What is an Exotic Drink?
Exotic Cocktails are mixed drinks that have become popular since the first quarter of the 20th century and all the bars offer a list of selected exotic cocktails. However, people have been drinking mixed drinks since alcoholic drinks came into existence.
It is claimed that the first recipe for a cocktail was lemon juice and powdered mixers, appreciated by Emperor Commodus in the second century AD.
One of many popular notions on the birth of the word Cocktail is that during the American War of Independence, in 1779, an innkeeper, Betsy Flanagan of Virginia prepared a meal of chicken she stole from a neighbor who was pro-British.
She then served the French soldiers the mixed drinks decorated with the feathers from the birds. Her merry French guests toasted her with the words Vive le Cocktail. Since then the word “Cocktail” was used to mean Mixed drinks.
Harry’s New York Bar in Paris and The American Bar at The Savoy in London gained a reputation for their Cocktails. All mixed drinks, in general, are called Cocktails.
However, in bar operations, a cocktail refers to a mixed drink having one or more alcoholic drinks in its making. The size of an Exotic cocktail should be between 3 1/2 and 4 OZ and anything more than this size is known as a long drink or Mixed drink.
The Cocktail drink has the following features:
- Mixed drinks have one or more alcoholic drinks.
- The size is between 3 1/2 and 4 OZ.
- Any drink more than 3 1/2 and 4 OZ is termed a long drink or mixed drink.
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List of Most Exotic Cocktails with Recipes
Here are the best exotic cocktail names with recipes:
1. Bronx Cocktail
- Ingredients: 1/2 gin, 1/6 dry vermouth, 1/6 sweet vermouth, 1/6 fresh orange juice.
- Method/Garnish: Shake, and garnish with a slice of orange.
- Glassware: Cocktail glass.
2. Blackthorn
- Ingredients: 2/3 Sloe gin, 1/3 sweet vermouth, 1 dash of orange bitters
- Method/Garnish: Stir, and garnish with a twist of lemon.
- Glassware: Cocktail glass.
3. Blue Jacket
- Ingredients: 1/2 gin, 1/2 blue Curacao, 1 dash of orange bitters.
- Method/Garnish: Stir, and garnish with a twist of lemon.
- Glassware: Cocktail glass.
4. Blue Lady
- Ingredients: 1/4 gin, 1/4 fresh lemon juice, 1/2 blue Curacao, 1 dash egg white.
- Method/Garnish: Shake, and garnish with a twist of lemon.
- Glassware: Cocktail glass.
5. Gimlet
- Ingredients: 2/3 gin, 1/3 lime juice cordial, Soda water (optional).
- Method/Garnish: Stir on the rocks, with a splash of soda water, if desired.
- Glassware: Cocktail glass.
6. TNT
- Ingredients: 1/2 brandy, 1/2 orange curacao, a dash of pasties, and a dash of Angostura bitters.
- Method/Garnish: Stir, and garnish with a twist of lemon.
- Glassware: Cocktail glass
7. Affinity
- Ingredients: 1/3 Scotch, 1/3 sweet vermouth, 1/3 dry vermouth, and a dash of Angostura bitters.
- Method: Stir
- Glassware: Old-fashioned or Cocktail glass.
8. Perfect Martini
- Ingredients: 2/3 gin, 1/6 sweet vermouth, 1/6 dry vermouth.
- Method/Garnish: Stir, and garnish with a twist of lemon.
- Glassware: Cocktail glass.
9. White Lady
- Ingredients: 1/2 Gin, 1/4 lemon juice, 1/4 Cointreau.
- Method/Garnish: Shake, garnished with maraschino.
- Glassware: Cocktail glass.
10. Banana Bliss
- Ingredients: 1/2 brandy, 1/2 banana liqueur.
- Method/Garnish: Stir
- Glassware: Cocktail glass.
11. First Night
- Ingredients: 2/5 brandy, 1/5 Van der Hum, 1/5 Tia Maria, 1/5 fresh cream.
- Method/Garnish: Shake, and garnish with a twist of lemon.
- Glassware: Cocktail glass.
12. Olympic
- Ingredients: 1/3 brandy, 1/3 orange Curacao, 1/3 orange juice.
- Glassware: Cocktail glass.
13. Sidecar
- Ingredients: 1/2 brandy, 1/4 Cointreau, 1/4 lemon juice.
- Method/Garnish: Build, and garnish with a twist of lemon.
- Glassware: Cocktail glass.
14. Frenet
- Ingredients: 2/5 brandy, 2/5 Fernet Branca, 1/5 Gomme syrup.
- Method/Garnish: Stir, and garnish with lemon.
- Glassware: Cocktail glass.
15. Bosom Caresser
- Ingredients: 2/3 brandy, 1/3 orange juice, 1 egg yolk, 1 bar spoon grenadine.
- Method/Garnish: Shake, and garnish with lemon.
- Glassware: Cocktail glass
16. Rob Roy
- Ingredients: 1/2 Scotch whisky, 1/2 sweet vermouth, and a dash of Angostura bitters.
- Method/Garnish: Stir, and garnish with a cherry.
- Glassware: Cocktail glass.
17. Evans
- Ingredients: 8/10 rye whisky, 1/10 apricot brandy, 1/10 Curacao.
- Method/Garnish: Stir, and garnish with lemon jest.
- Glassware: Cocktail glass
18. Millionaire
- Ingredients: 2/3 rye whisky, 1/3 grenadine, 1 egg white, 2 dashes orange Curacao, 1 dash pastis.
- Method/Garnish: Shake, and garnish with lemon spirals.
- Glassware: Cocktail glass.
19. Blue Heaven
- Ingredients: 2/10 white rum, 1/10 Ameretto, 1/10 blue Curacao, 1/10 lemon juice, 1/2 pineapple juice.
- Method/Garnish: Shake, pineapple, and cherry.
- Glassware: Old-fashioned.
20. Jamaican Jane
- Ingredients: 3/10 Jamaican rum, 2/10 Tia Maria, 1/10 lime juice, 4/10 pineapple juice.
- Method/Garnish: Shake, and garnish with cucumber.
- Glassware: Highball glass.
21. Cuba Libre
- Ingredients: 1/2 white rum, 1/2 lime juice, Pepsi/Cola.
- Method: Building
- Glassware: Highball glass.
22. Nevada
- Ingredients: 1/3 dark rum, 1/6 fresh lime juice, 1/3 grapefruit juice, 1/6 Gomme syrup.
- Method: Shake
- Glassware: Cocktail glass.
23. Zombie
- Ingredients: 1/5 light rum, 1/5 golden rum, 1/5 dark rum, 1/5 pineapple juice, 1/10 fresh lime juice, 1/10 orange juice, 2 dashes apricot brandy, 2 dashes of cherry brandy, 1 dash Orgeat syrup.
- Method/Garnish: Shake, splashed with a dash of high-alcoholic demerara rum, pineapple, orange, and spring of mint.
- Glassware: Highball/goblet.
24. Yellow Bird
- Ingredients: 1/2 white rum, 1/6 Galliano, 1/6 Cointreau, 1/6 lime juice.
- Method: Shake
- Glassware: Cocktail glass.
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