Science Of Drink

Daiquiri Cocktail is pure classic cocktail which was invented in 1898 by J. Cox. But the Wondrich point of view is closest for me. This simple composition of rum, lime and sugar is one of great cocktail in the world. The Daiquiri Cocktail is second place in my favorite cocktails list this summer (after Margarita Cocktail).

One of the best recipe of Daiquiri Cocktail I found on the book Cocktails and Mixed Drinks by Anthony Hogg. This british naval officer is a good judge of rum cocktails :) The same recipe I found on CocktailDB.

Daiquiri

50 ml white cuban rum
15 ml fresh lime juice
6 dash simple syrup
Shake. Cocktail glass.

The Daiquiri Cocktail is excellent refreshing drink. The taste of Daiquiri is little sour with potent rum notes.

For bright and strong rum taste in the Daiquiri Cocktail I use sugar syrup from dark sugar such unrefined Demerara brown sugar or Muscovado (dark unrefined sugar with strong molasses flavor). Some dash of sugar syrup from this sugar give us Ideal Daiquiri Cocktail with rich and smooth taste of rum.

My Ideal Daiquiri

50 ml white cuban rum
15 ml fresh lime juice
1-3 dash sugar syrup (Demerara or Muscovado)
5-3 dash simple syrup
Shake. Cocktail glass.

The best results I obtain with cuban light rum - Havana Club Anejo Blanco. This great rum is my choice of rum in Mojito and in Daiquiri too.

Ideal concoction for hot summer days is Frozen Cocktails, particularly Frozen Margaritas. Actually, my favorite Ultimate Margarita I prefer only straight up, but its fruit sisters are great frozen.

Frozen Melon Margarita

45 ml tequila
30 ml Midori melon liqueur
60 ml sweet and sour mix
Blend with appropriate quantity of ice until smooth. Serve in margarita glass. Garnish with lime wheel.

De facto, it is my first frozen cocktail. It has pure-like consistence and it is ice-cold. Great smooth and light cocktail.

Frozen Watermelon Margarita

45 ml tequila
30 ml watermelon liqueur
60 ml sweet and sour mix
Blend with appropriate quantity of ice until smooth. Serve in margarita glass. Garnish with lime wheel.

The Watermelon Margarita is very popular cocktail among my guests. Frozen version is great too. Bright and delicious cocktail.

Frozen Apple Margarita

45 ml tequila
30 ml apple liqueur (or schnapps)
60 ml sweet and sour mix
Blend with appropriate quantity of ice until smooth. Serve in margarita glass. Garnish with lime wheel.

Frozen Apple Margarita is admirable cocktail. It has smooth and little sour apple taste. Great!

One of my new bottle is great black bottle of Passoa Passion Fruit liqueur. Passoa Passion Fruit liqueur is modern creature of Remy-Cointreau Company. It was launched 1986 in European market and 1994 worldwide. This bright pink liqueur has exotic sweet taste of passion fruit juice, citrus and herbs. Great thing for easy summer cocktails.

I collect some interesting cocktails with Passoa Passion Fruit liqueur:

Pink Passion

30 ml vodka
30 ml Passoa Passion fruit liqueur
1 b.s. fresh lime (lemon) juice
fill with lemon-lime soda
Build in a collins glass with ice cubes. Garnish with lime wedges.

Very sweet refreshing cocktail with great tropical taste and bright color. Admirable drink.

Next drink has great pink color and it is one of cosmos, of course.

Passionate Cosmo

40 ml vodka
20 ml Passoa Passion fruit liqueur
20 ml Cointreau
1 bsp. fresh lime juice
Shake and strain into cocktail glass. Garnish with a lime wheel.

Strong and sweet cocktail. Clear passion in the glass.

The author of next cocktail is one of my favorite barman - The Maestro - Salvatore Calabrese. Actually cocktail with that name (and similar composition) was my first post on this blog :)

Bay of Passion

30 ml vodka
30 ml Passoa Passion fruit liqueur
60 ml cranberry juice
60 ml fresh grapefruit juice
Shake. Strain into a highball filled with ice. Garnish with a maraschino cherry on the rim.

It is modern dance-club-style cocktail with interesting bitter-sweet and exotic taste. Water, sugar, alcohol - and all you need is love :)

Next cocktail is similar to tiki-cocktail. Add more kind of rum and you obtain real tiki-monster :)

Passion Dream

40 ml light rum
20 ml Passoa Passion fruit liqueur
50 ml fresh orange juice
20 ml pineapple juice
20 ml fresh grapefruit juice
1-2 tsp. grenadine
Shake and strain into ice-filled double-rocks glass. Garnish with a flag.

This tropic punch has sweet and exotic taste. Good concoction for hot summer days on the beach.

This cocktail is rare chance to use Tennessee whiskey. Jack Daniels is U.S. single-malt whiskey distilled from corn mash with rye (used sour mash technology) and filtered through charcoal. One of promotional cocktail of Jack Daniels is Lynchburg Lemonade (modern concoction by Tony Mayson from Alabama).

Lynchburg Lemonade

30 ml Jack Daniel’s whiskey
30 ml triple sec (Cointreau)
30 ml sweet and sour
lemon-lime soda
Stir all ingredients with a lot of ice in highball glass. Garnish with a lemon wedge and maraschino cherrie.

The Lynchburg Lemonade Cocktail is so tasty, sweety, citrus concoction. Is admirable cocktail for happy summer days.

