BARSMARTS UPDATED EXAM SCRIPT QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Margarita - ✔✔2 oz Avión silver tequila
1 oz Cointreau
.75 oz lime juice
(optional: 0.5 oz simple syrup)
coarse salt
lime wedge (for rimming glass)
Shake, cocktail glass with salt rim, lime or no garnish.
✔✔Dry Martini - ✔✔1.5 oz Beefeater London Dry gin
1.5 oz dry vermouth
1-2 dashes orange bitters
Stir, twist of lemon or orange
✔✔Extra Dry Martini (1950) - ✔✔3 oz Beefeater gin or Absolut vodka
1/8 oz dry vermouth
Stir gin with vermouth-seasoned ice, cocktail glass, olive.
✔✔Mint Julep - ✔✔2.5 oz straight bourbon or rye (or Martell VSOP cognac)
0.5 oz simple (or 2 teaspoons superfine sugar)
2-4 sprigs of mint
Sugar and 6 mint leaves in highball and lightly press. Add half of spirits and fill with
crushed ice. Swirl to frost. Add more ice and rest of liquor. Garnish with 3 sprigs of mint.
Add straw.
✔✔Mojito - ✔✔1.5 oz rum
.75 oz lime juice
.75 oz simple syrup
1 mint sprig and 4 mint leaves
club soda
Muddle mint and syrup, add lime, rum and shake, highball glass with ice, top with soda.
Mint garnish
-or- build in a highball glass.
✔✔Negroni - ✔✔1 oz gin
1 oz Campari
1 oz sweet vermouth
, Build, old fashioned with ice, orange peel / slice (optional splash of soda)
-or-
Stir, cocktail glass, orange peel
✔✔Old Fashioned - ✔✔2 oz bourbon or rye
3 dashes Angostura
1 tsp sugar
splash water or soda
In old fashioned glass, muddle sugar and bitters in water, add whiskey and ice, stir.
Lemon peel.
✔✔Old Fashioned (Muddled) - ✔✔2 oz bourbon
3 dashes Angostura
1 tsp sugar
2 orange slices
2 maraschino cherries
splash water or soda
In old fashioned glass, muddle sugar, bitters, one orange, one cherry, soda. Remove
orange rind and add bourbon, ice and Stir. Garnish with additional orange slice and
cherry.
✔✔Pisco Sour - ✔✔1.5 oz pisco
.75 oz lime juice
.75 oz simple syrup
1 egg white
Drops of Angostura bitters
Dry shake, Shake, cocktail glass, garnish with Angostura
✔✔Rob Roy - ✔✔2 oz Chivas Regal scotch
1 oz sweet vermouth
2 dash Angostura (or Orange)
Stir, cocktail glass, cherry (or orange twist)
✔✔Sazerac - ✔✔2 oz rye
2 dashes Peychaud's
splash absinthe (Pernod 68)
0.5 oz simple syrup (or 1 sugar cube and water)
Lemon twist
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Margarita - ✔✔2 oz Avión silver tequila
1 oz Cointreau
.75 oz lime juice
(optional: 0.5 oz simple syrup)
coarse salt
lime wedge (for rimming glass)
Shake, cocktail glass with salt rim, lime or no garnish.
✔✔Dry Martini - ✔✔1.5 oz Beefeater London Dry gin
1.5 oz dry vermouth
1-2 dashes orange bitters
Stir, twist of lemon or orange
✔✔Extra Dry Martini (1950) - ✔✔3 oz Beefeater gin or Absolut vodka
1/8 oz dry vermouth
Stir gin with vermouth-seasoned ice, cocktail glass, olive.
✔✔Mint Julep - ✔✔2.5 oz straight bourbon or rye (or Martell VSOP cognac)
0.5 oz simple (or 2 teaspoons superfine sugar)
2-4 sprigs of mint
Sugar and 6 mint leaves in highball and lightly press. Add half of spirits and fill with
crushed ice. Swirl to frost. Add more ice and rest of liquor. Garnish with 3 sprigs of mint.
Add straw.
✔✔Mojito - ✔✔1.5 oz rum
.75 oz lime juice
.75 oz simple syrup
1 mint sprig and 4 mint leaves
club soda
Muddle mint and syrup, add lime, rum and shake, highball glass with ice, top with soda.
Mint garnish
-or- build in a highball glass.
✔✔Negroni - ✔✔1 oz gin
1 oz Campari
1 oz sweet vermouth
, Build, old fashioned with ice, orange peel / slice (optional splash of soda)
-or-
Stir, cocktail glass, orange peel
✔✔Old Fashioned - ✔✔2 oz bourbon or rye
3 dashes Angostura
1 tsp sugar
splash water or soda
In old fashioned glass, muddle sugar and bitters in water, add whiskey and ice, stir.
Lemon peel.
✔✔Old Fashioned (Muddled) - ✔✔2 oz bourbon
3 dashes Angostura
1 tsp sugar
2 orange slices
2 maraschino cherries
splash water or soda
In old fashioned glass, muddle sugar, bitters, one orange, one cherry, soda. Remove
orange rind and add bourbon, ice and Stir. Garnish with additional orange slice and
cherry.
✔✔Pisco Sour - ✔✔1.5 oz pisco
.75 oz lime juice
.75 oz simple syrup
1 egg white
Drops of Angostura bitters
Dry shake, Shake, cocktail glass, garnish with Angostura
✔✔Rob Roy - ✔✔2 oz Chivas Regal scotch
1 oz sweet vermouth
2 dash Angostura (or Orange)
Stir, cocktail glass, cherry (or orange twist)
✔✔Sazerac - ✔✔2 oz rye
2 dashes Peychaud's
splash absinthe (Pernod 68)
0.5 oz simple syrup (or 1 sugar cube and water)
Lemon twist
