10 Classic Cocktails
Meet the timeless standards of the cocktail playbook. Mix up these classic adult beverages for your next party or home happy hour.
1) Martini (Gin, vermouth)
Sometimes made with vodka, this is a classic, clear, and very strong cocktail. Serve chilled in (you guessed it) a martini glass.
Classic Martini with Olive | Photo by Meredith
2) Manhattan (Rye whiskey, vermouth)
Similar to the martini, but with a touch of sweetness. This 100-year-old cocktail can also be made with bourbon. Serve in a martini glass or a short tumbler--always chilled.
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3) Bloody Mary (Vodka)
Usually served at breakfast or brunch, the Bloody Mary is easy to customize depending on how strong you like your drinks--and how much spice you can handle. Serve over ice in a tall glass with the vegetable garnish of your choice.
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4) Margarita (Tequila, triple sec)
A sweet party drink that's easy to make in batches. Blend in some fruit for extra flavor. You can serve in special rounded margarita glasses or whatever's handy (serving in a mason jar is increasingly popular).
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5) Old Fashioned (Whiskey)
A sweet, sophisticated cocktail that's simple to make and goes down smooth. Serve over ice in a short tumbler (also known as an Old Fashioned glass).
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6) Mojito (White rum)
A refreshing Cuban classic made with fresh mint. Sweet and fruity on hot summer days. Serve over ice in a tall glass.
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7) Daiquiri (Rum)
An easy, sweet, and slushy blender drink. Serve in a chilled martini or margarita glass.
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8) Gin and Tonic
The good 'ol G&T is a dead-simple summer drink, and a good reason to stay stocked up on fresh limes. Serve over ice in a short tumbler.
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9) Screwdriver (Vodka)
Also called vodka and orange juice, because that's all it is! Easy to make as weak or as strong as you like. Typically served at breakfast or brunch in a tall glass over ice.
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10) Gimlet (Gin)
A classy Gin and sweetened lime juice (Rose's is the most common brand). Also sometimes made with vodka. Serve in a martini glass or short tumbler.
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I have alerted my friends- the graph should be printed and memorized.
I am also interested in overall bar theory- proper behaviour and drinks for different types of bars and clubs, as well as any and all stories about drinking. Nice site- keep up the good work.
Why do you list Sidecars as among the more difficult to make? It's just brandy, triple sec, and lemon juice shaken and strained.
I put it slightly up on the difficulty scale because of the sugared rim.
Look, busy bar or not. If they can make a drink, and it happens to be the drink I want, it shouldn't matter if they are busy or not. What ever happened to customer service. Why should I settle for some other drink I'm not really in the mood for just because Charlie is busy behind the bar? If you're too busy to mix a drink, maybe it's time to get a second (third, etc. ) bartender. Just my 2Cents.
I agree with anonymous. I compare it to going to a restaurant. Should I order some simple, schlocky dish just because the kitchen is busy? Geez, wouldn't want to put anyone out.
The great aficionado has spoken.
A bar is not like a restaurant. The bartender expects just as much from you as you do from them. Good conversation, patience, understanding, humor, and a great tip. And you know why? Because they can. They control the alcohol, and they're usually good-looking people with a crowd and a bouncer to back them up. So if you're the kind of person who orders some weird-ass complicated drink when the bar is 5-deep in people, expect a crappy pour (less alcohol), and less attention next time. They'll choose to serve the person next to you first, because they know that he only wants a quick bud light or a vodka tonic. Of course, you may be able to balance it out with a really good tip (50%).
I got a solution for those wanting great service any any drink they can think of. Lay a $20 on the bar and say this your tip.
How in the world do you guys get to be the boss? Just because you hold the alcohol? People come to the bar to be served good drinks. Not to be given a limited selection based on how you feel about your job (busy?). We're paying for it, it's your job to make us drinks. And it's your tips on the line if you want to be a *ick or not. Earn it, not demand it. I'm a server and I don't demand to be tipped. I work for it and deserve my tips. I get busy too but I keep up. I've met bartenders that even if it's 5 foot or even 10 foot deep, they can still rock it and they rock it hard. And those are usually the bar that everyone loves.
good bartending is never easy.
T.I.P.P.S. means "to insure prompt and proper service" but this does not mean that a "guest" has the right to treat us bad "we reserve the right" to sever anyone. I've been a bartender over 30yrs in a tourist town..seen it all! lol!
