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Some people don't drink cocktails, saying they are too expensive, but there are still many people who prefer this type of drink to anything else. So why are cocktails so popular? To find out, we took a closer look at some of them and compiled a list of the 25 most popular cocktails with their recipes. Can you try them all in one night? (We're kidding... please don't try to drink it all in one night. And please remember not to drink or drive after one of these great cocktails).

To make this irresistible dessert cocktail, we need cocoa cream, Kahlua liqueur, Frangelico liqueur, Bacardi white rum, creamy peanut butter and cream. Pour all the alcohol into the martini shaker, put the peanut butter and stir until the oil dissolves in the alcohol. Add cream and ice to mixture and shake to chill and blend. Prepare a martini glass by pouring some chocolate into the bottom, pour the cocktail through a strainer and serve.

24. Blue Lagoon(Blue Lagoon)


The Blue Lagoon is a popular summer cocktail with blue liqueur Curaçao. The recipe is simple: pour vodka and Curacao liqueur into a highball glass filled with ice. Add lemon juice, garnish with a lemon wedge and serve.

23. Emerald Breeze


Emerald Breeze is pretty complicated drink, consisting of melon flavored liqueur, coconut rum, soda, ginger ale, lime juice, sugar syrup and a quarter of a lime. Shake everything except the ginger ale and soda with ice in a shaker, then pour it all into a tall cocktail glass filled with ice and top it up. ginger ale and soda.

22. Screwdriver with Jin (Screw Gin)

A gin screwdriver is made from peach schnapps, gin and orange juice. Put ice in a glass and pour over the gin and peach schnapps. Add orange juice and garnish with an orange slice. Mix and serve.

21. Irish Flag

In order to make the Irish Flag, a popular St. Patrick's Day drink, we need brandy, mint liqueur and Bailey's (or Irish cream liqueur). and finish by pouring the brandy carefully.

20 Sex On The Beach


According to the official version of the International Bartenders Association, the cocktail is made with vodka, peach schnapps, orange juice, and cranberry juice. The ingredients are shaken with ice in a shaker and served in a highball glass with an orange slice as a garnish. Sometimes they can be mixed in smaller quantities and serve as a shot drink.

19. Blue Hawaiian


Blue Hawaiian is a very popular holiday drink. It is made from Crème de Coconut liqueur, blue Curacao, pineapple juice and white rum. Fill a highball glass with ice and pour it out when you are ready to pour the ingredients into the glass. Mix all ingredients and crushed ice in a blender and mix them intensively until a homogeneous mass is obtained. Then, pour the drink into a chilled glass and garnish with a pineapple wedge and a cocktail cherry.

18. Pina Colada


Pina Colada is a sweet rum-based cocktail made from rum, coconut milk and pineapple juice. Put everything in a blender with crushed ice and blend, adding ice, until the desired consistency is reached. Pour into a tall glass and garnish with a slice of pineapple and a cherry. This drink is the national drink of Puerto Rico.

17. Mimosa (Mimosa)


Mimosa, believed to have been invented around 1925 at the Ritz Hotel in Paris, is mixed drink consisting of one part of champagne (or other sparkling wine) and one part thoroughly chilled citrus juice, usually orange juice. It is traditionally served to guests at weddings in a special flute glass for champagne.

16. Dirty Bizzo


To prepare this cocktail, we need coconut rum, peach schnapps, Tuaca liqueur and cranberry juice. Shake all ingredients in a shaker with ice and strain into a chilled glass.

15. Cuba Libre


Often referred to as Rum and Cola, this cocktail is served in a highball glass and is one of the most popular cocktails in the world. The recipe is very simple - just pour cola and rum into a highball glass filled with ice, and garnish with a lime. Lime juice can be added if desired.

14 Bloody Mary


The Bloody Mary is a popular cocktail containing vodka, tomato juice, and usually other spices and seasonings. He has been called "the most complex cocktail in the world". Here is one of the most popular versions of this drink. Add a pinch of salt and pepper, Tabasco and Worcestershire sauces to a highball glass, then add the tomato juice, lemon juice and vodka. Stir lightly. Garnish with a stalk of celery and a lemon wedge.

13. Martini (Martini)

Martini, made from gin and vermouth, has become one of the most famous alcoholic drinks. Traditional way preparation is pouring gin and dry vermouth into a shaker with ice cubes, stirring, straining into a chilled cocktail glass, and decorating the drink green olive or a twist of lemon zest.

12. Mojito


Mojito, which originated in Cuba, traditionally includes five ingredients: white rum, sugar syrup, lime juice, sparkling water, and mint. Gently mix lime juice, mint leaves and sugar syrup in the bottom of a glass. Fill glass with ice, then slowly add rum. Add the soda and stir gently to lift the mint leaves to the top of the cocktail. Optionally, you can add lime wedges and mint leaves as a garnish.

