Beverage Monday

Today is about the classics.

Gin Martini

• 3 oz gin
• 3/4 oz dry vermouth
• olive

Put the gin & vermouth into a shaker filled with ice. Shake and strain into a chilled martini glass. Garnish with an olive.

Manhattan

• 3 oz whisky
• 3/4 oz sweet vermouth
• dash of bitters
• cherry

Put the whisky, vermouth and bitters into a shaker filled with ice. Shake and strain into a chilled martini glass. Garnish with a cherry.

Bloody Mary

• 1 1/2 oz vodka
• tomato juice
• 1 dash salt
• 1 dash ground black pepper
• 1 dash Tabasco
• 2-4 dashes Worcestershire sauce
• 1/8 tsp. straight horseradish
• squeeze of lime
• celery stalk
• kosher salt

Pour the vodka into a high ball glass filled with ice. Pour the tomato juice almost to the top. Pour into a shaker glass. Add the salt, pepper, Tabasco, Worcestershire, horseradish and a squeeze of lime juice. Shake and pour into a glass rimmed with kosher salt. Garnish with the lime and a celery stalk.

Margarita

• 1 1/2 oz. tequila
• 3/4 oz triple sec
• lime juice
• sweet & sour mix

Put the tequila and triple sec into a salt rimmed rocks glass filled with ice. Pour the sweet & sour to the top and add a splash of lime juice. Garnish with a lime.

Variation~ put all the of ingredients into a blender and pour into a salt rimed margarita glass.

Cheers,