Famous alcoholic cocktails. Delicious non-alcoholic cocktails
On the eve of a holiday, whether it's New Year or a birthday, we think about what to do that would be remembered for a long time and one of the options is making a cocktail. You know that there are more than 1000 alcoholic and more than 2000 non-alcoholic ones. The main ingredients are gin, vodka, tequila, rum, and various liqueurs, hot chocolate, milk, honey, cream and much more are in demand as additional ingredients. Today I will tell you how to make an alcoholic cocktail at home, as well as the best recipes.
What is needed for cooking?
To begin with, we must purchase straws, napkins and a set of a real bartender, and these are 7 items made of noble stainless steel:
- Shaker 550 ml consisting of 3 parts with built-in strainer
- Cast ice bucket 1.3L double walled
- Lid
- Ice tongs
- Jiger 20/40
- Bar spoon 19.5 cm
- Strainer with massive molded handle
You can, of course, even without this set, but trust your personal experience, pouring even through an ordinary teaspoon is very inconvenient and it’s not always possible to do it right 🙁 That’s why we don’t skimp on buying, because such a set will last you a lifetime, unless, of course, it’s Chinese:- ).
The second step is to buy the main ingredients, but there are not many of them. Therefore, you need to look after the best cocktails and buy for them, and eventually everything else, but if you have enough money, then take everything, it won’t hurt :-). The main advantage is that they invigorate more than kill, but if you need to burn someone up, you can do it with the help of some options, well, more on that later. You must purchase:
- Rum (of course there are many types, it is worth starting from the desired cocktails)
- Vodka (preferably light, I like Helsinki, of course, it costs twice as much as Nemiroff, but it's worth it)
- Tequila
- Absinthe
- Liqueurs (there are a lot of them, I personally recommend the most popular Baileys, Malibu, Shridan’s, Coinro)
- Juice (the best orange, lemon, apple, tomato)
- Fillers (various berries and pieces of fruit)
- Syrups to your taste
The best alcoholic cocktails
Well, let's get down to the consideration of simple and delicious alcoholic cocktails at home, we are sure you will like it.
Mojito
Very popular among alcoholic and non-alcoholic cocktails, its preparation does not require professional skills, so making a mojito at home is not difficult. Preparation is as follows: take a shaker, fill it with 1/3 of ice, then put mint leaves (preferably pre-rumpled), then pour soda (1/3 of the shaker) and finally pour 50-60 ml of white rum, then close the lid and shake well, voila, the mojito is ready, pour the resulting mixture into a glass, decorate with a slice of lime and insert a tube.
Recipe
Pina Colada
No less popular, especially with girls, is Pina Colada (Pina Colada) a sweet Caribbean cocktail, which means “filtered pineapple”. Guys are unlikely to like it, but girls will be delighted. Guys, take note of this cocktail, warm up the girls in front of more killer pots.
- 60 ml white rum
- 60 ml pineapple juice
- 75 ml coconut cream
- pineapple pieces
- 60 ml Baileys liqueur
Pour and pour all the ingredients into a mixer, beat well, then pour into a glass with ice and you're done.
margarita
No less famous cocktail in the CIS countries, which won its fans with its unique taste and ease of preparation.
- 50 ml lime juice (you can use lemon)
- 50 ml tequila
- 25 ml Cointreau liqueur
- ice a couple of cubes
All ingredients are poured into a shaker where the ice is already crushed and shaken thoroughly, after which they are poured into a wide glass and salt or sugar is poured on the edge of the glass to taste.
Sex on the beach
No less titled cocktail for ladies, which consists of simple and not expensive ingredients, plus everything is very easy to make at home.
- 50 ml vodka
- 25 ml peach liqueur (Peach Schnapps)
- 50 ml orange juice
- 50 ml cranberry or pineapple juice
Video cooking instruction
All this is mixed in a shaker and poured into a glass with ice, after which you can decorate with a slice of lime, lemon, orange or cherry. Drink through a straw.
Screwdriver
The most famous drink of youth, which is the easiest to prepare and consists of two ingredients. And invented back in the 1940s by the United States.
