The Six Basic Cocktails
Even sober people should know the six basic cocktails. These were called out in The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks by David Embury in 1948. They are:
1. The Manhattan
2. The Martini
3. The Daquiri - Not the strawberry bullshit thrown up in hot tubs, but the real deal with lime and rum.
4. The Sidecar
5. The Old Fashioned
6. The Jack Rose (try one, they’re very refreshing).
If you ask a bartender to make any of these and he or she doesn’t know how, he or she deserves to be shot dead.
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