Popularity of the Word "Cocktail" throughout the year.

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Notice the Spike around Christmas, and New Years Day. Cheers!

Absinthe: The revival of "Cool"

Absinthe is a distilled, highly alcoholic (45%-75% ABV), anise-flavored spirit derived from herbs, including the flowers and leaves of the medicinal plant Artemisia absinthium, also called “wormwood.” Absinthe is typically of a natural green color but is also produced in both clear and artificially colored styles. It is often called “the Green Fairy.”

Numerous artists and writers living in France during the late 19th and early 20th centuries were noted absinthe drinkers and featured absinthe in their works. These include Vincent van Gogh, Édouard Manet, Amedeo Modigliani, Arthur Rimbaud, Guy de Maupassant, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Paul Verlaine. Later authors and artists would draw from this cultural well including Pablo Picasso, August Strindberg, Oscar Wilde and Ernest Hemingway. Aleister Crowley was also noted for his habitual Absinthe use.(Source: Wikipedia)

The Mystique and illicit qualities of Absinthe from theater, movies and television, often applying dramatic license to depict the drink as everything from aphrodisiac to poison.

This drink is VERY rare in the United States, and is mainly consumed in elite social circles. It is becoming popular again in Europe and the United States will most likely catch up with this re-popularity of this historical drink.

Here is one of the most popular Absinthe brands in the U.S. and England:

Popular 20th Century Wines: The Moonwalk

**Ask for this drink at a party or club, and either the bartender will be impressed or confused. Definitely a piece of history and a conversation starter.

Name: Moonwalk

Type: Cocktail
Served: "Straight up"; without ice
Standard drinkware: Cocktail glass
Commonly used ingredients:

* 1 part fresh Grapefruit Juice
* 1 part Grand Marnier
* 2 dashes Rosewater

Preparation: Shake well, strain into wine glass and top up with champagne.

Created in 1969 to mark the first moon landing. The cocktail was the first drink the American astronauts had when they returned to Earth[citation needed]. A letter of thanks was later sent from Neil Armstrong to Joe Gilmore.

Background of Liqueour Proofing

Alcohol is produced by yeast during the process of fermentation. The amount of alcohol in the finished liquid depends on how much sugar there was at the beginning for the yeast to convert into alcohol. In beer, the alcohol is generally 3% to 12% (6 to 24 US proof) and usually about 4% to 6% (8 to 12 US proof). Depending on the strain of yeast, wines top out at about 14% to 16% (28 to 32 US proof), because that is the point in the fermentation process where the alcohol concentration denatures the yeast. Since the 1990s, a few alcohol-tolerant 'superyeast' strains have become commercially available, which can ferment up to 20%. [3]

Fortified wines, such as sweet and dry vermouths become fortified by adding alcohol. These added alcohols are typically distilled wines such as brandy, port, sherry, marsala, and madeira. This second source of alcohol is added before the wines are finished fermenting, as the added alcohol kills the yeast in fermenting wine, leaving an abundance of sugar.

Stronger liquors are distilled after fermentation is complete to increase their alcohol content. This way, the alcohol content can be raised up to a maximum of 95.6% (191 US proof), the concentration of the water/alcohol azeotrope. When 100% ethanol (absolute alcohol) is required for scientific, commercial, or industrial purposes, other methods must be used. 100% ethanol is hygroscopic, and if it is left open, it will absorb water out of the air, reducing the concentration.

Mulled Wine Recipe

This is a snuggly wine that a friend of mine introduced to me over this weekend. It's sweet and tangy, and sure to have your guests asking where you found this great recipe!

MULLED WINE


1/2 Cup of Sugar
2 Cups of Water
1 Fresh Orange (with peel but no pips)
A few cloves (stick through Orange peel)
4 Cinnamon Sticks
1 Lemon (peel only)
1 bottle of standard Red Wine


Mix together and rest overnight (or 18 hours)
Then add one ounce of Brandy

Strain and serve warm. Serves 8-10 people.

As always...

Sip leisure, drink life; enjoy.

Great Cocktail Recipes for Home Hosting or Pro Bartending

50 of the Most Requested Cocktails

(If you know all of these, you know more than most bartenders!)

Apple cocktail
Ingredients: Almond, Amaretto, Apple Schnaps, Coffee Liquer (Kalua), Lime, Orange Juice, Pineapple Juice
Apple cocktail

Black Russian
Ingredients: Vodka, Coffee Liquer (Kalua)
Stir 4cl vodka with 2cl coffee liqueur into a whiskey glass. Add ice.

