Ingredients:
1 1/2 oz peach schnapps
1 1/2 oz vodka
3 1/2 oz cranberry juice
Directions:
Pour all ingredients into a highball glass over ice cubes, stir, and serve.
Description:
Alcohol (ABV): 14% (29 proof)
Cocktails with vodka: Michael Moros Detroit Boy
Ingredients:
3 oz Grey Goose® L'Orange vodka
1 oz Eagle Brand® condensed milk
2 oz passion-fruit juice
1/2 oz triple sec
Directions:
Combine ingredients with cracked ice in a blender. Blend for a few seconds until smooth. Pour into a chilled cocktail glass, garnish with mint leaves, and serve.
Description:
Alcohol (ABV): 20% (41 proof)
3 oz Grey Goose® L'Orange vodka
1 oz Eagle Brand® condensed milk
2 oz passion-fruit juice
1/2 oz triple sec
Directions:
Combine ingredients with cracked ice in a blender. Blend for a few seconds until smooth. Pour into a chilled cocktail glass, garnish with mint leaves, and serve.
Description:
Alcohol (ABV): 20% (41 proof)
Flaming cocktail: Flaming Lamborghini
Ingredients:
1 oz Kahlua® coffee liqueur
1 oz sambuca
1 oz Blue Curacao liqueur
1 oz Bailey's® Irish cream
Directions:
Pour the sambuca and kahlua into a cocktail glass. Pour the baileys and blue curacao into two seperate shot glasses either side of the cocktail glass. Set light the concoction in the cocktail glass and start to drink through a straw (this drink should be drunk in one). As the bottom of the glass is reached put out the fire by pouring the baileys and blue curacao into the cocktail glass and keep drinking till it's all gone.
Description:
Alcohol (ABV): 28% (57 proof)
Cocktails with vodka: Sex on the Beach
Ingredients:1 oz vodka
3/4 oz peach schnapps
3/4 oz cranberry juice
3/4 oz grapefruit juice
Directions:
Add vodka and peach schnapps to a highball glass. Fill with equal measures of cranberry juice and grapefruit juice, and stir. Serve in "Highball Glass "
Cocktails with vodka: Patriot Missile
Ingredients:
1/2 oz Black Haus® blackberry schnapps
1/2 oz Blue Curacao liqueur
6 oz Smirnoff® Ice
3/4 oz grenadine syrup
Directions:
Pour half a bottle of Smirnoff Ice into a pint glass. Then add 3/4 oz. of grenadine along the inside of glass, so it settles at the bottom. In a separate shaker, combine 1/2 oz. Black Haus and 1/2 oz. blue curacao with ice. Shake contents and pour into a 1 oz. shot glass. Drop the shot glass into the pint glass and drink quickly.
Description:
Alcohol (ABV): 8% (17 proof)
1/2 oz Black Haus® blackberry schnapps
1/2 oz Blue Curacao liqueur
6 oz Smirnoff® Ice
3/4 oz grenadine syrup
Directions:
Pour half a bottle of Smirnoff Ice into a pint glass. Then add 3/4 oz. of grenadine along the inside of glass, so it settles at the bottom. In a separate shaker, combine 1/2 oz. Black Haus and 1/2 oz. blue curacao with ice. Shake contents and pour into a 1 oz. shot glass. Drop the shot glass into the pint glass and drink quickly.
Description:
Alcohol (ABV): 8% (17 proof)
Cocktails with vodka: Moscow Mule
Ingredients:
2 oz vodka
2 oz lime juice
8 oz ginger ale
Directions:
Mix ingredients in a highball glass with ice.
Description:
A Moscow Mule is a cocktail made with vodka, ginger beer, and fresh lime juice.
The origin of the name "Moscow Mule" is not currently known.
Alcohol (ABV): 6% (13 proof)
2 oz vodka
2 oz lime juice
8 oz ginger ale
Directions:
Mix ingredients in a highball glass with ice.
Description:
A Moscow Mule is a cocktail made with vodka, ginger beer, and fresh lime juice.
The origin of the name "Moscow Mule" is not currently known.
Alcohol (ABV): 6% (13 proof)
Cocktails with vodka: Mind Eraser
Ingredients:
2 oz vodka
2 oz Kahlua® coffee liqueur
2 oz tonic water
Directions:
Pour vodka, kahlua, and tonic water into a rocks or old-fashioned glass. Serve with a straw.
Description:
Alcohol (ABV): 22% (44 proof)
2 oz vodka
2 oz Kahlua® coffee liqueur
2 oz tonic water
Directions:
Pour vodka, kahlua, and tonic water into a rocks or old-fashioned glass. Serve with a straw.
Description:
Alcohol (ABV): 22% (44 proof)
Cocktails with vodka: Madras
Ingredients:
1 1/2 oz vodka
4 oz cranberry juice
1 oz orange juice
1 lime wedge
Directions:
Pour all ingredients (except lime wedge) into a highball glass over ice. Add the lime wedge and serve.
Description:
Vodka, orange juice, and cranberry juice.
1 1/2 oz vodka
4 oz cranberry juice
1 oz orange juice
1 lime wedge
Directions:
Pour all ingredients (except lime wedge) into a highball glass over ice. Add the lime wedge and serve.
Description:
Vodka, orange juice, and cranberry juice.
Cocktails with vodka: Link Up
Ingredients:
1/2 Southern Comfort
1/2 Russian Vodka
Teaspoon of fresh Lime Juice
Directions:
Shake well, serve on the rocks.
Description:
Created in 1975 by Joe Gilmore, the Head Barman of the American Bar at the Savoy Hotel in London, to mark the American and Russians link up in Space, the Apollo-Soyuz project. The Link Up cocktail was sent to the U.S.A and U.S.S.R for the astronauts to enjoy when they returned from their mission. When told this by NASA as they linked up in Space, they responded, “Tell Joe we want it up here”.
1/2 Southern Comfort
1/2 Russian Vodka
Teaspoon of fresh Lime Juice
Directions:
Shake well, serve on the rocks.