Obviously most of the complainers on here have never stepped foot behind a bar. As a bartender and a mixologist and now a restaurant manager, I know how awful it is to muddle a stupid mojito with well rum to some jerk in the middle of winter or fall when mint is out of season when you are five deep. Yes I can do it, Yes I will do it but I will hate you for it and you will wait the next time you are up. if you order good rum and ask in a polite way it goes a long way. customers aren't always right and that is the problem in service industry. we have to take it on the chin when our "guests" are uneducated and mis-informed. if I like bourbon which I do, instead of ordering a manhattan or a old fashioned, in the middle of a rush I will get it on the rocks. and I will bet my bartender will be heavy handed when I do. but the 20 on the bar as a tip does help ;). just my thoughts
Like any menu item, the cocktail's price should reflect the difficulty and effort and the quality of the ingredients.
Why are you guys so greedy? By you guys, I mean you waiters, you bartenders, the lot of you. Why this need to chase a tip always.
It is absolutely not like a banker's bonus. Servers and Bartenders get paid very low wages. I make 3.50 an hour. That barely covers my taxes. Our money comes from tips. Thats how we make our living. Don't compare our blue collar jobs to the greedy 1% who destroyed our economy.
A tip in a bar/restaurant is not at all like a banker's bonus. Most bartenders and servers are working for minimum wage or below minimum wage. The tip is a part of their salary. It has nothing to do with being greedy and everything to do with making a living.
Standard cocktails
Not necessarily. Although they have fewer calories, many light beers have almost as much alcohol as regular beer—about 85% as much, or 4.2% versus 5.0% alcohol by volume, on average.
Check the alcohol content of your beverage. Malt beverages are not required to list their alcohol content on the labels, so you may need to visit the bottler's Web site.
How many "drinks" are in a bottle of wine?
A typical 25-ounce (750 ml) bottle of table wine holds about 5 "standard" drinks, each containing about 5 ounces. This serving size of wine contains about the same amount of alcohol as a 12-ounce regular beer or 1.5 ounces of 80-proof spirits.
Get to know what 5 ounces looks like by measuring it out at home. That way you can estimate how many standard drinks you're being served in a restaurant or bar that uses large glasses and generous serving sizes.
Mixing alcohol with certain medications can cause nausea, headaches, drowsiness, fainting, a loss of coordination, internal bleeding, heart problems, and difficulties in breathing. Alcohol can also make a medication less effective. For more information, see Harmful Interactions: Mixing Alcohol with Medicines.
Examples of medical conditions for which it's safest to avoid drinking include liver disease (such as from hepatitis C), bipolar disorder, abnormal heart rhythm, and chronic pain.
Among the dangers of underage drinking:
- Each year, an estimated 5,000 people under age 21 die from alcohol-related injuries.
- The younger people are when they start to drink, the more likely they are to become alcoholic at some point in their lives.
- Underage drinking is illegal—an arrest can lead to losing a job, a driver's license, or a college scholarship.
Even moderate amounts of alcohol can significantly impair driving performance and your ability to operate other machinery, whether or not you feel the effects of alcohol.
Heavy drinking during pregnancy can cause brain damage and other serious problems in the baby. Because it is not yet known whether any amount of alcohol is safe for a developing baby, women who are pregnant or may become pregnant should not drink.
Highest risk
About 50% of people who drink in this group have an alcohol use disorder.
Increased risk
This "increased risk" category contains three different drinking pattern groups. Overall, nearly 20% of people who drink in this category have an alcohol use disorder.
Low-risk drinking
Only about 2% of drinkers in this group has an alcohol use disorder.
A U.S. "standard" drink contains about 0.6 fluid ounces or 14 grams of "pure" alcohol. That's the amount in 12 ounces of regular beer, 5 ounces of table wine, or 1.5 ounces of 80-proof distilled spirits.
Distilled spirits include vodka, whiskey, gin, rum, and tequila.
Light to moderate drinking
- Men: Up to 2 drinks per day
- Women: Up to 1 drink per day
- Men: More than 4 drinks on any day or more than 14 drinks per week
- Women: More than 3 drinks on any day or more than 7 drinks per week
Low-risk drinking
Men: No more than 4 drinks on any day and no more than 14 per week
Women: No more than 3 drinks on any day and no more than 7 per week
People with a parent, grandparent, or other close relative with alcoholism have a higher risk for becoming dependent on alcohol. For many, it may be difficult to maintain low-risk drinking habits. For more information, see A Family History of Alcoholism: Are You at Risk?