Bloody Mary
Ingredients: , Worcester Sauce, Tabasco, Tomato Juice, Lemon
4cl Vodka, 1cl lemon juice, salt, 1 dash of Worcestersauce, 1 dash of Tabasco, black pepper, 10cl tomato juice in shaker. Shake well and pour it in a cocktail glass filled with some ice.

Blue Angel
Ingredients: Curacao Blue, Champagner
2cl Curacao Blue into a champagner glass. Fill up with champagner.

Brave Bull
Ingredients: Tequila, Coffee Liquer (Kalua)
Stamper: 1cl Tequila, 1cl Kalua.

Caipirinha
Ingredients: Lemon, Cachaca (Pitu)
Put 2 lemons in eighth cutted into a whiskey glass and mash them. 2 tea-spoons of brown sugar, 4 cl Cachaca (Pitu), fill up with crushed ice.

Casablanca
Ingredients: , Eggnog, Lemon, Orange Juice
3cl Vodka, 2cl egg liqueur (Eierlikoer), 2cl lemon juice, 4cl orange juice with ice in shaker, shake well and pour in a collins glass filled with ice. Drinking straw.

Cosmoquila
Ingredients: Cointreau, Lime, Tequila
2 oz Casa Noble Tequila Crystal or Gold, 1 oz Cointreau, 0.5 oz Fresh Lime Juice. Shake ingredients in mixing glass with ice, then strain into a cocktail glass.

Cou Cou Comber
Ingredients: , Lemon, Pastis
4cl Vodka, 2cl lemon juics, two dashed of Pastis (eg. Pernod) and two dashed of sugar sirup into a shaker. Get a half cucumber, hollow it out and pour the well shaked drink into the cucumber. Drink it with a straw.

Cuba Libre
Ingredients: Lime, Brown Rum, Coca Cola
Dash of lime juice, 4cl rum into a long drink glass filled with ice. Add a slice of lime and fill up with Coca-Cola. Serve with a drinking straw.

Daiquiri, brown
Ingredients: Brown Rum, Lime
4cl brown rum (Havana Club), 2cl lime juice, 1cl sugar syrup, with Ice in shaker.

Daiquiri, white
Ingredients: White Rum, Lime
4cl white rum (Havana Club), 2cl lime juice, 1cl sugar syrup, with Ice in shaker.

Duc and Hugos wild party mix
Ingredients: Vodka, Tequila, Coca Cola
Mix tequila with vodka with cola. Add cola ice-cubes and stir. Add a squeeze of lemon a pinch of sugar and a straw, and enjoy like Duc and Hugo 'Faggers' Fagandini on their wild nights out on the town. They were wild, I can tell you! :D

Feelin blue
Ingredients: Curacao Blue, Lime, Vodka
great taste, dont drink too much though

French 75
Ingredients: Gin, Lemon, Grenadine, Champagne
3cl Gin, 2cl lemon juice, grenadine syrup with ice in shaker. Pour in a champagne glass and fill up with champagne.

Green Apple Tequini
Ingredients: Tequila, Apple Schnaps, Melon Liqueur, Lime
Shake ingredients in mixing glass with ice, then strain into a cocktail glass. Slice of Green Apple for garnish.

Mai Tai
Ingredients: Brown Rum, Brown Rum 73% vol., Lime, Triple Sec, White Rum
3cl lime juice, 3cl white rum, 3cl brown rum, 1cl Captain Morgan, 1cl Triple Sec. Shake on ice. Pour on plenty of crushed ice into a carribean glass. Garnish with cocktail cherry, add two leaves of mint and a slice of lime.

Malibu Jimmy
Ingredients: Lime, Orange Juice, White Rum
Malibu Jimmy - Add 1/2 a glass of Malibu to 1/2 a glass of Orange Juice. Mix well, and pour into a tall glass with ice cubes made from orange juice. add a squeeze of lime juice, and a straw - and thats a Malibu Jimmy (Named after its creator, the esteemed Jimmy 'Wine Merchant' Unwin)

Manhattan
Ingredients: Canadian Whisky, Vermouth Dry,
Ice, 4cl Canadian Whisky, 2cl dry vermouth, 2 dashes of Angostura Bitter. Stir in a suitable glass. Pour it in a martini glass and decorate with a green olive and the peel of a lemon.

Margarita
Ingredients: Tequila, Triple Sec, Lime
Cocktail glass with salt-rim, in shaker: 4cl tequila, 2cl Triple Sec, 2cl lime juice, Ice.

Martini
Ingredients: Vermouth Dry, Gin
Stir gin and vermouth (5:1) together with ice in a mixing glass. Strain into a cooled martini glass and add olive or lemon peel.

