| Cocktails |
There is nothing more fun than having cocktails with your friends. A cocktail is a mixed drink that usually has one or more types of liquors such as vodka, gin, whiskey, rum or tequila combined with fruit juices or other mixers – such as milk, cream and tonic water, with spices, honey or sugar added, and can be garnished with fruits and veggies.
Cocktails are festive. What makes drinking cocktails fun is that drinks vary from bartender to bartender, with no two drinks being identical. Besides the beauty of some of these drinks, the flavors can be amazing.
Cocktails can have medicinal value if you judge them based solely on the alcohol content, but when these alcohols are combined with sugary mixes, the health value is diminished. What I worry most about is the caloric content of these beverages. They are fattening. My whole thing is that you have to live, and having a cocktail occasionally is living.
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| melsBuzz |
- Enjoy your drink – savor the flavors. Don’t rush or binge drink.
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| melsAdvice |
- Don’t drink and drive
- Drinks are expensive so know what you are ordering
- Watch your bartender carefully. Sometimes they dilute your drink as you get a buzz
- Experiment with different flavors to create your own drink
- Most people tip their bartender 15-20% of the bill or a $1.00 per drink
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| DidYouKnow? |
- Nearly every country independently discovered the process of brewing beer, fermenting wine and distilling liquor
- Probably the most popular mixer in America is Coke
- As of 2006, vodka was America’s most popular selling liquor
- Around the beginning of the 12th century, it is estimated that vodka was born in Russia. Although the Poles also claim to be the originators of this elixir, it is generally agreed that the Russians were the first to produce a standardized drink called “vodka”, meaning little water. Originally intended for medicinal purposes, the crude anesthetic and disinfectant distilled from rye was found around the 14th century to possess intoxicating qualities.
- The chief flavoring agent in gin is the highly aromatic blue-green berry of the juniper, a low-slung evergreen bush that is commercially grown in northern Italy, Croatia, the United States and Canada. Additional botanicals can include anise, angelica root, cinnamon, orange peel, coriander and cassia bark. All gin makers have their own secret combination of botanicals, the number of which can range from as few as four to as many as 15.
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| melsTips |
- Drink moderately
- Research how many calories your favorite cocktail is
- Don’t eat fatty, sugary or salty foods while drinking, because you will eat more of them than you normally would
- Create your own drinks at home with homemade mixers
- Usually, it’s not a good idea to mix liquors
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| melsQuiz |
- What are IBA Official Cocktails?
- Name three out of the six reasons people drink
- A shot is how many ounces of liquor?
- What’s the most popular mixed drink ordered in American
- What’s the most popular energy drink that is used as a mixer?
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| melsQuiz Answers |
- Cocktails approved by the International Bartender Association
- To quench thirst, to get drunk, to enjoy a social setting or experience, to enjoy the taste, feed an addiction, or drink as part of a religious or traditional ceremony or custom
- Approximately 1 to 1.5 ounces
- Experts believe it is the Long Island Ice Tea
- Red Bull
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