For horse lovers: "Belmont Breeze"

Some Dale Degroff in 1998 created a cocktail for official receptions at the races in Belmonte, drink quickly became popular among fans of horse racing. And if there was no horse named Breeze, who won? 
40 ml bourbon (Maker's Mark)
20 ml sherry (Harveys Bristol Cream)
20 ml fresh lemon juice
20 ml sugar syrup
40 ml of freshly squeezed orange juice
40 ml of cranberry juice
30 ml of Seven-Up
30 ml of soda
mint, strawberry, lemon for decoration

All the ingredients with ice, mix in a shaker. Decorate with fresh strawberries, a sprig of mint or a slice of lemon.

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Singapore Sling

In the early 1900's, Ngiam Tong Boon from the hotel Raffles Hotel in Singapore for the first time mixing this cocktail. Slings previously diluted with cold water, because they will contain a sugar syrup, sugar or sweet liqueur, and in its pure form are sugary-sweet, now they just make a lot of ice and poured into a glass with ice. Cocktail recipes from this category, many "Singapore Sling" most probably known. There are several variations of this recipe, without a club-soda, a sweet liqueur, with Angostura adding a variety of juices, but I'm introducing you this:
40 ml gin
30 ml lemon juice
7 ml sugar syrup
1.5 tsp caster sugar
60 ml of Club Soda
15 ml cherry brandy
Cherry

Gin, lemon juice, syrup and pour powder into a shaker filled with ice cubes. Shake well, pour in a Highball. Pour club soda, then on the back of a bar spoon pour in brandy, garnish with cherries.

Cocktail Coat Dog

This is one of the cocktails, which added pepper and Tabasco. Many choose " Bloody Mary ", but it is thick, red, drink quite heavily. How different Wool Dog! But be careful, still pepper - this pepper.
160 ml gin Bulldog
15 ml fresh lemon juice
2-3 Dash Tabasco sauce
piece of chili pepper

Fill the shaker with ice, pour gin and there Tabasco, actively shake, pour into a glass, garnish with peppers.

Recipe for Spiced apple cider

This apple cider is a group of hot drink and is best suited for the dank autumn. Nevertheless, it's great to drink in every season, under the appropriate mood. If you feel sad, that this bright sunny orange drink that will return the thirst for life. 
4 cups apple cider 
1 cup orange juice 
1 cup rum 
cinnamon sticks 
apple 
orange 
star nails 

In a pan pour the apple cider, then add orange juice, heat at low temperature. Cut the apple and orange into thin slices. Pierce each cloves, let down all in a saucepan. Add the same place two sticks of cinnamon. Heat about 20 minutes. If you want a soft drink, the cooking is finished. 

For an alcoholic version pour into a saucepan a cup of rum, mix well. 

Video lesson for the preparation of this spicy drink inside (English).

B-52. Take off?

This cocktail is a prominent representative of cocktails with layers and cocktails with Kindling . In preparation it is one difficulty. Three of liquor should be poured so that they are not mixed. 
1 part coffee liqueur (eg Kahlua) 
1 part cream liqueur (eg, Baylis) 
1 part orange liqueur (such as Cointreau) 

Pour the liqueur, one after another in a glass-shot. 

If you pour liquor without mixing does not work, do not worry. There is a variation of this cocktail with mixing and adding ice. The result also not bad. 

One of the most popular options - a cocktail they burn quickly and drink through a straw. 

Cocktail incidentally named after a bomber Boeing B-52. Take off?

Virgin Mary

Specially for fans of the nonalcoholic - "Virgin Mary", a variation without vodka cocktail or tequila. 
90 ml of tomato juice 
15 ml lemon juice 
Dash Worcestershire sauce 
salt 
pepper 
burning a little pepper or Tabasco sauce 

Ice and all liquid ingredients to put in a Highball, mix, add spices to taste.