Pace yourself: It's best to have no more than one standard drink per hour, with nonalcoholic "drink spacers" between alcohol beverages. On any day, stay within low-risk levels of no more than 4 drinks for men or 3 for women. Note that it takes about 2 hours for the adult body to completely break down a single drink. Do not drive after drinking.
For comparison, regular beer is 5% alcohol by volume (alc/vol), table wine is about 12% alc/vol, and straight 80-proof distilled spirits is 40% alc/vol.
The percent alcohol by volume (alc/vol) for distilled spirits is listed on bottle labels and may be found online as well. It is half the "proof," such that 80-proof spirits is 40% alc/vol.
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What defines a classic cocktail? Staying power. Frank Sinatra drank the same martinis that barflies drink today. Plantation kings downed fine Mojitos in vibrant old Havana. Southern belles sipped frozen Juleps long before the railroads. Cocktail recipes may move with the times – but the classics endure.
Some standard drink recipes
Every bar should develop a good list of recipes so customers can get a consistently good drink every visit. (For more on that, see our article
here.) If you’re just starting out, here’s a list of some basic recipes, courtesy of National Bartenders School.
Standard Highballs
Built in iced highball glass
Fill With Equal Parts Soda & 7Up
Fill With Tonic
Fill With Ginger ale
Fill With Equal Parts Soda and 7Up
Fill With Equal Parts Soda & 7Up
Fill With Tonic
Fill With Water
Highball Juice Drinks
Built in iced highball glass
Bay (Hawaiian) Breeze
Fill With Equal Parts Pineapple & Cranberry
Fill With Cranberry
Fill With Grapefruit
Fill With Grapefruit
Salt The Rim Of The Glass
Fill With Equal Parts Cranberry & Grapefruit
Tall Drinks
Build in Iced Collins Glass
Tall Bourbon & Water
Fill With Water
Fill With Equal Parts 7Up & Soda
Cocktails – Up
- Chilled stem glass
- Ice the mixing cup
- Pour vermouth first
- Pour liquor
- Stir or shake
- Strain into glass
- Garnish
1/4 oz Sweet Vermouth
1 3/4 oz Bourbon
2 drops Dry Vermouth
2 drops Dry Vermouth
1 3/4 oz Bourbon
2 drops Dry Vermouth
1 3/4 oz Bourbon
1/4 oz Sweet Vermouth
2 drops Dry Vermouth
Perfect Brandy Manhattan
1/4 oz Sweet Vermouth
2 drops Dry Vermouth
Cocktails On The Rocks
Built in iced rocks glass
1/4oz Sweet Vermouth
1/8 oz Dry Vermouth
1 3/4 oz Bourbon
1/4 oz Sweet Vermouth
1/8 oz Dry Vermouth
1 3/4 oz Bourbon
1/8 oz Each Dry & Sweet Vermouth
1/4 oz Sweet Vermouth
Cocktails Up Or As A Shooter
Always Shaken if in cocktail glass
1/4 oz Triple Sec
Dash Of Cranberry
1/4 oz Triple Sec
1/4 oz Triple Sec
1/4 oz Sweet & Sour
1/4 oz Sweet & Sour
1/4 oz Triple Sec
1/4 oz Sweet & Sour
Sugar Rim & Lemon Twist
Cocktails Using Sweet & Sour
Chill Sour Glass
2 oz Sweet & sour
Shake and Strain
Chill Sour Glass
2 oz Sweet & sour
Shake and Strain
1/2 oz Triple sec
Fill With Sweet & Sour
1/2 oz Blue Curacao
Fill With Sweet & Sour
2oz Sweet & Sour
2oz Sweet & Sour
1 oz Bacardi Light Rum
1/2 oz Grenadine
1 1/2 oz Sweet & Sour
1 oz Sweet & Sour
Fill With Equal Parts Pineapple & OJ
1/2 oz Grenadine
Myer’s Rum Float
1/2 oz Créme de Almond
1/2 oz Triple Sec
1 oz Sweet & Sour
Float 1/2 oz 151 Rum
1/2 oz Southern Comfort
Fill With Equal Parts Sweet & Sour and OJ
* Drinks made in a shaker that contain soda, add the soda after shaking
Collins Drinks
Built in iced collins glass
Fill With Collins Mix
Fill With Collins Mix
Fill With Collins Mix