Description:
Created in 1975 by Joe Gilmore, the Head Barman of the American Bar at the Savoy Hotel in London, to mark the American and Russians link up in Space, the Apollo-Soyuz project. The Link Up cocktail was sent to the U.S.A and U.S.S.R for the astronauts to enjoy when they returned from their mission. When told this by NASA as they linked up in Space, they responded, “Tell Joe we want it up here”.
Cocktails with vodka: Lawnmower
Ingredients:
1 oz bison grass vodka
1 tsp sweet sherry
3 oz lemonade
Directions:
Pour into an old-fashioned glass filled with broken ice, and serve.
Description:
Vodka and wheatgrass juice.
1 oz bison grass vodka
1 tsp sweet sherry
3 oz lemonade
Directions:
Pour into an old-fashioned glass filled with broken ice, and serve.
Description:
Vodka and wheatgrass juice.
Cocktails with vodka: Kremlin Colonel
Ingredients:
1 1/2 oz Stoli® Vanil vodka
6 oz soda water
Directions:
Pour both ingredients into a highball glass almost filled with ice cubes. Stir and serve.
Description:
A cocktail is a style of mixed drink. A cocktail usually contains one or more types of liquor and flavorings, usually one or more of a liqueur, fruit, sauce, honey, milk or cream, spices, etc. The cocktail became popular during Prohibition in the United States primarily to mask the taste of bootlegged alcohol. The bartenders at a speakeasy would mix it with other ingredients, both alcoholic and non-alcoholic. One of the oldest known cocktails, the Cognac-based Sazerac, dates from 1850s New Orleans, as many as 70 years prior to the Prohibition era.
Until the 1970s, cocktails were made predominantly with gin, whiskey or rum, and less commonly vodka. From the 1970s on, the popularity of vodka increased dramatically. By the 1980s it was the predominant base for mixed drinks. Many cocktails traditionally made with gin, such as the gimlet, or the martini, may now be served by default with vodka.
1 1/2 oz Stoli® Vanil vodka
6 oz soda water
Directions:
Pour both ingredients into a highball glass almost filled with ice cubes. Stir and serve.
Description:
A cocktail is a style of mixed drink. A cocktail usually contains one or more types of liquor and flavorings, usually one or more of a liqueur, fruit, sauce, honey, milk or cream, spices, etc. The cocktail became popular during Prohibition in the United States primarily to mask the taste of bootlegged alcohol. The bartenders at a speakeasy would mix it with other ingredients, both alcoholic and non-alcoholic. One of the oldest known cocktails, the Cognac-based Sazerac, dates from 1850s New Orleans, as many as 70 years prior to the Prohibition era.
Until the 1970s, cocktails were made predominantly with gin, whiskey or rum, and less commonly vodka. From the 1970s on, the popularity of vodka increased dramatically. By the 1980s it was the predominant base for mixed drinks. Many cocktails traditionally made with gin, such as the gimlet, or the martini, may now be served by default with vodka.
Cocktails with vodka: Kensington Court Special
Ingredients:
1/6 Passion Fruit Juice
1/6 Lime Juice
1/6 Apricot Brandy
1/2 Vodka
Directions:
Shake well, strain into a cocktail glass.
Description:
Created by Joe Gilmore, the Head Barman of the American Bar at the Savoy Hotel in London, for Sir David Davies’s.
1/6 Passion Fruit Juice
1/6 Lime Juice
1/6 Apricot Brandy
1/2 Vodka
Directions:
Shake well, strain into a cocktail glass.
Description:
Created by Joe Gilmore, the Head Barman of the American Bar at the Savoy Hotel in London, for Sir David Davies’s.
Cocktails with vodka: Kamikaze
Cocktails with vodka: Fat Frog
Ingredients:
1 bottle Smirnoff® Ice
1 bottle Bacardi Breezer® Orange
1 bottle WKD® Original Vodka Blue
Directions:
Get 2 pint glasses, pour one half of Smirnoff Ice into one pint glass and the rest in the other glass, then do the same with the orange breezer, then followed by the Blue WKD. Mix, and the drink should turn green. Add ice as desired, and serve.
Description:
Equal parts Smirnoff Ice Red, WKD Original Vodka Blue, and Oranger Bacardi Breezer. An Irish cocktail.
1 bottle Smirnoff® Ice
1 bottle Bacardi Breezer® Orange
1 bottle WKD® Original Vodka Blue
Directions:
Get 2 pint glasses, pour one half of Smirnoff Ice into one pint glass and the rest in the other glass, then do the same with the orange breezer, then followed by the Blue WKD. Mix, and the drink should turn green. Add ice as desired, and serve.
Description:
Equal parts Smirnoff Ice Red, WKD Original Vodka Blue, and Oranger Bacardi Breezer. An Irish cocktail.
Cocktails with vodka: Cosmopolitan Cocktail
Ingredients:
1 oz vodka
1/2 oz triple sec
1/2 oz Rose's® lime juice
1/2 oz cranberry juice
Directions:
Shake vodka, triple sec, lime and cranberry juice vigorously in a shaker with ice. Strain into a martini glass, garnish with a lime wedge on the rim, and serve.
Description:
A Cosmopolitan is a cocktail made with vodka, Cointreau, cranberry juice, and lime juice. Informally referred to as a Cosmo, the Cosmopolitan is usually served in a cocktail glass. For this reason it is often erroneously categorized as a martini because martinis are also served in cocktail glasses.
1 oz vodka
1/2 oz triple sec
1/2 oz Rose's® lime juice
1/2 oz cranberry juice
Directions:
Shake vodka, triple sec, lime and cranberry juice vigorously in a shaker with ice. Strain into a martini glass, garnish with a lime wedge on the rim, and serve.
Description:
A Cosmopolitan is a cocktail made with vodka, Cointreau, cranberry juice, and lime juice. Informally referred to as a Cosmo, the Cosmopolitan is usually served in a cocktail glass. For this reason it is often erroneously categorized as a martini because martinis are also served in cocktail glasses.