Bloody Mary

There is another version of "Bloody Mary” (Bloody Maria), on the basis of tequila instead of vodka. 
60 ml tequila
1 teaspoon horseradish
3 Dash of Tabasco
3 Dash Worcestershire sauce
1 dash lemon juice
Salt and pepper
tomtny juice
If you wish, add 1 teaspoon of Dijon mustard, 1 sherry dash or 30 ml of brine from the mollusks (clam juice)

In Highball Put ice, pour all liquid ingredients. Top pour tomato juice. Stir through transfusions from one cup to another. 

Bloody Mary-Pepper and peppers

Forgive me fans of the original, but I can not write about a cocktail included in the top 10 most popular. Vowed that this endless procession of all of the "kitsch" in our pages over. So, "Blood Mary", or "Bloody Mary". 
90 ml of tomato juice 
45 ml vodka 
15 ml lemon juice 
1 dash Worcestershire sauce 
Upon request, a splash, and Tabasco sauce 
Salt and pepper 

All the liquid pour into Highball, add ice. Stir. Add salt and pepper to taste. For those who enjoy far more piercing can use nuclear red pepper. 

Aperitifs

Some theory. Alcoholic drinks and cocktails are divided into appetizers and digestive, depending on time of use. Aperitifs (French for "opening") swallowed before meals, they are meant to excite the appetite, irritating the stomach wall. Aperitifs are never big on volume, because, as you know, alcohol in large quantities can affect appetite. In addition, an appetizer and still serves as entertainment for guests while they await the beginning of dinner, their conversation was escorted small amounts of alcohol. The rules, which must comply with aperitifs, as follows: 
Aperitifs should have a fresh savory smell, light, sour or bitter taste. 
For aperitifs are most common juices, mineral water, green tea, of alcoholic components suitable liquors, cognac, vodka, rum, vermouth, calvados, Dry Madeira wine, white port. 
The content of alcohol in the aperitif should be 15-35%. 
Aperitif should be made in small quantities. Spirits - a glass of 35-50 ml, wine and vermouth - a glass of 75 ml. 
If the aperitif prolonged, it serves appetizers that do not stifle your appetite: nuts, fruit pieces, cherries, miniature canapés. 
Aperitifs are single, blended and combined. Single - aperitifs, consisting of a beverage that is served just one kind. Combined - offers multiple options for an appetizer. Mixed - aperitifs, consisting of mixtures of drinks, special cocktails and mixes.

Midnight Smash

Nice berry fruit drink with a bright flavor. Vodka is better to use citrus. 

6 blackberries

juice of 1 lemon, squeezed by hand

30 ml of liquor Averna

30 ml citrus vodka

60 ml ginger beer

Blackberry remembers in a shaker, add lemon juice, liqueur, vodka and ice. For a long time, shake, pour into Highball, pour a beer. Decorate.

Very drunk hot summer evening.

Cocktail Embarrassed

It's one of my favorite cocktails, which can slowly sip on your computer in a tired evening. 

60 ml bourbon

20 ml of liquor Chambered

15 ml of cranberry juice

Lemon twist

In the glass, place a few ice cubes, pour the ingredients on top, and decorate. You can add a few drops of lemon Bitter.

Cocktail "Black nail"

Black Nail - a real Irish drink, a mix of classic Irish whiskey and Irish herbal liqueur. It is simple to prepare, perfect for evening gatherings. 

20 ml Irish whiskey

20 ml liqueur Irish Mist

ice

Orange twist for urkasheniya

In a glass of Old feshend filled with ice, pour in the ingredients, and decorate.

Cocktail Campari Cosmo

60 ml citrus vodka 

30 ml Campari

30 ml orange juice

a little Triple Sec

Pour ingredients into a shaker with ice, shake, pour into chilled cocktail glass, garnish with a slice of orange.

Cocktail Maya Cosmo Meydzhik

30 ml pineapple vodka 

Of 30 ml vanilla vodka

Triple Sec 15 ml

15 ml of cranberry juice

Mix ingredients in a shaker with crushed ice, let it brew for 5 seconds, then shake more actively seconds 5, pour a glass for a martini, garnish with pineapple.