- 50 ml vodka
- 150 ml orange juice (you can also use pineapple)
Video instruction
All these ingredients are poured into a shaker with crushed ice, mixed well and poured into a glass, garnished with an orange slice. That's all the screwdriver is ready, it is drunk through a straw.
B 52
All these were more feminine cocktails, and now men's "invigorating cocktails" will go and let's start from the most famous - B 52. It is very beautiful, flaming and popular in clubs, both externally and internally - it is a burning bomb, it raises the mood above the forvatar I highly recommend it for entertaining the party. And so now we will learn how to cook B 52.
Recipe 
- 30 ml Kahlua coffee liqueur
- 30 ml Baileys cream liqueur
- 30 ml Cointreau orange liqueur
Video instruction
But the preparation of this cocktail is more difficult and requires a little skill, so if you want to show the company what kind of bartender you are, it's better to practice in advance. We need a glass and a bar spoon with a long stem, we insert this spoon into the glass and carefully pour the coffee liquor, after we raise the spoon above the already poured coffee liquor, we also carefully pour the cream liquor and finally pour the orange liquor just as carefully from above, it's almost ready, the last the touch will be a beautiful arson and voila, everything is ok. It is worth drinking it quickly and through a straw, just lower the straw to the bottom and draw it into yourself from the bottom, only quickly so that the straw does not melt 🙂 It is this sequence that will bring extraordinary sensations.
Zombie
Our next member by name is Zombie who has a bunch of ingredients and is thus very unique, his taste is extraordinary.
- 75 ml white rum
- 15 ml dark rum
- 30 ml pineapple juice
- 30 ml orange juice
- 30 ml passionfruit juice (peach)
- 30 ml table purified water
- 30 ml fruit rum
- 15 ml apricot brandy
How to make a Zombie cocktail video tutorial
The preparation of the Zombie cocktail is very simple, pour all the ingredients into a shaker, mix well and pour into a glass with ice, you can drink either through a straw or simply, you can decorate with a cherry.
Fidel
The next Fidel alcoholic cocktail is for extreme people, they drink it to quickly turn off the brain and turn on the autopilot 🙂 so don't overdo it.
- 30 ml coffee liqueur
- 30 ml lemon juice
- 30 ml absinthe
Master class cooking
Preparation requires the presence of a bar spoon, with its help, carefully pour coffee liqueur first, then lemon juice, and then pour absinthe on top. You need to drink in one sip, if you wish, you can set it on fire.
Oligarch
There is also a more invigorating Oligarch cocktail, if you drink such a couple of glasses, your eyes will start sending each other in 15 minutes 🙂
It is customary to call a cocktail a drink, by the way, not necessarily an alcoholic one, which includes several liquids at once. A distinctive feature of such drinks is their unique taste and the fact that when consumed they do not give such an intoxicating effect, from which a person loses the ability to control his actions.
Cocktails have a slight relaxing effect on the body, which is why they are so popular at parties in European nightclubs. So if you suddenly decide to arrange gatherings with friends in your country house, then cocktails will help you create a warm, cozy atmosphere and at the same time avoid problems with drunk comrades.
Making cocktails at home is not at all difficult. I will tell you what recipes for inexpensive alcoholic cocktails you can use at home to prepare the most popular, widely known throughout the world, and completely unknown, but no less tasty drinks.
Mojito
For example, one of the most popular alcoholic cocktails, born in Cuba and conquered the whole world - Mojito. To prepare it, we take a capacious glass, pour 2 teaspoons of sugar on its bottom and squeeze the juice of half a lime, which can be replaced with a not too sour lemon.
In principle, this should be enough for the sugar to dissolve completely. The crusts remaining after squeezing with the remnants of the pulp are also put in a glass along with a few mint leaves. Then throw in a glass a few not very large pieces of ice and pour in 150 ml of soda water and 60 ml of white Cuban rum - the specific brand does not matter. Mojito is ready and it remains only to decorate the glass by picking up a slice of lemon or lime on its edge.
