Cocktail recipes for professional bartenders and cocktail lovers
Swing the cocktail shaker: make delicious cocktails yourself
Whether you're looking for simple, fruity, quick, refreshing or unusual, summer or winter cocktails, alcoholic or non-alcoholic drinks - LUSINI has put together the best cocktails and mixed drinks for you to make yourself. We can help you with the most popular classic and unusual cocktail recipes as well as the right bar accessories.
Discover these six delicious cocktail recipes:
Gin & tonic - the perennial favorite
The gin and tonic (or gin and tonic, as true connoisseurs of the cocktail scene call it) is one of the most popular mixed drinks and a perennial favorite on all drinks menus. The long drink made from the spirit gin and tonic water containing quinine may come from India, but it is still a true British drink. In colonial times in India, gin was drunk together with Indian tonic water to protect against malaria. Not for nothing was it considered the Queen Mum's favorite drink and is a constant defender of its top position among the most popular highballs! And this is how they prepare the classic:
Gin & tonic ingredients:
- 4 cl gin
- 6 cl tonic water
- lemon or lime
- ice cubes
Gin & tonic preparation:
Place ice cubes in a glass. Pour the gin into the glass. Now slowly pour the tonic water into the glass so that the carbon dioxide is retained as much as possible. Stir carefully with a bar spoon. Finally, garnish with a slice of lemon or lime in the glass or on the rim.
Our tip
Gin & tonic not only tastes good in a gin glass, but also in other glass shapes, from round tumblers to whiskey glasses. Depending on taste, the drink can also be refined with fruit or various herbs and spices.
Christmas cocktail: Swedish raspberry glögg (mulled wine)
Glögg is the Swedish equivalent of German mulled wine and has a long tradition: Swedish King Gustav Vasa refined his wine with spices. In the 19th century, the Swedish spiced wine finally became mulled wine in winter, which earned it the name “Glögg” (“glödga”, meaning “to warm up”).
Raspberry glögg ingredients:
- 1 bottle of white wine
- 250 g raspberries
- 90 g sugar
- 1 piece of ginger (fresh)
- 2 cinnamon sticks and 2 star anise
- 1 orange (orange) sliced + orange for decoration
- 10 pcs. cloves
- 10 cl raspberry Smirnoff (or cognac)
Raspberry glögg preparation:
Bring the berries and sugar to the boil and pour over the white wine. Add the spices and orange to the mixture. Warm up, but do not allow to boil. Then add Smirnoff or cognac according to taste. Leave the raspberry glögg to infuse in the fridge for three days. Serve warm or cold with a slice of orange as a garnish.
Our tip
In Sweden, glögg is served in slightly smaller cups in which peeled almonds and a few raisins are placed beforehand. Enjoy the glögg like royalty and refine it with cinnamon, ginger, cardamom, cloves and honey like the Vasa King.
Black Velvet - More than a mourning drink
Cocktail with beer? Sounds like the latest trend in the cocktail scene. But no, the most famous beer cocktail Black Velvet is over 150 years old! Black Velvet was served by a barman at Brook's Club in London to citizens mourning the death of Prince Albert, Queen Victoria's husband, in December 1861. But Black Velvet was more than just a drink of mourning: while the royal family swapped champagne for Guinness at times of mourning because of its black color, behind the bars in London, dark stout beer was mixed with the favorite drink of the rich. Black Velvet thus transcended class boundaries and united the middle classes and nobility in their mourning.
Black Velvet ingredients:
- 0.5 l Guinness
- 0.5 l champagne (alternatively cider)
Black Velvet preparation:
Fill glass half full with beer. Then carefully top up with champagne so that it does not mix with the beer.
Our tip
The characteristic dichotomy of the beer cocktail is best admired in a beer glass.
Retro & old fashioned: the classic Sidecar cocktail
Brandy, Cointreau and lemon juice. Despite its simplicity - or precisely because of it - the Sidecar is the supreme discipline among cocktails. To this day, the English and French argue about who probably invented the drink during the First World War. It is mixed according to either the English or French school. British ladies and gentlemen enjoy the Sidecar with double the amount of cognac. French patriots, on the other hand, insist on a mixing ratio of 1:1:1.
Sidecar ingredients: for 1 portion
- 5 cl cognac (alternatively brandy)
- 2 cl Cointreau (alternatively triple sec)
- 2 cl lemon juice
Sidecar preparation:
Mix all the ingredients thoroughly in a cocktail shaker filled with ice, strain with a bar strainer and pour into a martini glass filled with ice cubes.
Our tip
Since the 1930s, the Sidecar has been served in a martini glass with a sugar rim. Attention: In the French version, the Sidecar is too sweet.
Earl Grey Martini
Tea cocktails are the new must-have on your drinks menu! Thanks to its diverse world of flavors, tea has become an integral part of the cocktail scene.
Earl Grey Martini ingredients: for 1 serving
- 1 bag of Earl Grey
- 50 ml gin
- 25 ml sugar syrup
- 20 ml lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
- ice cubes
- 1 piece of untreated lemon peel
Earl Grey Martini preparation:
Soak the tea bag in the gin for at least 10 minutes, then remove the bag. Pour 50ml of the flavored gin into a cocktail shaker together with the freshly squeezed lemon juice, sugar syrup and ice cubes and shake vigorously. Pour the cocktail through a tea strainer from the cocktail shaker into a martini glass. Garnish with a lemon peel and serve.
Our tip
The Earl Grey Martini tastes great shaken and stirred!
Non-alcoholic Virgin Hugo
In times of increased awareness for a healthy lifestyle, the cocktail scene has not remained untouched by “superfood”. For some years now, the trend in cocktail bars as well as in the party cellar at home has been moving from alcoholic cocktails to mixed drinks without alcohol - painfully called mocktails (“to mock”). The Hugo, the IT drink par excellence, is of course also available in a non-alcoholic version:
Virgin Hugo ingredients: for 2 portions
- 4 ice cubes
- 1 handful of washed mint leaves
- 3 untreated limes
- 400 ml elderberry syrup
- 100 ml non-alcoholic sparkling wine (e.g. Rimuss)
- 50 ml soda water
Virgin Hugo preparation:
Divide the ice cubes between two wine glasses and add three to four mint leaves to each. Divide the juice of two untreated limes between the glasses. Then pour in the elderflower syrup, non-alcoholic sparkling wine and soda water. Garnish with lime slices and mint and serve.
Our tip
Those who like it a little more tart can also prepare the Hugo with ginger ale. For the sweeter mocktail lovers, lemonade is an alternative. Add a dash of grenadine to give the Hugo some pep.
The right glass for a cocktail - a question of faith?
The correct preparation of cocktails is just as important as the presentation. Whether tumbler, long drink glass, hurricane glass, martini glass or margarita glass - which cocktail goes in which glass is as open to creativity as it is to bitter debate. With the long drink glasses & cocktail glasses from VEGA, you have a whole range of different vessels at your disposal for your cocktail creations. If you want to stick to the rules, take a look at our Glass 1x1 for information on the different types of glass and their use.