Catalog of cocktails

B-52 cocktail recipeIngredients for the B-52 cocktail 1/3 coffee liqueur  Kahlúa 1/3 Irish cream (Baileys Irish Cream) 1/3 liqueur  "Cointreau" It is originated in the USA. The name of this cocktail refers from the US B-52 bomber. It has an "explosive" effect, by which the mixture affects person's system. That is why the cocktail suits best for an active evening and it is so popular in the night clubs in the USA as well as in Europe.  How to make B-52 cocktailCooking of this cocktail is realized by means of stacking-up one ingredient over the other in same turn as it is described above. Pour the components slowly over the back of a cold bar spoon holding at the edge of a shooter glass 50ml. If not to mix the components, it is possible to create a nice visual effect.  If you want to fire the alcohol Cointreau containing, it is preferably to use a fireproof glass (not cut-glass). It is served with a soda straw and drink in one shot. RecommendationsIn order to fire the B-52 cocktail, do not put Cointreau into the fridge, it should not be cold. Set on fire and wait a red flame, than put out the fires and drink fast through a soda straw. One likes to drink burning cocktail, but it's not right. Your soda straw melts...

Blue LagoonIngredients: 50ml Vodka 25ml Blue Curacao liqueur 25ml fresh lemon juice 100ml soda-water IceThe history of the cocktail was started by an American bartender Andy MakElhon in the beginning of 1960's. Right that time European market was flooded with Blue Curacao liqueur, which adds the cocktail an amazing color. The drink won all hearts of millions, as well as the film of the same name. However the cocktail was named not after the film, but after Icelandic Thermal Resort. The bartender was so charmed with its beauty, so he gave the cocktail its name without a moment's hesitation. According to another version, Blue Lagoon cocktail was created in Haiti by the painter Paul Gauguin. He could not take Absinthe for medical reasons. So the Frenchman has been mixing different types of alcohol drinks until he got a perfectly bright blue variant. But this legend did not find support. Thanks to its quality to quench one's thirst and renovate the system, the cocktail will be a perfect and essential component of any hot and broiling day. In addition, the cocktail has an amazing sweet aroma, it increases tonus level of every cell of the body. Besides this cocktail is delight for the eye thanks to its sky blue color. The...

Cuba Libre cocktail recipe Ingredients for Cuba Libre cocktail : — 50-60 ml White or Golden Rum — half a lime juice — 2/3 Coca-cola It goes about one of the most famous and popular drinks of the world. Cuba Libre cocktail came in 1900 in Havana (Cuba). American soldiers mixed up Cuba Rum and Cola with a toast for free Cuba «Viva la Cuba libre», which means "Up with free Cuba". How to make Cuba Libre cocktail Take highball glass filled with crushed ice and add all the ingredients. First Rum, then squeeze half a lime and add Coca-cola. Put some salt and mix the drink with a stir or a soda straw. You can garnish a glass with a soda srtaw. Variants Cuba Libre Supreme is cooking in the following way. Mix 40-50 ml Southern Comfort and half a lime juice in old fashioned filled with crushed ice. Add some salt and mix with stir.

Daiquiri cocktail recipe Ingredients: — 6/10 white Rum — 3/10 lemon or lime juice — 1/10 sugar syrupAccording to the traditional recipe Daiquiri Cocktail is the founder of by a big Daiquiri family. As you know the cocktail appeared in the Cuban city of the same name in the beginning of the last century. There are two legends of the origin of this cocktail. The first goes that one American sailor having found nothing but Rum in a grog shop, using sugar, medium lime and cushed ice, made a mix and named it lately as a Daiquiri.Another story is patriotic and it goes about a Cuban engineer. He hold a course for manganese mines, Daiquiri region. He had just Rum to quench the workers' thirst. The engineer asked a farmer, living close to the mines, a basket of limes and granulated sugar. Then took out ice from the outfit for mineworkers and make a simple mix of this cocktail. The result was so successful the workers distributed the recipe through the island. No matter what legend is true, according to its ability to quench once thirst, the Daiquiri cocktail remains the most popular cocktail in the world. How to make Daiquiri cocktail. To shake active all the  ingredients with ice and pure the drink filtering through a...

Caipirinha cocktail recipe Components: 40-50 ml Cachaça 1 lime 2 teaspoons of granulated sugar It is one of the main classic and simple usage of Cachaça. Cachaça is Brazil's national cocktail. At the beginning of the last century Caipirinha was a traditional drink of "caipira", which refers to someone from the countryside. It was imported to Europe in the beginning of the 70's and became exactly the cocktail which made Cachaça well-known. Just Cachasa Pitii could be found those days in Italy. It was also the leading type of vodka in Brazil. Toady more than 20 types of this South American distillate are on sale.  The cocktail is good for outdoor and indoor leisure time. Drink any time.  How to cook Caipirinha cocktail You can cook it in a shaker by shaking ingredients for some seconds and serve it in any glass similar to an old fashioned glass. There is more accurate method of cooking Caipirinha cocktail. Cut lime into halves and extract a white vein.  Cut a half of lime into 6 pieces and put into a glass. Put sugar and crush up. Cover with crushed ice (Frappé). Put Cachaça and do not forget to mix the cocktail.

Long Island Ice Tea Ingredients 40 ml Vodka 30 ml lemon juice 30 ml Tequila 30 ml Gin 30 мл light Rum Coca-cola According to the recipe Cola serves just like a dye. Despite that, the name of the cocktail contains tea, one can hardly imagine that this cocktail is a real alcoholic bomb. It originates from a name of an island Long Island, the first residential neighborhood of the New York City. The original drink consists of the following ingredients: half a lime juice, 20 ml orange juice, 20 ml Gin, 20 ml light Rum and one splash of Cola. Afterwards the ingredients were altered and all in all the above given recipe appeared. How to make Long Island Ice Tea cocktail. Take a big glass with ice, put all the ingredients and add some Cola. Garnish with a lemon wedge.   