11. Screaming Orgasm


There are many versions of Orgasm cocktails. One of the most popular is the Screaming Orgasm. pour some vodka High Quality, "Bailey" s "and Kalua liqueur in a shaker with ice. Shake well and strain into a glass, garnish with cherries and serve.

10. Strawberry Daiquiri(Strawberry Diaquiri)

Strawberry Daiquiri is one of the most popular dessert alcoholic drinks. It is made from rum, strawberry schnapps, lime juice, strawberries and powdered sugar. Shake all ingredients in a shaker with ice and strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with fresh strawberries and serve.

9 Grasshopper


Grasshopper is a sweet, minty, after-dinner drink. A typical Grasshopper cocktail consists of equal parts mint green liqueur, Crème de cacao white liqueur and fresh cream mixed with ice and strained into a chilled cocktail glass. Decorate with leaves peppermint and submit.

8. B-52 (B-52)


This cocktail is a tiered shot drink that consists of coffee liqueur, Irish Cream liqueur, and Triple Sec liqueur. At proper preparation, the ingredients separate into three distinctly visible layers. Pour the coffee liqueur into a shot glass, carefully pour the Irish Cream over the back of a bar spoon into a shot glass, and top up with a triple sec glass. Serve with a stirrer. For the Flaming B-52 cocktail (Flaming B-52), upper layer ignited, producing a blue flame.

7. Margarita (Margarita)


The margarita is the most common tequila-based cocktail in the US. It consists of tequila, triple sec (like Cointreau) and lime or lemon juice. Pour the tequila, lemon juice and Cointreau into a shaker filled with ice. Shake well and strain into a chilled cocktail glass garnished with grains of salt (optional).

6. Tequila Sunrise


The Tequila Sunrise cocktail can be prepared in two ways. A more popular version was invented by Bobby Lazoff and Billy Rice at the Trident restaurant in Sausalito, California in the early 1970s. Tequila Sunrise is considered a long drink and is usually served in a highball glass. Pour in tequila, add ice, then juice and finally syrup. The bottom line is that the syrup goes down without mixing with the rest of the drink. Use a spoon to guide the syrup down the side of the glass to the bottom with minimal stirring. Garnish with an orange slice and a cherry and serve.

5. Cosmopolitan

The history of the Cosmopolitan is constantly contested. However, Cosmopolitan is believed to have its roots in the cocktail of the same name found in the book Pioneers of Mixing at Elite Bars, published in 1934. Pour in Cointreau, cranberry juice, lime juice and lemon vodka into a shaker filled with ice. Shake well and strain into a large cocktail glass, garnish with a slice of lemon or lime and serve. You can also freeze the glass and/or add sugar to the rim of the glass.

4. Apple Martini (Apple Martini)

This strong cocktail(containing 36% alcohol) is easy enough to make - all you need is vodka, Cointreau and apple liqueur. First chill the glass with fresh ice and pour it when you are ready to pour the ingredients into the glass. Add vodka, Cointreau and apple schnapps to a mixing glass with ice cubes. Mix well and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with an apple slice and serve.

3. Pool (Swimming Pool)

The Pool Cocktail was invented in 1979 by Charles Schumann in Munich. The cocktail is made with vodka, cream, blue curacao, coconut milk and pineapple juice. Pour Pineapple juice, vodka, cream and coconut milk with ice in a blender and blend until smooth. Then, pour into a tall glass, top with blue curacao, place a straw and garnish with a slice of pineapple.

2. Cocktail "Alice in Wonderland» (Alice in Wonderland)


There is also a shot drink called Alice in Wonderland, but we will talk about the cocktail. It is made from Amaretto Almond liqueur, Grand Marnier liqueur and Southern Comfort liqueur. Shake all ingredients with ice in a shaker and strain into a glass filled with ice. Garnish with an orange slice and serve.

1. Tom Collins


First recorded in writing in 1876 by the "Father of American Mixology" Jerry Thomas, this cocktail is made from gin, lemon juice, sugar and carbonated water. Shake the ingredients in an ice-filled shaker, strain into a collins glass over ice and garnish with an orange wedge and cocktail cherry.

These descriptions make you want to try one of these delicious cocktails... perhaps a Margarita? But then again, good beer is also great.

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How nice it is to drink a glass of your favorite cocktail in the evening - alcoholic or not, it doesn't matter, it all depends on your desire and taste. I must say a huge thank you to the person who first thought of mixing several ingredients, as a result of which the first cocktail was born.

