Christmas drink

Glega 1 bottle of dry red wine, 2 cinnamon sticks, clove 2, 4 cardamom seeds, 1/4 cup raisins 1/4 cup of fresh almonds, brown sugar to taste

Pour a glass of wine in a saucepan; add the cinnamon, cloves and cardamom and cook covered over low heat for about an hour. Leave in the refrigerator overnight.

The remaining wine is heated to 60 degrees, pour in prepared extract and add raisins, almonds and brown sugar. Serve in glass mugs.

Fruit Sangria Blanca

Very tasty wine-based drink.  Dessert drink full of fruit flavors.  Recipe for 8.

10 grapes

4 strawberries

1 peach

1 bottle of white sparkling wine (dry)

1.5 cups of grape juice (white)                         

2 sprigs of mint

half a cup of vanilla liqueur

Rum - the drink of pirates or the elites of society?

Rum was never just a drink.  It is a symbol pirate outlaws, courage bourgeois gloss.  This drink equalizer deck and the captain, slave and master and the common people know.  Who has not dreamed of one day a sip straight from the bottle, rocking on the ship?  But rum has a story, a long, complicated, even bloody.

Rum: history of discovery

The main component of Roma - molasses is produced from sugar cane.  This syrup is distilled to enrich additives and get what we call rum.

How to drink beer?

Universally loved in the world of drink, like beer.  So, it seems logical that there are certain rules for the use of alcohol. First, remember that no matter what you do not drink beer - expensive or cheap - do not cool it in the freezer.  This is best done on the ice.  Otherwise, the beer is at risk of becoming a piece of ice. Second, never drink beer straight from the bottle.  Not only that, it looks very vulgar, so more and taste will be quite wrong.  High-quality, expensive beer should be poured into a special beer glass or mug (preferably transparent, so you can admire the noble game of colors).  The only way you can fully enjoy the aroma and taste of the drink. 

How to drink rum?

A bottle of rum! .. "- A familiar phrase?  Most likely, yes.  However, not only dashing pirates love rum, but also ordinary civilians are not averse to sit with a glass of this wonderful drink.  Traditionally rum is served in glasses , called old-fashioned, with thick walls and a thicker bottom.  At the same time necessarily need to add more ice cubes.  In addition, to give a special flavor of rum can be added to a piece of lemon. Many connoisseurs of mixed drinks like rum and various syrups, sodas and fruit juices.  Glasses of cocktails, which have basically rum, often richly decorated with all kinds of sparklers, umbrellas, and other similar orchids.  But some very extravagant rum cocktails are usually served in a coconut half.

How to drink liquor?

Very very popular drinks- Liqueurs , which have many options for use.  This type of alcoholic beverage serves as a basis for many cocktails, refreshing and invigorating beverage, liquor can be replaced by its properties syrup, liqueurs and often act as a flavoring component. Consume liquor made with ice or water.  In addition, a very good liqueurs combined with gin, vodka, whiskey, cognac, brandy, various wines, cream and milk, ice cream, hot chocolate, orange and lemon juices.  Cocktails, having at its core liquor, have a little bitter, astringent flavor that gives this drink in its elegance and nobility. Are also fans who prefer liquor in pure form.  Taste of undiluted liquor has nothing piquant bitter tinge. Today, liquor is not consumed during the dinner, as was done in the previous century. Currently, liquor made in the completion of a dinner served by combining with coffee or tea.  Special vessel for a glass of liquor volume of 25 ml, in form resembling kremanki only on a long stalk.  Drink in one gulp pile should be - then you almost instantly feel like your body to a pleasant warmth spreads aromatic bitter-sweet liquid.

How to drink schnapps?

The people confuse schnapps and vodka.  However, the differences are still there, and they lie not only in the producing country. Schnapps to drink meager portions tsedya to drop and rolling on the tongue, like an expensive cognac - only in this case, you can fully enjoy the great taste.  Schnapps is different from the Russian vodka that of culture rather refers to the use of liquors, and may be a good didzhestivom to complete the meal.  Schnapps drink after dessert, while drinking vodka after all desserts are not accepted.

How to drink martinis?

The several rules for the use martini.  It does not matter whether you drink it with a straw or not, the main thing - do little slow pharynx, savor a drink.  Do not drink a martini in one gulp, because, firstly, this drink is not too weak, and secondly, this drink in any case can not be used in order to get drunk.  Better instead to let the noble cocktail with juice, vodka, vermouth, and grace to act for you, removing stress and allowing you to relax and unwind. It should drink martinis from specially designed for this purpose glasses are called - martini glasses , they have a long thin stem and triangular glass. 

Hot Drink - Mulled wine

A perfect performance you can try on the Alpine slopes.  In France and Switzerland it is called "van sho”. Mulled wine recipe is simple, to the same improvisation and deviation from the classical version is always welcome.  What is the point?  Heat the wine (but in no case give it to boil) and put it on the taste of cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg , sliced apples, oranges, lemon zest.  If the wine is dry, you can add sugar or honey .  Mulled wine to infuse for 15-20 minutes, and then you can drain and pour into glasses.  For the fortress would be good to add a little brandy or liqueur.  Serve the "burning wine" best in tall glass mugs with thick walls or ceramic cups.

Sometimes in the mulled wine is hot water.  But it must be added to the finished drink, and pour carefully around the edge - in any case not throw out all at once - it will spoil the taste.

Hot drink-Punch

An ancient hot drink of rum, wine, sugar (or honey ), fruit juice and spices.  The number of components punches clear indication of his name: in Sanskrit it means "five" (in the present Indian Punch includes local alcohol, lemon juice, sugar, water and spices).  However, when the British sailors at the end of the XVI century brought the recipe for the punch from the East Indies, restless Europeans began to add to it one more, though optional, ingredient - tea . In Europe, the punch has long been more popular than its main component - the Roma.  There is an explanation: the water softens the rum, and sugar and spices to hide the scent of bluff.  In England, a half-century beyond the magazine "Punch" - he named it in honor of the punch.

A few recipes-What is the house wine?

Probably every woman strives to prepare for the future in the country gathered fruits and berries.  One of the ways these pieces is the home cooking of fruit wines .

 Subject to the rules and technology in the light alcoholic drink flavors of summer persist, vitamins and biologically active substances.  In addition, domestic drinks made from high-quality fruits and berries, often superior to industrial production of wine.  Here are some recipes for cooking wine at home.