BARTENDING 101 LATEST EXAM 2026/2027 QUESTIONS
AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Vodka Collins - ✔✔4 counts vodka, Sour Mix, Shaker, Club soda, Cherry and
Orange Garnish
✔✔Tom Collins - ✔✔4 counts gin, Sour Mix, Shaker, Club soda, Garnish with cherry or
orange
✔✔Sloe Gin Fizz - ✔✔4 count sloe gin, sour mix, short shake, Ginger ale, straw, cherry
garnish
✔✔Red Devil - ✔✔sloe gin, amaretto, soco, vodka, triple sec, lime juice, top off with
orange juice (shaken) RED DEATH = with Sambuca float
✔✔Long Island Iced Tea - ✔✔Vodka, Gin, Rum Tequila, Triple Sec, Splash of Sour mix,
Shaken, diet coke, lemon garnish (2 counts each)
✔✔Alabama Slammer - ✔✔Sloe Gin, Amaretto, Soco, Orange Juice, Shaken
✔✔Margarita-On the Rocks - ✔✔Tequila 4 count , Triple Sec 2 count, Lime Juice 2
count, 2 count Sour Mix, Salt on the rim, lime garnish
✔✔Margarita Straight up - ✔✔6 count tequila, 2 count triple sec, 2 count lime juice, sour
mix, (strained into glass)
✔✔Organic Agave Margarita - ✔✔6 count corzo tequila, fresh lime juice, agave nectar,
splash of water, shaken, lime garnish
✔✔Daquiri - ✔✔Rum 4 count, teaspoon of sugar, 2 count of rose's lime juice, sour mix,
shaker,
✔✔Daquiri Straight Up - ✔✔Tsp of Sugar, Rum 6 count, Lime juice 2 count, top off with
sour mix, shaken, lime garnish
✔✔Mojito - ✔✔2 lime wedges, 4/5 fresh mint leaves, tsp of sugar, fresh lime juice,
muddled well, 4 counts of baccardi rum, shaken well, top off with soda, top off with fresh
mint leaves, and garnish with lime
✔✔Metropolitan - ✔✔Same as cosmo, with berry vodka
✔✔Grey Goose and Tonic - ✔✔Always add lime with tonic
, ✔✔ Build - ✔✔A bar term meaning to make a drink - starting with ice and then 'building'
the drink by adding the other ingredients (i.e. alcohol, juice, garnish, etc).
✔✔Bar Spoon - ✔✔long mixing spoon which often has a lemon zester or something
similar on the other end.
✔✔Bitters - ✔✔a herbal alcoholic blend which is meant to be added to other cocktails to
enhance flavor (e.g a Manhattan is rye, sweet vermouth and a couple dashes of bitters).
Angostura Bitters is one of the most popular brands and was first invented by a German
physician for stomach maladies in 1824.
✔✔Blend - ✔✔To mix up ingredients and ice in an electric blender. Depending on
where you live, these could be called frozen drinks or blended drinks.
✔✔Call Drink - ✔✔Refers to when the customer orders a drink by giving both the
specific name of the liquor and the name of the mixer.
E.g. Tanqueray Ten and Tonic, Bacardi and Coke.
✔✔Chaser - ✔✔In bar terms, anything that is consumed quickly after a shooter or
straight (neat) shot of alcohol. Meant to ease the strength of the original shooter and / or
to mask its taste.
✔✔Chill - ✔✔To chill a glass add ice and then water to any glass and let sit for a minute
or two (while mixing the drink in a shaker). Pour out the contents of the glass and strain
the drink into the chilled glass. This bar terminology is often used for martinis.
✔✔Cocktail - ✔✔A mix of alcohol and / or liqueurs combined with a mixer (like soda or
juice) and often shaken.
✔✔Cooler - ✔✔An alcoholic-based bottled beverage offered in a variety of different
alcohols - vodka, rum, wine - which comes in a variety of flavors. (E.g. Smirnoff Ice,
Wild berry cooler, Mike's Hard Lemonade).
✔✔Dash - ✔✔A few drops or a very small amount of an ingredient.
✔✔Dirty - ✔✔Adding olive juice to a martini which makes it a Dirty Martini. The more
olive juice, the dirtier the martini. It's a dirty bar terms.
✔✔Dry - ✔✔Very little vermouth added to a martini. Extra dry martini is a drop of scotch
swirled around the martini glass and then poured out before adding the gin.