Some argue that the word "cocktail" comes from the Spanish expression cola di gallo - the tail of a rooster. So for the outward resemblance, they called the root of one of the plants with which the bartender from the town of Campeche on the Gulf of Mexico mixed the drinks he prepared. American sailors, who did not miss a single bar, liked to visit this one, in Campeche. When asked what kind of instrument he had in his hands, the polite bartender answered in English: "Cocktail" - "rooster's tail". There is another story that connects the origin of the "cocktail" with the "rooster's tail". This story belongs to James Fenimore Cooper. According to him, the first cocktail was prepared in the 70s of the 18th century by Elizabeth Flanagan, a canker of the troops of General Washington. One day, she served the officers a drink of rum, rye whiskey, and fruit juices, adorning the glasses with feathers from the tails of fighting cocks. One of the officers, a Frenchman by birth, at the sight of such decoration of glasses, exclaimed: "Vive le cog's tail!" ("Long live the cock's tail!"). This one is half french, half English phrase everyone liked it, and the drink began to be called a "cocktail" - a cock's tail.

To date, there are many recipes for all kinds of cocktails. But among them there are those who are 100 percent present in any bar in the world, whether french restaurant or an American diner.

The world's most popular 10 alcoholic cocktails

This cocktail was created by Monsieur Pite Petiot at the Harris Bar in Paris in 1921. The drink inherited its name, apparently, from the daughter of the English king Henry VIII, who received the nickname Bloody Mary from her cruelty.

Ingredients:

• 3/10 vodka
• 6/10 tomato juice
• 1/10 lemon juice
• Worcestershire and Tabasco sauces
• celery salt
• salt, pepper to taste

What to do: Mix all ingredients in a highball glass with ice. Garnish with a slice of lemon and a sprig of celery. Served heavily chilled.

Screwdriver

The birthplace of this cocktail is the USA. At first, the cocktail was very simple in nature - orange juice and vodka. Today, this cocktail can contain rum, whiskey, and others instead of vodka. strong alcohol. For example, "Mexican Screwdriver" contains tequila, "Honey Screwdriver" - honey beer, "Ginger Screwdriver" - ginger liqueur. In many countries, a "screwdriver" is referred to as English word"screwdriver" (pronounced screwdriver), which also means "screwdriver". There is a variation of this cocktail with a reverse proportion of ingredients, which is called "drivesrewer". The first written mention of the Screwdriver cocktail is found in the American magazine "Time" in the issue of October 24, 1949.

Ingredients:

• 50 g vodka
• 100 g orange juice

What to do: Mix vodka with orange juice in a tall glass filled with ice. Serve with a straw.

This cocktail was very popular at the time. famous writer Ernest Hemingway. It is prepared from lime juice, white rum, fresh mint, tonic, sugar or syrup and crushed ice. Drink this cocktail only through a straw so that mint leaves and ice do not get into your mouth and you do not have to spit.
There are 2 types of mojito: low-alcohol and non-alcoholic. It comes from the island of Cuba, became popular in the USA in the 1980s. There are several theories about the origin of the name "mojito". One says that the word comes from Spanish. Mojo (moho, mojito - diminutive). Moho is a sauce presumably in Cuba and the Canaries, usually it includes garlic, pepper, lemon juice, vegetable oil, greenery. Another states that mojito is a modified mojadito (Spanish: Mojadito, abbreviated from mojado), which means "slightly moist".
Mojito traditionally consists of five ingredients: rum, sugar, lime, sparkling water and mint. His combination of sweet and refreshing citrus with mint, which may have been added to rum to "mask" the strength of the latter, made this cocktail one of the most popular. summer drinks. Some hotels in Havana also add Angostura to mojitos. In a non-alcoholic mojito, white rum is replaced with water with cane brown sugar.

Ingredients:

• mint 20 leaves
• lime 2 slices
• sugar syrup 15 ml
• ice cubes
• white rum 50 ml
• soda 10 ml

What to do: In a tall glass, put fresh mint leaves, a few lime slices and pour the whole composition with sugar syrup. Remember the pestle well. Next, crush the ice and pour it into a glass, add rum, top up the soda to the rim of the glass, stir with a cocktail spoon and finally garnish with a sprig of mint.

Alaska

This cocktail American descent considered classic. It is prepared from yellow chartreuse and gin, served with ice.

Ingredients:

Gin 60 ml
yellow Chartreuse 15 ml
orange liqueur 5 ml
crushed ice

What to do: In a mixing glass filled halfway with ice, combine gin, Chartreuse yellow liqueur, and orange liqueur. Pour into a cocktail glass and serve. Serve in a cocktail glass. Decorate with a slice of orange.