Cocktails with vodka: Sweating Colombian
Ingredients:
4 1/2 oz vodka
3 oz Kahlua® coffee liqueur
3 oz Goldschlager® cinnamon schnapps
1 oz light cream
Directions:
Shake vodka, Kahlua and Goldschlager with ice in a cocktail shaker. Strain into a highball glass, fill with light cream, and serve.
Description:
Sweating Colombian is essentially a White Russian with added cinnamon schnapps, and it tastes great.
4 1/2 oz vodka
3 oz Kahlua® coffee liqueur
3 oz Goldschlager® cinnamon schnapps
1 oz light cream
Directions:
Shake vodka, Kahlua and Goldschlager with ice in a cocktail shaker. Strain into a highball glass, fill with light cream, and serve.
Description:
Sweating Colombian is essentially a White Russian with added cinnamon schnapps, and it tastes great.
Cocktails with vodka: Chi-Chi
Ingredients:
1 1/2 oz vodka
4 oz pineapple juice
1 oz cream of coconut
1 slice pineapple
1 cherry
Directions:
Blend vodka, pineapple juice, and cream of coconut with one cup ice in an electric blender at a high speed. Pour into a red wine glass, decorate with the slice of pineapple and the cherry, and serve.
Description:
a piña colada made with vodka instead of rum.
1 1/2 oz vodka
4 oz pineapple juice
1 oz cream of coconut
1 slice pineapple
1 cherry
Directions:
Blend vodka, pineapple juice, and cream of coconut with one cup ice in an electric blender at a high speed. Pour into a red wine glass, decorate with the slice of pineapple and the cherry, and serve.
Description:
a piña colada made with vodka instead of rum.
Cocktails with vodka: Cape Cod
Ingredients:
1 1/2 oz vodka
4 oz cranberry juice
Directions:
Combine in a highball glass with ice. Garnish with a wedge of lime, and serve.
Description:
Vodka mixed with cranberry juice.
1 1/2 oz vodka
4 oz cranberry juice
Directions:
Combine in a highball glass with ice. Garnish with a wedge of lime, and serve.
Description:
Vodka mixed with cranberry juice.
Cocktails with vodka: Bloody Caesar
Ingredients: 1 oz vodka
salt
celery salt
pepper
1 dash Worcestershire sauce
1 dash Tabasco® sauce
clamato juice
Directions:
Rim tall glass with celery salt, fill with ice and ingredients. Garnish with a celery stick, straw, and lime.
Description:
A Caesar, sometimes referred to as a "Bloody Caesar" or a "Clammy Mary" after the similar Bloody Mary, is a cocktail popular mainly in Canada. It typically contains vodka, clamato (a blend of tomato juice and clam broth), Worcestershire sauce, Tabasco sauce, and is served on the rocks in a large, celery salt-rimmed glass, and typically garnished with a stalk of celery and wedge of lime. A common nickname for a version without vodka is "Virgin Caesar".
Cocktails with vodka: Bullshot
Ingredients:
3 oz vodka
4 oz strong cold beef bouillon
salt
pepper
Directions:
Combine vodka and beef boullion with four ice cubes in a mixing glass. Add salt and pepper to taste, stir, and strain into a chilled wine glass.
Description:
A Bullshot is a cocktail that's a variant of the Bloody Mary, prepared with beef bouillon or beef consomme in place of tomato juice. A typical recipe consists of vodka, beef bullion (boiled in hot water), and some combination of salt, pepper, lemon juice, Tabasco sauce and Worcestershire sauce. Like the Bloody Mary, it is usually drunk in the morning, and is considered a good hangover cure.
3 oz vodka
4 oz strong cold beef bouillon
salt
pepper
Directions:
Combine vodka and beef boullion with four ice cubes in a mixing glass. Add salt and pepper to taste, stir, and strain into a chilled wine glass.
Description:
A Bullshot is a cocktail that's a variant of the Bloody Mary, prepared with beef bouillon or beef consomme in place of tomato juice. A typical recipe consists of vodka, beef bullion (boiled in hot water), and some combination of salt, pepper, lemon juice, Tabasco sauce and Worcestershire sauce. Like the Bloody Mary, it is usually drunk in the morning, and is considered a good hangover cure.
Cocktails with vodka: Brass Monkey
Ingredients:
1/2 oz rum
1/2 oz vodka
4 oz orange juice
Directions:
Toss the rum and vodka together and stir gently. Pour in the orange juice, and shake well. Pour over ice in a highball or tall glass.
Description:
A Brass Monkey is a cocktail consisting of equal parts vodka, rum, and orange juice. It is thus essentially a screwdriver with rum added.
Pulp-free orange juice is usually desirable for reasons of palatability, though freshly squeezed juice may also yield a good brass monkey. Dark rum is also preferable, since it is the mixing of the brown rum with the orange juice that produces the distinct brass-like coloration for which this drink is named.
1/2 oz rum
1/2 oz vodka
4 oz orange juice
Directions:
Toss the rum and vodka together and stir gently. Pour in the orange juice, and shake well. Pour over ice in a highball or tall glass.
Description:
A Brass Monkey is a cocktail consisting of equal parts vodka, rum, and orange juice. It is thus essentially a screwdriver with rum added.
Pulp-free orange juice is usually desirable for reasons of palatability, though freshly squeezed juice may also yield a good brass monkey. Dark rum is also preferable, since it is the mixing of the brown rum with the orange juice that produces the distinct brass-like coloration for which this drink is named.
Cocktails with vodka: Black Russian
Ingredients:
3/4 oz coffee liqueur
1 1/2 oz vodka
Directions:
Pour ingredients over ice cubes in an old-fashioned glass and serve.
Description:
It first appeared in 1949, thanks to the Belgian barman Gustave Tops, who created it at the Hotel Metropole in Brussels in the honor of Pearl Mesta, then ambassador of the US in Luxembourg. The cocktail owes its name to the dark periods of the Cold War against the Soviet Union and is considered the ancestor of coffee cocktails. The black Russian is a good drink for cocktail drinkers to order in strange bars/pubs instead of the White Russian (cocktail) because of the often questionable quality of milk/cream used in the preparation of the latter.