Pink Lemonade

This is your lemonade Pinocchio in the bottle, it is a real cocktail, pink lemonade, it is called by using a pink liqueur and lemonade. 

60 ml of lemonade, you can take any light

30 ml of pink liqueur (eg, X-Rated Fusion Liqueur)

30 ml vodka

Lemon for urkasheniya

Take the Highball with ice, pour into it all the ingredients, stir and garnish. Caution children not to give!

Delicious hot drink

This drink is not as such an official name, he simply delicious and a hot drink. It is more suitable for cold winter nights, but there are maybe one in the summer chills). Do not be ill. 

1 part water

3 sachets of orange tea

Half cup brown sugar

2 cups apple cider

1.5 cups rum

8 sticks cinnamon

3 teaspoons butter

In a pot or saucepan, mix the ingredients, heat, stirring occasionally. Cover the pan with a lid and simmer for 30 minutes. Serve warm, filling in the circles, and sprinkled with cinnamon and oranges.

Honeymoon

I present you the next non-alcoholic cocktail. His name came not because of a romantic honeymoon, which held a young bartender with his wife's beauty. No, it does, it just with the addition of honey, well and, perhaps, its sweetness may resemble honeymoon. 

15 ml honey

10 ml lemon juice

10 ml orange juice

15 ml apple juice

In a shaker filled halfway with ice, add all ingredients shake well and pour through a sieve shaker cocktail glass, and garnish with a lemon can.

If the soft option do not quite satisfied.. You can add 20 ml of vodka Absolute.

Mayday

May Day of Peace and Labor "This day, though, and notes in 66 countries around the world, but not very closes to the subject of drinks and cocktails. 

From 1 to May 3 at the festival of Scottish whiskey. Every country has its national product, its national pride. “Scots are proud of whiskey. With the advent of spring, in Scotland starting time for festivals and events devoted to the whiskey. The first starts on The Spirit of Speyside Whisky Festival. In this day ordinary people can get to the factory distillery in Speyside, to taste their products, dive into the details of the production of the most elite brands of whiskey. During the festival you can taste a very rare species.

Those participants in whom the whiskey begins to wake seething blood ancestors - are invited to take part in Scotland's sports: throwing logs or hammer. Also contests, dinners, soprano, parties, dances, tours...

Cocktail Sangrita Margarita

Make sharp, smart Margarita. The first step is to mix red pepper and tomato juice in suitable proportions for you. Carefully add the peppers. Do not overdo it. Add Tabasco to taste and lemon juice. It will be a pepper mix.

45 ml tequila
70 ml pepper mix of:
3 parts tomato juice
One part of lemon juice or lime juice
1 piece red pepper
Tabasco to taste
Lemon slice or red pepper for decoration
Mix tequila and pepper mix with ice in a shaker. Poperelevayte one shaker at another time 5. Pour into a glass and garnish.

Blue Mojito

30 ml blue liqueur 
60 ml white rum 
6 mint leaves 

In a shaker to shake with rum, liqueur, mint and ice. Pour into a glass of whiskey and pour Club soda.

Apple Mojito

40 ml Bacardi apple rum 
12 fresh mint leaves 
half lime 
7 parts Club Soda 
2 teaspoons simple syrup or 4 tsp sugar 
sprigs of mint for decoration 

Breaking mint leaves, cut lemon, put it all in glass. Serve with syrup, fill glass with ice. Add top rum and club soda, stir directly into the glass. 

Italian Mojito

60 ml white rum 
60 ml Italian fizzy wine Proseco 
15 ml lime juice 
1 teaspoon brown sugar 
1 teaspoon sugar syrup 
1 sprig fresh mint 

In Highball put mint leaves, sugar, add syrup and lime juice and stir. Add ice cubes, pour the rum, pour all the Italian sparkling wine. Stir it all right in the glass. Decorate with mint leaves and a slice of lime. 

Refreshing Mojito!

