Science Of Drink

Strange creation of famous tiki-bartender Don “Beach” Beachcomber. Cocktail Waikiki Beachcomber has very classic construction - main alcohol + liqueur (sweetener) + juice (mixer). Only pineapple juice demonstrate exotic soul of this cocktail :)

Waikiki Beachcomber

30 ml gin
30 ml Cointreau
30 ml pineapple juice
Shake. Cocktail glass.

Admirable cocktail with bright exotic-candy taste.

This concoction is one of the rare case to use Bols Red Orange. Unintelligible cocktail was found on Drinksmixer - a dump of strange cocktail recipe.

Bloody Sun

20 ml gin
20 ml Bols Red Orange liqueur
10 ml Cointreau
orange juice
Shake gin, orange liqueur and cointreau. Pour into a glass filled with ice cubes and fill with orange juice. Old-Fashioned glass.

It is ordinary “tropical” drink with light, sweet and citrus taste. Nothing special.

The recipe of Florodora was found on Esquire Drink DB (by D. Wandrich). This net resource is one of my favorite. Thanks Dave!

Florodora

60 ml London dry gin
15 ml fresh lime juice
15 ml Chambord liqueur (I use BOLS Raspberry)
ginger ale
Shake well with 4 to 5 ice cubes in a chilled cocktail shaker, then pour unstrained into a Collins glass and top off with cold ginger ale.

Admirable summer cocktail!

Fraises Fizz is my favorite fizz cocktail. This recipe was found in M. Jackson`s Bar and Cocktail Book. I prefer use smooth and light gin (like Seagrams) in this cocktail.

Fraises Fizz

45 ml gin
30 ml strawberry liqueur
2 tsp. fresh lemon juice
soda water
Shake. Serve in collins or hiball and add soda. Garnish with lemon twist and strawberry.

Admirable!

Campari is amazing bitter apperetif from Italy. It consist of some herbs, citrus zest and neutral spirit. Campari may provoke the appetite of a wolf :)

Campari has beautiful red (carmine) color like a sun.

Americano

30 ml Campari
30 ml sweet vermouth
soda (optional)
Build. Old-fashioned glass with lemon twist.

This admirable cocktail has very interesting bitter-sweet taste and amazing red shine.

Another classical cocktail with Campari is a Negroni. This cocktail has name of Count Camillo Negroni, who prefer Americano with gin instead soda and witn orange wheel garnish.

Negroni

30 ml gin
30 ml Campari
30 ml sweet vermouth
Build. Old-fashioned glass with orange wheel.

Admirable and very reflexing cocktail. It is my choice before party!

Please give me a pizza now!!!

This cocktail is one of my wifes favorite cocktail. Cocktail Bronx was invented by Jonny Solon in 1906.

Bronx

45 ml gin
15 ml vermouth dry
15 ml vermouth sweet
15 ml fresh orange juice
15 ml fresh lemon juice
Shake. Cocktail glass (or wine glass), garnish with orange wheel.

No bad! :)

My wife ask me to prepare some interesting sour cocktail with lemon juice. We looking for recipe on my favorite CocktailDB and found this interesting recipe. The composition of gin and calvados seems so good (like one of my favorite Golden Dream).

Margaret Rose

30 ml gin
30 ml calvados
15 ml Cointreau
15 ml fresh lemon juice
1 dash grenadine
Shake. Cocktail glass.

Admirable!

Some people think that blue cocktail is not serious. It unworthy of real imbiber, but I think different :) For example, this cocktail is very serious - 2 oz of gin is no joke!

Blue Bird

60 ml gin
30 ml Cointreau
30 ml blue curacao
1-2 dash Angostura bitter
Shake. Cocktail glass, garnish with lemon twist and cherry.

It is potent aperitif with bright bitter-sweet taste.

Hmm… Variations? It is very interesting… I decide to explore one of “real man” cocktail, one of cocktail which no recomend to woman… I explore Long Ilend Iced Tea, dorks!

A few informations:

http://www.webtender.com/iforum/message.cgi?id=56793

http://wiki.webtender.com/wiki/Long_Island_Iced_Tea

Long Ilend Iced Tea

20 ml gin
20 ml tequila
20 ml vodka
20 ml light rum
20 ml Cointreau
20 ml fresh lemon juice
50 ml cola
Shake all ingredients except cola, strain in ice-filled collins glass (400 ml) and fill with cola. Garnish with lemon slice.<.lang_en>

It is very “refreshing” drink with a big, nuclear kick. LIIT has some variations, which I try too.

Variations:

Long Beach Iced Tea: Simply a Long Island with cranberry juice instead of Coca-Cola. Named after the city of Long Beach, NY, (not Long Beach, CA, as many believe) which is on Long Island, and is where the drink was invented.

Long Beach Iced Tea

20 ml gin
20 ml tequila
20 ml vodka
20 ml light rum
20 ml Cointreau
20 ml fresh lemon juice
50 ml cranberry juice
Shake all ingredients except juice, strain in ice-filled collins glass (400 ml) and fill with cranberry juice. Garnish with lemon slice.

Admirable!

Adios Motherfucker: Also known as a “Code Blue” or “Blue Fucker” due to its azure hue, this concoction is topped with Sprite instead of Coca-Cola and utilizes blue curacao instead of triple sec.

Adios Motherfucker

20 ml gin
20 ml tequila
20 ml vodka
20 ml light rum
20 ml blue curacao
20 ml fresh lemon juice
50 ml sprite
Shake all ingredients except sprite, strain in ice-filled collins glass (400 ml) and fill with sprite. Garnish with lemon slice.

Another great “refreshers” ;) Has nuclear color, taste and kick!

Tokyo Tea: This libation uses the same liquors as the original Long Island, but is crowned with one-half to one full ounce of Midori instead of Coca-Cola. Also referred to as a “Three Mile Island.”

Tokyo Tea

20 ml gin
20 ml tequila
20 ml vodka
20 ml light rum
20 ml Cointreau
20 ml fresh lemon juice
30 ml Midori
splash of club soda
Shake all ingredients except soda, strain in ice-filled collins glass (400 ml) and add of club soda. Garnish with lemon slice.

I feel myself like real japanese after this very “refreshing” drink ;)

Unfortunately, I don`t have health for continuing of investigation and next variations of LIIT I want to try in future after some visit to my hepatologist :)

California Iced Tea: Calls for Amaretto in place of tequila and triple sec and topped with equal parts cranberry and pineapple juices.

Hawaiian Iced Tea: Shuns tequila and triple sec in favor of a full ounce of Chambord, and is topped with Sprite instead of Coca-Cola.

Miami Iced Tea: Reflecting the tropical setting of its name, this fruitier tea shuns triple sec and tequila in favor of Midori and peach schnapps, and is topped with orange juice instead of Coca-Cola.

Caribbean Iced Tea: This recipe utilizes a full ounce of dark jamaican rum, usually Myer’s, in place of tequila and vodka. Like the Long Island, it is topped with Coca-Cola.

Super Special LIT: Apart from the usual Gin, Vodka, Rum, Tequila, triple sec etc, it also includes a shot of Whiskey. The triple sec can also be substituted with Archer’s Peach Schnapps.

Georgia Iced Tea: This drink calls for sweet tea and sugar in place of Coke, which is ironic since Coca Cola is headquartered in Atlanta.

Martini is no great cocktail only but vermouth. This cocktail is Grand Martini (& Rossi of course).

Grand Martini

1 dash Creme de menthe green
3 dashes kirsch
4 dashes apricot brandy
30 ml dry vermouth
30 ml sweet vermouth
30 ml dry gin
Shake. Cocktail glass.

Grand drink!