Cocktails with vodka: Appletini
Ingredients:
1 1/2 oz Smirnoff® Green Apple Twist vodka
1 oz DeKuyper® Sour Apple Pucker schnapps
Directions:
Stir ingredients together with crushed ice in a cocktail/martini glass, and serve.
Description:
The appletini, also known as the apple martini, is a cocktail containing vodka and either apple juice, apple cider, or apple liqueur. Typically, the apple vodka is shaken or stirred with a sweet and sour mix and then strained into a martini glass.
1 1/2 oz Smirnoff® Green Apple Twist vodka
1 oz DeKuyper® Sour Apple Pucker schnapps
Directions:
Stir ingredients together with crushed ice in a cocktail/martini glass, and serve.
Description:
The appletini, also known as the apple martini, is a cocktail containing vodka and either apple juice, apple cider, or apple liqueur. Typically, the apple vodka is shaken or stirred with a sweet and sour mix and then strained into a martini glass.
Flaming cocktail: Flaming Sambuca
Ingredients:
1 oz black sambuca
3 coffee beans
Directions:
Put 3 coffee beans in a shooter and add the sambuca. Light the sambuca and let burn for 10 seconds or so. Cover the glass with your hand to extinguish, then inhale the air underneath your hand. Drink the shot.
Description:
Sambuca is an anise-flavoured, usually colourless liqueur. Its most common variety is often referred to as white sambuca in order to differentiate it from derivative spirits that are deep blue in colour (known as black sambuca) or bright red (red sambuca).
Flaming cocktail: Backdraft
Ingredients:
1 1/2 oz Drambuie® Scotch whisky
1 1/2 oz Grand Marnier® orange liqueur
Directions:
Pour equal amounts into Brandy Snifter and light.
Place hands over top of glass to form airtight seal that extinguishes flame. Slide straw between fingers keeping seal as tight as possible. Drink beverage through straw.
Remove straw after drink is finished. Put glass to nose and remove hand to allow burnt fumes to be inhaled through nose. Definitely a one-a-nighter.
Description:
The Backdraft is a cocktail that is noted for its elaborate preparation and extreme potency. Named after the Backdraft which occurs in some fire situations, this drink produces a similar condition on purpose using flammable alcoholic drinks and an enclosing container, such as an upside down pint glass. The potency of the Backdraft drink is in the types of liquors used, and in the order they are consumed. Below is a typical procedure for producing one variation of the Backdraft drink. The combination of warm alcohol, followed by inhaling vapourized alcohol, and then finishing with a highly spiced warm alcohol, makes the drinking of this drink difficult, and while it tends not to have an immediate effect (since it is drunk quickly), the warmth of the alcohol and the vapour, make the concentration and absorption of alcohol into the bloodstream quicker than other drinks, and produces a more profound impact.
The procedure listed below is a typical illustration of how the drink is presented, and the steps used to produce the backdraft effect. The alcohols listed are strictly for demonstration purposes, and can be substituted with others, as there are various recipes. However, the steps of this procedure are required to be taken in this order to produce what is know as a classic backdraft drink.
1 1/2 oz Drambuie® Scotch whisky
1 1/2 oz Grand Marnier® orange liqueur
Directions:
Pour equal amounts into Brandy Snifter and light.
Place hands over top of glass to form airtight seal that extinguishes flame. Slide straw between fingers keeping seal as tight as possible. Drink beverage through straw.
Remove straw after drink is finished. Put glass to nose and remove hand to allow burnt fumes to be inhaled through nose. Definitely a one-a-nighter.
Description:
The Backdraft is a cocktail that is noted for its elaborate preparation and extreme potency. Named after the Backdraft which occurs in some fire situations, this drink produces a similar condition on purpose using flammable alcoholic drinks and an enclosing container, such as an upside down pint glass. The potency of the Backdraft drink is in the types of liquors used, and in the order they are consumed. Below is a typical procedure for producing one variation of the Backdraft drink. The combination of warm alcohol, followed by inhaling vapourized alcohol, and then finishing with a highly spiced warm alcohol, makes the drinking of this drink difficult, and while it tends not to have an immediate effect (since it is drunk quickly), the warmth of the alcohol and the vapour, make the concentration and absorption of alcohol into the bloodstream quicker than other drinks, and produces a more profound impact.
The procedure listed below is a typical illustration of how the drink is presented, and the steps used to produce the backdraft effect. The alcohols listed are strictly for demonstration purposes, and can be substituted with others, as there are various recipes. However, the steps of this procedure are required to be taken in this order to produce what is know as a classic backdraft drink.
Cocktails with beer: Snakebite
Ingredients:
2 oz Yukon Jack® Canadian whisky
1 dash lime juice
Directions:
Pour two ounces of yukon jack over ice. Add a dash of lime juice, and serve.
Description:
A cocktail is a style of mixed drink. A cocktail usually contains one or more types of liquor and flavorings, usually one or more of a liqueur, fruit, sauce, honey, milk or cream, spices, etc. The cocktail became popular during Prohibition in the United States primarily to mask the taste of bootlegged alcohol. The bartenders at a speakeasy would mix it with other ingredients, both alcoholic and non-alcoholic. One of the oldest known cocktails, the Cognac-based Sazerac, dates from 1850s New Orleans, as many as 70 years prior to the Prohibition era.
Until the 1970s, cocktails were made predominantly with gin, whiskey or rum, and less commonly vodka. From the 1970s on, the popularity of vodka increased dramatically. By the 1980s it was the predominant base for mixed drinks. Many cocktails traditionally made with gin, such as the gimlet, or the martini, may now be served by default with vodka.
Carbonated beverages that are used nearly exclusively in cocktails include soda water, tonic water and seltzer. Liqueurs are also common cocktail ingredients.
2 oz Yukon Jack® Canadian whisky
1 dash lime juice
Directions:
Pour two ounces of yukon jack over ice. Add a dash of lime juice, and serve.
