The 100 Cocktails Flashcards
Describe the Absinthe Drip, its process, and its ritualistic importance
Traditionally proportioned 1:3 or 1:5. The “louche” effect turns the absinthe from its characteristic bright yellow/green/blue to a milky white as iced water is dripped over a sugar cube until the cube dissolved into the drink.
Affinity
This is a perfect manhattan variant. Dash of orange bitters 1/2 oz sweet vermouth 1/2 oz dry vermouth 2 oz scotch *stir and strain into cocktail glass
Alexander
1 oz. gin
1 oz. cream
1 oz. creme de cacao
*shake, double strain into coupe.
Adonis
1.5 oz Fino
1.5 oz sweet vermouth
2 dash orange bitters.
*stir, strain into cocktail glass with a lemon peel garnish.
Aviation
1/4 oz creme de violette 1/2 oz lemon juice 2 tsp luxardo 2 oz. gin *shake, double strain into coupe.
Americano
1.5 oz campari
1.5 oz sweet vermouth
Soda water
Build over rocks in double highball, top with soda. Orange peel for garnish.
Alabazam
A bitters-forward brandy sour. 1 tsp granulated sugar 1 tsp lemon juice 1 tsp angostura 2 tsp cointreau or curacao 2 oz VS cognac. *stir and strain into highball with a lemon peel garnish
Arnaud’s Special
2 dashes orange bitters 1 oz Dubbonet 2 oz. blended scotch *stir, strain over ice in highball. Orange peel garnish. This is Rob Roy's southern cousin.
Bee’s Knees
A gin sour 3/4 oz honey syrup 3/4 oz lemon juice 1 1/2 oz gin Shake and strain into a highball with a lemon wheel.
Bramble
An enhanced gin sour. 1/2 oz simple syrup 3/4 oz creme de mure 3/4 oz lemon juice 1 1/2 oz gin. Shake simple, lemon and gin with crushed ice. Put in glass then drizzle creme de mure over the top. Blackberry/lemon garnish.
Bijou
1 oz gin 1 oz sweet vermouth 1 oz green chartreuse 2 dash orange bitters *Stir, strain into cocktail glass. Lemon expression and cherry garnish.
Blinker - Modern and 1934 edition.
1/4 oz lime juice
1/2 oz raspberry citrate
1 oz grapefruit juice
2 oz rye.
*Shake, double strain in coupe. Fresh berries or lime wheel garnish.
1934 version calls for 2 oz straight rye, 3 oz grapefruit juice, 1 oz grenadine.
Boulevardier
3/4 oz sweet vermouth
3/4 oz campari
1 1/2 oz bourbon
Stir, strain in cocktail glass with an orange peel garnish. This cocktail is historically equal parts of each.
Bloody Mary/Cesar
Bloody Mary mix prep
For prep: 12 oz lemon juice, 12 oz worcestershire, 1 1/2 tsp pepper, 1 1/2 celery salt, 1 tsp tabasco.
2 oz vodka, 1 oz mix, top with tomato or clamato juice in a salted collins glass.
Blue Moon
2 dash orange bitters 1/2 oz dry vermouth 1/2 oz creme de violette 2 oz gin Stir and strain into cocktail glass with a lemon peel garnish.
Champagne Cocktail
Dash bitters onto a sugar cube in bottom of flute and top with sparkling wine. Lemon peel garnish.
Champs-Elysees
1 dash angostura 3/4 oz lemon juice 1/2 oz simple syrup 1/2 oz green chartreuse 1 1/2 oz brandy. *shake, double strain in coupe. Lemon peel/wheel garnish Brandy/sour/cordial
Claridge
A fruit martini variation - 1/4 oz cointreau 1/4 oz apricot liqueur 3/4 oz dry vermouth 2 oz gin. *Stir and strain into cocktail glass with a lemon peel garnish.
Cosmo
Infused vodka sour and a modern classic. 1/4 oz lime juice 3/4 oz cranberry juice 3/4 oz cointreau 1 1/2 oz citrus infused vodka *Shake, double strain into coupe. Lime wheel garnish.
Corn and Oil
3 dashes angostura
3/4 oz Falernum
2 oz. blackstrap rum
Build in highball with a lime wheel garnish.
Caipirinha
1 tbsp granulated sugar
1/2 quartered lime
2 oz cachaca
Muddle in shaker; add crushed ice. Pour into highball.
Corpse Reviver #1
3/4 oz sweet vermouth
3/4 oz calvados
1 1/2 oz cognac
Stir, strain into cocktail glass. No garnish.
Corpse Reviver #2
1 dash absinthe 1 oz lemon juice 1 oz Lillet blanc 1 oz cointreau 1 oz gin Shake, strain in coupe. Flamed orange peel garnish.
Crusta
1 oz cognac
1 oz cointreau
1 oz lemon juice
Stir, strain in sugar rim coupe. Large lemon peel garnish.
Rich, fussy, and obscure. One of New Orlean’s first calling card cocktails, predating the Sazerac. It is basically a sour type drink served in a fancy way, as David Embury put it. It first appears in print as the Brandy Crusta in Jerry Thomas’ 1862 Bartender’s Guide.
