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Gin-Based Cocktails Flashcards

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What is an Abbey Cocktail?

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2 oz. Gin
3/4 oz. Lillet
3/4 oz. Orange Juice
2 dashes of Bitters

Shake all ingredients with ice and strain.

Serve in a Cocktail Glass with a Cherry.

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What is an Alexander?

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2 oz. Gin
1 oz. White Creme de Cacao
3/4 oz. Heavy Cream

Shake all ingredients with ice and strain.

Serve in a Cocktail glass with Grated Nutmeg.

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What is an Antibes?

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2 oz. Gin
3/4 oz. Benedictine
1 oz. Grapefruit Juice

Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into an ice filled Old Fashioned Glass.

Serve in an Old Fashioned Glass with an Orange Slice.

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What is a Bee’s Knees?

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1.5 oz. Gin
3/4 oz. Honey
3/4 oz. Lemon Juice

Shake all ingredients with ice and strain.

Serve in a Cocktail Glass with a Twist of Lemon.

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What is a Bijou?

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1 oz. Gin
1 oz. Green Chartreuse
1 oz. Sweet Vermouth
dash Orange Bitters

Stir all ingredients with ice and strain.

Serve in a Cocktail Glass with a Twist of Lemon.

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What is the Boston Cocktail?

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1.5 oz. Gin
1.5 oz. Apricot Brandy
1/2 oz. Lemon Juice
1/4 oz. Grenadine

Shake all ingredients with ice and strain.

Serve in a Cocktail Glass.

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What is The Bramble?

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2 oz. Gin
3/4 oz. Lemon Juice
1/2 oz. Simple Syrup
3/4 oz. Creme de Mure (float)

Combine all ingredients (except Creme de Mure) in a tin. Shake and strain over crushed ice-filled Old Fashioned Glass. Top with 3/4 oz. Creme de Mure float.

Serve in an Old Fashioned Glass with a Lemon Wedge and a Blackberry (optional).

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What is the Bronx Cocktail?

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1 oz. Gin
1/2 oz. Sweet Vermouth
1/2 oz. Dry Vermouth
1/2 oz. Orange Juice

Shake all ingredients with ice and strain.

Serve in a Cocktail Glass with an Orange Slice (optional).

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What is a Clover Club?

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1.5 oz. Gin
3/4 oz. Lemon Juice
3/4 oz. Raspberry Syrup
1 Egg White

Combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker without ice. Shake vigorously for five seconds to add volume to the egg white (this is called a dry shake). Separate the shaker and add ice. Re-shake with ice vigorously. Strain into a cocktail stem.

Serve in a Cocktail Glass.

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What is a Corpse Reviver #2?

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3/4 oz. Gin
3/4 oz. Cointreau
3/4 oz. Lillet Blanc
3/4 oz. Lemon Juice
Absinthe (glass rinse)

Rinse a cocktail glass with absinthe and discard all excess. Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into the glass.

Serve in a Cocktail Glass with a Cherry.

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What is a Delmonico?

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1 oz. Gin
1/2 oz. Cognac
1/2 oz. Dry Vermouth
1/2 oz. Sweet Vermouth
2 Dashes Angostura Bitters

Stir all ingredients with ice and strain.

Serve in a Cocktail Glass with a Lemon Twist.

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What is the Dempsey Cocktail?

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1 oz. Gin
1 oz. Apple Brandy/Applejack
1/4 oz. Grenadine

Shake all ingredients with ice and strain.

Serve in a Cocktail Glass.

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What is a Dubonnet Cocktail?

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1.5 oz. Gin
1.5 oz. Dubbonet Rouge
Dash of Bitters

Stir all of the ingredients with ice and strain.

Serve in a Cocktail Glass with a Lemon Twist.

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What is a Gibson?

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2.5 oz. Gin
1/2 oz. Dry Vermouth

Stir all ingredients with ice and strain.

Serve in a cocktail glass with a pearl onion.

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What is a Gimlet?