Description:
A cocktail is a style of mixed drink. A cocktail usually contains one or more types of liquor and flavorings, usually one or more of a liqueur, fruit, sauce, honey, milk or cream, spices, etc. The cocktail became popular during Prohibition in the United States primarily to mask the taste of bootlegged alcohol. The bartenders at a speakeasy would mix it with other ingredients, both alcoholic and non-alcoholic. One of the oldest known cocktails, the Cognac-based Sazerac, dates from 1850s New Orleans, as many as 70 years prior to the Prohibition era.
Until the 1970s, cocktails were made predominantly with gin, whiskey or rum, and less commonly vodka. From the 1970s on, the popularity of vodka increased dramatically. By the 1980s it was the predominant base for mixed drinks. Many cocktails traditionally made with gin, such as the gimlet, or the martini, may now be served by default with vodka.
Carbonated beverages that are used nearly exclusively in cocktails include soda water, tonic water and seltzer. Liqueurs are also common cocktail ingredients.
Cocktails with beer: Michelada
Ingredients:
12 oz beer
juice of 1 lemons
2 dashes Worcestershire sauce
1 dash soy sauce
1 dash Tabasco® sauce
1 pinch black peppers
salt
Directions:
Mix ingredients in a tall high glass with lots of ice. Add beer, mix, and serve.
Description:
The Michelada is a popular Mexican alcoholic beverage of a genre known in Spanish as cerveza preparada (prepared beer) and in English as a variety of cocktail. There are several variations. In some cases it is similar to a Bloody Mary but containing Mexican beer instead of vodka, although a less complicated concoction of Mexican beer with sauces and lime juice added (see recipe below) is also referred to as a Michelada. The drink dates back to the 1940s, when mixing beer with hot sauce or salsa became popular in Mexico. In recent years, the drink has begun to become popular in the United States, and now various ready-made mixes are marketed and sold to US consumers. If the Michelada has any type of hot sauce in it, in Mexico it may be called a "Michelada Cubana" (no relation to Cuba has been found, just as with the Torta Cubana).
Simply mixing beer with tomato juice is a popular version of cerveza preparada, but if lacking the salsa inglesa (Worcestershire sauce) or Maggi sauce, this concoction would usually not be referred as a michelada.
12 oz beer
juice of 1 lemons
2 dashes Worcestershire sauce
1 dash soy sauce
1 dash Tabasco® sauce
1 pinch black peppers
salt
Directions:
Mix ingredients in a tall high glass with lots of ice. Add beer, mix, and serve.
Description:
The Michelada is a popular Mexican alcoholic beverage of a genre known in Spanish as cerveza preparada (prepared beer) and in English as a variety of cocktail. There are several variations. In some cases it is similar to a Bloody Mary but containing Mexican beer instead of vodka, although a less complicated concoction of Mexican beer with sauces and lime juice added (see recipe below) is also referred to as a Michelada. The drink dates back to the 1940s, when mixing beer with hot sauce or salsa became popular in Mexico. In recent years, the drink has begun to become popular in the United States, and now various ready-made mixes are marketed and sold to US consumers. If the Michelada has any type of hot sauce in it, in Mexico it may be called a "Michelada Cubana" (no relation to Cuba has been found, just as with the Torta Cubana).
Simply mixing beer with tomato juice is a popular version of cerveza preparada, but if lacking the salsa inglesa (Worcestershire sauce) or Maggi sauce, this concoction would usually not be referred as a michelada.
Flaming cocktail: Flaming Dr. Pepper
Ingredients:
3/4 shot amaretto almond liqueur
1/4 oz 151 proof rum
1/2 glass beer
Directions:
1. Fill a shot glass about 3/4 full with amaretto and top it off with enough 151 proof rum to be able to burn.
2. Place the shot glass in another glass and fill the outer glass with beer (right up to the level of the shot glass).
3. Ignite the amaretto/151 and let it burn for a while. Blow it out (or leave it burning if you're brave - not recommended) and slam it. Tastes just like Dr. Pepper.
Description:
The Flaming Dr. Pepper is a flaming cocktail that is said to taste like the soft drink Dr Pepper, although it does not contain any. It is usually made by filling a shot glass 3/4 full with Amaretto, and 1/4 Bacardi 151 (or Everclear) to make it flammable. The shot is then lit on fire and dropped into a glass of beer, which is then quickly consumed. A common variation is to use Amaretto and Kahlua.
Cocktails with beer: Boilermaker
Ingredients:
2 oz whiskey
10 oz beer
Directions:
Fill shot glass with whiskey. Drop full shot glass into mug o' beer. Drink immediately, enjoy.
Description:
A Boilermaker is a cocktail consisting of a shot of whiskey, tequila, or vodka, and a glass of beer (therefore sometimes also called simply a shot and a beer). The whiskey and beer are both typically, though not necessarily, of American production, with an inexpensive bourbon or a Tennessee whiskey favored for the shot, and a mass-market American Pilsner (Miller, Budweiser, etc.) for the beer; this is due to the relatively lower alcohol content of American mass-production beers, and the relatively lower cost of American whiskey. Traditionally, the shot and the beer are served separately, although they may also be mixed beforehand by the preparer.
2 oz whiskey
10 oz beer
Directions:
Fill shot glass with whiskey. Drop full shot glass into mug o' beer. Drink immediately, enjoy.
Description:
A Boilermaker is a cocktail consisting of a shot of whiskey, tequila, or vodka, and a glass of beer (therefore sometimes also called simply a shot and a beer). The whiskey and beer are both typically, though not necessarily, of American production, with an inexpensive bourbon or a Tennessee whiskey favored for the shot, and a mass-market American Pilsner (Miller, Budweiser, etc.) for the beer; this is due to the relatively lower alcohol content of American mass-production beers, and the relatively lower cost of American whiskey. Traditionally, the shot and the beer are served separately, although they may also be mixed beforehand by the preparer.
Cocktails with beer: Cerveza preparada
Ingredients:
-Fill beer mug with ice, rim with a mixture of salt and chili powder.
