Cocktails have come into our lives, leisure time in the bar drink some cocktails, has gradually become a fashion. The world of cocktails is also very colorful and varied, in our opinion, always feel that it is so subtle, different wines match up, change so many colors, have so many beautiful and beautiful name, in fact, although cocktails are ever-changing, but there is a certain formula to follow, as long as all the following basic materials are prepared, it is possible to become a master of mixing behind the bar! By this time, at home, quietly mixing a cocktail, slowly savoring, a very pleasant feeling, just around the slowly flying ......

Six base and aromatic liqueurs

Gin (Gin)

Vodka (Vodka)

Rum (Rum)

Tequila

Whisky

Brandy

Liqueur

Top Five Sparkling Waters

Soda Water

Tonic Water

Ginger Water

7-UP

Cola

Important Ingredients

Grenadine

Lemon

Lime

Gream

Coconut Milk

Milk

Honey

Blue Curacao Syrup

Peppermint Syrup

Calpis

Glucose Syrup (Grape Syrup)

Important Juices

Orange Juice, Pineapple Juice, Tomato Juice

Grapefruit Juice, Grape Made, Guava Juice

Apple Juice, Cranberry Juice

Sports Drinks, Poppyseed Made, Coconut Juice

Alternate Ingredients

Almond Nectar, Cardamom Powder, Celery Powder

Red Cherries, Green Cherries, Vanilla Chips

Diced Onions, Diced Olives, Tabasco Sauce

Tabasco Oil

Cocktail Classification:

Cocktails are classified into short and long drinks.

Short drinks, meaning cocktails that are drunk for a short period of time, where the flavor diminishes over time. These are made by shaking or stirring and chilling, using a cocktail glass. It is generally accepted that cocktails are best consumed 10-20 minutes after mixing. Most are around 30 degrees alcohol.

Long drinks are cocktails that are made to be consumed leisurely over time. For sodas, fruit sweats, etc., long drinks cocktails a few simple all with a flat-bottomed glass or fruit juice wine glass such as large-capacity cups. It is a cold drink with ice, or a hot drink with boiled water or hot milk, but it is generally considered good to drink it in about 30 minutes. Compared to short drinks, most of them have a low alcohol concentration, so they are easy to drink. There are a number of different types depending on the method of production.

Types of Long Drinks

Juice Collins

Types in which lemon juice and sugar or syrup are added to spirits, and then topped up with soda water. Famous ones include John Kling's and Tonga Lien.

Cooler

Type of strong liquor with lemon and lime perspiration and sweeteners, topped up with soda water or ginger ale.Cooler, meaning cool drink, does not necessarily have to be served through a straw, and there is also a non-alcoholic type that uses wine as a base.

Flip

Type of wine or spirit with eggs and sugar. Sprinkled with a little nutmeg at the end if you like, hot or cold.

After-dinner drinks Pousse-Cafe

The type where any kind of spirit, liqueur, or milk is poured into the glass in order of density so that they don't mix together. It is important to know the density of each type of liquor beforehand. There is a difference in density between manufacturers of the same type of alcohol, so it is important to pay attention to this.

Punch

Punch is made with wine or spirits as the base, and a variety of sweet liqueurs, fruit juices, and fruits. As a party drink, it is mostly made in large bowls of mixed sweet and spicy drinks, enough for several people. Almost always served cold, but also served hot, Punch is said to be the Sanskrit word for "five" (Pancha), which is derived from the Indian word Punch, a drink made in India by mixing five ingredients, such as ale, water, lemon juice, and spices.

Sour

Sour cocktails are the type of cocktails made by adding lemon juice, sugar, and other sweet and sour things to spirits. This drink is not used in principle in the United States with soda water. Other countries use soda water and champagne.Sour means sour. Sour cocktails with sour stuff or sweet stuff against human shochu are popular in Japan.

Dividing Cocktails by TPO

Per-Dinner Cocktail

The cocktail that you drink before a meal. The purpose is to moisturize the throat and improve appetite. The sweetness is not too strong and the taste is very refreshing.

After Dinner Cocktail

This is the cocktail you drink after a meal. The purpose is to freshen the breath after a meal or to stimulate digestion. It is a sweet and strong cocktail that makes effective use of the flavor of liqueur.

All Day Cocktail

All Day Cocktail

It's okay to drink it any time of day, but of course, there's no need to be overly prescriptive about the cocktails mentioned above. Most cocktails fall past the category.

Night Cap Cocktail

The Night Cap Cocktail is the so-called sleeping wine. Before going to bed, in order to be able to sleep and drink. The best nightcaps are brandy-based cocktails, strong flavored cocktails, and cocktails that use eggs.

In brief, cocktails can be broadly divided into two kinds

(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, and hot and cold flavors

(1) Short Drinks:

Needed to be consumed in a short period of time, with a volume of about 60 ml of alcohol, finished in 3-4 gulps, without ice, and without any change of flavor within 10-20 minutes. It has a higher alcohol concentration and is suitable for pre-dinner drinking.

(2) Long Drinks:

Cocktails that don't lose their flavor even if they are left for 30 minutes, with ice, in a tall glass, suitable for drinking during or after meals.

(3) Alcohol Drinks:

Higher-alcohol cocktails fall into this category.

(4) Non-Alcohol Drinks:

Drinks made with lemon juice, orange juice, and so on, that contain no alcohol or only a little alcohol.

(5) Cold Drinks:

Cocktails whose temperature is controlled between 5 and 6 degrees.

(6) Hot Drinks:

Temperature controlled between 60-80 degrees, with Hot Whisky Today being the most representative.

In addition, cocktails can be categorized into 5 flavors, namely: sweet, pungent, medium sweet, medium pungent and sour.

Drinking times are categorized into: before, after and throughout the day.

The four methods of cocktail making:

Shake, stir, blend and stir

Auxiliary methods of cocktail making:

Twist: 1cm x 5cm lemon rind twisted, decorated with wine.

Lemon oil flavoring (zest): squeeze the scented oil from the lemon peel into the cocktail.

Spiral: the peel is cut into a spiral and draped over the glass.

Frosting: Wet the mouth of the glass with a lemon wedge and gently dip the mouth of the glass into refined sugar or fine salt (depending on the recipe).

Making syrup (gomme syrup, sugar syrup, simple syrup): powdered sugar: 100 ℃ boiling water = 3:1 to form a clear colorless syrup

Cocktail terminology:

Base: the most basic alcohol used in cocktail making.

Infused mixer (dash): a measuring device attached to a bitters bottle.

drop: colloquial unit of measurement.

Tea spoon (spoon): a unit of measurement. 1spoon = 10drop

shibori (dry): a slightly spicy cocktail that is mixed only.

Single: 30ml

Double: 60ml

straight: a drink to which nothing is added.

Chaser: First, after drinking a stronger drink, add ice water in the glass to sip, can be neutralized with spirits to keep the taste fresh, can be added according to personal preference instead of soda, beer, mineral water and so on. The second is to add certain materials to the drink to make it float with the wine, such as whipped cream, etc., and the lighter weight of the wine can float on the soda.