How to make home made cocktail. Review on Five Favourite Beverages

How to make a great cocktail and when and where were cocktails first served?

Martini Dry, Gin Fizz, Irish Coffee, Daiquiri, Bloody Mary, Margarita., all famous cocktails that are within your reach, with a minimum of requirements. On this cocktail web site we will teach you step by step which ingredients to use when making both the classic cocktails as well as your own variants on those classic cocktails.

Cocktails with Gin, Vodka, Tequila, Rum, Whisky, Calvados, Cognac, Vermouth, Port, Anise drinks & bitters, Liqueurs, Wine, Champagne, Beer and even warm cocktails will be passing your screen.

These cocktails, with sometimes amazing colors and classical, or very exotic tastes, which you will make for yourself or your friends, make any night a festive night! Cocktails belong at celebrations, sunny afternoons and warm summer nights. Most people reserve cocktails strictly for parties, because "it takes a lot of effort", but perhaps that is a misunderstanding? Many cocktails are made by a flick of the wrist en don't require many different bar instruments or exotic, hard to obtain ingredients.

Cocktails are appropriate for every occasion that call for a nice drink and that drink doesn't necessarily have to contain alcohol. On this site you will find a large number of alcohol free cocktails as well.

Those who start out with simple cocktails will soon able to make her or his variants on the classic cocktails and thus expand his or her's repertoire significantly.

Snowflake

long drink: at any time

Put in a shaker that is filled with 50% ice:

3/10 Vodka

1/10 Galliano

1/10 Southern Comfort

1/10 Advocaat liqueur

4/10 Orange Juice

Shake long and pour in large glasses. Top off with soda water and stir. Cover with a layer of cream and decorate with a slice of lemon. Serve with a straw.

Salty Dog

Very refreshing due to the contrast between the salt and the sour grapefruit juice.

Moisturize the rim of a tumbler glass with some lemon juice and rim it in fine salt. Add a few ice cubes and add:

3/10 Vodka

7/10 Grapefruit juice

Stir well before serving.

Chi-Chi

Long drink: aperitif

Put in a shaker that filled with 50% ice:

3/10 Vodka

5/10 Pineapple juice

2/10 Crème de Cacao

1 tsp. grenadine syrup

juice of 1 lemon

Stir well and serve in high Champagne glasses.

Springtime

A deliciously refreshing Long drink

Put in a shaker that filled with 50% ice:

5/10 Vodka

2/10 Cointreau

3/10 Orange Juice

Stir well and pour in tumbler glasses. Top off with soda water or Ginger Ale. Decorate with a strip of lemon-, or orange skin.

A modern goldmine for Mexico: Tequila!

Mexico has certainly struck gold with Tequila. This type of brandy is mass distilled from a central american plant: de blue agave.

There are specific was to drink tequila: en rapido(with tonic) or with salt and lime, but also in the margarita cocktail, which made tequila popular in the United States.

Making tequila is first and foremost a matter of patience. It can take more than 10 years before the blue agave, which, in spite of a very strong resemblance, is not a cactus, but rather a relative of the amaryllis and the narcissus, will reach her first and only bloom period. Once this bloom is over, the tequila makers can pick the fruit, la piña, which grows between the leaves of the agave plant. After the piña's have been cleaned, they are steamed for 1 or 2 days. While squashing and pressing a sweet sap will be released, known as pulque, which will naturally ferment. This light sparkling juice had been known amongst the mexican indian for some time, but it had never occurred to anyone to distil this juice in to an alcoholic beverage.

Tequila makes an excellent base for exotic cocktails and mixes well with other ingredients.

Caramba

Although this cocktail is quite suitable to enjoy after dinner, it is best not to drink it if you intend to turn in early.

Put in a shaker that is filled with 50% ice:

4/10 Tequila

3/10 Coffee Liqueur(Tia Maria)

2/10 Benedictine

1/10 Cream

Shake long and pour in small tumbler glasses. Sprinkle a bit of instant coffee on top and serve.

Tequila Sunrise

This relatively soft and refreshing cocktail has the colors of the rising sun.

Put in a large tumbler glass with ice cubes:

7/10 Orange Juice

3/10 Tequila

Stir well and add a drop of grenadine syrup, so that the red glow appears. Decorate with half a slice of orange.