-Add 3 parts tomato or Clamato juice and juice of 1/2 Lime or Lemon.
-Add 1 part Beer.
-add Hot Sauce to liking.
Description:
Chavela is a Cerveza preparada that is popular in Mexican restaurants as both a drink (and as an appetizer if served with a garnish). It is made with tomato, V8, or Clamato juice mixed with beer, and seasoned with Hot Sauce (i.e., Tabasco, Tapatio, Bufalo, etc.). It is served in a ice-cold salt-rimmed mug and garnished with crudite (carrot and celery sticks) and/or shrimp.
-Fill beer mug with ice, rim with a mixture of salt and chili powder.
-Add 3 parts tomato or Clamato juice and juice of 1/2 Lime or Lemon.
-Add 1 part Beer.
-add Hot Sauce to liking.
Description:
Chavela is a Cerveza preparada that is popular in Mexican restaurants as both a drink (and as an appetizer if served with a garnish). It is made with tomato, V8, or Clamato juice mixed with beer, and seasoned with Hot Sauce (i.e., Tabasco, Tapatio, Bufalo, etc.). It is served in a ice-cold salt-rimmed mug and garnished with crudite (carrot and celery sticks) and/or shrimp.
Cocktails with beer: Carbomb
Ingredients:
1/2 shot Irish whiskey
1/2 shot Bailey's® Irish cream
1 pint Guinness® stout
Directions:
Combine (proportions of 50/50) Bailey's Irish Cream and Irish Whiskey into one shot glass. Drop the shot into a mug of guinness and chugg until empty.
Description:
Carbomb (also known as "Belfast Carbomb" or "Irish Carbomb") is a boilermaker made with stout (for example, Guinness), Irish cream (for example, Bailey's) and Irish whiskey such as Jameson's or Tullamore Dew.
1/2 shot Irish whiskey
1/2 shot Bailey's® Irish cream
1 pint Guinness® stout
Directions:
Combine (proportions of 50/50) Bailey's Irish Cream and Irish Whiskey into one shot glass. Drop the shot into a mug of guinness and chugg until empty.
Description:
Carbomb (also known as "Belfast Carbomb" or "Irish Carbomb") is a boilermaker made with stout (for example, Guinness), Irish cream (for example, Bailey's) and Irish whiskey such as Jameson's or Tullamore Dew.
Cocktails with beer: Black Velvet
Ingredients:
5 oz chilled stout
5 oz chilled Champagne
Directions:
Pour stout into a champagne flute. Add champagne carefully, so it does not mix with stout, and serve.
Description:
Black Velvet, also known as a Bismarck, is a mix made from a stout beer (often Guinness) and a white, sparkling wine, traditionally champagne.
5 oz chilled stout
5 oz chilled Champagne
Directions:
Pour stout into a champagne flute. Add champagne carefully, so it does not mix with stout, and serve.
Description:
Black Velvet, also known as a Bismarck, is a mix made from a stout beer (often Guinness) and a white, sparkling wine, traditionally champagne.
Cocktail drink: Champagne Punch
Ingredients:
1 bottle chilled Champagne
1/2 cup Cointreau® orange liqueur
1/2 cup brandy
1/2 bottle chilled carbonated water
Directions:
Combine all of the ingredients and serve in punch cups.
Cocktail drink: Fuzzy Navel
Ingredients:
1 part peach schnapps
1 part orange juice
1 part lemonade
Directions:
Mix equal parts of each ingredient in a highball glass, top with ice, and serve.
Cocktail drink: Whiskey Sour
Cocktails with tequila: Tequila Sunrise
Ingredients:
2 msr tequila
orange juice
2 dashes grenadine syrup
Directions:
Pour tequila in a highball glass with ice, and top with orange juice. Stir. Add grenadine by tilting glass and pouring grenadine down side by flipping the bottle vertically very quickly. The grenadine should go straight to the bottom and then rise up slowly through the drink. Garnish stirrer, straw and cherry-orange.
Description:
The Tequila Sunrise is a cocktail so named for the way it looks when it is poured into a glass.
Cocktail drink: Screwdriver
Ingredients:
2 oz vodka
5 oz orange juice
Directions:
Put 3 ice cubes into a highball glass. Pour in vodka. Fill balance of glass with orange juice, stir, and serve.
Description:
A Screwdriver is a cocktail made with orange juice and vodka, created sometime before October 24, 1948
Cocktail drink: Sangría
Ingredients:
-a red wine,
-chopped or sliced fruit,
-a sweetener such as honey,
-a small amount of added brandy, triple sec, or other spirits.
Description:
The ingredients in sangría vary, particularly in the type of fruit used, the kind of spirits added (if any), and the presence or lack of carbonation. White wine can be used instead of red, in which case the result is called sangría blanca. In some parts of southern Spain, sangría is called zurra and is made with peaches or nectarines. In most recipes, wine is the dominant ingredient and acts as a base.
Preparation consists of cutting the fruit in thin slices or small cubes, then mixing in advance all ingredients except for ice and carbonated sodas. After several hours in a refrigerator to allow time for the fruit flavors to blend with the rest of the ingredient, the ice and any last-minute ingredients are added and the drinks are poured. In Spain, sangría is served throughout the country during summer, and around the year in the southern and eastern parts of the country.
Cocktail drink: Rob Roy
Ingredients:
1 1/2 oz Scotch whisky
3/4 oz sweet vermouth
Directions:
Stir ingredients with ice, strain into a cocktail glass, and serve.
Description:
A Rob Roy is a cocktail with a certain structural similarity to a Manhattan and also to the ubiquitous Martini. The drink is named for the Scottish folk hero Robert Roy MacGregor.
The Manhattan is made with rye whiskey and sweet vermouth, while the Rob Roy is made with Scotch whisky and sweet vermouth.
Variants of the drink include the Dry Rob Roy, which is made with dry vermouth and the Perfect Rob Roy, which is made with equal parts sweet and dry vermouth. Many versions of the Rob Roy also include Angostura Bitters. Adding Drambuie to a Rob Roy makes it a Bobbie Burns.
