Cocktail lexicon

Cocktail - The special drink

The best cocktails each described with a list of ingredients, preparation, recipes and accessories. Most cocktails are easy to prepare if you know their ingredients and the procedure.

Cocktail Lexicon - Lifestyle

The term "lifestyle" denotes a certain attitude towards life that is characterized by certain attributes. As an image for a relaxed lifestyle, for example, one could visualize a deck chair on a palm tree beach in which a sexy-looking lady is lying. On the table next to her is a cool-looking drink with a slice of lime on the rim of the glass. This image has an immediate appetizing effect in several respects. One would like to swap places with this beautiful lady or at least be allowed to flirt with her. The seduction in this picture is of course achieved by many photographic and compositional components - but the actual relaxation factor lies neither in the beautiful lady nor in the drink -but in what they are supposed to symbolize. The real statement of the picture is: Here someone has time, the necessary ambience and enough leisure to enjoy all that exists around him.

Adios Motherfucker (variation of Long Island Iced Tea)

And this brings us to the actual topic of the Cocktail Lexicon. Unlike a quick beer, a grain or a double whiskey at the bar, cocktails with or without alcohol take time to enjoy. You can't just down them to get drunk, but drink them slowly with relish. The place where you can enjoy a cocktail doesn't really matter. You can prepare such drinks just as well at home as you can enjoy them in a hotel bar or at a reception. It is not for nothing that this delicious drink has its own dress dedicated to it: the cocktail dress! Also, a certain cherry is called a cocktail cherry and thus qualifies for use in certain alcoholic mixed drinks. The history of these drinks is somewhat legendary...... learn more about the history of the cocktail >>> History

How to arrange and decorate the various recipes has been described and documented in pictures in many books and on appropriately oriented websites. First of all, you should follow them as much as possible, because the taste of each cocktail drink is finely tuned to each other. Effects such as different colored layers on top of each other are achieved with the help of ingredients of different weights, but require some practice in preparation. For the preparation of short or long drinks you need the fewest ingredients.

You usually have the classic types of alcohol such as rum, whiskey, gin and vodka in stock and can dilute or mix them with various liquids. More complex cocktail drinks require more refinement and correspondingly many or special ingredients. Here also come Triple Sec or champagne, various fruit juices, concentrates, grenadine, special liqueurs and fruit-Purees, fresh fruit pieces or -.The product is used in a variety of applications, such as slices, different types of sugar, or seasonings.

The cocktail celebration

A cocktail mix should never become an everyday drink. You celebrate and enjoy it, take your time and cultivate good conversation in a suitable place. Of course, this also includes the vacation spot - no matter where it is. Today, you can find a bar in every good hotel. It is accessible to everyone and usually has a whole range of the typical cocktail classics on the menu. Most hotel bars also have a typical house cocktail and at least one non-alcoholic mixed drink.

You may need crushed ice, a lime masher, drinking straws, salt, untreated citrus fruits or their peels, fruit skewers or small paper umbrellas and the like. Nowadays, you can even color-coordinate the ice cubes. or even fill them with an ingredient that is only released when the ice cube melts. The party clou are flashing ice cubes with LED lights and a coolant.

The cocktail ingredients

The ingredients are usually listed, so that everyone can order a drink to suit their personal taste. It should be noted that many cocktail drinks are not to be despised calorie bombs and make quite full - apart from that, they contain not inconsiderable amounts of alcohol. So it makes sense to enjoy them slowly and enjoy the different flavors and the relaxed atmosphere. After all, you don't have to have a Brazilian beauty by your side to live an upscale lifestyle and indulge in a champagne cocktail. Hopefully, the lady next to them is also interesting!..