Liquorists

Like most cocktails, another one with different recipes out *there*. I will just be using the most common one i found.


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- 1 ½ part Coconut rum
- ¾ part Dark rum
- ¾ part Creme de cacao
- 4 parts of milk
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Shake the drink, and serve in a highball glass, over ice. And enjoy your tropical variation on the white russian.

Because people always tend to have spare Champagne, here yet another simple cocktail to give it a little twist.


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- 1 Ounce of Peach Schnapps
- Fill with Champagne or sparkling wine
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Nothing hard about this cocktail, besides controlling yourself not to drink too many. Serve in a Champagne glass, and adjust the amount of Schnapps to your own liking.

A very easy Champagne drink for the holidays (or whenever you feel like drinking one really).


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- 1 Part raspberry liqueur
- 2 Parts Champagne, or sparkling wine
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Serve in a Champagne glass, and if the carbonation of the Champagne doesn't do the trick, give it a little stir.

A really easy cocktail, with no real known/important history.

The drink itself should look just like the cubra libre in the picture.

Ingredients:


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- One part Spiced Rum
- One part Amaretto
- Fill up with cola
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Just fill a glass with ice and add the ingredients, and stir it around a bit. Do not, repeat, not shake the drink. Carbonized ingredients and shaking don't mix well.

For Halloween it's obviously nice to have some horrible looking shots in store. One of the most popular ones is the brain hemorrhage.
This horrible looking shot is quite easy to make and you only need 3 ingredients, beeing:

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- 1 Part Peach Schnapps
- 1 Part Bailey's Irish Cream
- Few drops Grenadine
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Now what you do is, put the Peach Schnapps in first. After that, poor the bailey's in but don't try to layer it. Just poor it in so it creates the little brainstructures you're looking for.
When that's done add some grenadine to add the bloody effect. As usual with shots, down the glass in one go (so don't created volumes larger then 2 ounces, they are hard to drink in one go).

Video of the process: Right Here.

A absinthe name variation of the kryptonite, that doesn't have much to do with other kryptonite cocktails. But for the persons that do want more absinthe cocktails, here you go:

Ingredients:

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- 1 part Citron
- 1 part apple pucker
- 2 parts absinthe
- top with red bull
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This cocktail is a stirred one, so no other materials needed then a normal glass, some ice, and something to stir with.

It's nice and warm over here at this point, so time for a tropical cocktail!
A fairly easy on, but it contains the 2 basic ingredients that seem to make up most of the tropical orientated cocktails: a coconut rum and pineapple juice.

Ingredients:

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- 2 parts vodka
- 1 part coconut rum
- 2 parts pineapple juice
- top with 7up
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Shake the ingredients without the 7up untill its chilled, dump it into a highball glass full of ice, and top it off with 7up.

Source.

The martini is a well known classic cocktail, and the story goes that it became popular around 1849 in San Francisco. Much later people starting using a variant with vodka instead of gin, because vodka is more neutral and that way you can easily make yet more variations on the drink.

Then there is the whole stirred vs shaken thing. The fact is, there is a difference in taste, the shaking will break up some of the ice more, and will add a bit more water to the drink. That way the vermouth becomes less prominent, altho the amount of vermouth is a point of discussion aswel. Churchill for example only would only *look at it from across the room* and basicly had a glass of gin.

The most accesable version of the martini ingredients are:

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- coat the shaker with dry vermouth, get rid of the remaining vermouth.
- 5CL of gin (or replace with vodka for the vodka martini)
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Stirr the drink untill it gets really cold, then strain the drink into a chilled cocktail glass (the martini is usually served as cold as possible). Add a olive as garnish..

An easy one this time. From the jägermeister site, so unfortunally i don't have a clue where it originated.

Ingredients:

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- 2 parts jägmeister
- 2 parts malibu
- 2 parts pineapple juice
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Mix it all together in a shaker, then strain into a coktailglass.

The white russian is a somewhat newer cocktail, that doesn't come from russia like the name could suggest. It's just because the drink contains vodka.
The drink gained allot of popularity because of the movie the Big Lebowski, but the recipe itself is first seen around 1965.

