Step 2: Glasses, Tools, & Set Bar Flashcards
What glasses do bars typically have?
White wine & red wine glasses (can be used for every type of cocktail, though shot glasses are essential too)
Characteristics
Highball & Collins glass:
- Collins is taller and more narrow
- Highball is smaller and stouter
- The two can be used interchangeably
- Used for ‘tall’ drinks (or ‘highball’), filled with a lot of ice
- Typically built inside on top of the ice & stirring
- Simplest drinks are a shot topped with fruit juice and/or sodas till full
Highball glass drinks
- Popular highballs
- Bloody Mary
- Zombie
- Gin Fizz
- Gin Rickey
- Gimlet
- Other tall drinks
Collins glass drinks
- Tom Collins
- Harvey Wallbanger
- Long Island Iced Tea
- Soda cocktails (i.e. Shirley Temple)
- Roy Rogers
Characteristics
Margarita glass:
- Primarily just used for Margaritas
- Double bowl works well for frozen margaritas
- Wide rim for easy salt/sugar rim
- Can be 6-20oz
Small: good for drinks with no ice
Medium: frozen drinks
large: frozen drinks with a lot of ice
Characteristics
Shot glass:
- Avg. 1.5oz
- Short shot (pony shot): 1oz
- Use taller ones to display layering
- Caballito: very tall shot glass for tequila (still 1.5oz)
Characteristics
Champagne Flute:
- Tall & thin to keep bubbles longer
- Avg. 7-11oz
- Good for single berry garnish
- Good for champagne cocktail
Characteristics
Champagne Tulip:
- Longer stem & bowl of flute
- Rim flares out (doesn’t trap bubbles)
- Good for mixing champagne & other sparkling wines
Characteristics
Champagne Saucer:
- More traditional
- Avg. 6-8oz
- Nice for straight champagne (fill well below rim)
- Elegant twist to drinks served in cocktail glass
- Good for larger slice of floating fruit
Characteristics
Pint glass (beer):
- Avg. 16oz
- Best when pulled straight from freezer
- Can be used as mixing glass
Characteristics
Pilsner glass (beer):
- Avg. 10-14oz
- Wide rim still gives good head
- Often for light beers
Characteristics
Beer mug:
- Best when frosted
- Avg. 10-14oz
- Sometimes deceptively smaller (shorter pour)
Characteristics
Short Specialty Cocktail glasses
- Sour glass (left): for whiskey sours & other simple sour drinks (avg. 3-6oz)
- Cordial glass (middle): traditional way to sip cordials (liqueurs). Uncommon (avg. 2-3oz)
- Genever Tulip glass: also for cordials, specifically Genever
Characteristics
Cocktail (Martini) glass:
- For drinks 3-6oz (gives room for 3-4oz drinks)
- Often served up (no ice)
- Martini, classics, almost any short drink
Characteristics
Irish Coffee glass (left):
- For hot drinks (i.e. Irish Coffee)
- Heat resistant glass
- Avg. 8-10oz
Hurricane glass (middle):
- Often for Pina Coladas, tropical & other frozen drinks
- Avg. 10-12oz
Brandy Snifter glass (right):
- Large glass but only pour ~2oz
- Captures aroma
- Often for straight fine brandy & dark spirits
Characteristics
Old-Fashioned (Rocks) glass, short tumbler:
- Not always served with ice
- Old-Fashioned, White Russian, Rusty Nail
- Avg. 6-8oz (Double Old-Fashioned 10-12oz)
Smaller: straight liquor (i.e. whiskey)
Double Old Fashioned: mixed drink, straight liquor + ice cube/ball
Characteristics
Wine glass
- White wine (left): taller, more open
- Red wine (right): rounder, smaller bowl (better decanting)
- Wine cocktails work for any
- Wine cocktails with ice are better in white wine glass
What’s this?
Bar spoon
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Ice scoop & tongs
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Jigger or Measuring glass (often 0.5oz on one side, 2oz the other)
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Muddler (crush fruit or herbs)
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Pourer, Pour Spout
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Standard/Cobbler Shaker
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Hawthorne/Cocktail Strainer
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Stirrer
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Boston Shaker (more common among professionals)