Non-alcoholic mojito can be prepared in the same way, only rum will need to be excluded from its composition. The taste will hardly change from this, and the drink will perfectly quench your thirst and invigorate, so that in the summer heat it will be simply irreplaceable.
margarita
No less popular all over the world is another cocktail from Latin America - Margarita. The main one is tequila, 60 ml of which is mixed with 40 ml of any citrus liqueur and 20 ml of freshly squeezed lime juice. All this is shaken in a shaker for 10 seconds, so that the components are properly mixed. In the absence of a shaker, you can, of course, use a regular glass, but it will be difficult to mix drinks as expected in it.
Margarita is served in a large glass, which is decorated with sea salt. This is done simply. Salt is poured onto a flat plate, the upper edge of the glass is slightly wetted and briefly immersed in salt. Then ice is placed in the glass and the contents of the shaker are poured.
Although, as already mentioned, any citrus liqueur is suitable for margaritas, the most delicious cocktail is obtained when using Triple Sec or Cointreau.
For lovers of sweets, you can give a recipe for strawberry margarita. In this case, all the ingredients and their ratio are preserved, but 2-3 crushed strawberries are added to the shaker before mixing. Naturally, the salt in the strawberry margarita is replaced by sugar.
orange cocktail
For those who find such cocktail recipes difficult to prepare, we are with the editors of www. . The standard rate of all ingredients is 20 ml.
After mixing, everything is poured into a cocktail glass, where 100 ml of champagne is added. The most spectacular stage of making a cocktail begins when it is sprinkled with powdered sugar. As a result of a chemical reaction, the liquid begins to foam, so here you need to be very careful not to let it run over the edge.
Bim-bom
Bim-bom cocktail is prepared in much the same way, only in a shaker and the composition of the ingredients is slightly different from the previous recipe. So, in a shaker, instead of ice, 20 ml of vodka, cherry liqueur and lemon juice are mixed. A few orange and lemon slices are placed at the bottom of the glass, then the contents of the shaker are poured there and 100 ml of champagne are added.
Bim-bom and orange cocktail can be prepared in a low-alcohol version - champagne is replaced by sparkling water.
When it’s frosty and snowy outside, it’s just the right time to have a cocktail party at home. Warming alcoholic cocktails prepared according to simple recipes at home will help you return to the hot summer. There is nothing easier than mixing alcoholic drinks from a home bar with fruit, soda, juice or fruit drink and get great homemade cocktails! Arrange for friends, family and loved ones a real tropical paradise at home with a costume show and tasting of famous alcoholic cocktails! And the success of your fun event is guaranteed! So, it presents recipes for simple alcoholic cocktails that are easy to prepare at home with a photo.
Cuban summer
Cuba is hot and sunny. You immediately imagine dark-skinned women in bright multi-colored sundresses, the air filled with the sounds of guitars and the smell of rum. The island of freedom is famous not only for its huge cigars, incendiary music, but for the world's most popular cocktails "Daiquiri" and "Cuba Libre"
Daiquiri
Classic "Daiquiri" consists of only two ingredients - rum and lemon juice. But the simplicity of this recipe is its main plus! Although you can experiment with a drink by adding any fruit and berry juices to it. According to the status of "Daiquiri", a martini glass in the form of an inverted cone on a high glass leg is required. I hope you have a bottle of Captain Morgan rum in your home bar, which is the best for various delicious and quick mixes in a glass. And now the recipe itself.
Ingredients
Rum «Captain Morgan» 50 ml
Sugar syrup - 20 ml
Lime juice - 30 ml
Cooking
Mix all the ingredients in any suitable dish, shake, pour into a glass, in which you first put a few ice cubes on the bottom, and garnish with a circle of lime or an orange slice.
Bon appetit!
Cuba Libre
The Cuba Libre cocktail was first made on the island over a hundred years ago. Since then, the recipe for a drink with the taste of Cuban freedom has spread all over the world and has become a very popular cocktail far beyond the borders of the country. An extremely simple cocktail recipe has only two ingredients, one of which is the famous Pepsi-Cola soda, which tones and refreshes well. Rum and cola are served in a tall glass of regular cylindrical shape.