This time the ingredients don't vary that much, but the amounts you use for each are. As listed by the IBA the ingredients are:


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- 5 parts of vodka
- 2 parts of cofee liqueur
- 3 parts cream
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Like said bevore, ratio's vary allot ( video behind the pic shows a 1/1/1 ratio). Just use whatever you personally prefer.

This is possibly one of the easiest cocktails you can make. Therefor, there obviously are tons and tons of other names for this drink. Use a specific brand, and the drink probably has another name just like that.

Ingredients:

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- 2 parts rum
- Fill with Cola
- Add a bit of limejuice and/or a limewedge
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Since the ingredients are so simple, shaking isn't really needed. Just a bit of stirring should do the trick after you have poured all the ingredients over ice.

For once, a cocktail, with a fairly clear history.
This cocktail is originated out of Boston, in 1898. To be more specific, in the Locke-Ober restaurant.

It has been told the drink was created to honor the election of Martin M. Lomasney in the General Court of Massachusetts.


The ingredients are rather simple:


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- 2 parts rye whiskey
- 1/2 part lemon juice
- 1/2 part orange juice
- one teaspoon of grenadine
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Shake the drink with ice, and serve in a chilled cocktail glass (cocktailglasses never contain ice).
Can be garnished with a maraschino cherry and/or slice of orange.

Time for a very old cocktail, the tom collins.
One of the first time this cocktail showed up, was in Jerry Thomas' The Bartender's Guide, 1876 edition.
Other then that, it's a rather simple recipe, so who exactly made it up..hard to tell.

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- 2 parts gin
- 1 part lemon juice
- dash of simple syrup (teaspoon)
- top off with carbonated water (club soda) *after* shaking
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Pour everything together, except the club soda, shake, serve in a tom collins glass on ice. Then add the club soda to top it off, or by preferenced taste.
Which is a rather important step, shaking the drink after adding something carbonated will not end that well.

A very common cocktail this time, the margarita.
There are so many rumours about who supposed to have created the margarita, that noone really knows for sure who it was. It was probably around 1930/1940 in the southern region in the U.S., or Mexico.

What is know is that it's a very popular, and easy cocktail to make. And when things are popular, recipes tend to change, or vary allot. And there will be tons of (colour)variations on the original with different names to choose from aswel.

The basic ingredients:

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- 2 parts tequila (please, use real 100% agave tequila and no obscure mixto brands).
- 1 part triple sec, or any variation on the triple sec (cointreau, Grand Marnier).
- 1 part fresh squized lime juice.
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Shaken, and served in either a rocksglass or a cocktailglass over ice. Rimmed with salt, and garnished with a lime weel if you want to be really fancy.

As usual, the ratio's greatly differ, the standard IBA list of cocktails state a 7 parts tequila, 4 parts triple sec and 3 parts lime juice. But the one stated above is far more easy to do at home. But toy around with the ratio's you personally prefer.

And as a final note, the cocktail gets as good as the ingredients you use to make it. So trying to blend in a mixto for a tequila will affect the taste of the drink dramaticly. Same goes for the triple sec, and basicly everything you use in a cocktail, given there is enough in the drink to make it noticable.

Don't agree with the above? Other things to share about the margarita? I've changed the commenters options, so everyone should be able to comment, no sign in required anymore.

As promised to someone, time for a cocktail recipe!
To be more precise, the daiquiri.

The basic *design* of this cocktail goes way back to the 18th century when sailors mixed rum with the same style of additives as when the daquiri was defined with that specific name in 1905, in, you could have guessed it, a town called Daiquirí, in Cuba.

While in that specific daiquiri they used Bacardi white rum, every white rum should work just fine. Other then the basic recipe, there are tons of variations to be found.

The basic ingredients are:

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- 8 to 9 parts white rum.
- 2 to 4 parts lime juice.
- 1 part simple syrup (water and sugar mixed into a 1 to 1 ratio).
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This cocktail is now shaken (the original was stirred), and served without ice, in a cocktail glass

The ratio's differ allot, and the ingredients are so simple, that it wouldn't do much harm to change the ratio's around a bit. For example, if you're a huge rum lover.