Pina colada

The Pina Colada cocktail is made from pineapple juice, Malibu liqueur, coconut cream and rum "Baccardi" and decorate with a cherry or a slice of pineapple.
Bahia is a type of Pina Colada. It includes, in addition to conventional ingredients includes lemon pulp. The glass itself is decorated not with fruits and berries, but with a sprig of mint.
Traditional Caribbean alcoholic cocktail containing rum, coconut milk and pineapple juice. The name of the cocktail is translated as "filtered pineapple". Initially, this name meant fresh pineapple juice, which was served strained (colado). Unstrained was called sin colar. Then rum and sugar were included in the composition. In the middle of the 20th century, in one of the Puerto Rican bars, the piña colada recipe was born, which gained immense popularity and became the pride of Puerto Rico. The piña colada is considered the official drink of Puerto Rico.

Ingredients:

• 4-6 ice cubes
• 2 parts Rum Light
• 1 part Rum Dark
• 3 parts Pineapple Juice
• 2 parts Malibu liqueur
• pineapple pieces for garnish

What to do: Fill a shaker with crushed ice, light rum, coconut liqueur and pineapple juice. Shake lightly to mix. Strain into a large glass and garnish with a cherry and pineapple wedges.

Martini

This legendary cocktail continues to be popular all over the world, including in Russia. It is made from vermouth and gin and is always garnished with olives. The cocktail is served in special glasses.
At the beginning of the last century, "Martini" was called Italian vermouth, which in reality had nothing to do with this cocktail. However, around the middle of the 20th century. both concepts have united, and today both vermouth and a cocktail, so beloved by visitors to respectable casinos, are called so.
The cocktail is named after its creator - Martini de Anna de Toggia. Original version consisted of equal parts vermouth and gin and is now called "fifty-fifty", and now the proportions of martini are changing until the appearance of an ultra-dry martini, when the glass is barely rinsed with vermouth before pouring the gin.

Ingredients:

• 4-6 crushed ice cubes
• 3 parts gin
• 1 tbsp dry vermouth or to taste
• cocktail olive for garnish

What to do: Put ice cubes in a pitcher. Pour in the gin and vermouth and stir. Pour into a chilled glass and garnish with a cocktail olive.

A cocktail of Latin American origin, the appearance dates back approximately to the interval between 1936-1948, there are many versions of its appearance, almost all of them feature a woman named Margarita. The first version is that the author of the first Margarita is the Mexican bartender Carlos Harrera. In 1938, he worked at the Rancho La Gloria bar in Tijuana, where the aspiring actress Margarita once dropped by. Her blond curls and heavenly beauty inspired Carlos to create the first glass of a cocktail - spicy and tender at the same time.
But there is another story that tells about the Texas aristocrat Margarita Sames. Allegedly, one year, somewhere in 1948, she arranged a grand reception in her villa in Acapulco. She treated her guests to a new tequila cocktail of her own invention. The guests liked it, they slowly got drunk and had fun. That's how everyone would drink and forget the creation of the hostess, but among the guests was Tommy Hilton, owner of the Hilton hotel chain. Tommy, as a pragmatic businessman, realized that good money could be made on the invention of a bohemian lady. A couple of days later, the cocktail appeared on the menu of bars and restaurants of his hotels. It is not known whether he shared the profits from sales with Madame Sames, but he secured her copyright in the name of the cocktail.

Ingredients:

1 part Blanco tequila
1 part lime juice
1/2 part Cointreau orange liqueur

What to do: Prepared in a shaker and served chilled in a wide stemmed cocktail glass, rimmed with a salty rim (the rim of the glass is moistened with lime juice and dipped in finely crystalline salt) and garnished with a lime wedge.

Long Island

Sometimes called "Long Island" on the menu ice tea". This is a strong cocktail, which, contrary to its name, does not include tea. This drink is prepared from tequila, vodka, rum and gin. Triple sec liqueur is sometimes added to it. When preparing this drink, it is important to strictly observe the proportion. If if you understand that the bartender mixed the cocktail by eye, then you have every right to be indignant and refuse to pay for the drink.
According to the rules, a cocktail should be prepared from no more than 5 different ingredients, however "Long Island" is an exception. It consists of 6 to 7 ingredients. A popular version is that the cocktail was first invented during the years of Prohibition, as it resembles ice tea (iced tea) in appearance and aroma. However, the cocktail is believed to have been first made in the 1970s by Chris Bendixen, a bartender at a nightclub in Smithtown, Long Island.

Ingredients:

Vodka 30 ml.
white rum 30 ml.
Cointreau liqueur 30 ml.
tequila 30 ml.
lemon juice 30 ml.
sugar syrup 30 ml.
coca cola to taste

What to do: Put ice in the glass first. Pour in all the listed ingredients in sequence. Pour the Coca-Cola last. Garnish with a lemon wedge and mint sprig. Served with a straw.

Cosmopolitan

This cocktail is currently the most popular in the casino. It was created by American bartender Dale Degrof personally for the singer Madonna. It soon became fashionable. This drink is prepared from cranberry juice, vodka, lime and liquor, and served in martini glasses.

