1) Straight Drinks: using a single ingredient, processed and presented in its original flavor.

2) Mix Drinks: Mixed with a variety of ingredients to create a wide range of flavors and styles.

Secondly, cocktails can be divided into the following categories according to their alcohol content, drinking time, hot and cold flavors

1) Short Drinks: You need to drink them all in a short time, with a volume of about 60 ml, 3-4 mouthfuls of drinks, no ice, and no change of flavor in 10-20 minutes. Its alcohol concentration is higher, suitable for drinking before meals.

2) Long Drinks (Long Drinks): put 30 minutes will not affect the flavor of the cocktail, add ice, with a tall glass, suitable for drinking during or after meals.

3) Alcohol Drinks: Cocktails with high alcohol content.

4) Soft drinks (Non-Alcohol Drinks): non-alcoholic or only a little alcohol with lemon juice, orange juice and other modifications of the drink.

5) Cold Drinks (Cold Drinks): Cocktails with temperature control between 5-6 degrees.

6) hot drinks (Hot Drinks): temperature control in the 60-80 degrees between, to Hot Whisky Today is the most representative.

In addition, the flavor of cocktails can be divided into 5 kinds, namely: sweet, pungent, medium sweet, medium pungent and sour.

The period of drinking is categorized into: before meal, after meal, and all day (All Day).

Cocktails are prepared drinks, which generally always use two to three kinds of alcohol. Experienced bartenders mixing wine, always the first lower alcohol, higher sugar alcohol first pour, in the pouring of the second and third kind of wine, the glass will be tilted to the side, so that the liquid along the walls of the glass slowly flow down, so that the use of a variety of different concentrations of specific gravity of the wine, it will appear to be a distinctive level, extraordinarily good-looking. If the wine glass or wine in the appropriate addition of red cherries, lemon slices, will be more icing on the cake, pleasing to the eye, stimulate the appetite of guests.

Making cocktails in the appliances, the more important on two pieces: mixing pot (mixing glass) and Angus cup. Mixing jugs are often put on ice and a variety of wine shaken together, so the requirements of sealed, strong. Foreign countries have special stainless steel mixing jugs, we just need to find a container that can be sealed and sturdy. Angus cup no, available measuring cup or measuring cylinder instead, as long as there is a scale on the line. Drinking cocktails, of course, you must use a more delicate colorless and transparent tall, large-mouthed glass, which is absolutely save not, if you use porcelain cups, ceramic cups, alabaster cups to drink cocktails, in addition to not being able to appreciate the color of cocktails, but also inevitably make people feel funny and unorthodox.

Family with foreign wine, cocktail preparation is more trouble-free. If you don't have foreign wine, you can substitute domestic wine. The same is true of auxiliary ingredients - stuffed water olives, small onions and red cherries are not available domestically, but there are other fresh fruits available throughout the year, so you can make cocktails with a variety of flavors as long as they are properly seasoned, so you don't have to stick to the rules in the books.

Here are some recommended cocktail recipes:

Snowflake cocktail: crushed ice into the mixing jug, add 1/3 cup of high quality white wine, Lotus white wine 1/3 cup, a small amount of chrysanthemum wine, 1/2 cup of evaporated milk, shaken through the foam, filtered into a cocktail glass, a string of red cherries hanging glass rim.

Sunrise Cocktail:Put crushed ice into a mixing glass, add 2/3 measure glass of high quality white wine, 1/3 measure glass of papaya wine, a slice of fresh lemon, stir well, strain into a cocktail glass, and sprinkle the twisted juice of the lemon peel on the surface of the wine and put the lemon peel into the wine.

Like a dream cocktail: 40 ml each of brandy, red wine, fresh grape juice, 80 ml of Sprite soda, put 4-5 ice cubes in a glass, pour brandy, red wine, fresh grape juice into the glass, mix well with a mixing stick, and finally pour in the Sprite soda, and garnish with a slice of fresh lemon.