Fill With Collins Mix
Fill With Collins Mix
Blackberry brandy float
Drinks With OJ
Ice Collins glass
Float 1/2 oz Galliano
Ice high ball glass
1 oz Peach Schnapps
Ice Collins glass
1 oz Peach Schnapps
Ice Collins glass
Float 1/2 oz Galliano
Ice Collins glass
Float 1/2 oz Midori
Ice Collins glass
1 oz Peach Schnapps
Fill With Equal Parts OJ & Cranberry
Ice high ball glass
Ice Collins glass
Float 1/2 oz Southern Comfort
Sloe Comfortable Screw up Against the Wall
1/2 oz Southern Comfort
Float 1/2 oz Galliano
Ice Collins glass
Float 1/ 2 oz Grenadine
Ice Collins glass
Float 1/ 2 oz Blackberry Brandy
Cream Drinks
1/2 oz Brown Crème de Cacao
1/2 oz Triple Sec
1/2 oz White Crème de Cacao
1/2 oz White Crème de Cacao
1/2 oz Green Crème de Menthe
The Bloody Mary
Build in iced collins or pint glass
2 Dashes Pepper
2 Dashes Celery Salt
4 Drops Worcestershire
1 Drop Tabasco (optional)
Fill With Tomato Juice
Use Bloody Mary Mix Instead Of Spices And Tomato Juice
Garnish With Celery Stick Or Lime
2 Dashes Pepper
2 Dashes Celery Salt
4 Drops Worcestershire
1 Drop Tabasco(optional)
Fill With Tomato Juice
Use Bloody Mary Mix Instead Of Spices And Tomato Juice
Garnish With Celery Stick Or Lime
Use Clamato Juice
Use Beef Bouillon
The Old Fashioned
Start Without Ice
Add 1 Sugar Cube
A Few Drops Of Bitters
An orange wedge & a cherry
1 1/2 oz Bourbon
After-Dinner Drinks
1 1/2 oz Tequila
1 1/2 oz Dark Crème de Cacao
Separator (Dirty White Mother)
Fill With Half & Half
Fill With Cream
1/2 White Crème de Menthe
Wine Drinks
1 oz Peach Nectar
Ice Hi-Ball glass
A Few Dashes Bitters
Fill With Champagne
Ice Rocks glass
1 1/4 oz Dubonnet
1/4 oz Crème de Cassis
Fill with White Wine
Garnish with Lemon Twist
1/4 oz Crème de Cassis
Fill with Champagne
Garnish with Lemon Twist
Fill with Champagne
3/4 oz Sweet Vermouth
Fill with Champagne
Ice collins glass
1/2 Fill With White Wine
1/2 Fill With Soda
Ice collins glass
1/2 Fill With Red Wine
1/2 Fill With 7 Up
Blended Drinks
All These Drinks Can Also Be Shaken And Served Over Rocks
2 1/2oz Pina Colada Mix
1/2 oz Blue Curacao
1 1/2 Sweet & Sour
3 oz Pina Colada Mix
Cherry & Or Pineapple Wedge
2 oz Sweet & Sour
2 oz Sweet & Sour
1/4 Cup Fruit Of Choice
Garnish With Fruit Used
1/2 oz Triple Sec
1 1/2 Sweet & Sour
3 oz Pina Colada Mix
Cherry & Or Pineapple Wedge
Coffee Drinks
Always Ask If Whipped Cream Is Desired
1 oz Bailey’s Irish Cream
Fill With Hot Coffee
Top With Whipped Cream
1/2 oz Tia Maria
Fill With Hot Coffee
Top With Whipped Cream
1/4 oz Brown Crème de Cacao
Fill With Hot Coffee
Top With Whipped Cream
Fill With Hot Coffee
Fill With Hot Water
1 oz Irish Whiskey
Fill With Hot Coffee
Top With Whipped Cream
1/2 oz Tia Maria
Fill With Hot Coffee
Top With Whipped Cream
Fill With Hot Coffee
Top With Whipped Cream
Fill With Hot Coffee
Top With Whipped Cream
Layered Shooters
Prepare in shot glass, Layer in the order listed
1/3 Grand Marnier
1/4 Grand Marnier
3/4 oz Butterscotch
1/2 oz Grand Marnier
Dash of Lime Juice
1/3 Dark Creme de Cacao
1/3 White Creme de Menthe
1 Drop Of Grenadine
Misc Drinks
Build in Sherry glass
1 oz Dark Cacao
1 oz Amaretto in lined shot glass
Fill beer glass 3/4 full
Drop filled shot glass into beer
Prepare in Mixing glass
1/2 oz Apple Schnapps
1/2 oz Triple Sec
1/2 oz Sweet & Sour
Transfer to un-iced Rocks glass
Add Splash of 7 UP
Prepare in Mixing glass
Transfer to un-iced Rocks glass
Add Splash of 7 UP
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.75 OZ. Fresh Lime Juice Over Ice.
