Alcoholic recipes of the best cocktails for the holiday and parties. How to cook a beautiful festive cocktail at home with whiskey, vodka, liqueur, tequila, gin, wine, raspberry syrup and pepsy cola?

At the beginning of the XIX century, the cocktail was considered a drink, very useful for the head. We will not question the point of view of knowledgeable people and try to master the art of mixing delicious drinks.

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Margarita Cocktail with Tequila and Liqueur: Classic Recipe

Margarita cocktail with tequila and liqueur

Before you begin mixing a cocktail, prepare a glass: make a salt cut (salt rim).

Important: Classic Margarita Cocktail is customary to serve in a cocktail glass of Margarita. With this feed, the cocktail refers to the category Shot-Drink. It can be served as an aperitif and as a digestive.

How to make salt rim on a cocktail glass:

At a flat plate, pour a layer of shallow salt (layer thickness ≈ 0.5 cm).
With the help of Lemon or Lyme, moisturize the edge of the portion dishes (only from the outside).
Lower the glass into the container with salt, gently scroll through the glass around its axis, achieving a uniform distribution of salt crystals.

Important: salt rim is made only on the outer side of the glass, so that salt, crepting, not falling into the drink.

How to mix cocktail:

Put the ice cubes in the shaker (≈150 g).

IMPORTANT: Barteres use jigger (measuring cups), following volumes: 20/40 ml, 25 / 50ml, 30/60 ml. In order to quickly and accurately measure all the necessary ingredients.

Pour 2 pieces of tequila. For this cocktail, a young tequila has been used without exposure (Reposado / Blanko / Plato / Silver).
Add 1 part of Triple SEC (Triple Sec). Many cocktail art guru claim that the Kuanto Liquor should be used in Margarita.
Add 2 parts of the Freasha. Margarita Latin American roots, so give preference to lime, and not lemon.
Close the shaker and actively shake its contents for 20-30 seconds. In this case, you cannot simply mix the components of the beverage, as they relate to difficult to mix components.

Advice. If you do not have a shaker, use a plastic bottle with a wide neck. Before scolding, wrap the bottle of fabric napkin to prevent the rapid heating of the contents of the bottle.

In a glass, pour finely embedded ice (ice frapp / crash ice).

Important: Ice must be quite a lot (almost full glass).

Pour the contents of the shaker in a glass, leaving ice cubes in a shaker.
Use a thin lime slide as decoration.

Cocktail Cosmopolitan with Vodka and Liquor: Classic Recipe

Cocktail Cosmopolitan with vodka and liqueur

With its appearance, the cocktail is obliged to vodka Absolut Citron, and popularity - the series "Sex in the Big City". Cosmopolitan is a very female cocktail with a mild taste and citrus shades of the aftertaste. In addition, the drink is very low calorie.

Before you begin mixing a cocktail, prepare a glass: it needs to be cooled by placing in a refrigerator for 1-2 hours. Cosmopolitan is served in martini glasses.

How to mix cocktail:

Put the ice cubes in the shaker (≈150 g).
Pour 3 parts of Absolut Citron vodka. This is the perfect option. In the extreme case, you can use any high-quality flavored citrus vodka.
Add 1 part of Triple SEC (Triple Sec). Perfect choice - Liquor Cuangro.
Add 0.5 parts of Lyamov Freasha. Lime can be replaced with lemon, but in the classic cocktail recipe it is used by lime.
The latter, but very important ingredient - 2 parts of the cranberry juice. In the classic cocktail recipe only canned clarified juice. Cranberry content in the composition of juice is at least 40%.

Advice. Cocktail will only win if you add 4-5 drops of orange beerates to it.

Close the shaker and actively shake its contents for 20-30 seconds. In this case, you cannot simply mix the components of the beverage, as they relate to difficult to mix components.
Pour the contents of the shaker in a glass, leaving ice cubes in a shaker.

Tip: A glass with cosmopolitan does not require additional decorations. If desired, a lime slicer is used as a decor or thin orange / lemon peel serpentine.

Cocktail Blue Lagoon with Vodka: Classic Recipe

Cocktail with vodka blue lagoon

Unusual, thanks to the color, and a very refreshing cocktail, the preparation of which does not require special knowledge and skills. Refers to Long Drink Catch Cocktails, which involves feeding with a cocktail tube.

IMPORTANT: PUREABUS COUSE FOR COCKETAL FILLING - GOOD HIGHBER. Standard addition to the cocktail - thin lemon slicer or orange slicing.

Fill the glass of ice cubes.
Pour 50 ml of vodka and 20 ml of Blue Curacao Liquor. Unfortunately, the liquor in this recipe is not replaced: it is thanks to the use of the blue version of Curaçao, a cocktail has such an unusual color. Gently mix the contents of the glass of Swisl-stip.
Different in a glass of 100-150 ml of lemonade. Many bartenders as an alternative use sprite, lemon / lime soda or simple soda, 7-Up.
Decorate a glass of lemon slices or orange.

Cocktail Club Club with Gin and Raspberry Syrup

Clover Club Cocktail with Gin and Raspberry Syrup

Absolutely male cocktail, which began his story in a closed male club Philadelphia. Alcohol base of a cocktail - gin.

Important. There are several, various styles, Gina varieties. In the cocktails most often used London Dry Jean.

Pour into the shaker of 60 ml of gin, 20 ml of lemon freasses, 20 ml of raspberry syrup, ½ of fresh egg squirrel.

