martini

How Is A Gimlet Served?

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How Is A Gimlet Served? The Gimlet is usually stirred but unless you’ve super strained/clarified your freshly squeezed citrus juice then even if stirred this cocktail won’t be perfectly clear. So do as Harry Craddock directs in his 1930 Savoy Cocktail Book and use some elbow grease to shake and invigorate this upper decks cocktail.

What Are Martini Glasses Called?

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What Are Martini Glasses Called? A cocktail glass is a stemmed glass with an inverted cone bowl, mainly used to serve straight-up cocktails. The term cocktail glass is often used interchangeably with martini glass, despite their differing slightly. What glass Can you use if you don’t have a martini glass? Drinking a martini in a

What Are The Three Different Types Of Cocktails?

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What Are The Three Different Types Of Cocktails? Learn these 4 cocktail categories, and you can mix up practically anything. In an attempt to demystify the always delightful but often murky path to cocktail enlightenment, we present four basic cocktail categories: sours, fizzes, Old-Fashioneds and three-parters. How many types of cocktails are there? Gin Based

How Did Cocktails Get Their Name?

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How Did Cocktails Get Their Name? According to the online Etymology Dictionary, the origin of the cocktail is down to a mispronunciation of the French word for eggcup coquetier (pronounced in English as cocktay). What is it called a cocktail? A cocktail is an alcoholic mixed drink. Most commonly, cocktails are either a combination of

Did James Bond Like His Martinis Shaken Or Stirred?

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Did James Bond Like His Martinis Shaken Or Stirred? Did James Bond like his martinis shaken or stirred? “Shaken, not stirred” is how Ian Fleming’s fictional British Secret Service agent James Bond prefers his martini cocktail. Why does James Bond have his martini shaken, not stirred? Bond does it, essentially, because it’s part of the