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Gin-Based Cocktails Flashcards

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What are the ingredients, proper glassware, and garnish for an Aviation?

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1.5 oz London Dry Gin
1/2 oz Maraschino
3/4 oz Lemon Juice
1 bar spoon Crème de Violette

Shake, strain, and serve into chilled cocktail glass and garnish with Brandied Cherry or Lemon Peel

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What are the ingredients, proper glassware, and garnish for an Abbey Cocktail?

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2 oz Gin
3/4 oz Lillet
3/4 oz Orange Juice
2 dashes of bitters

Shake, strain into cocktail glass and garnish with cherry

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What are the ingredients, proper glassware, and garnish for an Alexander?

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2 oz Gin
1 oz White Crème de Cacao
3/4 oz Heavy Cream

Shake and strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with grated nutmeg.

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What are the ingredients, proper glassware, and garnish for an Antibes?

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2 oz Gin
3/4 oz Bénédictine
1 oz Grapefruit Juice

Shake and strain into an ice filled old fashioned glass and garnish with an orange slice

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What are the ingredients, proper glassware, and garnish for a Bee’s Knees?

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1.5 oz Gin
3/4 oz Honey
3/4 oz Lemon Juice

Shake and strain into a cocktail glass and garnish with a twist of lemon

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What are the ingredients, proper glassware, and garnish for a Bijou?

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1 oz Gin
1 oz Green Chartreuse
1oz Sweet Vermouth
dash or Orange Bitters

Stir with ice and strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with lemon twist

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What are the ingredients, proper glassware, and garnish for a Boston Cocktail?

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1.5 oz Gin
1.5 oz Apricot Brandy
1/2 oz Lemon Juice
1/4 oz Grenadine

Shake and strain into a cocktail glass

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What are the ingredients, proper glassware, and garnish for The Bramble?

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2 oz Gin
3/4 oz Lemon Juice
1/2 oz Simple Syrup
3/4 oz Creme de Mure (float)

Combine Gin, Lemon Juice, and Simple in a shaker. Shake and strain into a crushed ice-filled old fashioned glass. Float Creme de Mure and garnish with Lemon wedge and blackberry

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What are the ingredients, proper glassware, and garnish for a Bronx Cocktail?

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1 oz Gin
1/2 oz Sweet Vermouth
1/2 oz Dry Vermouth
1/2 oz Orange Juice

Shake and strain into a cocktail glass with an orange slice.

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What are the ingredients, proper glassware, and garnish for a Clover Club?

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1.5 oz Gin
3/4 oz Lemon Juice
3/4 oz Raspberry Syrup
1 Egg white

Add all ingredients into a shaker without ice and shake (dry shake) to add volume to the egg white. Add ice and shake again. Strain into a cocktail glass

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What are the ingredients, proper glassware, and garnish for a Corpse Reviver #2?

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3/4 oz Gin
3/4 oz Cointreau
3/4 oz Lillet Blanc
3/4 oz Lemon Juice
Absinthe glass rinse

Shake and strain into an absinthe-rinsed cocktail glass and garnish with cherry

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What are the ingredients, proper glassware, and garnish for a Delmonico?

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1 oz Gin
1/2 oz Cognac
1/2 oz Dry Vermouth
1/2 oz Sweet Vermouth
2 dashes Angostura Bitters

Stir with ice and Strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with lemon twist

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What are the ingredients, proper glassware, and garnish for a Dempsey Cocktail?

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1 oz Gin
1 oz Apple Brandy/Applejack
1/4 oz Grenadine

Shake ingredients with ice and strain into a cocktail glass

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What are the ingredients, proper glassware, and garnish for a Dubonnet Cocktail?

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1.5 oz Gin
1.5 oz Dubonnet Rouge
Dash of Bitters

Stir ingredients with ice and strain into a cocktail glass with a lemon twist garnish

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What are the ingredients, proper glassware, and garnish for a Gibson?