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2 oz. Plymouth Gin
3/4 oz. Lime Juice
3/4 oz. Simple Syrup

Shake all ingredients with ice and strain.

Serve in a Cocktail Glass with a Wedge of Lime.

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What is a Gin Fizz?

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2 oz. Gin
3/4 oz. Lemon Juice
3/4 oz. Simple Syrup
Soda Water

Combine the gine, lemon and syrup in a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake and strain into an empty Collins glass, with no ice. Top with Soda Water.

Serve in a Collins Glass.

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What is a Gin-Gin Mule?

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1.5 oz. London Dry Gin
1/2 oz. Simple Syrup
1/2 oz. Lime Juice
Ginger Beer
10 Mint Leaves

Lightly muddle the mint with the liquid ingredients (except ginger beer) in the base of a shaker. Add ice, shake, and strain into an ice-filled glass. Top with ginger beer.

Serve in a Highball Glass with a Mint Sprig and a Lime Wedge.

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What is a Gin Rickey?

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2 oz. London Dry Gin
1/2 oz. Lime Juice
Soda Water

Build the ingredients in an ice-filled glass.

Serve in a Highball Glass with a Lime Rind.

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What is a Golden Dawn?

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3/4 oz. Gin
3/4 oz. Apricot Brandy
3/4 oz. Applejack
3/4 oz. Orange Juice
Dash Grenadine

Add dash of grenadine to the bottom of the glass. Shake all other ingredients with ice and strain.

Serve in a cocktail glass with a cherry.

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What is a Greyhound?

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1.5 oz. Gin/Vodka
5 oz. Grapefruit Juice

Serve over Ice.

Serve in a Highball Glass.

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What is a Fallen Angel?

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1.5 oz. Gin
1 tsp. Creme de Menthe (white)
Juice of 1/2 Lemon
1 dash Angostura Bitters

Shake all ingredients and strain.

Serve in a Cocktail Glass with a Cherry.

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What is a French 75?

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1.5 oz Gin
3/4 oz. Lemon Juice
1/2 oz. Simple Syrup
Champagne

Shake Gin, lemon juice and simple syrup with ice and strain into ice-filled glass or chilled flute. Top with Champagne.

Serve in a Highball Glass or Flute with a Lemon Twist.

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What is a Last Word?

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3/4 oz. Gin
3/4 oz. Lime Juice
3/4 oz. Green Chartreuse
3/4 oz. Maraschino Liqueur

Shake all ingredients with ice and strain.

Serve in a Cocktail Glass.

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What is a Martinez?

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1 oz. Genever
2 oz. Sweet Vermouth
1/4 oz. Maraschino Liueur
2 dashes Boker’s or Angostura bitters

Stir all ingredients with ice and strain.

Serve in a Cocktail Glass with a Twist of Lemon or Orange.

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What is a Martini (Classic) ?

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2.5 oz Gin
1/2 oz. Dry Vermouth

Stir ingredients with ice and strain into chilled glass.

Serve in a Cocktail Glass with Olives or Lemon Peel.

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What is a Monkey Gland?

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1.5 oz. Gin
1.5 oz. Orange Juice
1/4 oz. Grenadine
Absinthe

Rinse glass with Absinthe and discard the excess. Shake all other ingredients with ice and strain into a cocktail glass.

Serve in a Cocktail glass with a Flamed Orange Peel.

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What is the Napoleon Cocktail?

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2 oz. Gin
1/4 oz. Fernet Branca
1/2 oz. Grand Marnier
1/2 oz. Dubonnet Blanc

Stir all ingredients with ice and strain.

Serve in a Cocktail Glass with a Lemon Twist.

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What is a Negroni?

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1 oz. Gin
1 oz. Sweet Vermouth
1 oz. Campari

Stir ingredients together with ice.

Serve in an Old Fashioned Glass with an Orange Peel.

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What is a Parisienne?

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3/4 oz. Gin
3/4 oz. Noilly Prat
2 dashes Creme de Cassis

Stir ingredients with ice and strain.