Mojito - one of the most popular cocktails worldwide. Not surprisingly, I wanted not only to drink, but to write about it and its variations. Mojito (Mojito - Mojito at Amer., Moxito - moksito in Spanish.) - A traditional Cuban cocktail which became popular in the 80 years of the last century and not lost the position to date. The word «mojito» was formed from the word «mojo», which means "spell, incantation, a mystical formula. 

All know that it is usually from five ingredients: rum, sugar, lime, soda and mint. The combination of sweet, acid lime and fresh mint leave no one indifferent. They set off the strength of Roma. 
The classic recipe for a Mojito 
lime 
mint leaves 
60 ml white rum 
soda 
ice 
little brown sugar 

To make a Mojito lime juice is added to sugar, torn mint leaves, all this is put in a tall glass (Collins or Highball). Then you add the chipped ice, and the top is poured rum and soda water. 

At world's most popular cocktail certainly a lot of options. Some people like to add strawberries, someone orange or apple juice. Here are some recipes. on our site. 

Negroni

Campari - the key to the success of this cocktail on the basis of gin. It can be consumed as an appetizer. He has such an unusual flavor that appeals to many people, but many hate it. It is believed that this drink was prepared and named after Count Camillo Negroni, a Florentine aristocrat, who has ordered in the bar Cafe Casoni in Florence cocktail "American" and asked to go to add the gin. That was in 1919. However, the cocktail has got this name only in 1947 . 
20 ml sweet vermouth 
20 ml Campari 
20 ml gin 
Orange slice to decorate 

Pour ingredients into a glass with ice, stir, and garnish with orange. 

Variations: 
Cooling option for a hot day - add 100 ml of soda. 
Negroski - popular in Italy, instead of gin, vodka cocktail is added. 
Sparkling Negroni - a cocktail with the addition of champagne or sparkling wine is served in a martini glass.

Cocktail "Long Island"

The classic cocktail that everyone should try. The easiest way to remember the recipe - remember, it contains a glass each of the 5 white liquid (gin, tequila, white rum, vodka, triple sec) with the addition of cola, iced tea or lemon juice. This cocktail, thanks to its strength ( 28%), considered to be masculine. 

There are two versions of creation: first - it was invented in the days of Prohibition, the view just like iced tea, the second - was prepared by the bartender on Long Island.

14 ml Triple Sec

14 ml white rum

14 ml gin

14 ml vodka

14 ml tequila

28 ml of tea

cola

lemon slice

Pour the liquid in the glass Collins or Highball, add ice. Interfere. Top up cola.

Cocktail Cosmopolitan

Although we have already written about a cocktail Cosmopolitan, it's time to dwell on it in detail. 

As we know, he is among the ten most popular cocktails worldwide. Largely due episode of Sex & the City, whose main characters almost in every series it advertised. In his recipe he is quite uncomplicated.

40 ml vodka

15 ml Cointreau

7 ml fresh lemon juice

30 ml of cranberry juice

Orange peel for decoration

All the ingredients Pour into a shaker, add ice and shake well. Pour into a glass and garnish. For a more fruity taste, you can use vodka, which insisted on citrus.

One of the variations - "Cosmopolitan Absolute. A simple change in the vodka Absolut vodka, Cointreau - Triple Sec liqueur on. That's all.

Colada Drink Cocktail

I will continue to write about the most popular cocktails and their variations. In the spotlight today - Pina Colada. One of the most popular alcoholic ... well, soft drinks, especially the ladies love him. 

Pina Colada

60 ml white rum

60 ml pineapple juice

75 ml coconut cream

Pieces of pineapple, whipped cream and a cherry for decoration

Mix all ingredients in a blender, add ice, pour into a glass. Sprinkle the top with whipped cream and decorate with fruit. 

In some bars in the Pina Colada add more liquor Baylis. 

Coco Colada

Coco Colada - the most delicious variation of non-alcoholic Pina.

110 ml pineapple juice

60 ml coconut cream

Cup ice

Orange for decoration

In a blender combine ice, juice and cream, stirring until smooth. Pour into a glass and garnish with a slice of orange. 