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2.5 oz Gin
1/2 oz Dry Vermouth

Stir ingredients with ice and strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with a pearl onion.

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What are the ingredients, proper glassware, and garnish for a Gimlet?l

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2.5 oz Plymouth Gin
3/4 oz Lime Juice
3/4 oz Simple Syrup

Shake ingredients with ice and strain into a cocktail glass and garnish with lime wedge.

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What are the ingredients, proper glassware, and garnish for a Gin Fizz?What four variations exist for this?

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2 oz Gin
3/4 oz Lemon Juice
3/4 oz simple syrup
Soda water

Combine Gin, Lemon juice, and Simple Syrup in shaker with ice. Shake and strain into an empty collins glass. Top with soda water Diamond fizz (sparkling wine instead of soda water)Golden Fizz (use an egg yolk)Silver Fizz (use an egg white)Royal Fizz (use a whole egg)

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What are the ingredients, proper glassware, and garnish for a Gin-Gin Mule?

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1.5 oz London Dry Gin
1/2 oz Simple Syrup
1/2 oz Lime Juice
Ginger Beer
10 Mint Leaves

Muddle Mint with Gin, Lime Juice, and Simple Syrup. Shake ingredients with ice and strain into an ice-filled highball glass and top with ginger beer. Garnish with mint sprig and lime wedge.

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What are the ingredients, proper glassware, and garnish for a Gin Rickey?

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2 oz London Dry Gin
1/2 oz Lime Juice
Soda Water

Build the ingredients into an ice-filled highball glass and garnish with lime rind.

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What are the ingredients, proper glassware, and garnish for a Golden Dawn?

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3/4 oz Gin
3/4 oz Apricot Brandy
3/4 oz Applejack
3/4 oz Orange Juice
Dash of Grenadine

Add a dash of Grenadine to the bottom of cocktail glass. Shake the rest of the ingredients with ice and strain into the glass and garnish with cherry.

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What are the ingredients, proper glassware, and garnish for a Greyhound?

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1.5 oz Gin/Vodka
5 oz grapefruit juice

Serve over ice in a highball glass

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What are the ingredients, proper glassware, and garnish for a Fallen Angel?

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1.5 oz Gin
1 tsp. Crème de Menthe (white)
juice of 1/2 Lemon
1 dash of Angostura

Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into a cocktail glass and garnish with a cherry

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What are the ingredients, proper glassware, and garnish for a French 75?

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1.5 oz Gin
3/4 Lemon Juice
1/2 oz Simple Syrup
Champagne

Shake Gin, Lemon Juice, and Simple with ice and strain into an ice-filled highball or chilled flute. Top with Champagne and garnish with a lemon twist.

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What are the ingredients, proper glassware, and garnish for a Last Word?

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3/4 oz Gin
3/4 oz Lime Juice
3/4 oz Green Chartreuse
3/4 oz Maraschino

Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into a cocktail glass

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What are the ingredients, proper glassware, and garnish for a Martinez?

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1 oz Genever
2 oz Sweet Vermouth
1/4 oz Maraschino
2 dashes of Boker’s or Angostura

Shake ingredients with ice and strain into a cocktail glass and garnish with lemon or orange twist

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What are the ingredients, proper glassware, and garnish for a Martini (Classic)?

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2.5 oz Gin
1/2 oz Dry Vermouth

Stir with ice and strain into a cocktail glass and garnish with an olive or lemon twist

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What are the ingredients, proper glassware, and garnish for a Monkey Gland?

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1.5 oz Gin
1.5 oz Orange Juice
1/4 oz Grenadine
Absinthe Rinse

Shake Gin, Orange Juice, and Grenadine with ice and strain into an absinthe-rinsed cocktail glass. Garnish with a flamed orange peel.

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What are the ingredients, proper glassware, and garnish for a Napoleon Cocktail?

