Espresso-tini # 1

Espresso-Tini


2 1/2 oz Vanilla Vodka
1 oz Godiva Cappucino Liqueur
2 oz Fresh, Chilled espresso

Add ingredients to a cocktail shaker fillwed with ice and shake well. Serve in a frozen martini glass.

Line the rim of the glass with cinnamon, cocoa, or chocolate powder. 

Four Ways to Drink Corono

Been experimenting/reasearching interesting ways to consume Corona, and have been insanely amazed by how many interesting variations there are.

Here's the top four i've discovered.





The Traditionalist:

12 oz Bottle of Corona
Lime or Lemond Wedge  
Salt

Take a traditional chilled bottle of Corona, and add fresh lime juice. The best way to achieve your desired result is to insert a lime wedge into the neck of the Corona bottle, place your thumb over the top, and flip the bottle upside down (very carefully) so the lime wedge floats to the bottom, which allows the lime to give the most flavor. Lemons also have a similar affect.

Note: try salting the lime or lemon before placing it in the beer to add an even more intense flavor.



Corona Sour

12 oz Bottle of Corona Lager
3 0z Sweet and Sour Mix
1 lime wege

Take a chilled bottle of corona, and fill a chilled pilsner glass 1/3 of the way with Sweet and Sour Mix (Margarita mix works as well). Fill the remainder with chilled Corona.

Serve Pilsner glass with a salted rim, and garnish with a lime wedge.






Beergarita

1 oz Gold Tequila
1 oz Triple Sec
1 oz Lime Juice
12 oz Bottle of Corona Lager



Mix all ingredients (except for the beer) in a blender with ice. Pour into a large pilsner glass (or pint glass), then add chilled Corona on top. Salt the rim of the glass and garnish with a lime wedge.







Michelada

12 oz Mexican Lager (dark is better)
1/4 cup of freshly squeezed lime juice
1-2 dashes of hot sace (such as cholula, tapatio, or tabasco)
1 Dash of soy sauce
1 Dash of worchestshire sauce


In a Pilsner Glass or Pint Glass: Salt the rim of the glass, and fill halfway with ice. Add lime juice, and other ingredients (sans the beer) into the glass while mixing with a bar spoon. Lastly top off the mixture with beer. Garnish with a wedge of lime and serve immedietly.

All those wonderful things that make beer into a COCKTAIL!!!!!

Cocktails and Conversation

Been revisiting the paintings of Brett Lynch. The two paintings below (intended as complimentary paintings but actually seperate works of art), Called Cigar Bar (left) and Evening Lounge, always remind me of that old time post prohibition class. All smoke filled rooms, women drinking martinis, and men who knew how to be snazzy dressers as well as gentlemen. Ah the good old days....

Apple Crisp

Apple Crisp

4 oz applejack

4 oz lemon juice

1 oz Cointreau

crab apple for garnish

Fill a cocktail shaker with ice. Add the ingredients and shake vigorously. Pour into a tall glass with ice and garnish with a speared half crab apple.

The Fresh Sunrise

The Fresh Sunrise

3 lemon wedges

1 tsp sugar

4 oz Alize Bleu

sparkling wine 

Put lemon wedges in a shaker with sugar and muddle. Pour in Alize Bleu, top with ice, and shake vigorously. Then strain into a champagne flute and top with sparkling wine.

         Stolen From:

http://drinksfordrinkers.tumblr.com/post/9908716024/the-fresh-sunrise-3-lemon-wedges-1-tsp-sugar-4

Strawberry Vice

    Strawberry Vice

1 1/2 oz Remy Martin VSOP

1/2 oz vanilla syrup

2 strawberries, halved

Piper Heidsieck champagne

strawberry to garnish

Muddle ingredients and shake over ice.

Strain into champagne flute and top with champagne. Garnish with a strawberry.

*Stolen from
http://drinksfordrinkers.tumblr.com/post/9946334181/strawberry-vice-1-1-2-oz-remy-martin-vsop-1-2-oz 

Shit People Say To Bartenders

Seriously funny video about all the SHIT people say to bartenders. 

