 oz bourbon
1 oz campari
1 oz sweet vermouth
Garnish: orange twist

31
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Corpse Reviver #2

A
Absinth to rinse
1 oz gin
1 oz Lillet blanc
1 Cointreau
1 oz lemon juice
garnish with lemon peel
32
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Paper Plane

A

1 oz bourbon
1 oz Amaro Nonino
1 oz Aperol
1 oz Lemon Juice

33
Q

Last Word

A
1 oz gin
1 oz green chartreuse
1 oz marashino
1 oz lime juice
1 brandied cherry
34
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French Martini

A
1:1:2
1 oz vodka
1 Chambord or black raspberry liquer
2 oz pineapple juice
shake, serve coupe garnish with raspberry