Top with Spicy Ginger Beer and Stir
Gently. Garnish with a lime wheel
and fresh mint sprig.
1.25 OZ. Method + Standard Original
.25 OZ. Dry Vermouth.
Stir with ice in a mixing glass and
strain into a martini glass. Garnish
with olives or a lemon twist.
1.5 OZ. Method + Standard Raspberry
Pour over ice. Top with a splash
of club soda. Garnish with a lemon
wheel and fresh raspberries.
1.5 OZ. Method + Standard Raspberry
Over ice. Top with pomegranate
juice. Garnish with a lime wedge.
1.5 OZ. Method + Standard Apple Spice
Pour over ice and top
with ginger beer.
1.5 OZ. Method + Standard Apple Spice
Over ice. Top with
cranberry juice cocktail
1.5 OZ. Method + Standard Strawberry
Over ice. Top with a splash of
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cucumber slice. Stir gently.
1.5 OZ. Method + Standard Strawberry
Pour over ice. Top with fresh
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Martini - standard Cocktail
1 dry vermouth regular 3/4 oz. dry 1/2 oz. extra dry 1/4 oz. in 'n' out swirl Stir. Strain into cocktail glass. Optional: an olive.
Ingredients:
- 3 oz. Gin
- 1 oz. Martini bianco (dry)
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Top 10 Classic Cocktails
Friday has arrived again, so I have decided to do a cocktail list. I am a great fan of cocktails and have many a messy cocktail evening. In this list I will introduce you to the best version of each recipe for 10 classic cocktails. The recipes come from my own experience based upon my education in cocktails courtesy of some incredible cocktail bars and David A. Embury, the author of the finest book on cocktail making: The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks. I strongly urge any person interested in cocktails buy his book – it is unsurpassed. This book is so sought after that you will rarely find a copy for less than $200 US (it is a basic paperbook format). Fortunately for two lucky people, it is currently available on Amazon for $120 and $161 (both are used but good condition). You can buy them here.
Aside from glasses, you will need some kind of hard object for squashing fruits in the glass (this is called a muddler). You will also need a cocktail shaker (a large lidded jar will do if you can not get a cocktail shaker), a tall glass, a stirrer, and a strainer. This is what they look like:
Some things to note about cocktails: a true cocktail will never include milk or cream. Additionally, none of the cocktails below use vodka as the aim of a cocktail is to enjoy the flavored spirit and vodka is a raw spirit – if you must have vodka, stick to a a vodka and orange – don’t waste expensive cocktail ingredients by mixing them with this bland spirit.
One final word of advice: the images in this list are almost all over-garnished – please use the instructions in the list, not the images as a guide for the finished result. We are trying to make fine drinks, not fruit bowls. Oh – and I challenge each of you to try at least one of these cocktails this weekend!
1 tablespoon sugar syrup
Juice of 1 medium lemon
3-4 ounces of gin (2 measures)
Stir all of the above together in the Tom Collins glass (see image above) and add 4 ice-cubes. Fill with soda water, stir again, and serve immediately. If you use Old Tom Gin (see below), use half the quantity of sugar syrup.
Originally a Tom Collins was made with Old Tom Gin which is a sweetened type of gin. Unfortunately it is not seen often these days so we have to substitute regular gin and sugar syrup 1 . A collins is served in the tallest glass used for cocktails which is, appropriately, named a Tom Collins glass. It will normally hold 12-16 ounces.
In a tall bar glass (this is not used for serving – just mixing) put 1 tablespoon of sugar syrup, a dozen young mint leaves, and 2 or 3 dashes of angostura bitters. Bruise the mint gently with a muddler and blend the whole mix by stirring and pressing slightly (do NOT use a blender). Do not crush the mint leaves or it will release bitter juices. Pour 2 ounces of Bourbon over the top.
Remove julep glasses from the refrigerator and fill with crushed ice (being careful not to touch the glasses with your bare hands. Pour the julep over the top and stir for a few minutes. Add some more ice and top with enough Bourbon to fill the glass to 1/4 inch from the top. Insert two long straws and decorate with sugared mint leaves and serve.
Everyone has their own take on the julep (particularly the mint julep) so it can be very controversial to present a recipe as the “best”. Nevertheless, I think after tasting you will agree with this one.