Ingredients:

• lemon vodka 40 ml
• liqueur "Cointreau" 15 ml
• lime juice 15 ml
• cranberry juice 30 ml

What to do: Pour all ingredients into a shaker with ice. Shake well and pour into a cocktail glass. Garnish with lemon zest.

Tom Collins

This classic cocktail originates from the beginning of the 19th century. Although no one will tell you its exact origin, what we do know is that it was invented by a bartender named Collins at the famous Limmers Hotel in London. IN original recipe Dutch spirit was used juniper berry similar to gin. Ultimately, this ingredient was replaced by the sweeter London dry gin "Old Tom" (Old Tom) - thus the name Tom Collins. In fact, the Collins name is now used for a variety of other cocktails that are made with soda, sugar syrup, lemon juice, and an alcohol ingredient. In the US, the John Collins cocktail is made with Bourbon whiskey instead of gin. Other drinks called Collins are mixed using brandy, rum or scotch whiskey. This cocktail is refreshing, stylish, elegant, with a rich taste palette: just made to enjoy it in a sophisticated society by the pool.

Ingredients:

• 60 ml dry London gin
• 30 ml freshly squeezed lemon juice
• 1 teaspoon sugar syrup
• 90 ml soda

What to do: Fill shaker halfway with ice. Add gin, lemon juice and sugar syrup. Shake well. Strain through a strainer into a tall, half-filled glass with ice, and carefully top up with soda. Stir gently to keep bubbles in. Garnish with a cherry in liqueur or a slice of lemon that can be placed directly into the drink or on the rim of the glass.

And one more cocktail, which also occupies a leading position in all the bars and restaurants of the world.

Daiquiri

This cocktail is believed to be of Cuban origin. It contains lime juice, rum and syrup. In the casino, such varieties of this cocktail as "Derby Daiquiri", "Peach Daiquiri", "Banana Daiquiri", etc., are in the greatest demand. Fruit pulp is added to them. The drink was invented in the town of Daiquiri at the beginning of the twentieth century. In 1896, a certain Jennings Cox (American mining engineer), cursing the heat, mixed the above-mentioned rum with lime juice for himself and his friends, and not just mix, but pour these ingredients on ice cubes. This is how the Daiquiri (Daiquiri) cocktail turned out. And Ernest Hemingway promoted this invention in his novels, he was a big fan of this drink. And in 1893, during the celebration of Cuban independence, an American army officer toasted a free Cuba by mixing Bacardi rum, symbolizing the free spirit of Cuba, with Coca-Cola, America's new drink. The slogan of those days - "Long live free Cuba!" forever preserved in the name of the Cuba Libre cocktail.
The popularity of the daiquiri skyrocketed when F. Scott Fitzgerald mentioned it in his book Beyond Paradise, published in 1920. In the episode warning against drinking rum in moderate amounts, a group of characters order a double daiquiri each as a harbinger of an "intoxicating evening" that ends in hallucinations.

Ingredients:

6/10 white rum Bacardi or Havana Club
3/10 lemon or lime juice
1/10 sugar syrup

What to do: Pour the ingredients into a shaker filled with ice and shake for 10 seconds. Strain into a cocktail glass. You can get Pink Daiquiri ("Pink Daiquiri") by adding a few drops of Grenadine.

In short: It is best to make cocktails with fruit juices: they reduce the harm from alcohol. From hot, carbonated alcoholic beverages, intoxication sets in faster - but it also passes faster. Milk and coffee aggravate alcohol poisoning. But the worst thing is to mix different alcoholic drinks with each other: this threatens with severe intoxication and a hangover.

The links in the table lead to more detailed explanations of what alcohol can be safely mixed with, and what is better not to. Also read below about the features of the impact and a detailed analysis of some in terms of the compatibility of their components.

Mixing drinks the right way

The simpler the composition alcoholic drink the easier it is for the liver to deal with. The perfect drink in this sense is vodka: in quality vodka there is nothing but alcohol and water. There are drinks that are very difficult to digest with a lot of impurities that complicate the work of the liver and therefore cause more severe intoxication and a hangover compared to pure alcohol: moonshine , whiskey , tequila .

By mixing alcoholic beverages made from different raw materials, we load our liver various jobs, namely, it mainly processes alcohol and its decay products. Different drinks for the liver is a more difficult task. As a result, we get more drunk and get a worse hangover in the morning.

To minimize the harm from drinking, try not to mix alcoholic drinks from different raw materials in one cocktail: for example, vodka (grain alcohol) with brandy ( fruit alcohol), wine (grape spirit) with rum (spirit from sugar cane).

It is preferable to drink one alcoholic drink all evening, for example: vodka and a vodka + juice cocktail. Or at least alcoholic drinks, but made from the same raw materials: for example, grape wine And quality cognac(poor quality can be diluted with grain alcohol).

