Slideshow for repurposing assignment for creating website editorial class.

1. Classic Cocktail History
Lesson
The Sad Sorry of Three Classic
Cocktails
(original recipes included)

2. Classic Cocktail # 1
The Gin Cocktail

3. The Classic Gin Cocktail
Mellow, Smooth, and Strong
How to Make a Classic
Gin Cocktail
Put a cube of demurara sugar in a
tumbler
glass (also known as an old fashion
glass)
• Add ½ ounce of water
• Add 4 to 5 dashes of bitters
• Add 2 ounces of Genevieve or
Bos Gin
• Add 2 cubes of ice
Twist a swatch of thin cut lemon
peal over
the top

4. What You Get Today
Sweat, Pink, and Diluted
The classic Gin Cocktail has long
gone extinct. The closest
approximation to the Classic Gin
Cocktail is an Old Fashion
Cocktail. Order one today, and
you’ll likely receive a sweet
mixture of whisky, sugar,
bitters, a cherry, and an orange
wedge, topped off with some
soda (or worse 7-up). Not
exactly its sophisticated
predecessor.

5. So What Happened?
At the beginning of the 19th century there
was no drink
more popular than the Gin Cocktail, but by
1910 it was
essentially extinct.
What Happened.?
Gin styles changed.
Up until 1880 or so, when someone asked for
“gin”,
they were generally refering to Dutch style
gin (aka
gnever): a rich malty, lightly junipery thing
that’s
essentially flavored whisky.
But then light-bodied, sharp-flavored,
London-style
gin moved in and the older stuff fell out of
style.
Suddenly this mellow soft gin cocktail was
transformed into something nervous and edgy,
and

6. Classic Cocktail # 2
The Manhattan Cocktail

7. The Classic Manhatan Cocktail
Smooth, Rich, and Elegant
How to Make the
Manhattan Club’s
Manhattan
Stir well with cracked ice:
• 1 ½ ounce straight rye whisky
(Rittenhouse or Wild Turkey)
• 1 ½ ounces of Martini and Rossi
Red Vermouth
• 2 dashes of orange bitter
Strain in chilled cocktail coupe and
twist a
swatch of thin-cut lemon peal over
the top
• 1 ½ oz straight rye whiskey (Rittenhouse or Wild Turkey)

8. What you Get Today
Too Strong, Too Fruity, and Too
Sweet
Unlike its predecessor, the
contemporary Manhattan contains
significantly less vermouth than it
does
Whisky. Order a Manhattan Today,
and
you’ll be presented with a cherry
filled
concoction, made with blended
whisky or
bourbon, replete with maraschino
cherry
juice.

9. So What Happened?
The Manhattan began its life as the house
drink at the
Manhattan Club in New York back in 1980,
where it
was made with equal parts rye whisky and
vermouth,
and NO maraschino cherry juice.
So what Happened?
The rise of the Martini (and with it drier
drinks).
Over the years, as the Manhattan lost ground
to the
Martini, bartenders started making
Manhattans drier
and drier, with less and le.ss vermouth.
But whisky is not gin, and to fight the
harshness that

10. Classic Cocktail # 3
The Singapore Sling

11. The Original Singapore Sling
How to Make The Original
Singapore Sling
Combine in a tall collins glass:
• 1 ounce Tanqueray gin
• 1 ounce Bols cherry brandy or
Herring cherry liqueur
• 1 ounce Bnedictine (optional)
• 1 ounce fresh-squeezed lime
juice
Add ice, fill with chilled club soda,
and hit
with three dashes Angostura
bitters

12. What You Get Today
Fruiting Concoction fit for a Novelty
Umbrella
Order a Singapore Sling at the
Raffle
Hotel in Singapore, which claims
to
have invented it back in 1915,
and
you’ll get a sickly sweet, fruity
mess
of juice and syrup with a little
gin
buried in it.

13. So What Happened ?
Though the Raffle Hotel claims to
have
invented the Singapore Sling back
in 1915,
it actually goes back at least to the
1980 ,
and was not particularly associated
with
the Raffle Hotel until 1920.
So what happened?
The fruity novelty cocktail won out.
The main problem isn’t that the
original
formulation was lost, but rather

14. Lesson Learned?
1) Always order by ingredient!
2) Maraschino cherry juice is never the
answer!