1 teaspoon of sugar syrup
2 teaspoons of lemon juice
3 ounces of gin
Combine the ingredients in a goblet or highball glass. Fill the glass with chilled soda water. If you wish, you can omit the lemon juice, but I recommend keeping it. This is now ready to serve.
The generic term sling refers to a drink made of sweetened spirits and water. You can substitute virtually any spirit for gin in this recipe to produce a whiskey sling, a rum sling, a brandy sling, etc.
7. El Presidente
1 part French vermouth
1 dash of grenadine
Put all three ingredients in to an old fashioned glass (an old fashioned glass is the type of glass you normally serve a whiskey on the rocks – “old fashioned” here does not mean antique,) with large cubes of ice. Drop a twist of orange peel (and optionally a cherry) on to the top and serve. NOTE: many people mistakenly think that grenadine is a raspberry liqueur – that is not correct. Grenadine is made from pomegranates and you should not substitute raspberry in this recipe.
This recipe is for the “Cuban” El Presidente. There is also an “American” El Presidente which includes lemon juice and curacao.
1 part sugar syrup
2 parts lime juice
8 parts white rum (Bacardi is best)
Shake all of the above vigorously and strain in to chilled old fashioned or cocktail glasses.
Interestingly, this drink was originally called a Bacardi, but the Bacardi company won a copyright suit so the name daiquiri has stuck.
1 teaspoon of sugar syrup
3 dashes of bitters
2 – 2.5 ounces whiskey
Fill small old fashioned glasses with ice and set aside to chill.
Stir the above ingredients with large ice cubes until thoroughly chilled. Empty the old fashioned glasses and swirl a dash of absinthe in each one – discarding any left over liquid. Strain the liquor into each chilled and swirled glass. Twist a peel of lemon over each glass and drop it on top as a garnish. Serve with a small glass of ice water on the side as a chaser.
I have added the Sazerac mainly out of historical interest as it is one of the earliest (and in fact, may be the earliest cocktail known. Due to the combination of absinthe and whiskey, it is not to the liking of many people.
1 part Cointreau (or any orange liqueur
1 part lime juice
Combine the above ingredients in a small old fashioned glass with crushed ice and stir to combine. Serve immediately.
The origins of the Margarita are unknown. What is known is that it is not a drink that is meant to be blended in an electric blender and served like a slushy!
1 part cointreau
2 parts lemon juice
Shake the above ingredients over ice and strain in to a glass of your choice (see below).
These are normally served in a sour or delmonico glass, but you can use a standard cocktail glass. This happens to be my favorite cocktails.
1 part Italian vermouth
5 parts whiskey
1 dash angostura
Stir (never shake) the above in a bar glass with ice. Strain in to a cocktail glass and garnish with a single maraschino cherry – if it does not have a stem, place it on a toothpick.
The Manhattan is normally made with rye whiskey, but you can substitute bourbon if you prefer.
7 parts best quality gin (I recommend Tanqueray No. 10)
This is likely to be the most controversial cocktail on the list as the true martini has been greatly maligned in film and bars all around the world. First of all, let us just clarify a few points. A martini is made with gin. Always. If you use vodka, it is not a “Martini” it is a “Vodka Martini” – only an ignorant person would ask for a martini and complain if it is not made from vodka. Using a twist of lemon instead of an olive in a Vodka Martini, gives you an entirely different drink which is called a Kangaroo.
The second serious issue that needs clarification is that you never shake a Martini. James Bond is wrong – a Martini is always stirred. If you ask for a Martini shaken, you merely show your ignorance. The reason for this is that all white cocktail are stirred – shaking introduced bubbles, introduces too much water, and the shaken wine (vermouth) makes the final result murky. Incidentally, if you absolutely must have it shaken – it is not a Martini, it is a Bradford. Now, on to the recipe. This is the best Martini recipe you will find.
Stir ingredients (don’t stir too vigorously) in a bar glass with ice. Strain in to a chilled cocktail glass and twist some lemon peel over the top (do not put the peel in the drink – just twist it to spray the top with the juices). Serve with one stuffed olive on a toothpick (for some reason it has become fashionable to serve a martini with 2, and sometimes even 3 olives. This changes the flavor of the drink and should not be done).
If you use a cocktail onion instead of an olive, you have a Gibson rather than a Martini.
* Sugar syrup can be made at home by combining equal parts of sugar and water and cooking until the sugar has completely dissolved. It is much easier to use this for cocktails as sugar can be difficult to dissolve in alcohol and you can up end up with grains in your cocktail. When using sugar syrup, you can substitute one for one.
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