Ginger Shandies

Ginger Shandies

3 bottles chilled Hoegaarden beer

1 bottle chilled ginger beer 

 1 thinly sliced lemon

mint sprigs for garnish

In a large pitcher, combine Hoegaarden with ginger beer. Stir in most lemon slices and mint sprigs. Fill 6 rocks glasses with ice. Add remaining lemon slices to glasses and pour in shandy. Garnish each drink with a mint sprig and serve.

     Stolen From: 

http://drinksfordrinkers.tumblr.com/post/9909188552

Behind the stick

Bartending Lingo

• Back - a 'back' is a small glass of something (like water or cola) which accompanies a drink.
  Eg. "Scotch on the rocks with a water back."

• Bar Spoon - a long mixing spoon which often has a lemon zester or something similar on the other end. 

• Bitters - a herbal alcoholic blend which is meant to be added to other cocktails to enhance flavour (e.g a Manhattan is rye, sweet vermouth and a couple dashes of bitters). Angostura Bitters is one of the most popular brands and was first invented by a German physician for stomach maladies in 1824.
  
  
• Blend - To mix up ingredients and ice in an electric blender. Depending on where you live, these could be called frozen drinks or blended drinks.
  
  
• Build - A bar terms meaning to make a drink - starting with ice and then 'building' the drink by adding the other ingredients (i.e. alcohol, juice, garnish etc).
  
  
• Call Drink - Refers to when the customer orders a drink by giving both the specific name of the liquor and the name of the mixer.

• Chaser - In bar terms, anything that is consumed quickly after a shooter or straight (neat) shot of alcohol. Meant to ease the strength of the original shooter and / or to mask its taste.
  
  
• Chill - To chill a glass add ice and then water to any glass and let sit for a minute or two (while mixing the drink in a shaker). Pour out the contents of the glass and strain the drink into the chilled glass. This bar terminology is often used for martinis.
• Cocktail - A mix of alcohol and / or liqueurs combined with a mixer (like soda or juice) and often shaken.
  
  
• Cooler - An alcoholic-based bottled beverage offered in a variety of different alcohols - vodka, rum, wine - which comes in a variety of flavours. (E.g. Smirnoff Ice, Wildberry cooler, Mike's Hard Lemonade).
  
  
• Dash - A few drops or a very small amount of an ingredient.
  
  
• Dirty - Adding olive juice to a martini which makes it a Dirty Martini. The more olive juice, the dirtier the martini. It's a dirty bar terms.
  
  
• Dry - Very little vermouth added to a martini. Extra dry martini is a drop of scotch swirled around the martini glass and then poured out before adding the gin.

• Flame - Setting a drink on fire. Sambucca is often lit on fire to heat it up before putting the flame out and drinking it. Another common method is to use 151-proof rum which is very flammable. It's not recommended to flame drinks unless you are VERY skilled. Bad things can happen!

• Float - when one alcohol sits on top of another alcohol
  in a shooter glass. (E.g. a B-52 shooter contains Kahlua, Irish Cream and Grand Marnier. Kahlua is heavier than Irish Cream which is heavier than GM so each one floats on the other. This can be done by pouring very carefully down the side of the glass or pouring the floated alcohol over an inverted spoon, allowing the alcohol to trickle off the spoon in many directions).
  
  
• Free Pour - To make and mix drinks without using a measuring device like a jigger or measured pour spout. To pour free of an measuring device.
  
  
• Frost - To frost a glass, dip it in water, let it drain and then put it in the freezer. This creates a layer of frost around the glass and works especially well for beer mugs.
  
  
• Garnish - A garnish is something added to a drink after the ingredients to enhance the presentation. Common garnishes are lemon slices or lime wedges, cherries, olives etc. Some garnishes are purely for looks and some are to add to the flavour of the drink.

• Highball - Any liquor mixed with soda, served in a tall glass (often called a highball).
  
  Jigger - A jigger is an hour-glass shaped steel measuring device - where one side measures 1 ounce (30ml) and the other measures 1½ ounces (45ml). However, jiggers come in many different sizes.

