Apero Cocktail Matrix

Question 1

Old Fashioned
Glass: Rock Glass
Garnish: Orange Peel and two Cherries
Method: Add all ingredients on the mixing glass, dry stir, add ice to and stir. Strain on a Large rock.

Answer 1

2 OZ Four Roses Bourbon
0.5 OZ Demerara Syrup
2 Dashes Angostura Bitters
2 Dashes Orange Bitters

• Colonel James E. Pepper invented the Old Fashioned while working at The Pendennis Club, a private social club in KY. He then took the recipe to New York, where he started working at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel bar in New York City.

Question 2

Sazerac
Glass: Rock Glass
Garnish: Lemon Peel
Method: Spray rock glass with absinthe, add sugar cube and bitters to mixing glass, mudle. Add Rye and dry stir. Add ice stir. Strain on Rocks glass.

Answer 2

2 Sprays of Absinthe
White Sugar Cube
4 Dashes of Peychauds Bitters
2.5 OZ Whistle Pig 10 Rye

• Peychaud’s use French Brandy in the original recipe. American Rye-whiskey was substituted for the cognac and, in 1873, bartender Leon Lamothe added a dash of Absinthe

Question 3

Cosmopolitan
Glass: Coupe
Garnish: Lime Peel
Method: Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker, shake well with ice, Double strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

Answer 3

2 Oz Wheatley Vodka
0.5 OZ Dry Curacao
0.5 OZ Lime Juice
0.25 OZ Cranberry Juice

• The cosmopolitan cocktail, typically referred to as the “cosmo,” gained popularity during the 1990s when it was frequently mentioned on the television show Sex and the City. The combination of vodka, orange liqueur, lime juice, and cranberry juice have made it a timeless classic.

Question 4

Margarita
Glass: Rock Glass
Garnish: Dry Lime
Method:Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker. shake well with ice, Double strain into a rock glass.

Answer 4

2 OZ Corazon Blanco Tequila
1.5 OZ Lime Juice
0.25 OZ Agave
0.25 OZ Dry Curacao

• Brandy daisy , remade with tequila instead of brandy. There is an account from 1936 of Iowa newspaper editor James Graham finding such a cocktail in Tijuana, years before any of the other margarita “creation myths”.

Question 5

Last Word
Glass: Coupe
Garnish: Cherry
Method: Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker, shake well with ice, Double strain into a chilled coupe.

Answer 5

0.75 OZ Tanqueray
0..75 OZ Lime juice
0.75 OZ Luxardo
0.75 OZ Green Chartreuse

• The Last Word was first served at the Detroit Athletic Club, circa 1915. Created just before the start of Prohibition, likely by a bartender named Frank Fogarty, it’s one of the cocktail canon’s most successful Prohibition-era drinks.

Question 6

Naked and Famous
Glass: Coupe
Garnish: Orange Peel
Method: Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker, shake well with ice, Double strain into a chilled coupe.

Answer 6

0.75 OZ Los Vecinos Mezcal
0.75 OZ Yellow Chartreuse
0.75 OZ Aperol
0.75 OZ Lime Juice

• Created by Joaquín Simó, most recently a partner in New York City’s now-closed Pouring Ribbons, during his time at Death & Co.

Question 7

French 75
Glass: Aperitive Tulip
Garnish: Lemon Peel
Method: Pour all ingredients except the champagne into a cocktail shaker, shake well with ice, Double strain into a chilled tulip. Top with the Champagne.

Answer 7

1 OZ Aviation Gin
0.5 OZ Lemon Juice
0.5 OZ Simple Syrup
Top with PJ Grand Brut

• According to drinks historian David Wondrich, the recipe first appeared in 1927 at the height of Prohibition in a book called “Here’s How” that was published by a New York humor magazine.

Question 8

Manhattan
Glass: Coupe
Garnish: 1 Cherry
Method: Add all ingredinets on the mixing glass, dry stir, add ice to and stir with ice. Strain on a coupe

Answer 8

2 OZ Whistle Pig 10 Rye
1 OZ Mancino Rosso
3 Dashes Angostura Bitters

• At Manhattan Club in New York City by Dr. Iain Marshall. Signature drink for a banquet hosted by Winston Churchill’s mother in support of a presidential candidate at the time. It became known as The Manhattan because of the club where it was born.

Question 9

Sidecar
Glass: Coupe
Garnish: Orange Peel
Method: Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker, shake well with ice, Double strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

Answer 9

1.5 Remy Martin
0.75 OZ Dry Curacao
0.75 Lemon Juice

• The Sidecar was likely invented around World War I. It graced the pages of two books in 1922: “Harry’s ABC of Mixing Cocktails” by Harry MacElhone and “Cocktails and How to Mix Them” by Robert Vermeire.

Question 10

South Side
Glass: High Ball
Garnish: Mint
Method:Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker,Add Mint. shake well with ice, Double strain into a chilled colling glass. Top with soda

Answer 10

2 OZ Tanqueray
0.5 OZ Lime Juice
0.5 OZ Lemon Juice
0.25 OZ Simple Syrup
Top with Soda

• Al Capone’s favorite , the gin consumed by Al Capone’s gang had a rougher finish, and required more sweeteners to make it palatable.Thus the South Side was born.

Question 11

Paloma
Glass: High Ball
Garnish: Dry Lime
Method: Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker. shake well with ice, strain into a chilled colling glass. Top with soda.

Answer 11

2 OZ Corazon Blanco Tequila
0.5 OZ Lime Juice
0.5 OZ Grapefruit Juice
Top Soda Water

• Brandy daisy , remade with tequila instead of brandy. There is an account from 1936 of Iowa newspaper editor James Graham finding such a cocktail in Tijuana, years before any of the other margarita “creation myths”.
  .S. Bartender Evan Harrison introduced the cocktail in his pamphlet, “Popular Cocktails of the Rio Grande.” . In 1929 in the Rio Grande Valley, citrus grower A.E. Henninger noticed his pink grapefruits having a red blush shade. It was then that the Ruby Red Grapefruit was discovered, making it the first citrus patent granted in the U.S. This discovery has led to many in Texas gravitating toward the grapefruit-based cocktail rather than the Margarita.

Question 12

Moscow Mule
Glass: Julep Glass
Garnish: Mint
Method: Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker. shake well with ice, strain into a Julep glass. Top with Ginger Beer.

Answer 12

2 OZ Weathley Vodka
1 OZ Lime juice
Top with Ginger Beer

Two men. John Martin needed to sell Smirnoff vodka, a new and generally unknown spirit during the middle of the 20th century . Another man, Jack Morgan, wanted to deplete the stash of ginger beer taking up space at his Cock ‘n’ Bull pub. The rest is history

Question 13

Paper plane
Glass: Coupe
Garnish: Lemon Peel
Method: Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker, shake well with ice, Double strain into a chilled coupe.

Answer 13

0.75 OZ Four Roses Bourbon
0.75 OZ Amaro Nonino
0.75 OZ Lemon Juice
0.75 OZ Aperol

• Sam Ross, an award-winning bartender and the co-owner of Attaboy and Diamond Reef in New York City.
  The Paper Plane is a modern variation on the Last Word

Question 14

Corpse Reviver #2
Glass: Coupe
Garnish: Lemon Peel
Method: Rinse the Glass with Absinthe.Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker, shake well with ice, Double strain into a chilled coupe

Answer 14

0.75 OZ Aviation Gin
0.75 OZ Dry Curacao
0.75 OZ Lemon Juice
0.75 OZ Lillet Blanc
Rinse of Absinthe