Glassware and Equipment Flashcards

“V-Shaped Cocktail Glass”
Martinis and Manhattans
Usually 5.5oz

Nick and Nora Cocktail Glass
Retro-oriented cocktails like the Bronx
Origin: the Thin Man movie series starring Wiliam Powell and Myrna Loy. Standard cocktail glass of the twentieth century

Coupé
Daiguiri, El Presidente, margarita
Origin: originally called the Marie Antoinette glas because the shape of the bowl was supposedly designed to hold her breast
Should be NO larger than 6oz

Highball
Any highball cocktail with soda, also Beer
Should be 10-12oz

Chimney or Collins
Tom Collins or a sour
Between 10-14oz (one ice-cube wide, so they stack)

Old-Fashioned
the standard short glass
6-8oz

Mai Tai (also Bucket Glass)
Mai Tais and larger drinks on the rocks
10-12oz

London Docks
Fortified Wine (port or sweet wine), Straight Liqueurs, Cordials, even Straight Hard Spirits served neat, Cognac or Brandy

Shot Glass
1.5oz

Teardrop Champagne
Neither explicitly for red wine or white wine, but appropriate for either, as well as spritzers, wine coolers, and sangria

Flute
Champagne, Pick-Me-Up, Champagne-based cocktails
Hurricane


Irish Coffee
Irish Coffee
7-8oz (after liquor and sugars are added, only remaining room for the perfect amount of coffee)
NOTE: if none available, use an 8-oz mug or small White Wine Glass

Hot Toddy

Pousse Café
Layered cocktails
Variant of the pony and copita

Classic Punch
Punch

Brandy Snifter
Cognac or cognac-based Cordials, or White Russian

Absinthe Two-Part

Margarita

Manhattan
Note: often served in a V-Shaped Glass these days

Boston Shaker

Hawthorn Strainer

Julep Strainer

Tea Strainer