Kappa Colada

This is one of the summer alcoholic cocktails, which contains a strong brand, but easy to drink and was not drunk in the sun. 

60 ml brandy

2 tablespoons coconut cream

Half cup of fresh or canned pineapple

1 tablespoon of vanilla ice cream

Half cup of ice

Pour all ingredients into a blender, mix well, pour into a glass Collins, decorate cherries. If the cocktail is too thick, you can add the juice, if too liquid, then more ice cream. Kappa Colada though not a popular cocktail, as Pina, but quite he does not agree.

Getting ready to fly! Margaret

You have probably heard about the cocktail "Margarita", it is often shown in movies. It is prepared on the basis of tequila and is one of the summer cocktails. There are several versions of the history of its creation, as so often happens in the preparation of new cocktails. Almost half of small towns in Mexico and South America claim to be called the birthplace of the drink. Nevertheless, three primary versions:

1). In 1938, bartender Carlos Herrera has prepared this drink for the actress Margarita King in a bar in Tijuana.

2). In 1948, Timmy Hilton tried to drink at a villa in Acapulco, owner of the villa was Margarita Sames, as Tommy was, as we know, the owner of the hotel Hilton.

3). In 1936, Danny Negrete prepared a cocktail for his girlfriend Margarita Crespo Hotel in Puebla.

Classic recipe

1 part Tequila

1 part lime juice

0,5 parts Cointreau

A cocktail is prepared either in a shaker with crushed ice, or in a blender with plenty of ice, served chilled in a cocktail glass wide. The edge is decorated with salt or sugar to taste. 

Variations:

"Blue Margarita" - with Blue Curacao liqueur. 

"Peach Margarita" - with peach liqueur.

"Frozen Margarita» - c plenty of ice.

Treat beriberi

During the winter, our bodies exhausted their supplies of vitamins. From fatigue and beriberi can help vitamin drink. Non-alcoholic drink made of fruit and bran, you are sure to embolden.
45 ml apple juice
1945 ml of the grape juice
45 ml pineapple juice
3 oranges
3 tablespoon of bran

From oranges to squeeze juice. Add it together with other juices and bran in a shaker. Stir well. Pour into a glass, and garnish with a slice of orange.

Flaming cocktails

Burning a cocktail or drink before drinking it will make any party more fun. Of course, if everything has been done correctly and not set on fire, no interior:). 
Most alcoholic beverages can be ignited, and usually after warming them more pleasing to the taste. 
Terms of flaming drinks: 
It is important to warm up the dishes, which would be burning liquids, so that it did not break because of sudden changes in temperature. 
When heated glass, do not use an open flame, the glass may darken. 
Technology of preparation is as follows: first set fire to the alcohol in the spoon, then add it to the cocktail. If done correctly, the fire spread to the entire drink. 
If the bar prepares cocktails burning need to stock up licenses and permits. 
When the ignition, keep in mind that fire spreads very quickly. Fast enough to singe hair. So be careful. 
Once lit do not wear a glass of alcohol everywhere, more so for a long time. It is dangerous, because the flames spread to other things quickly. Particularly dry summer. 
Discounted items keep away, and the bottles of alcohol, too, they generally must be equipped with plugs or caps. 
Once you've set fire to the drink, should not be there to pour more alcohol, it can be dangerous. 
Flaming cocktails - a beautiful sight and dainty, but not safe. Enjoy and be careful.

Tiramisu

This weekend I invite you to enjoy unparalleled alcoholic cocktails based on Baylis liqueur and coffee. 
Ingredients for two persons: 
1 / 4 cup espresso 
110 ml (4 ounces) Baylis 
1 / 3 cup mascarpone (Italian cream cheese) 
2 teaspoons vanilla, chocolate or coffee cream 
2-4 ice cubes 
2 soft cookies (such as ladies' fingers) wafer or a sand 
Chocolate-nut filling 
Chocolate syrup 
Mix in a blender espresso, Baylis, mascarpone, ice until smooth. Pour chocolate syrup glasses. Pour the mixture from the blender. Put the cookies in chocolate and nut paste. Dipping biscuits in cocktails.