Mai Tai cocktail recipe Components 2/10 light Rum 2/10 dark Rum 2/10 lime juice 2/10 orange liqueur Curacao (Quantro) 1/10 Grenadine syrup 1/10 Orgeat syrup Mai Tai was invented by Victor J. Bergeron in 1944 at his restaurant, Trader Vic's. A famous exotic restaurant chain, United States. Also he included the recipe into Bartender’s Guide, which is his own written guide. Nevertheless, the name originates from Tahitian «Mai tai rо а ае», which means "The end of the world - there is nothing better!" One pronounces the exclamation twice after the cocktail. How to make Mai Tai cocktail Put all the ingredients into a glass filled with ice and shake it. Garnish it with a piece of pineapple, Maraschino cherry and mint stem. If you want to make your cocktail more flavor, put some dashes of Lime Rose’s. You can take Mai Tai any time a day. It is good for theme parties.

Margarita cocktail recipe Ingredients 5/10 Tequila 3/10 triple sec (Quantro or any other orange liqueur) 2/10 lemon or lime juice An old recipe book dated 1924 tells the story of Margarita cocktail. One poor Mexican fishman coming back to the city, saw a beautiful daughter of the governor and fall in love. The name of a girl was Margarita. Returned to his village, helpless to forget her, he started taking drink made of Tequila, lemon juice and semisweet liqueur. Between drinks the unlucky swallowed salt from his palm. His friends asked him salt and the same cocktail and gave the name to this cocktail Margarita. Visitors of the village populated the cocktail as well as love story. One city bartender Herrera made the drink famous on a national level. Another story connects the cocktail with Margarita Sames, who invented the drink at the end of World War II by mixing the following ingredients: Tequila, Quantro, lime juice, crusta made of salt around a glass rim. The original ingredients were back in 1933, the difference is just in triple sec. In America Margarita is consumed as an aperitif. How to make Margarita. Prepare a glass by moistening the rim with lemon and dipping it in a saucer with some salt. Mix all the...

Mojito cocktail ingredients — 50-60 ml light Rum — lime — fresh mint — soda water with sugar or tonic water Mojito is a wonderful drink to quench one's thirst. Mojito recipe came from Havana, the capital of Cuba, in a small restaurant-bar «Bodeguita del Medio», which locates two steps from the cathedral Calle Emperador. The restaurant was founded by Martínez family in 1942. And it still welcomes guests at the same bar in colonial style at the very heart of the city. Many famous people had been visiting this place, Ernest Hemingway was among them. His photo is in the restaurant. How to make Mojito at home. Muddle sugar and lime with soda water in glass. Mush mint leaves slightly with a stir. Add crushed ice and mint spring. Pour Rum and add soda water mixing carefully. It is possible to use tonic water at home instead of soda water. Garnish with lime wedge and 2 soda straws. Advice It is good to use big soda straws, because small ones can trap pieces of ice and mint leaves. Blender can be used to crush ice. Ideally to use ice breaker. It is possible to use ice in pieces, but spice of the cocktail will be lost.  

Tequila Sunrise cocktail recipe Ingredients: 3/10 Tequila 6/10 orange juice 1/10 Grenadine  Tequila Sunrise cocktail appeared in the 1950's. Thanks to a famous American distillate Tequila, the cocktail was spread all over the world. The name of the cocktail is symbolic and means sun rising. Really, Grenadine does not mix with the rest of the ingredients and makes chromatic effect, which resembles sunrise. How to make Tequila Sunrise cocktail. Use a tumbler (glass) filled with crushed ice, add Tequila, fresh squeezed just made orange juice (it is necessary to use an orange with yellow flesh, not red one). Mix carefully with a stir. Add Grenadine, paying attention it should not mix with the rest of the ingredients. As a result a nice chromatic effect will be achieved. Garnish with pineapple slices at the edge of a glass, Maraschino cherry, cream and soda straws. Variations: Tequila Sunrise Long 3/10 Tequila 7/10 orange juice One splash of Grenadine Tequila Sunrise Short 1/10 Grenadine 1 /10 lemon juice  2/10 Galliano liqueur 2/10 Banana liqueur 4/10 Tequila

White Russian cocktail recipe Ingredients: - 60 ml Vodka - 30 ml liqueur Kahlúa - 15 ml cream Ice  Medium Highball Glass White Russian cocktail is one of the most popular cocktails with vodka in the world. If you ask any bartender to name cocktails with vodka, this will be in the first ten. Thanks to this the cocktail is considered to be a classic one. It means that its flavor properties were duly appreciated by people. White Russian cocktail has a cream and coffee flavour with a perceptible taste of vodka. It is a stiff and elegant drink. It is a favorite drink of Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski, the character of "The Big Lebowski". After this film, the cocktail became popular and stopped treated as woman. Many cocktails were made on the basis of White Russian cocktail, different by ingredients:•    White Cuban - Rum instead of Vodka; •    White Trash - Whisky instead of Vodka; •    А paleimage of Russian - Bathtub gin (Samogonka) instead of Vodka; •    Gay Russian - cherry liqueur instead of liqueur  Kahlúa; •    Dirty Russian - chocolate milk instead of  cream; •    Impale Russian - liqueur  Sheridan instead of coffee liqueur Kahlúa and cream; •    Bolshevik - liqueur Baileys...