Ingredients
Rum "Captain Morgan" or "Oakheart" - 50 ml
Pepsi Cola - 150 ml
Cooking
Mix the ingredients in a glass or tall glass, put ice cubes on the bottom, and decorate the glass itself with a lime wedge.
Bon appetit!
Under black sails
And now let's move to the Caribbean to taste the famous Pina Colada cocktail and the unsurpassed Mojito. The Caribbean Islands are a legendary habitat and hunting ground for the most dangerous sea robbers of the 17th century, which today is a heavenly resort place on the planet. In films and books about pirates, you have watched and read more than once about the fact that these sea robbers drink only rum and grog. Real pirates, like the inhabitants of the Caribbean, are much more inventive. And confirmation of this is two magnificent Caribbean recipes for alcoholic cocktails Pina Colada and Mojito, which we are in a hurry to introduce you to.
Pina colada
Christopher Columbus called the Caribbean the "Garden of Eden on Earth" for a reason. Pineapples, coconuts, passion fruit, mangoes, bananas, papayas are just a small part of the exotic fruits growing in the local garden. You can't deny good taste to Puerto Ricans: coconuts and pineapples flavored with rum! The combination of tropical fruits with almond flavor is a win-win! That's why Pina Colada is Puerto Rico's official cocktail. To prepare a famous drink, it is not necessary to have a machete (this is a special large knife) to chop a pineapple with it. We will use ready-made pineapple juice instead. The cocktail is served in a tall glass.
Ingredients
Rum "Captain Morgan" - 20 ml
Coconut liqueur - 20 ml
Coconut syrup - 20 ml
Cream (11% fat) - 20 ml
Pineapple juice - 90 ml
Cooking
Mix all the ingredients in a suitable bowl, shake them. Pour ice cubes into a glass and garnish the cocktail on top with whipped cream and a slice of pineapple.
Bon appetit!
Mojito
It is known for certain that in the 16th century this cocktail was drunk on pirate ships. And we can only be glad that the recipe for making a secret drink has come down to our days. You ask why secret? Because the real "Mojito" should have a bitterness, which is achieved by squeezing the lemon along with the zest. This cooking technology was kept secret, but later became available to all lovers of a soft drink.
Ingredients
Rum Bacardi - 50 ml
Schweppes Bitter Lemon - 50 ml
Lime (or lemon) - 3 slices
Sugar - 2 teaspoons
Mint leaves - 2-3 pieces
Soda - to taste
Cooking
Place the lime wedges in the bottom of the glass, then the sugar, mint and lime cubes. Pour in the rum and schweppes, top with soda. Garnish the glass with mint leaves and a lime wedge.
Bon appetit!
Happy morning!
Ibiza is a tiny island, lost in the Mediterranean Sea, but the fun on it does not stop day or night. Tourists from all over the world travel to Ibiza to fall asleep dancing and wake up to music.
Alarm
Shake off sleep and recharge for a long party will help you energy cocktail "Alarm clock". This energizing elixir can be served in a variety of glasses, but a low rocks glass is the best.
Ingredients
Vodka - 50 ml
Drink Adrenaline Juicy or Adrenaline Nature - 150 ml
Cooking
Mix vodka with an energy drink, pour into a glass with cubes of people, garnish with lime or orange slices.
Bon appetit!
mask i know you
It's hard to imagine a better idea for a costume party than to invite guests to hide behind bright Venetian masks and treat themselves to a cocktail from the heart of this ancient city on the water. Venice - this amazingly beautiful Italian city is known not only for the rivers that flow everywhere instead of streets, but also for its carnival. Dumas and Shakespeare wrote about him in their works, many great artists depicted him on canvases, films were made about him.
Bellini
The Bellini cocktail was invented in Venice at the end of the 20th century by the owner of the iconic Harry's Bar, Giuseppe Cipriane. Actors and writers often rested in this popular place. The drink is served in elegant flute glasses narrowed upwards, champagne glasses are also suitable.
Ingredients
Champagne "Abrau Durso" - 100 ml
Peach juice - 50 ml
Cooking
Mix champagne with peach juice in a tall glass, at the bottom of which you must first place ice. Garnish the glass with a strawberry or peach wedge and a sprig of rosemary or mint.