Irish Snake Bite

Once we've already written about cocktails with names of snakes. Cocktail Recipe "snake bites, as they say, from the same opera. 

Ingredients: 
Equal part dark Irish beer 
Equal share of dark cider 
Shot of blackcurrant syrup 
Fill a mug of beer and cider, leaving space to the top somewhere in the 1 / 3 inches. Add syrup and mix well. 
Blackcurrant syrup: In sauceboat put one cup of sugar and two cups of black currant, bring to a boil. Let boil for 20 minutes. Cool, move to another dish and add 30 ml of vodka.

Tea Punch

In anticipation of the new workweek would like some soft drink, refreshing and light. You can do the punch, for example, tea. 

Ingredients: 
Tea 
Apple juice 
Pineapple juice 
Spices 
Quantity: 
2 parts chilled flavored tea 
2 parts apple juice 
1 part pineapple juice 
Mix the ingredients of spices you can add cloves, cinnamon, ginger, vanilla, lemon or orange zest. Serve with ice.

Cocktail Drinks Tips

Could it be that the bar end with some of the ingredients: an inexperienced bartender at the same time can stop doing certain types of cocktails, but only because they lack the necessary products, but an experienced bartender is unlikely to do so. Many substances have a similar taste or look the same, especially when mixed with others. So for bartenders: sometimes it is possible to depart from the standard recipe of cocktails, to bar visitors: be careful, and sometimes you may file is not what expected. 

Related material: 

Gin - Vodka 
Gin and vodka to taste quite different, but their color and clarity are very similar, and few people can notice the substitution. 

Rye - Bourbons / Blended Whisky 
It works only in cocktails. If the client requests a pure rye whiskey, you can not pour it clean Bourbon! Know that between whiskey and bourbon we actually many differences, and any fan will know them. 

White Tequila - Gold Tequila 
They have different shades, but the taste is similar, so if used in pure form, it can safely substitute one for another. 

Rum - Tequila 
The most visible and successful alternatives: white rum and white tequila, rum and gold gold tequila. The taste is different, but the drink is in any case, good. Do not allow yourself too much with these substances to better prepare cocktails. 

Spirits - Liqueur 
Dry schnapps is similar to vodka to taste, but instead it is not used, but the liquors you can safely replace the sweet varieties of schnapps. 

Essential ingredients: 

Tonic - Club Soda 
They have different tastes! Carbonated water (club soda) has no special taste, it just filled with carbon dioxide. Tonic, in turn, has a taste of Bitter (ever since it contains quinine), it can affect the taste of the drink as a whole. 

Scotch - Another brand of rye whiskey 
Scotch has a unique and distinct taste, they can not be replaced by any other kind of whiskey or other alcohol.

Baby Love Juice

I want to share with you a recipe for yet another non-alcoholic cocktails. He was very fond of kids and it is not surprising, since he called Babylove. 

Components: 
Coconut milk (40 ml) 
Cream (20 ml) 
Pineapple juice (60 ml) 
Banana syrup (20 ml) 
Banana (1 piece) 
Prepare: All liquid components are mixed in a shaker with crushed ice. 
Pour into a glass Collins, add a little crushed ice. 
Decorate with slices of banana.

Harvard Cocktail

60 ml brandy 
30 ml sweet vermouth 
15 ml lemon juice 
1 teaspoon grenadine 
1 dash Bitter 

Mix all ingredients in a shaker and pour into chilled cocktail glass.

Pomegranate Toddy

90 ml brandy 
45 ml of pomegranate liqueur (you can substitute pomegranate juice with sugar) 
90 ml of tea Darjeeling tea 
Decoration: cinnamon stick and orange peel 

First, cook the tea. Pour into a coffee cup brandy and liqueur. Pour there is hot tea and stir. Embellish.