Tip: Before placing a protein into a shaker, slightly "scatter" it with a fork.

Shaker's contents are carefully stabbed for 1-2 minutes. As a result, you must get a well-emulsified mixture with characteristic protein foam.
Add 150 g of ice to the mixture and actively shake its contents for 20-30 seconds. This will cool the cocktail to the desired temperature.
Cocktail strain in the dishes for a portion feed, such as a glass for martini or a glass-saucer. As a complement to the cocktail, fresh raspberries are used.

Important: When applying a cocktail, ice use (in any form) is not allowed.

Cocktail Hayball with whiskey and cola

One of these cocktails is already presented in this article (see Blue Lagoon).

And now let's talk about no less popular, but more affordable whiskey cola cocktail.

In a glass of Hayball, put 150-200 g of ice.
Add 50 ml of whiskey and 150 ml of coca or peps-cola. Gently mix the contents of the glass of Swisl-stip.

Tip: Use in cocktails either Bourbon or rye whiskey if you want to get a classic drink.

Bloody Mary - Cocktail with Vodka: Recipe

Bloody Mary, cocktail with vodka

If you plan to pour tomato juice into a glass and stir it with vodka, and then present it as a legendary cocktail - you have to disappoint you. Bloody Mary is not so simple as you think!

To prepare the cocktail you will need two cups of mixer suitable volume. Thus, in one of the pour cup 10 ml Frechet lime or lemon juice, Worcestershire sauce 4-5 drops (Worcester sauce), 45 mL of chilled vodka, 8-10 drops of Tabasco sauce, 90 (120) ml of tomato juice, a pinch of salt, dried celery and ground black pepper.

Important: for cocktails using only canned tomato juice! Alternative replacement for no specified in the recipe sauces. Without them shake loose their classic taste and aroma.

Thoroughly mix all ingredients. Add 150-200 g of ice.
Several times, pour a mixture of one cup to another mixer. This will allow all components of a cocktail mix well and cool, while avoiding the formation of foam. Cocktail should have a smooth and soft texture.
Put ice cubes in a la carte dishes to feed cocktail. In this case, appropriate glasses are: toggle, Collins, heybol or Old fashion. Ice should fill a glass to ¾. Strain the cocktail. As svizl-stick using a stick of celery.

Tip: you can decorate the sides of the rim of salt (see beginning of the article.).

Bellini cocktail with sparkling wine

Bellini cocktail - a pleasant exception to the rule, as is Italian, not American origin. Summer was exceptionally alcoholic beverage due to the presence in its composition of peach puree. Thanks to the advent of canned purée became year-round.

As an alcohol base in the authentic recipe cocktail used prosecco - sparkling dry white wine. An alternative could be any prosecco sparkling wines of good quality. In this case, do not skimp on the quality of the alcohol component.

Summer version of Bellini

Take 2 ripe peach white varieties. Wash, blot excess moisture, peel and seed. Peach slices pass through a conical strainer. This method will yield fruit pulp is very soft consistency. For 1 serving a cocktail you will need 50 grams of peach puree. If necessary, sweeten with sugar syrup sauce. Mashed cool.
The shaker put 100 g of ice (cubes), 50 g of puree, 100 g of sparkling wine. Given the characteristics of sparkling wine, do not drastically shake shaker. In this case, it is permissible to light shaking cocktails.
Strain the contents of the shaker into a tall glass of champagne.

Winter version of Bellini

Replace fresh peach puree canned. You can also use peach juice with pulp. The proportions for an authentic cocktail remain unchanged: 1 part 2 of the puree and sparkling wine.

Cocktail James Bond "Vesper Martini" with gin and vodka

James Bond cocktail with gin and vodka

Sebarit and ingenious spy in combination - James Bond - has its own list of favorite cocktails. However, on top of the personal stamp Bond only one drink - cocktail or Vesper Vesper Martini.

Before proceeding with the cocktail mix, prepare glass: it must be cooled by placing in a freezer refrigerator for 10-15 minutes. Vesper fed in martini glass or the glass-saucers.

How to prepare a cocktail:

Put the ice cubes in the shaker (≈150 g).
Pour 3 parts gin Gordon (London dry gin). Add 1 part of vodka and 0.5 parts vermouth Kina Lillet (can be replaced by any other dry vermouth).
Close the shaker and shake well.
Pour the contents frozen in glass shaker, leaving ice cubes in a shaker.

Tip: as an adjunct to using thin serpentine cocktail of lemon peel (by Bond) or green olive, lowered directly to the bottom of the glass.

Screwdriver - cocktail with vodka: classic recipe

Another shake of the illustrious family of highball, honored to enter the list of official cocktails International Bartenders Association.

Portion dishes to feed a cocktail - a glass or highball Rocks. It refers to the category of cocktails Long Drink, which involves feeding a cocktail straw. Standard addition to the cocktail - a slice of orange.

How to cook:

Fill the glass of ice cubes.
In 50 mL glass, pour 100 ml of vodka and orange juice. Gently mix the contents of the glass svizl Stick.

Advice. Many bartenders use orange juice soda as an alternative.

Fireball - cocktail with whiskey

Alcoholic basis for this cocktail is legendary pepper-cinnamon whiskey Fireball Cinnamon Whisky, which became the hallmark of Canada.

Cocktail refers to highball and fed into a glass or highball Rocks. Standard addition to the cocktail - lemon slice and a few cranberries strung on skewers.