Popular alcoholic cocktails. We study the composition

And now let's see how the components of some popular cocktails are combined with each other.

Blue Lagoon

vodka, Blue Curasao liqueur, lemonade (sprite, seven up), lemon, ice

B-52

Kahlua coffee liqueur cream liqueur(Baileys, Irish Cream), orange liqueur(Grand Marnier, Cointreau)

Intoxication from this cocktail will be instantaneous, especially if it is set on fire in accordance with all the rules. And besides, strong enough, like a future hangover. After all, all the alcoholic drinks that make up this cocktail are made from different raw materials: for example, Kahlua is made from sugar cane, Baileys is made from grain alcohol, and Grand Marnier is made from grape alcohol. To this mixture, which loads the liver, coffee is also added (it is part of the coffee liqueur), which, in combination with alcohol, has Negative influence on the heart and nervous system. In general, if you still intend to drink this drink, then we recommend that you think about tomorrow in advance and take the advice from an article by an experienced toxicologist “How to avoid a severe hangover and reduce harm to the body from alcohol”.

Bloody Mary

vodka, tomato juice, lemon juice, tabasco sauce, Worcestershire sauce, salt, celery, black pepper

An impressive amount of various spicy and hot spices slows down the oxidation of alcohol. Therefore, both intoxication and a hangover after such a combination last longer than usual. Because of these seasonings, a hangover can turn out to be fast and strong. Doctors generally do not recommend combining alcohol with spicy foods. Lemon juice usually alleviates a hangover, but there is too little of it in this cocktail for it to somehow improve the situation. And although tomato juice does not worsen the matter, it does not improve it either.

Sex on the beach

vodka, peach liqueur, cranberry juice, orange or pineapple juice

A very good cocktail in terms of its effect on the body. Peach liqueur varies in composition, but is often made from peaches and grain alcohol. In vodka, alcohol is also grain. And alcoholic drinks from the same raw materials more or less combine well and do not overload the liver. The addition of fruit and berry juices speeds up the metabolism, allowing you to drink longer and not get drunk, and the next day - less hangover.

margarita

tequila, citrus liqueur (Cointreau, Triple Sec), lemon or lime juice

Tequila contains many impurities (esters and higher alcohols), which give a versatile load on the liver. Even by itself, this drink causes severe hangover. And in the Margarita cocktail, we also observe a mixture of alcoholic beverages from different raw materials: tequila is made from blue agave, and citrus liqueur is based on grain alcohol. There is too little lemon juice in the composition of the cocktail for it to greatly affect the processing of alcohol for the better.

Screwdriver

vodka, orange juice, ice

A great option for those who want to drink a delicious alcoholic cocktail and get a minimum of harm to the body. Vodka is the purest alcoholic drink quality vodka consists only of alcohol and water), so our liver copes with it more easily than with more complex drinks. And alcohol combined with fruit juice is always less harmful than a single alcohol (ceteris paribus). There is twice as much orange juice in the Screwdriver as vodka, so it can partially mitigate the negative effects of alcohol on the body. As a result, both intoxication and the subsequent hangover will be much easier than from other alcoholic cocktails mentioned on this page.

Alcoholic drinks with mineral water

Carbonated alcoholic beverages enter the blood faster, because due to the bubbles, the effective area of ​​alcohol absorption through the mucous membranes increases. Therefore, intoxication and a hangover come faster - but they also pass faster. It does not affect the quality of the hangover in any way.

Therefore, be careful: carbonated drinks can quickly “fill up” to an ugly state.

Why it's better not to drink alcohol with sweet soda

Sweet carbonated drinks have a complex composition: dyes, flavors, and so on. By themselves, they are harmless in the doses in which they are added by manufacturers.

But during the feast, they additionally load the liver, distracting it from the important work of processing and neutralizing alcohol. Therefore, a hangover from a mixture of alcohol and a sugary soda will probably be more severe than if you drink a pure drink.

Also keep in mind that margaritas and pina coladas should be drunk slowly, otherwise you can lose control too quickly.

How much Coke won't hurt

If you drink just a little bit of alcohol, then the cola mixture will reduce the hangover (provided that there is one at all). But if you drink a lot of alcohol with cola, then such a mixture will exacerbate the central component of a hangover due to the caffeine contained in Coca-Cola - as well as any mixture of substances that both depress and stimulate the central nervous system.

Alcoholic energy drinks with caffeine

A mixture of alcohol and caffeine (alcoholic cocktail with coffee or ready-made alcoholic energy drink) has two opposite effects on the body at the same time: caffeine excites the nervous system, and alcohol suppresses excitation. But these substances do not neutralize each other, their action is superimposed on one another and depletes the body much more than alcohol and caffeine separately. As a result, there is a load on the whole body, and especially on the heart. The same happens if you drink an alcoholic drink with a cup of coffee.

