Classics
This tequila drink is the most popular drink in America.
What is a Margarita?
Originally created by Frank Fogarty, Seattle bartender Murray Stenson repopularized this most famous equal parts gin cocktail in 2003.
What is a last word?
A syrup is made by combining equal parts sugar and water.
What is simple syrup?
This Mexican native plant makes Tequila, Mezcal, and a whole host of other local spirits.
What is Agave
This is the word for a spirit often asked for by name in a drink, not bottom or top shelf, but this.
What is Call?
The original cocktail, containing bitters, sugar, whiskey, and water.
What is an old fashioned?
His eponymous guide the _____ Guide, contains a standard for drink recipes commonly searched by both bartenders and home enthusiasts alike.
Who is Difford?
A french style of simple containing almonds, orange blossom water, rose water, and sugar.
What is Orgeat?
What is Yeast?
This is what you have to do when you break a glass near your ice well, a hated task by many bartenders.
What is burning the ice?
An equal parts cocktail, this is a whiskey based spin on the popular Negroni.
What is a boulevardier?
The author of Liquid Intelligence, this very scientific bartender founded the Museum of Food and Drink, and also opened Booker and Dax, to show his cocktail chemistry.
Who is Dave Arnold?
Primarily containing cinchona, this syrup is often made into a soda with some medicinal properties.
What is tonic?
Similarly to how ciders are made from apples, Perries are made from this fruit.
What are pears?
This swampy metaphor means that you are behind on service tickets, or too busy to handle how many people are at your bar.
What is in the weeds?
This gin cocktail shares its name with a WW1 french machine gun, because drinking one is akin to being shot by it.
What is a French 75?
This Tiki bartender is well known for founding one of the first tiki bars in America, Donn the Beachcomber.
Who is Ernest Grantt (or Donn Beach as he legally changed his name to)?
This syrup is what makes the scotch based penicillin have its particular bite.
What is Ginger (or Honey Ginger) syrup?
Used as the primary flavor in Sambuca, and Ouzo, this plant is native to the Mediterranean.
What is Anise
This commonly used slang means to restock your liquors to pars.
What is a liquor pull?
The only classic to contain Creme de Violette, this gin classic is named after it's light sky blue and purple hue.
What is an aviation?
This bartender is best known for founding Death & Co. across it's many locations (including one in the east village), as well as co authoring Cocktail Codex.
Who is David Kaplan?
This process is used to create very bright syrups, when you want to boil the mixture, but could destroy delicate flavors if the temperature gets too high.
What is Vacuum Distillation?
One of the earliest species of citrus, this fruit is sour, inedible, and thick skinned, but without it we wouldn't have any other citrus.
What is a Citron?
This, is often referred to as the bartenders handshake.
What is sharing a shot of fernet.