10 popular cocktails

Posted Oct 22, 2009 by Collingford / comments 0 comments / Print / Font Size Decrease font size Increase font size

Here is a list of 10 popular cocktail recipes.

Tequila Sunrise

  • 1.5 oz Tequila
  • 4.0 oz Orange juice
  • 0.5 oz Grenadine

Fill the Tequile and the orange juice in a Highball glass with ice. Slowly pour in the grenadine that will sink to the bottom. Before serving stir gently once to create the sunrise effect.

Sex on the beach

  • 1 1/2 oz vodka
  • 1/2 oz peach schnapps
  • 2 oz cranberry juice
  • 2 oz orange juice

Pour all ingredients into a highball glass filled with ice, and stir.

Piña Colada

  • 3 oz light rum
  • 3 tbsp coconut cream
  • 3 tbsp crushed pineapples

Mix ingredients with crushed ice until smooth.

Margarita

  • 1 1/2 oz Tequila
  • 1/2 oz triple sec
  • 1 oz lime juice

Rum the rim of a cocktail glass with lime juice, and dip in salt. Shake the other ingredients with ice. Strain into a cocktail glass.

Screwdriver

  • 1.5 oz Vodka
  • 6 oz orange juice

Mix in a highball glass with ice. Garnish and serve.

Cosmopolitan

  • 1 oz vodka
  • 1/2 oz triple sec
  • 1/2 oz lime juice
  • 1/2 oz cranberry juice

Add all ingredients into cocktail shaker filled with ice and shake well. Strain into a martini glass, garnish with a lime wedge.

Martini

  • 1 1/2 oz gin
  • 1/2 oz dry vermouth

Pour all ingredients into mixing glass with ice cubes and stir well. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with an olive or a twist of lemon.

Mojito

  • 1.25 oz white rum
  • 4 mint leaves
  • 1 tbsp sugar
  • 0.5 oz lime juice
  • 2 oz soda

Mash the mint and sugar together. Add the rum and lime juice and pour over the ice.
Top up with soda water. Use a highball glass.

Manhattan

  • 3/4 oz sweet vermouth
  • 2 1/2 oz bourbon whiskey
  • 1 dash Angostura® bitters
  • 1 maraschino cherry

Stirred over ice, strained into a chilled glass and garnish.

Bloody Mary

  • 1 oz Vodka
  • 3 oz tomato juice
  • 2 drops Tabasco sauce
  • 1 dash Worcestershire sauce
  • 0.5 oz lemon juice
  • 1 pinch salt
  • 1 pinch peppers

Add all ingredients into a shaker. Strain into a highball glass with crushed ice.

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