Box
Pour into and out of a shaker, usually only once. Gives the
drink a quick mixing without shaking.
Call Drink
A liquor and mixer, of which the liquor is a defined brand. (ie.
Tanqueray and Tonic, Bacardi and Coke)
Cobbler
A tall drink of any liquor served in a collins or highball glass
with shaved or crushed ice and garnished with fresh fruit and
mint sprigs.
Chaser
A mixer that is consumed immediately after a straight shot of
liquor to create a different taste.
Cocktail
Any of various alcoholic beverages consisting usually of brandy,
whiskey, vodka, or gin combined with fruit juices or other
liquors and often served chilled.
Collins
A drink akin to a sour which is served in a tall glass with soda
water or seltzer water.
Cooler
A drink consisting of ginger ale, soda water, and a fresh spiral
or twist of citrus fruit rind, served in a collins or highball
glass.
Crusta
A sour-type drink served in a glass that is completely lined
with an orange or lemon peel cut in a continuous strip.
Cup
A punch-type drink that made up in quantities of cups or glasses
in preference to a punch bowl.
Daisy
An oversize drink of the sour type, normally made with rum or
gin. It is served over crushed ice with a straw, and sweetened
with a fruit syrup.
Lace
Normally applies to the last ingredient in a recipe, meaning to
pour onto the top of the drink.
Eggnog
A traditional holiday drink containing a combination of eggs
beaten with cream or milk, sugar, and a liquor such as brandy,
rum, or bourbon.
Fix
A sour-type drink similar to the daisy, made with crushed ice in
a large goblet.
Fizz
An effervescent beverage. (ie. that which is carbonated or which
emits small bubbles.)
Flip
A chilled, creamy drink made of eggs, sugar, and a wine or
spirit. Brandy and sherry flips are two of the better known
kinds.
Frappé
A partially frozen, often fruity drink. It is usually a mixture
of ingredients served over a mound of crushed ice.
Grog
A rum-based beverage with water, fruit juice and sugar, commonly
served in a large mug.
Highball
Any spirit served with ice and soda water in a medium to tall
glass (often a highball glass).
Julep
A drink made of bourbon, mint, sugar and crushed ice.
Lowball
A short drink made of spirits served with ice, water or soda in
a small glass.
Mist
A liquor served over a glass filled with crushed ice, often a
way of serving liqueur as an after dinner drink.
Mulls
A sweetened and spiced heated liquor, wine or beer, served as a
hot punch.
Neat
The consumption of a spirit as a straight, unaccompanied shot.
Negus
A punch-like combination containing a wine, such as port, heated
with spices and sweetened.
Nip
A quarter of a bottle.
Nightcap
A wine or liquor taken before bedtime.
On The Rocks
A wine or liquor poured over ice cubes.
Pick-Me-Up
A drink designed to relieve the effects of overindulgence in
alcohol.
Posset
An old british drink from which the eggnog was derived. It
consists of a mixture of heated ale or wine curdled with milk,
eggs, and spices.
Puff
A traditional afternoon drink made of equal parts spirit and
milk, topped with club soda and served over ice.
Punch
A party-size beverage consisting of fruit, fruit juices,
flavorings and sweeteners, soft drinks, and a wine or liquor
base.
Rickey
A drink made a liquor, usually gin, a half lime and soda water.
It is sometimes sweetened, and often served with ice in a rickey
glass.
Sangaree
A tall chilled and sweetened wine/liquor garnished with nutmeg.
Shooter
A straight shot of whiskey or other kind of spirit taken neat.
Shrub
Spirits, fruit juices, and sugar, aged in a sealed container
such as a cask or crock, then usually bottled.
Sling
A tall drink made with either brandy, whiskey or gin, with lemon
juice, sugar and soda water. It is served both hot and cold.
Smash
A short julep made of liquor, sugar, and mint, served in a small
glass.
Sour
A short drink consisting of liquor, lemon/lime juice and sugar.
Supercall
Also known as top shelf or super premium. The high octane, often
higher proof alcohols, or super-aged or flavored versions.
Swizzle
A tall, traditionally rum-based cocktail filled with cracked
ice. A stirring rod or swizzle stick is quickly rotated between
the palm of the hands to form frost on the glass.
Syllabub
A beverage made from a mixture of sweetened milk/cream, wine and
spices.
Toddy
A sweetened drink of liquor and hot water, often with spices and
served in a tall glass.
Tot
A small amount of liquor.
Virgin
A non-alcoholic drink.
Well Drink
A liquor and mixer, of which neither are defined brands. (ie.
Gin and Tonic, Rum and Coke)