It was cold? Drink Brandy

I do not know where you live, but then, in Moscow, late spring. Sun very rarely breaks through the clouds and somehow very little warmth. Returning to the streets bad a drink of spirits and relax. Here are some recipes of cocktails based on brandy. Inge!  
Tulip / Tulip 

Ingredients: 
30 ml apricot brandy 
15 ml of apple brandy 
15 ml lemon juice 
15 ml sweet vermouth, a martini can 
Mix all ingredients in a shaker, pour into a cocktail glass. Garnish with lemon peel can be.

Horse's Neck

If you yesterday vigorously celebrated, and now want to improve your health, you can help this cocktail. Ginger ale helps get rid of heartburn and improves blood sugar, bitters soothe irritated stomach, and bourbon just produces the effect of "like cures like." 
Horse's Neck 
60 ml bourbon 
2 drops of bitters Angostura 
Ginger ale 
Twirl of lemon peel 

Lubricate the "Highball" tincture. Add ice and bourbon. Mix and top up ginger ale. Mix again. Garnish with lemon peel flourish.

Snake shakes

This story from the category of "Do you know that?" Do you know that many recipes for cocktails in their name has something oily. Anaconda (Anaconda), Blue Cobra (Blue Cobra), Bloody Viper (Bloody Viper), Python (Python), tamer of snakes (Snake Charmer), and others. No, no, their composition is not part of venom. What unites them ? 

In fact, the main feature of these drinks is not burning ingredients, although they, too, but rather the appearance. For example, a cocktail recipe: 
Bloody viper 
112ml (4 ounces) Tabasco sauce 
42ml (1.5 oz) vodka 
14ml (0.5 ounces) anise vodka 
Pepper 
Cucumber pickle 
Combine all liquids in a shaker, add ice, stir and pour into a large glass and sprinkle with pepper and pour the brine. Then exhale and drink it off this "snake":)

Whiskey, whiskey, whiskey ... and once more whiskey!

On the eve of St. Patrick's Day would be nice to think of whiskey, as the Irish national drink. Whisky - one of those things in our lives, and that love and hate equally. Strong, firm and soft, whiskey remains one of the best varieties of alcohol for many years. 

Whisky (with Scottish Gallic uisge-beatha), or whiskey (from Irish uisce beatha or fuisce) belongs to a broad category of alcohol, which is distilled from fermented grain, and insists in wooden barrels (usually oak). 

Different variations of whiskey used different sorts of grains: barley, malt, rye, wheat and corn. Whisky way with a Gallic word for word translated as "water of life» (water of life). The most famous Scottish and Irish whiskeys. 

The first mention of whiskey in Ireland dates from the year 1405, where he made the monks. And in Scotland, the first record was made in 1496. However, the whiskey is likely to have a hundred years before it was distributed. Where or when whiskey was first obtained, is unknown. Scotland and Ireland all the time arguing, who coined the whiskey. 

The Irish drink the beverage is not diluted, so the Irish whiskey is usually milder in flavor. In Scotland there is a method 5S (in translation: Admire, inhale, savor, swallow, dilute), the first drink they drink is not diluted and then poured into water or Put the ice in order to fully experience the taste and aroma. In fact, no clear rules, everyone is drinking your favorite brand of whiskey with your favorite method. And we offer the finest selection of cocktails based on whiskey. 
Godfather Cocktail 
56 ml (2 ounces) Scotch 
30 ml (~ 1 ounce) Amaretto 
Mix and pour into a glass.

Home brewery or why you need to brew beer themselves

Two of the most popular beverage in the world - this is beer and wine. That does not mean that wherever we go, people in every country just like beer or wine, however ... It is not surprising that domestic breweries and distilleries are very popular. They justify their price. A sense of satisfaction at the time of pouring their own beer incomparable to anything else. 

Another advantage of home-brewing - an opportunity to drink beer, while it is alive. Almost all the beer that we buy in shops pasteurized. Pasteurization requires heating of beer, but it kills the yeast ferment, the taste of beer at the same time is not like the taste of fresh beer. Homemade beer is not pasteurized, natural flavor remains. Over time, it changes the taste, texture and color. 