In three months, at least, the energy and plastic reserves spent by the body to fight the alcohol-caffeine mixture will be restored. (Plastic costs are the costs of a substance for the construction and restoration of organs, tissues and cells.) A mixture of alcohol and coffee is especially harmful for people who already have diseases of the heart or nervous system.

But one cup of coffee 20 minutes before drinking, on the contrary, will do you good: it will increase the production of microsomal enzymes in the liver, which will make it easier for you to process alcohol. This effect begins 20-40 minutes after drinking coffee and lasts an hour and a half. But don't drink coffee during the evening.

Should you combine alcohol with milk?

There are a lot of useful substances in milk, but when mixed with alcohol, they will be poorly absorbed by the body, and as a result you will get more harm than good.

Milk is a rather difficult product to digest; during drinking, it unnecessarily burdens the pancreas, thereby aggravating intoxication and a future hangover. And tryptophan, contained in milk, provokes the production of intestinal poisons, which further enhances alcohol poisoning.

Alcoholic cocktails with juice

Other things being equal, alcohol with fruit juice is less harmful than alcohol alone. Apple, grape and lemon juices are especially useful during a feast. They speed up the metabolism, allow you to drink longer and not get drunk, and also ease the upcoming hangover.

But this applies specifically to juices - unclarified and with pulp. The nectars that fill the store shelves contain only 40-50 percent juice, and the rest is water, sugar and additives (the latter do more harm than good). A good option- squeeze the juice yourself.

But from an alcoholic cocktail with tomato juice (the famous "Bloody Mary") you should not expect much. Although tomato juice contains vitamins, as well as malic and succinic acids useful for metabolism, it also contains oxalic acid(oxalate), which simultaneously reduces the effect of both malic and succinic acid. Therefore, tomato juice does not give any special advantages compared to ordinary liquids.

Hot drinks

Mulled wine, grog and similar alcoholic cocktails are digested faster due to their temperature. But more rapid intoxication it usually goes faster too. The quality of the hangover does not affect whether the alcoholic cocktail is warmed up or not.

What is good alcoholic cocktail with tonic

Pokhmelye.rf site expert, toxicologist Stanislav Radchenko recommends taking such a cocktail before drinking as a “boosting dose”: 150 ml of tonic plus 50-70 g of vodka or 20-25 g of alcohol. If you drink it in the period from 5 to 2.5 hours before the main use of alcohol, then the enzymes necessary for the breakdown of alcohol are activated in the body in advance. And with the onset of drinking, your body will meet alcohol already fully armed, starting to neutralize it without delay.

Do I need to add ice

Ordinary ice (frozen water) dilutes alcohol, making the drink not so strong. Alcohol diluted with water or ice is less aggressive on the mucous membrane gastrointestinal tract, therefore, it is recommended for use by those who have problems with the gastrointestinal tract: gastritis, esophagitis, etc.

Ice will not affect the quality of a hangover, but it can change the taste of the drink: when cooled, the volatility of aromatic substances decreases. Therefore, for example, the taste and smell of good whiskey combined with ice can become less rich and interesting; but if you dilute it with water room temperature- something like that unwanted effect will not be. In general, adding ice to alcohol or not is more a matter of personal taste.

So, it is preferable to mix alcohol with natural juice: it is not harmful, but even useful. But about what kind of food it is better to combine alcohol with: in it, a toxicologist explains which snack helps the body cope better with alcohol and significantly reduces the manifestations of a hangover, and which snack is better not to put on the table so as not to completely ruin your tomorrow morning .

The article has been updated in last time: 2018-12-22

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An alcoholic cocktail is a drink in which alcoholic beverages are used as one or more ingredients. The cocktail itself is obtained by mixing several liquids, and sometimes with the addition of spices and fruits. What are the most popular cocktails?

What are cocktails? Cocktails are a mixture of several drinks (usually no more than 5 ingredients), plus additional ones used in very small quantities, such as salt, spices, bitters, etc. The composition of cocktails can be very different. Most cocktails are made with ice, so it should be given Special attention. To make ice, it is better to use slightly mineralized or simply purified water. It should be completely transparent and without aftertaste.

History of the cocktail
The first legend, the most romantic, dates back to 1770. In those distant times, the owner of a bar located near New York lost his beloved rooster. The owner announced that whoever finds the loss will marry his daughter. After some time, one army officer brought his rooster to the owner of the bar, which by that time had managed to lose his tail. The owner had no choice but to announce to all the visitors of the bar about the upcoming wedding. His daughter, who worked in her father's establishment, began to mix different drinks, which immediately began to be called "cock tail" (cock tail) - a cock's tail.