Bon appetit!
Big city cocktails
Log Island
The main attraction of New York, one of the largest cities in America, is Times Square. More than 300 thousand people pass through it every day, for which it is also called the "Crossroads of the World". Here the lights of shop windows, the noise of cars and the voices of pedestrians, languages and traditions from all over the world are mixed. If you want to cool down while walking along it and go to a cafe, then you can be offered a cocktail called Log Island.
This cocktail got its name in honor of the place of its birth. Log Island is an island part of New York located in the Pacific Ocean. The Log Island cocktail is drunk from tall glass goblets, which include a sufficient number of people. Coca-Cola, which is part of the drink, is responsible for its "tea" color. And Cordon,s gin gives the cocktail a subtle taste of juniper, coriander seeds, licorice and citrus zest.
If a trip to America is still an unfulfilled dream for you, then you can make such a cocktail at home and invite your friends to hold a party with a tasting of the Log Island cocktail, as well as two more famous American drinks, Tequila Sunrise and Cosmopolitan.
Ingredients
Vodka - 25 ml
Rum Captain Morgan - 25 ml
Gin Cordon,s -25 ml
Orange liqueur - 25 ml
Tequila Olmeca - 25 ml
Sauer - 30 ml
Coca-Cola - fill to the rim of the glass
Cooking
Mix all the ingredients in a tall glass, put ice cubes and top up with Coca-Cola. Serve garnishing the glass with a lime wedge.
Bon appetit!
Tequila Sunrise
This recipe came to us from the 30s of the last century, at that time there was prohibition in the USA and therefore the cocktail was very popular both in America itself and in Mexico. The composition of the drink includes the famous cactus vodka. By the way, it takes 12 years for a cactus to grow into tequila! The heady sunrise looks most spectacular in a high tulip.
Ingredients
Tequila "Olmeca" - 50 ml
Orange juice - 150 ml
Grenadine - 20 ml
Cooking
Pour the tequila, orange juice and grenadine into the bottom of a glass filled with ice. Garnish with an orange slice.
Bon appetit!
cosmopolitan
Cosmopolitan is considered a women's cocktail, the TV series Sex and the City brought great popularity to the drink. Madonna once appeared in the frame with a glass of cosmopolitan, which helped make it a favorite alcoholic drink among her large army of fans. And he successfully replaces the classic cocktail "(which includes only two ingredients: gin and martini). Most of all, a Margarita glass is suitable for the famous cocktail.
Ingredients
Vodka - 50 ml
Orange liqueur - 25 ml
Sour - 10 ml
Cranberry juice - 30 ml
Cooking
Mix all the ingredients and serve in a stylish glass for " ", which garnish with lime zest.
Bon appetit!
Friends, do you organize such parties for friends at home? What do you cook on the table, what appetizers and appetizers do you put on?
Sincerely, Lyubov Fedorova.
Alcoholic cocktails are a combination of different types of alcohol with each other in certain proportions with the addition of seasonings and fruits. The composition of alcoholic beverages is completely different, and most of them necessarily include pieces of ice, for which it is recommended to use purified water to freeze.
The first methods of making cocktails began to appear at the end of the 19th century. They included recipes for Martini, Daiquiri and Manhattan drinks. And since 1920, a whole list of cocktails has been invented, which are now in great demand in bars around the world, and they are even considered classics. During this period, names such as Americano and Negroni appeared in Italy, and Bloody Mary and Side Car appeared in France. For the most part, all cocktails used to have the same name - American Drinks. This was due to the fact that Americans who were forbidden to drink alcohol in their country came to try the original alcoholic drinks. Nowadays, the popularity of cocktails is increasing, thanks to which new types of liqueurs, exotic drinks and original flavors appear.
