The cocktail is a drink made from two or more types of alcohol or fruit juices infused with alcohol. Specifically, a cocktail is a mixed drink made from basic ingredients (spirits), added ingredients (liqueurs and other ingredients), spices, color additives, and special flavorings in certain quantities. The U.S. Wechsler Dictionary notes that a cocktail is a small, chilled drink. It is made by mixing or shaking Rum, Whisky, or other spirits, or wine, with other ingredients such as fruit juice, egg white, bitters, sugar, etc., and then garnished with lemon slices or mint leaves. Finally, we quote the American authority on cocktails, Earlsbury, to give a comprehensive and in-depth introduction to the term cocktail: Cocktail (cocktail) should be a nourishing agent to enhance the appetite, and must not be contrary to the road again. By definition, a cocktail should not be far from the realm of the cocktail if it is sweetened or mixed with a large amount of juice; a cocktail stimulates the appetite as well as excitement and creates a lively atmosphere, otherwise it would be meaningless, and a skillfully prepared cocktail is the most beautiful of all beverages; a cocktail must have an excellent flavor, and for this reason the taste buds of the tongue should be fully open so that the exciting flavors can be tasted and enjoyed. Cocktails must have a great flavor. If too sweet, too bitter, too fragrant will cover the ability to taste the flavor of the wine, reducing the quality of the wine; Cocktail (cocktail) needs enough cooling, so the application of high-footed glass, scalding the wine is most inappropriate, the modulation of the need to add ice, the amount of ice should be strictly in accordance with the recipe control. Ice should be melted to the required degree.

Cocktails are very concerned about the color, aroma, taste; the shape of both, so it is also known as the art of alcohol. Initially, the cocktail drink market was mainly occupied by spicy drinks for men only. Later, as cocktails are widely consumed and enter a variety of social occasions, in order to meet those who can not withstand the alcohol drinkers, only to derive a sweet drink suitable for women's tastes. By the time of the Prohibition era in the United States (January 17, 1920 to December 5, 1933), the technology for making non-alcoholic mixed drinks skyrocketed, thus laying the groundwork for today's soda-like beverages, which were then known as Mocktails or Softails (soft drinks). It utilizes the cocktail form of mixing a non-alcoholic drink.

The history of cocktails is just over a century old, and they have been popular around the world for only a few decades. All along, people's attitude towards cocktails has always been mixed. Some people believe that the preparation of cocktails is "alcohol blind" behavior, the good end of the extremely expensive Cognac (Cognac), whiskey, wine, trampled into the shape of many years of careful brewing into the color, aroma and taste of the destruction of all in the moment, they are opposed to drinking mixed drinks. Others believe that drinking cocktails is wonderful, and that it opens up new areas of color, aroma and taste. Aroma, flavor of the field, it also contains only the meaning can not convey the mood, drinking cocktails is a kind of artistic enjoyment. Practice has proved that cocktails with its unique charm to win people's praise, a variety of formulas are endless, and become indispensable to the feast drinks. The worldwide spread of cocktails can be traced back to the United States more than 10O years ago, when the ice industry in the United States was moving towards industrialization, which undoubtedly laid the foundation for the rapid development of cocktails, making the United States one of the most prevalent cocktails at that time, where the bartender's skills are also the most superb and fabulous; later on, the U.S. Prohibition Act caused an exodus of famous bartenders (Bartender). Later, Prohibition in the United States caused an exodus of famous bartenders (Bartender) to France or the United Kingdom, where the heroes had a place to shine, and contributed to the arrival of the golden age of cocktails in Europe and even in the world.