The second legend says that in the 15th century in France, in the province of Charente, wines and spirits were already mixed, calling the mixture coquetelle (cocktail). From this subsequently came the cocktail itself.
The third legend tells that the first cocktail appeared in England. And the word "cocktail" itself is borrowed from the lexicon of racing enthusiasts, who called mixed-breed horses, that is, those with mixed blood, the nickname cock tail because of their tails sticking out like roosters.

Recipe:

• 14 ml Triple Sec
• 14 ml white rum
• 14 ml gin
• 14 ml vodka
• 14 ml tequila
• 28 ml tea
• lemon wedge

Mix liquids in a Collins or Highball glass, add ice. Intervene. Add cola.

Cocktail "Sex on the beach"

This is a very popular alcoholic cocktail containing vodka, peach liqueur (schnapps), orange and cranberry juice. One of the official cocktails of the International Bartending Association (IBA).
Ingredients:

• 2 parts (40 ml) vodka
• 1 part (20 ml) peach liqueur (Peach Schnapps)
• 2 parts (40 ml) orange juice
• 2 parts (40 ml) cranberry juice

Shake all ingredients in a shaker and pour into a highball glass filled with ice. The cocktail is garnished with an orange slice. Drink through a straw.
Options:
In some variations, pineapple juice is also added to the cocktail. Sometimes Hurricane Glass is used instead of a highball glass for cooking.
Also sometimes a cocktail is decorated with a slice of lime and a cherry.

Cocktail "Cuba Libre"

Cuba Libre is one of the most popular drinks in the world. It appeared during the Spanish-American War. One fine day, a group of American soldiers who were on leave entered one of the bars in Havana, one of them, perhaps missing his homeland and bourbon, ordered a rum with cola, ice and a slice of lemon. Having received his cocktail, he drank it with such pleasure that he aroused genuine interest among his colleagues and they asked the bartender to prepare the same drink for them. The fun began, in the midst of which one of the soldiers made a toast “Por Cuba Libre!” in honor of Cuba's newfound freedom, "Cuba Libre!" the crowd took...

• half a lime
• 60 ml white rum
• 120 ml cola

Squeeze lime juice into Collins glass, add lime to glass, add ice. Pour in rum and cola. Mix.

And of course famous Cocktail "Bloody Mary", which takes the first line in the top parade of the most popular cocktails in the world

This legendary cocktail is surrounded by many secrets and myths. A lover and admirer of the drink was beaten by such famous people like Ernest Hemingway and Scott Fitzgerald.
The cocktail received worldwide recognition in New York, when at the St. Regis, who works at the Petio bar, decided to experiment with adding Tabasco sauce to the drink. At the celebration of the anniversary of the cocktail, the honorable right to say the first toast in honor of the unique "Bloody Mary" fell to the granddaughter of the legendary bartender and the creator of this cocktail, Fernand Petiot.

In New York, December 1st was declared Bloody Mary Day. In honor of the anniversary, the cocktail was offered at the price of 1933 - 99 cents.
Bloody Mary owes its birth to Fernando Petiot, a bartender who worked in the New York bar in Paris at the beginning of the last century.
Legends of the appearance of the Bloody Mary cocktail:
Legend has it that Fernand came up with the name “Red Snapper” for his cocktail, which means “Red Snapper” (there is such a fish). But one of the regular visitors to the bar called the drink "Bloody Mary", after which this name was fixed behind the cocktail. Another legend tells, on the contrary, Fernand Petio himself called the drink "Bloody Mary", but the administration of the bar "King Col" tried to rename it to "Red Snapper". Another legend tells that in Chicago there was a bar called the "Blood Bucket" and a charming girl Mary frequented it, and the Bloody Mary cocktail was named after her.

Initially, this drink was primitive, consisting only of vodka and tomato juice. But 15 years after its invention, seasonings and spices began to be added to these simple ingredients.
Ingredients:

• 90 ml tomato juice
• 45 ml vodka
• 15 ml lemon juice
• 1 dash of Worcestershire sauce
• Optionally, you can splash and Tabasco sauce
• salt pepper

Pour all liquids into highball, add ice. Stir. Add salt and pepper to taste. For those who like it spicier, you can use nuclear red pepper.

There is also a Bloody Maria variant, based on tequila instead of vodka:

• 60 ml tequila
• 1 teaspoon horseradish
• 3 dashes Tabasco
• 3 dashes Worcestershire sauce
• 1 dash of lemon juice
• salt pepper
• tomato juice

optionally add 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard, 1 dash of sherry or 30 ml clam juice
Put ice in a highball glass and pour in all the liquid ingredients. Top with tomato juice. Stir by pouring from one glass to another.
Especially for lovers of non-alcoholic - "Virgin Mary", a variation of a cocktail without vodka