Ways to prepare the most famous drinks
"Mojito" (in Spanish Mojito)
This drink is based on white rum and mint leaves. Mojito is divided into types with the addition of alcohol and without it. The origin of the drink was noted in 1980 on the island of Cuba, then it became widely popular throughout America. The composition of the traditional Mojito includes 5 components: sugar, 60 ml. rum, soda, lime and mint. Lime juice is made by mixing granulated sugar into lime juice, then tearing mint leaves and placing the contents in a tall highball. Chipped pieces of ice are thrown into the glass, rum and soda are poured on top. Fresh mint and citrus fruit soften and make it taste pleasant and sweet, which is why the cocktail is considered to be summer. In Havana, Venezuelan Angostura is also added, and in Mojito without alcohol, white rum is replaced with water and brown sugar from cane. Russian cocktail lovers mix it with orange or apple juice, and sometimes they add strawberries.
"Blue Hawaii" ("Blue Lagoon")
This cocktail has an unusual tropical taste and bright blue color. However, the recipe for the drink was not invented in Hawaii at all, but in a completely different part of the Earth - the Zanzibar Club bar, which is located in London. The composition includes components: 30 ml. rum Bacardi, 30 ml. blue liqueur De Cuyper Blue Curacao, 60 ml. fresh pineapple, 30 ml. fresh lemon, 30 ml. sugar syrup. All ingredients are mixed and pieces of ice are added to the liquid. This cocktail is characterized by rich taste qualities and has milky, summery and refreshing notes. An exotic drink, as expected, is served in a large glass with straws and umbrellas. It can also be garnished with a piece of pineapple, mint or cocktail cherry.
"Cosmopolitan"
This drink enjoys literally frenzied world fame. The creator of the cocktail is a woman Cheryl Cook from Florida. The original recipe included Absolut Citron, Triple Sec orange liqueur, Rose's Lime Juice and cranberries. The current cooking method was perfected by Toby Cechini from Manhattan. Instead of Triple Sec orange liqueur, he began adding Cointreau liqueur and freshly squeezed lime juice. This cocktail has become traditional. According to the recipe you need to take: 40 ml. vodka, 15 ml. Cointreau, 2 ml. freshly squeezed lemon juice, 30 ml. cranberry juice. The components are mixed with each other and poured into martins (martini glass glasses). Thanks to the addition of cranberries, the drink has a pinkish tint, and a slice of lemon or lime is ideal for decoration. Now Cosmopolitan is very popular in gay clubs and for quite a long time was the drink of this kind of public.
"Pina colada"
It is a sweet Caribbean drink, and its name means "filtered pineapple" in translation. This type of cocktail appeared in the 50s of the 20th century in a Puerto Rican bar. For its manufacture, components are needed: 60 ml. light rum, 60 ml. fresh pineapple, 75 ml. coconut liqueur or cream. All products are mixed in a shaker and poured into glasses, then pieces of ice are added. Whipped cream, pineapple slices and cocktail cherries are used as decor. In a number of establishments, Pina Colada is added to Baileys.
"Daiquiri"
The name Daiquiri is present in a number of cocktails, however, the original drink is one, it was invented in Cuba. The traditional recipe includes the following components: 40 ml. light rum, 20 ml. lime fresh, 7 ml. sugar syrup. Mix the ingredients well in a shaker, then throw in pieces of ice and shake well. Pour into tall cocktail glasses.
"Margarita"
The basis of the drink is tequila, due to which the cocktail is considered to be summer. The traditional recipe includes ingredients: 50 ml. silver tequila, 30 ml. lime fresh, 25 ml. Cointreau liqueur or Triple Sec orange liqueur. The components are shaken in a shaker with crushed pieces of ice. The drink is served chilled, in a wide glass. The edge is decorated with salt or sugar.
"B-52"
The drink consists of liqueurs that are poured in layers on top of each other. The classic recipe involves the use of liqueurs in equal proportions: coffee Kahlua, creamy Baileys and orange Marie Brizard Grand Orange. Precise layering of the liqueurs and the absence of their mixing is a prerequisite. There is also a variation in which a cocktail prepared in the traditional way is set on fire and must be drunk through a straw as quickly as possible.