Cocktail drink: Mimosa
Ingredients:
2 oz orange juice
Champagne
Directions:
Pour orange juice into a collins glass over two ice cubes. Fill with chilled champagne, stir very gently, and serve.
Description:
A Mimosa is a cocktail-like drink composed of three parts champagne and two parts thoroughly chilled orange juice, traditionally served in a tall champagne flute with a morning brunch. It is also often served to early guests at weddings, and in first class on jet airliners.
Grenadine and a cherry can be added for extra color.
The Mimosa was reportedly invented at the Ritz Hotel in Paris, France circa 1925. Orangina or a tablespoon of Grand Marnier (technically a Grand Mimosa) are sometimes added. A similar (and often identical) British cocktail is called a bucks fizz.
Cocktail drink: A Monkey's Rum Martini
Ingredients:
1/2 oz Bailey's® Irish cream
1/2 oz banana liqueur
1 1/2 oz Myer's® dark rum
1/2 oz cream
shredded coconuts
Directions:
Shake ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice. Garnish rim of glass with shredded coconut. Strain into glass and serve.
Description:
The martini is a cocktail traditionally made with gin and dry white vermouth, though in recent years substituting vodka for gin has become more popular than the original recipe. Over the years, the martini has become perhaps the most well-known mixed alcoholic beverage. H. L. Mencken once called the martini "the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet", and E. B. White called it "the elixir of quietude". It is also the proverbial drink of the one-time "three-martini lunch" of business executives, now largely abandoned as part of companies' "fitness for duty" programs.
1/2 oz Bailey's® Irish cream
1/2 oz banana liqueur
1 1/2 oz Myer's® dark rum
1/2 oz cream
shredded coconuts
Directions:
Shake ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice. Garnish rim of glass with shredded coconut. Strain into glass and serve.
Description:
The martini is a cocktail traditionally made with gin and dry white vermouth, though in recent years substituting vodka for gin has become more popular than the original recipe. Over the years, the martini has become perhaps the most well-known mixed alcoholic beverage. H. L. Mencken once called the martini "the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet", and E. B. White called it "the elixir of quietude". It is also the proverbial drink of the one-time "three-martini lunch" of business executives, now largely abandoned as part of companies' "fitness for duty" programs.
Cocktails with tequila: Long Island Iced Tea
Ingredients:
1 part vodka
1 part tequila
1 part rum
1 part gin
1 part triple sec
1 1/2 parts sweet and sour mix
1 splash Coca-Cola®
Directions:
Mix ingredients together over ice in a glass. Pour into a shaker and give one brisk shake. Pour back into the glass and make sure there is a touch of fizz at the top. Garnish with lemon.
Description:
A Long Island Iced Tea is a cocktail made with, among other ingredients, vodka, gin, tequila, and rum. A popular variation mixes equal parts vodka, gin, rum, tequila, and triple sec with 1 1/2 parts sour mix with a splash of cola. Close variants often replace the sour mix with sweet and sour mix or with lemon juice, and the cola with actual iced tea. Some chain restaurants even take the liberty of substituting brandy for the tequila.
Some claim that the drink, like most cocktails, was invented during the Prohibition era, as a way of taking the appearance of a non-alcoholic drink (iced tea). A lemon slice is often added to enhance this resemblance. To some, the drink also shares a similar taste to tea. This has led to its frequent use in fiction as a method to get a teetotaler drunk.
The drink has a much higher alcohol concentration (~28%) than most cocktails because of the proportionally small amount of mixer. This American cocktail is often altered in other countries, due to the presence of sour mix. Long Island Iced Tea served outside the States are often made of liquors and cola alone (without sour mix), or with lemon or lime juice, or with lime cordial.
Cocktail drink: Hurricane
Ingredients:
1 oz vodka
1/4 oz grenadine syrup
1 oz gin
1 oz light rum
1/2 oz Bacardi® 151 rum
1 oz amaretto almond liqueur
1 oz triple sec
grapefruit juice
pineapple juice
Directions:
Pour all but the juices, in order listed, into a hurricane glass three-quarters filled with ice. Fill with equal parts of grapefruit and pineapple juice, and serve.
Description:
A Hurricane is a drink made from passion fruit syrup and rum. It is one of the most popular drinks among tourists and locals alike in New Orleans.
The creation of this passion-colored relative of a Daiquiri drink is credited to Pat O'Brien. He is reported to have invented the Hurricane in the 1940s in New Orleans. Rumors say he needed to get rid of all the rum that Southern distributors forced him to buy before he could get a few cases of other spirits. He poured the concoction into hurricane-lamp-shaped glasses and gave it away to sailors. The drink caught on, and it's been part of the celebration ever since.
1 oz vodka
1/4 oz grenadine syrup
1 oz gin
1 oz light rum
1/2 oz Bacardi® 151 rum
1 oz amaretto almond liqueur
1 oz triple sec
grapefruit juice
pineapple juice
Directions:
Pour all but the juices, in order listed, into a hurricane glass three-quarters filled with ice. Fill with equal parts of grapefruit and pineapple juice, and serve.
Description:
A Hurricane is a drink made from passion fruit syrup and rum. It is one of the most popular drinks among tourists and locals alike in New Orleans.
The creation of this passion-colored relative of a Daiquiri drink is credited to Pat O'Brien. He is reported to have invented the Hurricane in the 1940s in New Orleans. Rumors say he needed to get rid of all the rum that Southern distributors forced him to buy before he could get a few cases of other spirits. He poured the concoction into hurricane-lamp-shaped glasses and gave it away to sailors. The drink caught on, and it's been part of the celebration ever since.
Cocktails with vodka: Harvey Wallbanger
Ingredients:
1 oz vodka
1/2 oz Galliano® herbal liqueur
4 oz orange juice
Directions:
Pour vodka and orange juice into a collins glass over ice cubes and stir. Float galliano on top and serve.
Description:
The Harvey Wallbanger is an alcoholic beverage or cocktail made with vodka, Galliano, and orange juice.
