The 10 Most Popular Cocktails You Googled This Year [DRINK]
As a personal challenge, I decided to see how many recipes for your top 10 most Googled cocktails could be found in Linda Doeser’s The Cocktail Bible, my go-to book for showing off at parties.
Though mostly filled with very specific cocktails your neighborhood dive bartenders will get annoyed attempting, the book contained eight of your most sought-after cocktail recipes this year.
To bring things back into the 21st century, video tutorials fill in the gaps Doeser left.
1. Margarita
1. Rub the rim of a chilled cocktail glass with the lime wedge and then dip in a saucer of coarse salt to frost.
2. Put the cracked ice cubes into a cocktail shaker. Pour the tequila, triple sec and lime juice over ice. Shake vigorously until a frost forms.
3. Strain into the prepared glass.
2. Martini
1. Put the cracked ice cubes into a mixing glass. Pour the gin and vermouth over the ice and stir well to mix.
2. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass and decorate with a cocktail olive.
3. Sangria
4. Mojito
5. Mimosa
1. Pour orange juice into a chilled champagne flute, then pour in champagne.
6. Mint Julep
1. Put the mint leaves and sugar syrup into a small chilled glass and mash with a teaspoon. Add the crushed ice to fill the glass, then add the bourbon.
2. Decorate with the mint sprig.
7. Moscow Mule
1. Put 4-6 cracked ice cubes into a cocktail shaker. Pour the vodka and lime juice over the ice. Shake vigorously until a frost forms.
2. Half fill a chilled highball glass with cracked ice cubes and strain the cocktail over them. Top off with ginger beer. Decorate with a slice of lime.
8. White (Cream) Russian
1. Put 4-6 cracked ice cubes into a cocktail shaker. Pour vodka, coffee liqueur and cream over ice. Shake vigorously until a frost forms.
2. Pour, without straining, into a small, chilled glass.
9. Long Island Iced Tea
1. Put 4-6 cracked ice cubes into a cocktail shaker. Pour the vodka, gin, tequila, rum, creme de menthe, lemon juice and simple syrup over the ice. Shake vigorously until a frost forms.
2. Half fill a tall, chilled Collins glass with cracked ice cubes and strain the cocktail over them. Top off with cola and decorate with the lime or lemon wedge.
10. Tequila Sunrise
1. Put the cracked ice cubes into a chilled highball glass. Pour the tequila over the ice and top off with the orange juice. Stir well to mix.
2. Slowly pour in the grenadine and serve with a straw.
Notes: 1 part=1 ounce if doing a single serving and simple syrup is a boiled mixture of equal parts water and sugar.