"Long Island"
The drink was invented during the Prohibition period in the United States. The Long Island Ice-tea Cocktail was similar in appearance to iced tea and at the same time had a very high strength, which made it so popular. The drink has a pleasant cool taste that can intoxicate anyone. Includes the following components: 14 ml. orange liqueur "Triple Sec", 14 ml. light rum, 14 ml. gin, 14 ml. vodka, 14 ml. tequila, 28 ml. tea, Cola and a slice of lemon. All components are mixed in a highball and covered with pieces of ice. Cola is added at the end.
"Sex on the Beach"
The cocktail is also widely known all over the world and is even included in the list of official drinks of the International Bartending Association (IBA). To make such a popular cocktail you will need: 40 ml. vodka, 20 ml. peach liqueur Peach Schnapps, 40 ml. orange fresh, 40 ml. cranberry juice. Products are poured into a shaker and shaken well, then poured into highballs filled with pieces of ice. For freshness, you can add a small amount of pineapple juice. The glass is decorated with a slice of orange, lime or cherry. The finished masterpiece is drunk through a straw.
"Cuba Libre"
It is also a favorite drink of people around the world. It was invented immediately after the Spanish-American War, when one of the American soldiers in a Havana bar ordered rum with Cola, ice cubes and lemon. He liked the interesting taste of the cocktail so much that he made a toast to the freedom that Cuba gained at that time “Por Cuba Libre!”.
"Bloody Mary"
No list of cocktails can do without this masterpiece, because it occupies a leading position in the popularity rating. Even such famous personalities as Ernest Hemingway and Scott Fitzgerald were admirers of the drink. Bloody Mary gained worldwide fame in New York when a bar worker accidentally added Tabasco sauce to a glass. Initially, the drink consisted of vodka and tomato juice, but today spices and seasonings are also added to it. The full composition is as follows: 90 ml. tomato juice, 45 ml. vodka, 15 ml. Rose'sLimeJuice juice, 0.5 ml. Worcestershire sauce, Tabasco sauce, salt and pepper. All components are poured into a highball and ice is added. Then the composition is mixed and sprinkled with salt or pepper for thrill seekers. To make the drink nuclear, you can use red pepper. And for lovers of a milder taste, vodka can be replaced with tequila. There is also a soft drink variant called "Virgin Mary", in which case vodka is excluded from the list of ingredients.
Preparation of non-alcoholic and alcoholic Mojito at home:
A little theory today. Let's talk about cocktails, or rather, about their types. I think everyone knows what cocktails are - drinks obtained by mixing several liquids. Also, I think everyone knows that cocktails can be alcoholic and non-alcoholic. But not everything is so simple - the alcohol group is classified by many categories, which will be discussed further.
Of course, to understand which of the groups this or that belongs to cocktail very difficult. In fact, there can be as many of these categories as there are cocktails themselves, but still there is some underlying reason here. Let's try to understand in more detail. Next will be the types of cocktails in terms of different categorization.
Aperitifs
This is a very large group of cocktails, the role of which is to excite the appetite and, as a result, improve digestion. They are served before meals and, as a rule, they include spirits. Depending on the culture of food, aperitifs exist in two versions:
- Classic aperitifs. Here you can highlight this kind of cocktails: Dry Martini (), Manhattan (Manhattan), as well as Kir (Kir).
- Aperitifs of Mediterranean Europe. These cocktails most often use vermouth and beaters. I already wrote about one such aperitif - Americano (Americano) can also be attributed here.
Digestives
This group of cocktails is served after a meal (After Dinner Cocktails), as a rule, they have a very high sugar content, including coffee. Prominent representatives of this group are cocktails and Alexander (Alexander).
Anytime
The International Bar Organization calls these cocktails Any Time Drinks, which means they can be served at any time, regardless of the food being served. This includes short drinks (Gimlet (Jimlet), (Rusty Nail) or), as well as long drinks (Gin Fizz (Gin Fizz), Screwdriver (Screwdriver), (Long Island Iced Tea) or Tequila Sunrise (Tequila Sunrise)), like you guessed it, this is one of the most popular groups, which is very popular in nightclubs and other mass events.
