Vermouth cocktail

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Vermouth is a fortified wine flavored with aromatic herbs and spices and is used in many cocktails. In a cocktail, it serves as a moderating agent to reduce the percentage of alcohol by volume in the drink and provide an herbal flavor. In his book The Joy of Mixology, Gary Regan categorizes these drinks as "French-Italian cocktails" because dry vermouth was traditionally referred to as French vermouth and sweet vermouth was traditionally referred to as Italian vermouth. The most well-known cocktails containing vermouth are the Martini and the Manhattan.

Contents 1 Cocktails containing vermouth 2 El Presidente 3 Satan's Whiskers 4 References

[edit] Cocktails containing vermouth

• Abbey Cocktail — gin, orange juice, Lillet Blanc, Angostura bitters
• Algonquin — rye, dry vermouth, pineapple juice
• Blood and Sand Cocktail — Scotch, sweet vermouth, orange juice, cherry-flavored brandy
• Bronx — gin, dry vermouth, sweet vermouth, and orange juice
• Crystal Bronx - sweet vermouth, orange juice, dry vermouth and soda water

• Chocolate Soldier — gin, vermouth, juice of half a lime, shaken
• Corpse Reviver #1 — brandy, apple brandy, and sweet vermouth
• Corpse Reviver #2 — gin, Cointreau, Lillet Blanc, lemon juice, and pastis
• Gibson — gin and dry vermouth, garnished with pearl cocktail onions
• Income Tax Cocktail — gin, dry vermouth, sweet vermouth, orange juice, and aromatic bitters
• Ingrid - 2/3 beer and 1/3 vermouth
• Man O'War — bourbon, curaçao, sweet vermouth, lemon juice, garnished with an orange slice and a lemon slice. Named after the racehorse Man o' War.
• Martinez — gin, sweet vermouth, aromatic bitters, sugar syrup
• Martini — gin and dry vermouth
• Manhattan — rye or Canadian whisky, sweet vermouth, and Angostura bitters

• Pall Mall — gin, sweet vermouth, vermouth, and white cream de cacao
• Rob Roy — Scotch whisky and sweet vermouth
• Satan's Whiskers — gin, dry vermouth, sweet vermouth, orange juice, orange liqueur, and orange bitters.
• Vesper Martini — gin, vodka, and Lillet Blanc

[edit] El Presidente

El Presidente
Type:	Cocktail
Primary alcohol by volume:	Rum
Served:	"Straight up"; without ice
Standard garnish:	twist of orange peel
Standard drinkware:	Cocktail glass
Commonly used ingredients:	Two parts rum One part curaçao One part dry vermouth Dash grenadine
Preparation:	stir well with ice, then strain into glass. Garnish and serve.

The El Presidente is a mix of rum, curacao, vermouth, and grenadine. The El Presidente originated in Havana, Cuba and was popular from the 1920s through the 1940s ^[1]. The cocktail was named in honor of Cuban President Gerardo Machado and quickly became the preferred drink of the Cuban upper class.

[edit] Satan's Whiskers

Satan's Whiskers is a drink containing gin, dry vermouth, sweet vermouth, orange juice, Grand Marnier or curacao, and orange bitters. It is shaken and served without ice. There are two versions, "straight" with Grand Marnier and "curled" with curacao.

The first recipe for Satan's Whiskers is from 1930 in Harry Craddock's Savoy Cocktail Book^[2] .

[edit] References

1. ^ Curtis,Wayne (May. 1, 2006). El Presidente. Lost Magazine.
2. ^ Ted Haigh (2004). Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails. Quarry Books, 144.