Originally mixed in the 1850s by italian bartender Joseph Santini. This cocktail is significant because it was one of the first to introduce the idea of complex presentation and garnish and also one of the first to incorporate a good amount of citrus. Brandy is the flag bearer for this drink but it was originally interchangable - whiskey, gin, brandy, etc. The garnish makes this drink notable - it calls for a long strip of lemon along the inside rim of a flute, just peeking over the edge, and a sugar rim (the first cocktail to call for that). The recipe was also unorthodox for the time - it called for a squeeze of lemon which was very unusual for this point in time. It also called for fine cognac. This was an epicure’s drink.
Brown Derby
1/2 oz honey syrup
1 oz grapefruit
1 oz bourbon.
Shake, double strain in Coupe.
Daiquiri
1 1/2 oz rum
3/4 oz lime juice
3/4 oz simple syrup. Shake, double strain in chilled coupe. Lime wheel garnish.
Dark ‘n’ Stormy
The recipe is legally protected by Gosling’s - in that form it calls for 1 1/2 or 2 oz Gosling’s Black Seal rum, 4 -5 oz ginger beer, lime. In a collins glass with cubed ice. Float rum over a the ginger beer and lime.
El Presidente - both versions
1.5 oz Rhum Agricole
1.5 oz Dolin Blanc
1 tsp Clement Creole Shrub
1/2 tsp Grenadine
Stir, strain into coupe with orange peel and cherry for garnish.
**Alt - 1 1/2 oz gold rum, 3/4 oz dry vermouth, 1/4 oz orange curaçao, 1/2 teaspoon grenadine.
El Diablo
1 1/2 oz reposado tequila 1/2 oz creme de cassis 1/2 oz lime juice Ginger beer Combine tequila and lime in shaker. Double strain over rocks into collins. Top with ginger beer. Float cassis. Mint garnish.
The French Martini - both versions
French Cocktail 2 oz vodka 1 oz fillet blanc 1 dash orange bitters Stir, strain into cocktail glass. Flamed orange peel garnish.
Not to be confused with the French Martini from Pravda and Balthazar - the key ingredient that makes the cocktail “French” is its use of Chambord.
2 oz vodka, 3/4 oz pineapple juice, 1/2 oz chambord.
Fizz
3/4 lime juice
3/4 simple syrup
1 1/2 oz spirit, soda water
Dry shake, shake, double strain into collins. Top with soda water.
Simple variations on the fizz include - Silver Fizz (egg white), Golden Fizz (egg yolk), Royal Fizz (whole egg), Diamond Fizz (wine instead of water aka French 75), Green fizz (dash of green creme de menthe), purple fizz (sub sloe gin and grapefruit juice for gin/lemon)
French 75
A Tom Collins with sparkling wine. Sparkling wine 3/4 simple syrup 3/4 lemon juice 1 1/2 oz gin. Shake and double strain into sugar rimmed flute. Top with sparkling wine and garnish with lemon peel.
Gimlet
2 1/4 oz gin
1/2 oz lime cordial
1/4 oz lime juice. Shake, double strain UP or on rocks. Lime wheel garnish.
GIbson
2 oz gin
1 oz dry vermouth
1 dash orange bitters
Stir, strain in cocktail glass. Cocktail onion garnish.
Cobbler
[from Punch: 3 1/2 oz Amontillado, 1/2 oz simple syrup, 2 or 3 orange slices. Muddle the sugar and orange slices in a tin. Add sherry and ice, shake. Strain into collins filled with crushed ice. Garnish with a lemon wheel, seasonal berries, mint, and a straw]
any mixture of spirit, sugar, crushed ice, and fruit.
* Half Court Cobbler from Dan Greenbaum via Punch: 2 1/2 oz amontillado, 1/2 oz cyan, 1/2 oz honey syrup, 1 orange half wheel, 1 large lemon wedge. Muddle citrus with honey syrup in a collins. Add sherry, cyan and crushed ice. Swizzle. Garnish with an orange and lemon wheel.
G&T
Classic AF
Another mix stemming from the British Army’s need to treat disease by mixing something with booze
Green Point
Rye/Booze/Cordial - variant of the Manhattan/Brooklyn
2 oz Rye
1/2 oz punt e mes
1/2 oz yellow chartreuse
1 dash angostura – 1 dash orange bitters. Served in coupe, lemon twist.
Created in 2006 by Micheal McIlroy for Milk & Honey. Named after the neighborhood in NYC
Hanky Panky
1/4 oz Fernet Branca – 1.5 oz Gin – 1.5oz Sweet Vermouth
Stir; strain into cocktail glass with lemon peel. Basically a sweet martini with a layer of amaro.
Hot Buttered Rum
For the batter:
4 sticks of butter, 1 cup brown sugar, 1 cup baker’s sugar, 12 cloves, 1 tsp nutmeg, 1 tsp cinnamon, 1/2 tsp salt. Mix at room temp - divide into ice cube trays (wtf?)
2 oz meyer’s rum– 1/2 oz demerara– 1 tbsp batter. Combine in heated shaker, pour into heated 6 oz mug
Hurricane
2 oz Gosling’s black seal rum
1 oz lemon
1 oz passion fruit
Build in Hurricane glass. Swizzle - orange slice and cherry garnish.