Mexican 55
Ingredients: Tequila, Lemon, Champagne
Collins glass filled with Ice, 4cl tequila (Cuervo), 4cl lemon juice, 2cl sugar syrup, fill up with (dry) champagne.

Naughty eggnog
Ingredients: Cognac, Eggnog, Frangelico
eggnog with frangelico and cognac

Nim's Special Mix
Ingredients: Brown Rum 73% vol., Frangelico, Tabasco, Tequila, Vodka, Worcester Sauce
Hits u hard

Northern Light
Ingredients: Champagner, Triple Sec, White Rum
2cl white rum (eg. Bacardi), 2cl Triple Sec into a champagner glass. Fill up with cold champagner. Add a dash of orange juice.

Ohio
Ingredients: Angustora Bitter, Canadian Whisky, Cointreau, Vermouth Dry, Vermouth Red
Stir 2cl Canadian, 1cl Vermouth Red, 1cl Vermouth Dry, 1cl Cointreau and a dash Angustora on ice. Strain into a champagner glass and fill up with champagner.

Old Fashioned Whisky
Ingredients: , Soda, Scotch
Dash some Angostura-Bitter on a sugar cube and put it in a whiskey glass. Add some soda and ice. Stir until the sugar is dissolved. Add 6cl whisky or bourbon. Decorate: Slice of orange- and lemon.

Paloma
Ingredients: Grapefruit juice, Lime, Tequila
2 oz tequila, fresh grapefruit juice, 0.5 oz fresh lime juice. Pour ingredients over ice.

Scotch Sour
Ingredients: Scotch, Lemon
See Whisky Sour, but use Scotch instead.

Screw Driver
Ingredients: , Orange Juice
4cl into a long drink glass with ice, fill up with orange juice.

Siberian blue mist
Ingredients: Champagner, Gin, Lime, Scotch, Sprite, Tequila, White Rum, Wine, white, Vodka
scotch, sprite, vodka, white rum, tequila, gin, white wine, lime, champagne. Blue colouring agent - mixture creates hazy vision. Feeling of content.

Sidecar
Ingredients: Cognac, Cointreau, Lemon
4cl Cognac, 2cl Cointreau, 2cl lemon juice. Shake it.

Slammer
Ingredients: Tequila, Coffee Liquer (Kalua), Sprite
Stamper: 2cl tequila, 1cl Kahlua, 1cl Sprite. To drink, cover the glass and stamp it hard on the table. Drink quickly.

Tequila Sunrise
Ingredients: Tequila, Orange Juice, Grenadine
Fill a collins glass half with ice, 4cl tequila, fill close up with orange juice, add slowly 1cl or 2cl Grenadine , so that you can see the sunrise at the bottom of the glass.

Tequilini
Ingredients: Lemon, Tequila, Vermouth Dry
2.5 oz tequila, few drops of dry vermouth, 0.5 oz fresh lemon juice. Shake ingredients in mixing glass with ice, then strain into a cocktail glass.

Tequilini Casa Noble
Ingredients: Almond, Amaretto, Orange Juice, Tequila
0.5 oz Tequila Casa Noble Reposado, 1 oz orange juice, 1 oz Amaretto. Shake ingredients in mixing glass with ice, except almond, then strain into a cocktail glass. Drop almond in glass.

Tequilini Melon Real
Ingredients: Lime, Melon Liqueur, Tequila
1 oz tequila, 1 oz melon liqueur. Shake ingredients in mixing glass with ice, except lime twist, then strain into a cocktail glass. Add a lemon twist.

The blue Cachaca
Ingredients: Cachaca (Pitu), Curacao Blue, Lemon, Triple Sec
Garnish-Melon peel decoration as an eagle. It has to be shaken and poured into a pyramid glass.

Vomit
Ingredients: Beer, Bourbon, Eggnog, , Tabasco, Tia Maria, Worcester Sauce
Makes you vomit.

Whiskey Sour
Ingredients: Bourbon, Lemon
Whiskey glass with ice, 4cl bourbon whiskey, 2cl lemon juice, 1cl sugar syrup. Decorate with a long lemon peel.

White Russian
Ingredients: Coffee Liquer (Kalua), Milk, Vodka
Remember the movie 'The Big Lebowsky'? The Dude used to drink it. Into a Whiskey glass: 3cl of Coffee Liqueur, 3cl of Vodka, fill up with milk.

Fanny licking cow girl
Ingredients: Bourbon, Brown Rum 73% vol., Gin, Grapefruit juice, Orange Juice, Southern Comfort, Sprite, Tequila, White Rum
very very silly ( be careful)

Tropical Popsicle
Ingredients: Lemon, Melon Liqueur, Orange Juice, White Rum
tastes pineapplie....very refreshing!