Top 10 most popular alcoholic cocktails

And now it is time for New Year parties. Well, alcoholic cocktails are known to reign at festive events of any formats: cocktails are enjoyed with pleasure in a night club, at home, and in a restaurant.

Today we have selected for you the 10 most popular alcoholic cocktails , which you can easily prepare yourself.

10. Bloody Mary.

The cocktail was invented, presumably, in 1939 by an American George Jessel. The author suggested mixing vodka and tomato juice as a remedy for a hard hangover. The modern International Barmen Association recommends the following recipe:

• 45 ml of vodka( brand is unimportant)
• 90 ml of tomato juice.
• 2-3 drops of Worcester sauce.
• 15 ml of lemon juice
• Sauce Tabasco to taste
• Celery juice to taste
• Black pepper

9. Screwdriver.

A mixture of vodka and fruit juice was invented by American oilmen, who worked in Saudi Arabia in the middle of the last century. To drink with impunity in a Muslim country had to show wit and a screwdriver was born. The cocktail recipe is simple:

• 3/10 vodka
• 7/10 any fruit juice
• Ice
• Orange slice as decoration

8. Long Island.

One of the strongest cocktails appeared in the 70s of the XX century on the island of Long Island. The recipe is as follows:

• 20 ml of orange juice
• juice of half lime ¬
• 10 ml liqueur Triple sec
• 20 ml of vodka
• 20 ml of gin
• 20 ml of light rum
• drop of Cola

7. Martini Dry.

The cocktail is named after its inventor - the famous Martini de Anna de Toggia. The classic recipe is:

• 50% vermouth
• 50% gin

Although today there is more often a combination of three parts of gin with one part of vermouth. Decorate the cocktail with olive and lemon zest.

6. Margarita.

The cocktail appeared in Latin America in the first half of the 20th century. The recipe for Margarita from the International Bartender Association is as follows:

• 50% tequila
• 29% liquor Triple sec
• 21% lime juice

All ingredients are mixed in a shaker in a company with ice, then the mixture is filtered and served in a glass whose edges are covered with salt.

5. Daiquiri.

The name of the drink was in honor of the Cuban town of Daikiri. The classic cocktail recipe is:

• 9 parts of rum
• 1 part of sugar
• 4 parts of lime juice
• ice

4. Tequila Sunrise.

This unusually beautiful cocktail was invented in the last century by the hotel in the Arizona Biltmore Hotel. The name "Dawn" is a mixture of tequila, grenadine and orange juice, thanks to the gradation of flowers in a glass resembling dawn. The recipe for Tequila Sunrise is:

• 45 ml tequila
• 15 ml syrup Grenadine
• 90 ml orange juice

3. Cosmopolitan.

The cocktail was created in the second half of the 20th century especially for vodka with lemon flavor Absolut Citron. Today it is prepared with any lemon vodka in the following proportions:

• 40 ml of lemon vodka
• 15 ml of liqueur "Cointreau"
• 15 ml of lime juice
• 30 ml of cranberry juice

2. Pina( Pina) Colada.

Traditional cocktail in the Caribbean was born in the middle of the XX century. The cocktail recipe is as follows:

• 100 ml white rum
• 150 ml coconut liquor
• 150 ml pineapple juice
• ice

Decorate a glass of lemon slice and sugar.

1. Mojito.

One of the most popular cocktails in the world appeared in Cuba in the 1980s. The title is interpreted in two ways. Some experts argue that "moss" means a sauce of garlic, butter and lemon juice with greenery. Others argue that the name of the cocktail is the changed word "mohadito", which means "slightly moist".The classic Mojito recipe is:

• peppermint bunch
• juice of half lime
• 50 ml of white rum
• 2-3 teaspoons of cane sugar
• 100-200 ml of sparkling water
• crushed ice.