Cuba Libre

Rum based cocktail

Ingredients:

60ml Light rum (white/dark)

20ml Lime juice

Coca-Cola

Directions: Pour lime juice into a glass over ice cubes. Add rum, fill with cola, stir, and serve.

Cinderella

Mocktail


Ingredients:
60ml Orange juice
60ml Pineapple juice
30ml Lemon juice
15ml Sugar syrup
30ml Soda water



Directions: Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into an ice-filled highball glass, and add soda. Garnish with a slice of lemon, add a straw and serve.

Hot Whiskey

Whiskey based cocktail

Ingredients:
2 1/2 oz (75ml) Irish whiskey
1 slice fresh lemon
2-4 cloves
1 tsp sugar
Hot water

Directions:Pour the whiskey into a whiskey sour glass (old fashioned glass). Add cloves into the fresh lemon and place into the whiskey. Fill with hot water and dissolve in the sugar. Serve immediately.

Gin and Tonic

Gin based cocktail

Ingredients:

60ml Gin

150ml Tonic water

1 Lime wedge

Directions: Pour the gin and the tonic water into a highball glass almost filled with ice cubes. Stir well. Garnish with the lime wedge and serve.

Sex on the beach

Vodka based cocktail

Ingredients:
30ml Vodka
15ml Peach schnapps
45 ml Cranberry juice
45ml Grape juice


Direction: Shake all ingredients in a shaker with ice. Strain into a highball glass filled with ice. Garnish with a lemon wheel and cherry.

Cosmopolitan

Vodka based cocktail

Ingredients:
30ml Vodka
15ml Triple sec
15ml Lime juice
15ml Cranberry juice



Direction: Shake all ingredients in a shaker with ice. Strain into a martini glass. Garnish with a lime wedge or lime wheel on the rim and serve.

Basic Bartending Tools

TOOLS: SECRET BEHIND A GREAT COCKTAIL

Cocktail Shaker
Essential for blending ingredients in cocktails and mixed drinks. Use a short, sharp and snappy shaking technique unless otherwise stated. There are many cocktail shakers available mostly all get the job done. Choose one that's right for you. Always pour the least expensive ingredient into the cocktail shaker first.

Blender
Many cocktails require a blender to blend the ingredients smoothly together. Useful for drinks with fruit pieces or ice cream etc.

Bar strainer
To removes the ice and fruit pulp for the juice. This may come with a cocktail shaker.

Bar spoon
A bar spoon with a long handle and a muddler end will allow you to mix and measure ingredients as well as crush garnishes.

Pourer (fast and slow)
To pour the liquor without spilling.

Jiggler
A measurement tool.

Ice scoop and ice bucket

Lemon squeezer
Needed for getting the most juice out of your lemon. It helps to soak citrus fruit in hot water before squeezing.

Wine/bottle opener

Tin cutter
Useful for opening cans of fruit and syrup.

Knife
For cutting fruit and garnishes.

Chopping Board
For slicing fruit and other garnishes. This should be heavy and laminated.