BARSMARTS UPDATED EVALUATION EXAM QUESTIONS
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✔✔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
AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔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