1 oz vodka
1/2 oz Galliano® herbal liqueur
4 oz orange juice
Directions:
Pour vodka and orange juice into a collins glass over ice cubes and stir. Float galliano on top and serve.
Description:
The Harvey Wallbanger is an alcoholic beverage or cocktail made with vodka, Galliano, and orange juice.
Cocktails with tequila: Margarita
Ingredients:
1 1/2 oz tequila
1/2 oz triple sec
1 oz lime juice
salt
Directions:
Rum the rim of a cocktail glass with lime juice, and dip in salt. Shake all ingredients with ice, strain into the glass, and serve.
Description:
The margarita is the most common of tequila-based cocktails, made with Triple Sec (or another orange liquor such as Cointreau) and lime juice, often served with salt on the glass rim.
In other languages, margarita is the Latin word for pearl; and Spanish for the daisy flower, which is also the name of a similar cocktail.
Cocktail drink: Daiquiri
Ingredients:
1 1/2 oz light rum
1 oz limes
1 tsp powdered sugar
Directions:
Shake all ingredients with ice, strain into a cocktail glass, and serve.
Description:
Daiquiri, or Daiquirí (which is the Cuban spelling of the word), is a family of cocktails whose main ingredients are rum and lime juice. There are several versions, but those that gained international fame are the ones made in one of the most famous bars in the world: the Floridita, in Havana.
1 1/2 oz light rum
1 oz limes
1 tsp powdered sugar
Directions:
Shake all ingredients with ice, strain into a cocktail glass, and serve.
Description:
Daiquiri, or Daiquirí (which is the Cuban spelling of the word), is a family of cocktails whose main ingredients are rum and lime juice. There are several versions, but those that gained international fame are the ones made in one of the most famous bars in the world: the Floridita, in Havana.
Cocktail drink: Seven & Seven
Ingredients:
-6 oz 7-Up
-7 shot Whiskey
Directions:
Put a few cubes of ice into an old-fashioned glass. Pour a shot of Seagram 7 into the glass, then pour the 7-up into the glass. Shake or stir briskly.
Description:
A Seven and Seven is very specific on both ingredients used. The liquor is Seagram's 7 whiskey and the mixer is 7-up. Any other combination is just not the same. This is a great way to enjoy whiskey in a refreshing highball.
-6 oz 7-Up
-7 shot Whiskey
Directions:
Put a few cubes of ice into an old-fashioned glass. Pour a shot of Seagram 7 into the glass, then pour the 7-up into the glass. Shake or stir briskly.
Description:
A Seven and Seven is very specific on both ingredients used. The liquor is Seagram's 7 whiskey and the mixer is 7-up. Any other combination is just not the same. This is a great way to enjoy whiskey in a refreshing highball.
Cocktail drink: White Russian
Ingredients:
- 2 oz Vodka
- 1 oz Light Cream
- 1 oz Kahlua
Directions:
Shake all the ingredients in a shaker with ice and strain into an old-fashioned glass over ice cubes.
Description:
A White Russian is a sweet cocktail made from vodka, Kahlúa or other coffee liqueur such as Tia Maria, and milk or cream, in an old-fashioned glass with ice.
Typical portions are one part vodka to one part coffee liqueur with a splash of cream. Keeping the vodka chilled in a freezer (remaining liquid due to the alcohol content) helps keep the drink cold, allowing less ice to be used. Adding an extra shot of vodka can give the drink more kick without deadening the coffee taste, though more liqueur can be added, of course. Since Kahlúa is very syrupy and moderately flavored of Mexican coffee, using alternative coffee liqueurs or a mixture of coffee liqueurs is a good way to customize a White Russian to fit the taste of the drinker, or to create a distinctive White Russian recipe for a particular bar. Using cream instead of milk produces a smoother, richer beverage, somewhat masking the bite of poor quality alcohol, though the drink is still smoother with well distilled vodka. The cream can also be shaken alone with ice until it begins to thicken, then poured over coffee liqueur, vodka, and ice in order to make the drink richer.
The drink is usually mixed by first pouring vodka into the ice-filled glass, then coffee liqueur, then cream. It can then be served immediately with a straw included for the drinker to mix it. It can also be lightly shaken in a cocktail shaker (one or two shakes is enough) or stirred in its own glass by the bartender. Home drinkers sometimes tap the ice with their fingers to mix the drink.
The drink is not traditionally Russian, but is so named due to vodka being a key ingredient. The "White Russians" were a anti-Bolshevik group from the Russian Civil War.
Cocktails with vodka: Bloody Mary
Ingredients:- 2 oz vodka
- 3 oz Tomoto Juice
- 1/2 oz Lemon Juice
- Black Pepper & Salt
- 3 dashes Worcestershire
- 2 drops tabasco sauce
- Garnish: Lemon Wedge, Celery
Directions:
Shake all the ingredients in a shaker with ice and strain into a highball glass over crushed ice. Garnish with the lemon wedge.
History:
Bloody Mary was invented in the 1920s by an American bartender, Fernand Petiot at Harry's New York Bar in Paris. The original recipe called for equal parts of vodka and tomato juice In 1934, Petiot added black and cayenne pepper, Worcestershire sauce, Tabasco sauce and lemon juice to spice up the drink for New Yorkers when he moved back to the States and worked at the King Cole Bar, St. Regis. Petiot notes, "one of the boys suggested we call the drink Bloody Mary because it reminded him of the Bucket of Bloody Club in Chicago, and a girl there named Mary."
Cocktail drink: Cognac
Cognac, named after the town of Cognac in France, is a brandy, which is produced in the region surrounding the town. It must be made from at least 90% Ugni Blanc, Folle Blanche, or Colombard grapes. The rest of the cognac can consist of ten selected grapes. However, most cognac is made from Ugni Blanc only. It must be distilled twice in copper pot stills and aged at least 2 and 1/2 years in French oak barrels in order to be called cognac.
A related drink produced in another region is Armagnac.
A related drink produced in another region is Armagnac.
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