• Layer - Layering a shot or drink is done the same way as floating. The heavier alcohol goes on the bottom and the next, lighter alcohol gets floated on top using a careful pour down the side of the glass or a pour over an inverted spoon.
  
  
• Mixer - Mixers are the non-alcoholic 'mixes' that accompany alcohol in drinks. Mixers can be water, soda, juice, energy drinks etc (i.e. in the drink Rum & Coke, the mixer is Coke).
  
• Muddle - To crush up ingredients with a special tool called a muddler. This is done for drinks such as the Mojito - where the muddling process extracts essential oils and flavours (from the mint leaves in case of the Mojito).
  
  
• Neat - This ones important to know in bar terms. If someone asks for a whiskey neat, they are asking for a shot straight out of the bottle. Neat means no ice. Of course that shot must be in a whiskey glass. Whiskey drinkers are picky!
  
  
• Pony - A pony or pony shot is equal to 1 ounce.
  
  
• Premium - Premium refers to premium alcohol or top shelf liquor (E.g. the well or bar rail gin is Beefeater and the premium is Tanqueray)

• Rim - To rim a glass, first wet the rim with a lime, or the lime juice in a rimmer, then gently press the rim of the glass into a saucer of salt (for margaritas and Bloody Marys), celery salt (for Bloody Caesars) or sugar (for specialty coffees and cocktails). Be creative with your rim jobs - try to look for alternatives like crushed candy cane, flavoured salts or other more exotic spices that match well with your drink's ingredients.

• Rocks (On the) - On the rocks simply refers to a drink with ice. Eg. Scotch on the rocks.
  
  
• Roll (aka Box) - Not heard all to often in bar terms. To roll or box a drink, first build the drink then pour it once into and out of a shaker tin. This gently mixes the drink.
  
  
• Sangria - A wine-based cocktail that contains wine, triple sec, orange juice and fruit. Many variations exist and some recipes may call for the addition of a different juice or may not contain triple sec but the basis of this drink is wine and juice.

• Shaker Tin - A shaker tin is usually metal while the mixing glass is made from, well, glass. Used to mix cocktails, first ice and ingredients are added to the shaker tin, then the mixing glass placed on top (creating a seal) and shaken.

• Shake - Fill a glass with ice, build the ingredients, then pour everything into a shaker tin and shake. Pour everything back into the original glass. Or, if you are an experienced bartender then you will be able to fill the shaker with ice and ingredients in perfect proportions.
  
  
• Shake and Strain - Put ice and ingredients into a shaker tin, shake and strain into a glass. Often used for shooters and martinis.
  
  
• Shooter - a shooter or shot is a 1-2 ounce serving of either straight liquor (like Tequila) or a mixture of alcohol (like a B-52 Shooter - Irish Cream, Kahlua and Grand Marnier) that is meant to be drank (or shot) in one gulp.
  
  
• Sour - the term 'sour' refers to the sourness of sour bar mix, bar lime mix, lime bar mix or margarita mix (all different names for what are essentially the same thing), which are used in many cocktails (such as a Margarita). If someone orders a Vodka Sour, they want vodka and bar lime mix.
  
  
• Speed Rail - This bar terminology typically means the long stainless steel shelf connected to the front of the sinks and ice well at bartender stations behind the bar. It holds the most commonly ordered liquor eg. rum, vodka, gin and whiskey, and possibly other popular liqueurs or mixes.
  
  
• Straight up - Refers to a drink, like a martini, which is shaken in a shaker and strained into a glass. In some areas, straight up is used interchangeably with 'neat'.
  
  
• Strain - To drain the liquid out of a shaker tin

• Toddy -A sweetened drink of liquor and hot water, often with spices and served in a tall glass. 

• Twist - The rind of a lemon which is peeled using a special peeler. The resulting lemon twist is thin and long.
  
  
• Virgin - refers to a non-alcoholic drink. Used to order common cocktails minus the alcohol. Eg. Virgin Bloody Mary, Virgin Pina Colada.
  
  
• Well Drink - Last but not least for bar terms, Unlike a Call Drink, a well drink is a drink where neither the brand of the liquor or brand of the mix is mentioned (E.g Gin & Tonic, Rum & Coke).