See full version: Top 10 drinks every bartender should know
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Garnish: No garnish.
Served properly, this drink is garnished with as many different fruits as you can get your hands on. [links]
Serve in a Margarita glass here
Preparation: Mix and serve. Garnish with a Lime Slice. [links]
Preparation: Sprigs of Mint muddled with Sugar and Lime Juice. Rum added and topped with Soda Water. Garnished with Mint Leaves and served with a straw. here
Served: Poured over ice more
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Garnish: Maraschino Cherry
But at the core of bartending are the classics -- drinks like the Martini, the Manhattan and even the Mai Tai. These drinks not only served as the cornerstone of bars in the past, but many have also served as the basis for the drinks we have come to love and enjoy today. [links]
In today's world of craft cocktails the unique and unusual have become the norm. From bartenders' self invented nightly specials to drinks that have taken the nation by storm -- see Cosmopolitan and Lynchburg Lemonade -- there is no shortage of creative selections to be had. here
Unfortunately these classics have taken a backseat to some of the more popular cocktails of today while becoming a second thought to many bartenders. Following is a slideshow of 10 cocktails every bartender and cocktail connoisseur should be able to make and a few of the common twists. more
Since a bartender’s soda gun also commonly contains juices such as orange and cranberry juice as well as extras such as grenadine, the more ‘complex’ of these well drinks would be cocktails such as a Tequila Sunrise or a Cosmopolitan. here
Well drinks are ordered so frequently that a bartender might use nothing but their rail spirits the whole night. And many of these drinks have a nickname so they’re easier to shout out in a loud club. We have listed the shortened names beside the recipe ingredients below.
Generally speaking, well drinks can include any type of drink that is made from the alcohol in a bartender’s well. There are some sites that say that any drink that is made with your bar’s lower cost alcohol is considered a well drink. In our experience, however, it has generally come to mean any drink that can be made with the bottles on the rail and whatever comes from the gun (i.e. drinks that can be made from items from the well). The simplest of these drinks (shown below) are served in a rocks glass unless specified (sometimes customers will ask for a tall glass if they want a weaker drink) and are usually mixed with only one kind of mix, such as: cola, ginger ale, 7-up etc…
Mixed drinks can literally be any drink that’s mixed. Well drinks, on the other hand, has a more specific meaning. A well drink is a drink that is made from the liquor stored in a bartender’s “well” (also called a rail or speed rail which gives us another synonym for well drinks – rail drinks). Mixed drinks are the most commonly made drinks in the bar. They are drinks that come from the alcohol stored in the ‘rail’ or ‘well’ – the area beneath a bartender’s section where the most commonly used liquor is stored, namely Vodka, Whiskey (Scotch and/or Rye), Rum, Gin and Tequila and maybe Triple Sec and Vermouth as well. [links]
Keep in mind that it’s important to remember bar etiquette when ordering at a bar or club. And that protocol, so as to speed up service and not confuse the bartender, is to order your drinks by the alcohol first and the mix second.