In my new book The Craft of the Cocktail: Everything You Need to Know to Be a Master Bartender, with 500 Recipes by Dale DeGroff was found another recipe of Lynchburg Lemonade Cocktail in edition of the Dale DeGroff:

Lynchburg Lemonade (Dale`s DeGroff version)

45 ml Jack Daniel’s whiskey
30 triple sec (Cointreau)
20 ml sweet and sour
7-UP
Shake first three ingredients and strain into an ice-filled highball glass. Top with 7-UP and garnish with lemon wedge and orange slice.

The Dale`s version is great! The Lynchburg Lemonade Cocktail (Dale`s version) is very smooth and refreshing drink.

One of Rose on my blog :) This interesting recipe is splendiferous [wtf???!!!] chance to use one of my fovorite liqueur - Parfait Amour.

English Rose

50 ml gin
20 ml dry vermouth
15 ml Parfait Amour
7.5 ml lemon juice
1 dash grenadine syrup
Shake all ingredients with ice and strain in to a cocktail glass. Garnish with a maraschino cherry.

This cocktail has so dry and eccentric taste. Real English Rose, I think!

Grand Marnier is unique old European liqueur based on best oranges and cognac. Grand Marnier is pure pleasure in a glass and I love this liquor in a cocktails. This interesting cocktail with simple but very inviting composition was found on Esquire Drink Database. I read very interesting story about this cocktail by Wondrich :)

Batiste

50 ml white rum
25 ml Grand Marnier
Shake. Cocktail glass.

Batiste Cocktail has rich strong and sweet taste. It is gorgeous cocktails! This cocktail is my symbol of La Dolce Vita.

This Dale`s DeGroff creation has strange name and very … actually… perspective composotion :) Worth to try, I think!

209 East Cocktail

60 ml tequila Sauza Hornitos
30 ml Cointreau
15 ml strawberry Liqueur
30 ml fresh lime juice
Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

I use tequila Leyenda Del Milagro Reposado (100% de Agave) instead Sauza Hornitos. This cocktail is so good :) … But it is *hidden* strawberry margarita :)

The Pick Me Up Cocktail from my last post impress me. This post is devoted to some variations of Pick Me Up Cocktail which was found on Cocktail DB. All of this pick-me-up contains champagne, it is very interesting on my opinion.

I.b.f. Pick Me Up Cocktail [wtf the i.b.f??? Internationla Bartender Federation???] contains my favorite anti-abuse remedy - french bitter - Fernet-Branca.

I.b.f. Pick Me Up

45 ml brandy
8 ml orange curacao
8 ml Fernet-Branca
champagne
Build in highball glass filled with ice. Garnish with a lemin twist.

The I.b.f. Pick Me Up Cocktail has so dry taste with herbal bitternes of Fernet-Branca. It is interesting cocktail.

Next pick-me-up contains pastis - another great anti-abuse thing. I use Ricard as usualy.

Pick Me Up Hiball

60 ml brandy
8 ml orange curacao
8 ml fresh orange juice
8 ml pastis
champagne
Shake brandy, liqueur and juice with ice and strain into highball glass filled with ice. Fill with champagne and float pastis.

The taste of Pick Me Up Hiball cocktail is so dry too. It is real buzz :)

The Harry’s Pick Me Up was invented by famous Harry McElhone on 1925.

Harry’s Pick Me Up

45 ml brandy
15 ml grenadine
30 ml fresh lemon juice
champagne
Build brandy, juice and syrup in a highball glass and stir. Fill the champagne.

The Harry’s Pick Me Up Cocktail has sweet and sour refreshing taste. Admirable cocktail.

Cocktails are a good thing, but, actually, they contains poison :) One of great problem of imbibing is an abuse of alcohol.

Classic cocktails for case of abuse of alcohol are “corpse rivivers” and “pick-me-up”. I try something thereof. First recipe of Corpse Revivver #1 Cocktail was found in Cocktails and Mixed Drinks by Anthony Hogg. The author of this recipe is famous John Johnson from Savoy`s Amerivcan Bar. The cocktail was invented in 1948.

Corpse Reviver #1 (a)

30 ml brandy
30 ml Fernet-Branca
30 ml creme de menthe white
Shake. Cocktail glass.

It is wonderfull cocktail! Real remedy.

Another recipe of Corpse Reviver #1 was found on Cocktail DB. The author of this corpse reviver is Frank Meier, barman of parisian Ritz Hotel. The cocktail was invented in 1920s.

Corpse Reviver #1(b)

30 ml brandy
20 ml apple brandy
20 ml sweet vermouth
Stri well with ice. Cocktail glass.

This cocktail has very strong taste. It is not my choice.

The name of Pick-Me-Up Cocktail enamour me. This recipe was found in Cocktails and Mixed Drinks by Anthony Hogg.

Pick-Me-Up Cocktail

30 ml cognac
30 ml dry vermouth
30 ml pastis
Stir well with ice. Cocktail glass.

I shake this cocktail and use Ricard as pastis. The result is great! The Pick-Me-Up Cocktail is admirable cocktail. Another great remedy for crapulent.

This cocktail is great chance of mixing with Drambuie liqueur - legendary strong and sweet whisky-based liqueur with honey and herbs. Pure classic!

Rusty Nail

35 ml scotch (Famous Grouse 12 y.o.)
20 ml Drambuie
Build. Old-faschioned glass with ice.

Sweet and strong digestive. Admirable cocktail.