Delicious Cocktails
May 20th, 2008If you want to learn how to mix your own cocktails, there are some things you can do. First, if you want to take it seriously and do it for a profession, you can actually go to school to learn how to be a bartender. Bartenders mix cocktails for a living and they learn how to do it with flair. In your training you will also be taught how to create your own drink variations and become a mixologist.
But you don’t need to go to school to learn how to mix drinks. If you know how to cook and follow instructions, you can learn how to put together a cocktail. You can find recipes in books and online. Just find all the ingredients and tools you need and get started. But a word of warning. If you are used to following standard recipes you will notice that cocktails are written differently. Everything is in ‘parts’. A cocktail may call for ‘2 parts heavy cream, 1 part Kahlua, and 1 parts vodka’ (a variation on a White Russian). To work with ‘parts’ you simply choose a measurement. In this case, I would use a standard shot glass. So, the recipe would be ‘2 Shots heavy cream, 1 shot Kahlua, and 1 shot of vodka’.