✔✔Float - ✔✔when one alcohol sits on top of another alcohol
in a shooter glass. (E.g. a B-52 shooter contains Kahlua, Irish Cream and Grand
Marnier. Kahlua is heavier than Irish Cream which is heavier than GM so each one
AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Vodka Collins - ✔✔4 counts vodka, Sour Mix, Shaker, Club soda, Cherry and
Orange Garnish
✔✔Tom Collins - ✔✔4 counts gin, Sour Mix, Shaker, Club soda, Garnish with cherry or
orange
✔✔Sloe Gin Fizz - ✔✔4 count sloe gin, sour mix, short shake, Ginger ale, straw, cherry
garnish
✔✔Red Devil - ✔✔sloe gin, amaretto, soco, vodka, triple sec, lime juice, top off with
orange juice (shaken) RED DEATH = with Sambuca float
✔✔Long Island Iced Tea - ✔✔Vodka, Gin, Rum Tequila, Triple Sec, Splash of Sour mix,
Shaken, diet coke, lemon garnish (2 counts each)
✔✔Alabama Slammer - ✔✔Sloe Gin, Amaretto, Soco, Orange Juice, Shaken
✔✔Margarita-On the Rocks - ✔✔Tequila 4 count , Triple Sec 2 count, Lime Juice 2
count, 2 count Sour Mix, Salt on the rim, lime garnish
✔✔Margarita Straight up - ✔✔6 count tequila, 2 count triple sec, 2 count lime juice, sour
mix, (strained into glass)
✔✔Organic Agave Margarita - ✔✔6 count corzo tequila, fresh lime juice, agave nectar,
splash of water, shaken, lime garnish
✔✔Daquiri - ✔✔Rum 4 count, teaspoon of sugar, 2 count of rose's lime juice, sour mix,
shaker,
✔✔Daquiri Straight Up - ✔✔Tsp of Sugar, Rum 6 count, Lime juice 2 count, top off with
sour mix, shaken, lime garnish
✔✔Mojito - ✔✔2 lime wedges, 4/5 fresh mint leaves, tsp of sugar, fresh lime juice,
muddled well, 4 counts of baccardi rum, shaken well, top off with soda, top off with fresh
mint leaves, and garnish with lime
✔✔Metropolitan - ✔✔Same as cosmo, with berry vodka
✔✔Grey Goose and Tonic - ✔✔Always add lime with tonic
, ✔✔ Build - ✔✔A bar term meaning to make a drink - starting with ice and then 'building'
the drink by adding the other ingredients (i.e. alcohol, juice, garnish, etc).
✔✔Bar Spoon - ✔✔long mixing spoon which often has a lemon zester or something
similar on the other end.
✔✔Bitters - ✔✔a herbal alcoholic blend which is meant to be added to other cocktails to
enhance flavor (e.g a Manhattan is rye, sweet vermouth and a couple dashes of bitters).
Angostura Bitters is one of the most popular brands and was first invented by a German
physician for stomach maladies in 1824.
✔✔Blend - ✔✔To mix up ingredients and ice in an electric blender. Depending on
where you live, these could be called frozen drinks or blended drinks.
✔✔Call Drink - ✔✔Refers to when the customer orders a drink by giving both the
specific name of the liquor and the name of the mixer.
E.g. Tanqueray Ten and Tonic, Bacardi and Coke.
✔✔Chaser - ✔✔In bar terms, anything that is consumed quickly after a shooter or
straight (neat) shot of alcohol. Meant to ease the strength of the original shooter and / or
to mask its taste.
✔✔Chill - ✔✔To chill a glass add ice and then water to any glass and let sit for a minute
or two (while mixing the drink in a shaker). Pour out the contents of the glass and strain
the drink into the chilled glass. This bar terminology is often used for martinis.
✔✔Cocktail - ✔✔A mix of alcohol and / or liqueurs combined with a mixer (like soda or
juice) and often shaken.
✔✔Cooler - ✔✔An alcoholic-based bottled beverage offered in a variety of different
alcohols - vodka, rum, wine - which comes in a variety of flavors. (E.g. Smirnoff Ice,
Wild berry cooler, Mike's Hard Lemonade).
✔✔Dash - ✔✔A few drops or a very small amount of an ingredient.
✔✔Dirty - ✔✔Adding olive juice to a martini which makes it a Dirty Martini. The more
olive juice, the dirtier the martini. It's a dirty bar terms.
✔✔Dry - ✔✔Very little vermouth added to a martini. Extra dry martini is a drop of scotch
swirled around the martini glass and then poured out before adding the gin.
✔✔Float - ✔✔when one alcohol sits on top of another alcohol
in a shooter glass. (E.g. a B-52 shooter contains Kahlua, Irish Cream and Grand
Marnier. Kahlua is heavier than Irish Cream which is heavier than GM so each one
