Science Of Drink

It is one of modern fetish. My favorite recipe is not so simple as original (or common).

Tequila Sunrise

7 ml grenadine
7 ml creme de cassis
splash soda
fill the orange juice
20 ml reposado tequila
Shake grenadine, creme de cassis, soda and strain in icefilled collins glass. Add ice and orange juice, float tequila.

DOOLEY`S is a very delicious toffee cream liqueur. Today I prepare one of my favorite after dinner cocktail with this liqueur.

I am appreciate Darcy for recipe.

Milky Way Martini 

40 ml Dooley’s Toffee Liqueur
20 ml chocolate liqueur
10 ml vodka
Shake. Cocktail glass with a maraschino cherry on the rim.

It is  easy way to be a “cool” barman (in some womans eyes) :)

The Martini, undoubtedly, is a GREATEST drink. In my TOP Martini has 1st place. Today I decide to prepare some curious thing as Dirty Martini.

Dirty Martini

60 ml gin
9 ml dry vermouth
2 olive juice (I use liquid from can with olives)
Stir. Frosted cocktail glass, sprayed with lemon zest, garnish with olives.

It is NO dry (of course!), but so delicious…

Manhattan is one of my favorite cocktail. Today we taste one of many variations of Manhattan.

Special Manhattan Cocktail

50 ml canadian whisky
20 ml sweet vermouth
1 tsp Campari
Stir with ice. Cocktail glass, garnish with a maraschino cherry.

Great version of great cocktail.

Sambuca is one of my favorite liqueur. First – I like sweet anise flavor and taste of it. Second I like very much to ignite sambuca on saturday night and go to the club. I use in practice my own method of flaming sambuca which is so similar to traditional con mosca.

Flaming Sambuca. Step 1. Equipment.

Prepare some equipment, which you can see on foto. You need so big and thick-walled snifter, old-fashioned or rocks glass, jigger, bar-spoon, napkin, straw, matches.

Flaming Sambuca. Step 2.

Put 3/4 – 1 oz (20 – 30 ml) of sambuca in the snifter and add 1 dash of coffee liqueur in old-fashioned glass (I use Kahlua). If you want to drink flaming sambuca in traditional con mosca way, omit the coffee liqueur and put three coffee beans (which symbolise health, wealth and good luck) into a snifter. Use good sambuca for good results.

Flaming Sambuca. Step 3. Flame the night.

Rotate snifter some times and set on the fire. Continue to rotate snifter. Please operate VERY carefully.

Flaming Sambuca. Step 4. Fire show.

Pour the flame in old-fashioned glass.

I think it is beautiful.

Flaming Sambuca. Step 5. Blow out.

Extinguish a fire in this way:

Flaming Sambuca. Step 5. Drinking of flamed sambuca.

Place snifter over napkin with a straw in pictured way:

Drink a hot sambuca (warning! very, very hot sambuca may cause of burn! sip responsibly) and inhalate from a snifter. Enjoy!

It is infrequent case to use tangerine juice. Tangerine is one of my favotite citrus, and this cocktail is big windfall for me.

Luigi Cocktail

20 ml fresh tangerine juice
30 ml gin
15 ml dry vermouth
7 ml Cointreau
7 ml grenadine
Shake. Cocktail garnish, garnish with a lemon twist.

Admirable!

Sip slowly and feel as this Velvet Hammer to pet your lips and mind.

Velvet Hammer

30 ml Cointreau
30 ml coffee liqueur (I use Kahlua)
30 ml cream
Shake. Cocktail glass.

Today`s post has very intresting name – Kamikaze with Balalaika…
It is clear in one`s mind - austere Japanese with russian folk musical
instrument. Great and beautifull picture, of course…

:)

This two ”real” cocktails have only one differences - juice. Balalaika is older cocktail than Kamikaze, and as balalaika has three strings it has three ingredients – vodka, cointreau, fresh lemon juice. Kamikaze include fresh lime juice instead lemon juice, and I have no idea as Balalaika turn into Kamikaze in this way.

Our goal on today`s frosty evening is a copmarsion of this cocktail.

Balalaika

25 ml vodka
25 ml Cointreau
25 ml fresh lemon juice
Shake vigorously and strain in cocktail glass. Garnish with lemon slice.

Kamikaze

25 ml vodka
25 ml Cointreau
25 ml fresh lime juice
Shake vigorously and strain in cocktail glass. Garnish with lime slice.

Conclusion:

1. Both drink are admirable.
2. Balalaika has reach smooth citrus taste and smell without perceptible spirituose smell. The taste and smell of Kamikaze are bright and refreshing. Kamikaze seems more strong, Balalaika more sweet.
3. In my opinion Balalaika is a all-the-year-round aperitif – simple but great, Kamikaze is summer strong refresher drink.

Some notes:

1. MUST! Use good premium vodka (non-flavoring of course!) and Cointreau.
2. MUST! Use only fresh squeezed juice, not syrup or juice from pack or can (and use only fresh ripe fruits).
3. IT IS GOOD! Chill your cocktail glasses in freezer.
4. IT IS GOOD! Sip slowly and responsibly.
5. IT IS GOOD! Take no more three or four for the evening…

Champagne, or sparkling wine, is a great, admirable drink. Thank you, GOD, for such thing as champagne!

Now we imbibe with two great champagne cocktails - Death in the afternoon (for
boys) and Mimosa (for girls).

Death in the Afternoon

30 ml pastis (Pernod)
Fill glass with well chilled champagne.
Champagne glass.

Mimosa

10 ml orange liqueur (like Cointreau or better Grand Marnier, but I use Naranjas by Teichenne)
Fill glass on half with the orange fresh.
Fill glass with well chilled champagne.
Champagne glass.

Admirable!

May be connection of Blue Electric Margarita…

Green Iguana

15 ml tequila
30 ml melon liqueur
60 ml sweet and sour
Shake. Cocktail glass with salt rim.

Green drink :)