In the U.S. standard equipment will cost about 75-99 dollars plus the cost of a large pot (35-50). Ingredients for 5 halon beer - from 27 to 45 dollars depending on are pozuemogo mash (dry, liquid). Bottles - 10-14 dollars for 24 pieces. They can be reused after proper treatment and sterilization. Home Brewing - craft, which was already quite popular in different countries and, as it turned out, it is not so complicated and costly. 

Home brewing in 6 steps: 
Preparation of the wort. You can buy a must in original form. Then you can go to some intricate wort, when gains experience. Wort - a product that you get when malt and water are mixed and heated with the release of sugar. 
Fermentation / Fermentation. When you add yeast to the wort starts a chemical reaction, which is formed from carbon dioxide and alcohol. 
Purification / Filtration. 
Fermentation. Once the raw and filtered beer is decanted into another container, it should be left dobrazhivat. Fermentation \ ferment is almost over, the turn of the second stage - the fermentation. 
Bottling (bottles, cups, drums) 
Enjoy!

Cocktail Party

Cocktail parties were popular in the 60s-70s of the last century. At present, their popularity is growing again, although beer and wine remain the most favorite alcoholic beverages worldwide. 

Cocktails - a great way to distract any guests, neighbors, friends and even business partners. You can experiment, invent each time a new, invent topic. Let every party will be in the style of the Hawaiian Islands. Prepare a "Blue Hawaii", "Night of the Hawaiian Islands," or any "Hawaiian mix." On another occasion, arrange a cocktail party in the eastern style, you can buy all sorts of sweets, make cocktails "Star of the East", "Rum and cream." Invent be to infinity. 

For beginners, masters Cocktail Party cite the following tips: 
Prepare plenty of ice. It can be crushed, in the form of cubes, balls, hearts, and so on. Ice is useful for cooling bottles, to add their own cocktails, perhaps just to decorate the table. 
Stock up on several sets of cups and glasses. It will be good to have in the house highball, tumblers, goblets Martini. 
Think in advance menu and buy alcohol if you intend to do cocktails on the basis of cognac, the cognac-based martini - martini. Better to have in his bar a few different varieties of spirits, so that guests can choose from. 
In the home bar, as a rule, hold the vodka, whiskey, wine. For variety add tequila, rum, vermouth, brandy. 
For cocktails will also be needed: juice, tonic, cola, Tabasco, lime, lemons, oranges, coffee, ice cream or cream. 
Single story - accessories. There is room for imagination. Now in stores you can find a huge number of different tubes, straws, umbrellas, napkins. 
There is the option to find someone with the skills of the bartender, who agrees to help in the preparation of drinks. Then you will have more time to socialize. 
It is to stock up taxi number. Suddenly, someone from your guests, naprobovavshis cocktails, would not be able to get home;) 
And do not limit yourself to one option for a cocktail, this is boring.

Orange Juice Cocktail

Ingredients: 30 ml orange liqueur, 30 ml Madeira, 150 ml of table white wine, ice, orange segments.

Preparation: To prepare the orange in a cocktail glass with ice, pour the orange liqueur and Madeira, put slices of orange, to complement a glass of white wine, dining, and serve up a cocktail at the table.

Cocktail (cobbler) and champagne

Ingredients for : 30 ml of liquor "Southern", ice, finely chopped lemon and orange peel, 1 tablespoon of sugar syrup, 120 ml of champagne. 

Preparation : To prepare the cocktail (cobbler), with champagne in a glass with ice, pour finely chopped rind of lemon and orange, add the sugar syrup and add a glass of champagne.

Strawberry Sandy

Ingredients for : 120 g of strawberry ice cream, grated 140 g strawberries, 40 g of strawberry syrup, 60 g fresh strawberries. 

Preparation : To prepare the strawberry sandy decomposed into kremanki ice cream, add the grated strawberries, strawberry syrup. 

Garnish with fresh strawberries and Sandy serve.