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2 oz Gin
1/4 oz Fernet Branca
1/2 oz Grand Marnier
1/2 oz Dubonnet Blanc

Stir ingredients with ice and strain into a cocktail glass and garnish with a lemon twist.

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What are the ingredients, proper glassware, and garnish for a Negroni?

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1 oz Gin
1 oz Sweet Vermouth
1 oz Campari

Stir all ingredients with ice and strain into an old fashioned glass and garnish with an orange peel.

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What are the ingredients, proper glassware, and garnish for a Parisienne?

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3/4 oz Gin
3/4 oz Noilly Prat
2 dashes Crème de Cassis

Stir ingredients with ice and strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with a lemon peel (can be flamed)

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What are the ingredients, proper glassware, and garnish for a Pegu Club?

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2 oz London Dry Gin
1/2 oz Curaçao
1/2 oz Lime Juice
1 dash Angostura
1 dash Orange Bitters

Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into a cocktail glass and garnish with lime wedge

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What are the ingredients, proper glassware, and garnish for a Pink Lady?

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1.5 oz London Dry Gin
1/2 oz Applejack
1/2 oz Lemon Juice
1/4 oz Grenadine
1 egg white

Dry shake with all ingredients first and then shake with ice. Strain into a cocktail glass and garnish with a cherry.

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What are the ingredients, proper glassware, and garnish for a Pink Gin?

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2 oz Plymouth Gin
3-4 dashes Angostura bitters

Pour bitters into a cocktail glass and turn to coat. Stir Gin with ice and strain into the glass.

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What are the ingredients, proper glassware, and garnish for a Ramos Gin Fizz?

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1.5 oz Dry Gin
5 drops Orange Flower Water
1/2 oz Lemon Juice
1/2 oz Lime Juice
1 Egg white
1 oz Heavy Cream
1 oz Simple Syrup
Soda Water
2 drops Vanilla Extract (optional)

Vigorously shake all ingredients except soda water and strain into highball glass without ice. Top with soda water and garnish with grated nutmeg.

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What are the ingredients, proper glassware, and garnish for a Red Lion?

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2 oz Gin
1 oz Grand Marnier
1/4 oz Grenadine
3/4 oz Lemon Juice
3/4 oz Orange Juice

Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into a cocktail glass

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What are the ingredients, proper glassware, and garnish for a Satan’s Whiskers?

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3/4 oz Gin
3/4 oz Grand Marnier
3/4 oz Dry Vermouth
3/4 oz Sweet Vermouth
1/2 oz Orange Juice
5 dashes of Orange Bitters

Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into a cocktail glass

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What are the ingredients, proper glassware, and garnish for a Singapore Sling?

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2oz Gin
3/4 oz Cherry Heering
2tsp Bénédictine
2tsp Cointreau
2 oz Pineapple Juice
3/4 oz Lime Juice
2 dashes Grenadine
1 dash Angostura bitters

Topped with Soda WaterShaken, served in ice-filled hurricane glass, topped with soda water Garnished with cherry, orange, and pineapple

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What are the ingredients, proper glassware, and garnish for a Southside?

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2 oz Dry Gin
3/4 oz Lime Juice
3/4 oz Simple Syrup
10 Mint Leaves

Muddle mint with liquids, shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass with mint garnish.

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What are the ingredients, proper glassware, and garnish for a Tom Collins?

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2oz Old Tom or London Dry Gin
1oz Lemon Juice
1tsp Simple Syrup
3 oz Soda Water

Build all ingredients except for Soda water in ice and strain into an ice filled highball glass. Top with soda water and garnish with lemon and cherry

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What are the ingredients, proper glassware, and garnish for a Vesper?

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3 measures London Dry Gin
1 measure Vodka
1/2 measure Lillet Blanc

Shaken and strained into a chilled cocktail glass with a lemon peel

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What are the ingredients, proper glassware, and garnish for a White Lady?

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1oz Gin
1oz Cointreau
1oz Lemon Juice

Shake with ice and strain into a cocktail glass with a cherry garnish

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