Different Types & Styles of Cocktails

A cocktail is a mixed alcoholic drink, usually drunk at parties or special oaccasions and served before the main meal.

* Types of Cocktails

- Alcoholic and non-alcoholic coktails

The most common type of Cocktail is a kind of mixed drink. Usually, it is made with alcoholic drinks such as vodka, gin or rum. There are also cocktails with absinthe, with beer, with brandy or cognac, with sake, with tequila, with whiskey/whisky or bourbon, with wine, sparkling wine, or port and with a liqueur as the primary ingredient.
Since such spirits do not have much taste of their own (at around 40% alcohol), other ingredients are added. Common ingredients are fruits, fruit juice, sugar, crushed ice, and ice cubes. If the cocktail is served in a bar or nightclub, it is often garnished with a piece of fruit, for example: a Gin and Tonic could be garnished with lemon, a Piña Colada with pineapple and a cherry.
Cocktails that do not contain any alcohol also exist.
Because all the ingredients give their flavour to the finished drink, a cocktail is only as good as its worst

- Fruit Cocktails

A cocktail is also a mixture of small pieces of fruit, usually eaten at the end of a meal.

a tin of fruit coktail

- Seafood Coktails

A cocktail can also be a mixture of small pieces of certain foods, usually served cold in a glass and eaten at the beginning of a meal.
a seafood / prawn cocktail

Did you know?

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