Serve in a Cocktail Glass with a Lemon peel (can be flamed)

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What is a Pegu Club?

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2 oz. London Dry Gin
1/2 oz. Curacao
1/2 oz. Lime Juice
1 dash Angostura Bitters
1 dash Orange Bitters

Shake all ingredients with ice and strain.

Serve in a cocktail glass with a lime wedge.

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What is a Pink Lady?

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1.5 oz. London Dry Gin
1/2 oz. Applejack
1/2 oz. Lemon Juice
1/4 oz. Grenadine
1 Egg White

Dry shake all ingredients first, then shake with ice and strain.

Serve in a Cocktail Glass with a Cherry.

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What is a Pink Gin?

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2 oz. Plymouth Gin
3-4 dashes Angostura Bitters

Pour bitters into glass and turn to coat. Stir gin with ice and strain into glass.

Serve in a Cocktail Glass.

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What is a Ramos Gin Fizz (A.K.A. New Orleans Fizz) ?

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1.5 oz. Dry Gin
5 drops Orange Flower Water
1/2 oz. Lemon Juice
1/2 oz. Lime Juice
1 Egg White
1 oz. Heavy Cream
1 oz. Simple Syrup
Soda Waer
2 drops Vanilla Extract (optional)

Vigorously shake all ingredients except soda water and strain into glass without ice. Top with soda water.

Serve in a Highball Glass with Grated Nutmeg.

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What is a Red Lion?

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2 oz. Gin
1 oz. Grand Marnier
1/4 oz. Grenadine
3/4 oz. Lemon Juice
3/4 oz. Orange Juice

Shake all ingredients with ice and strain.

Serve in a Cocktail Glass.

35
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What is in Satan’s Whiskers?

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3/4 oz. Gin
3/4 oz. Grand Marnier
3/4 oz. Dry Vermouth
3/4 oz. Sweet Vermouth
1/2 oz. Orange Juice
5 dashes Orange Bitters

Shake all ingredients with ice and strain.

Serve in a Cocktail Glass.

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What is a Singapore Sling?

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2 oz. Gin
3/4 oz. Cherry Herring
2 tsp. Benedictine
2 tsp. Cointreau
2 oz. Pineapple Juice
3/4 oz. Lime Juice
2 dashes Grenadine
1 dash Angostura Bitters
Soda Water

Shake all ingredients except soda water with ice and strain into glass filled with ice. Top with Soda Water.

Serve in a Hurricane Glass with a Cherry, Pineapple Slice, and Orange Wedge.

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What is a Southside?

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2 oz. Dry Gin
3/4 oz. Lime Juice
3/4 oz. Simple Syrup
10 Mint Leaves

Muddle the mint in a shaker with the liquid ingredients. Add ice and shake, strain.

Serve in a Cocktail Glass with a Mint Sprig.

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What is a Tom Collins?

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2 oz. Old Tom or London Dry Gin
1 oz. Lemon Juice
1 tsp. Simple Syrup
3 oz. Soda Water

Build all ingredients except soda water and strain into glass filled with ice. Top with Soda Waer.

Serve in a Highball Glass with a slice of Lemon and a Cherry.

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What is a Vesper?

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3 measures London Dry Gin
1 measure Vodka (preferably grain)
1/2 measure Lillet Blance

Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into chilled glass.

Serve in a cocktail glass with a lemon peel.

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What is a White Lady?

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1 oz. Gin
1 oz. Cointreau
1 oz. Lemon Juice

Shake all ingredients and strain.

Serve in a Cocktail Glass with a Cherry.

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What is an Aviation?

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1.5 oz. London Dry Gin
1/2 oz. Maraschino Liqueur
3/4 oz. Lemon Juice
1 Barspoon Creme de Violette

Combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker. Add ice and shake to chill. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

Serve in a Cocktail Glass with a Cherry (Maraschino, Amarena, Brandied Cherry) or Lemon Peel.

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