Classification of cocktails by strength and size
To be honest, what I am writing now, I hear for the first time =) even a little ashamed. In general, cocktails are also classified by total strength and serving volume:
- Hot Drinks - hot drinks or warming. Volume (from 60 ml) and strength (from 12 to 35% vol.) can be different.
- Long Drinks - long drinks. From 160 to 300 ml with a strength of 7 to 17% vol.
- Short Drinks - short drinks. From 60 to 160 ml with a strength of 17 to 45% vol.
- Shot Drinks - sent shots. They are also called "throats" or shooters (shooters): from 40 to 60 ml with different strengths. They drink in one gulp, and some are set on fire for beauty.
Classification of cocktails by taste (sweet and sour)
Very fine classification, so it is rarely seen anywhere. I use the first type of classification most often on the blog, but it's still useful to know the following:
- Daisy- short drink, which consists of one alcoholic drink, lemon juice, sugar and grenadine syrup. As a rule, it is served in an old-fashioned glass, garnished with an orange circle and a cherry.
- – prepared in the famous collins glass, which is one of the varieties of highballs (highball) – I am still working on the glassware, so you will soon be able to see all its varieties. The composition of such cocktails includes one alcoholic drink, lemon juice, sugar, soda and ice. They are also classic long drinks, and suffice it to cite the famous Collins cocktail (John Collins) as an example.
- Cobblers and Coolers- almost Collins, only sugar, or lemon juice, or both are not added to the composition. Coolers are a spirit drink served with soda and ice (Gin and Tonic or Concrete), or with ginger ale. But Koblers are also served with crushed ice (crash), as well as fruits;
- Sauers (Sour)- sour cocktails I already wrote about them when I described the cocktail.
- Slings- a high content of lemon juice in combination with an alcoholic drink, soda and a spoonful of sugar. A bright representative is Singapore Sling, but instead of sugar, cherry brandy comes here.
- sweezles- These are long drinks, which include beaters.
- Fizzy- the composition of cocktails includes highly carbonated water (to fizz from English - “sizzle”). And it is poured with “pop” whipped into lemon juice, sugar and alcohol. Served in highball. A prominent representative is Gene Fizz.
- Fixes- undiluted cocktails, which include strong alcoholic drinks, liqueurs, syrups or wines. It cooks them very quickly: 2/3 is filled with crushed ice collins and all the ingredients are poured in - decorated with a slice of lemon.
- layered cocktails- and went to layer one ingredient after another. I already wrote about them in, so look there =).
- Sangeri- a timeless classic. Sangeris are prepared on the basis of strong elite drinks, diluted with soda, with the addition of Tawny port and nutmeg powder.
- Corpse Revivers- this is how the eminent bartender Charles Schuman calls this group, which is interpreted as "a return to the life of a dead man." As you guessed, these are anti-hangover cocktails, which are prepared on the basis of high-calorie fruits, a large amount of juice or broth. The brightest of the tonic cocktails are Bullshot (Blow of a bull) and Bloody Mary (Bloody Mary).
- Punches- warming drinks based on alcohol, juices, sugar and spices.
- Grogi- warming drinks based on rum, lemon juice, sugar, water or tea, spices.
- Toddy- warming alcoholic drinks, based on alcohol, honey or sugar, juice or water.
- hot coffee- warming drinks, based on alcohol, sugar, coffee, sometimes cream.
- Juleps- mint leaves are crushed with sugar in the muddler right in the serving dish. All this goodness is covered with stabbed people, and alcohol is poured from above. Representative - Mint Julep. , by the way, is considered a long drink, not a julep.
- Smashes is a more similar form to a mojito, as less alcohol and soda are added to the julep. Smashes are served in old fashion or tumbler.
- Kir- a mixture of liqueur and champagne. An example is Kir Royal (Kir Royal).
- eggnog- a long drink cooked in with the addition of an egg. Ground nutmeg, sugar or sugar syrup, milk or cream and, of course, alcohol are also added to the eggnog.
I have to say, it's an impressive list. This is probably the most informative article for me personally so far, in general, I am proud of it =). The listed types describe far from all cocktails, but the basics from the basics are still taken into account. Well, cook, fantasize, experiment, and I will rest. Bye!
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