Cocktail vs Mixed Drink

[Tippster]

Cocktail:

A cocktail is a style of mixed drink. However, not all mixed drinks are cocktails. A cocktail usually contains one or more types of liquor and flavorings and one or more liqueurs, fruit juices, sauces, honey,milk, cream or spices, etc. The cocktail became popular after Prohibition in the United States. During Prohibition the art of mixing drinks became more and more important to mask the taste of bootlegged alcohol. The bartenders at a speakeasy would mix it with other ingredients, both alcoholic and non-alcoholic. After the repeal of Prohibition, the skills developed in illegal bars became widespread and heralded the golden era of the cocktail, the 1930's. One of the oldest known cocktails, the Cognac-based Sazerac, dates from 1850s New Orleans, as many as 70 years prior to the Prohibition era.

Until the 1970s, cocktails were made predominantly with gin, whiskey or rum, and less commonly vodka. From the 1970s on, the popularity of vodka increased dramatically. By the 1980s it was the predominant base for mixed drinks. Many cocktails traditionally made with gin, such as the gimlet, or the martini, may now be served by default with vodka.

History

The earliest known printed use of the word "cocktail," as originally determined by David Wondrich in October 2005[citation needed] , was from "The Farmer's Cabinet", April 28, 1803, p [2]: "11. Drank a glass of cocktail — excellent for the head ... Call'd at the Doct's. found Burnham — he looked very wise — drank another glass of cocktail."

The second earliest and officially recognised known printed use of the word "cocktail" (and the most well-known) was in the May 13, 1806 edition of the Balance and Columbian Repository, a publication in Hudson, New York , where the paper provided the following answer to what a cocktail was:

"Cocktail is a stimulating liquor composed of spirits of any kind, sugar, water, and bitters — it is vulgarly called a bittered sling and is supposed to be an excellent electioneering potion, inasmuch as it renders the heart stout and bold, at the same time that it fuddles the head. It is said, also to be of great use to a Democratic candidate: because a person, having swallowed a glass of it, is ready to swallow anything else."

Mixed Drink:

Mixed drink may refer to:

Cocktails, which are a one or more distilled spirits combined with drink mixers.

Mixed drink shooters and drink shots, which are small servings of cocktails in special glasses.

Beer cocktails, which combine beer with a drink mixer or distilled spirits.

Wine cocktails and punches, which combine wine (still or sparkling) with drink mixers.

Discuss.

[cj001f]

I'll need a Churchill first

[Tippster]

You're really fixated on that fat bald fag, aren't you? It's the cigars, wot wot?

[cj001f]

He's better than the bitter drink police - you talking lessons from me in buzzkilling?

[Jer]

This is the forst I've heard of this.

[Tippster]

jer, if I wanted your input I would have skullfucked it out of you. Now git.

[BmillsSkier]

an excellent electioneering potion, inasmuch as it renders the heart stout and bold, at the same time that it fuddles the head. It is said, also to be of great use to a Democratic candidate: because a person, having swallowed a glass of it, is ready to swallow anything else."

Classic.





however I dont remember being offered any gin and tonics on the campaign trail.





I did see some kool-aid being passed out though...

[Jer]

jer, if I wanted your input I would have skullfucked it out of you. Now git.

Well excuse the fuck outta me! I'll just take my tray and sit over at the Jock's table.

[The Reverend Floater]

I like to refer to them as either "rocktails" or "constitutionals". Mixed drinks are for sororiety girls and people who like more "mixer" than booze.

[cj001f]

I'll stick to my highballs except for garden parties where a long drink may be more appropriate

[Odin]

If Pisco is Involved I am THERE!

[Tippster]

The Reverend gets it, as I suspected he would. It's all about proportions.

[Odin]

10 Sec Pour of Booze 2 Sec of Mixer

[Tippster]

Naturally - you're enhancing the liquor, not altering.

[Odin]

I would like to say something about vodka-redbulls for a second.

It appears as though some places have decided two different theories on the vodka-redbull.

1. Pour half can of redbull, 1/4 ice - 1/4 vodka. They keep can

or

2. Pour half can of redbull, 1/2 vodka - GIVE YOU CAN

NOW

Situation #1 is all-right, but #2 get's you very very drunk, and you end up shivering on a couch after having downed 6 of those suckers, and feeling as though you are a hummingbird awaiting a feeding.

[klar]

who the fuck goes to garden parties?

[The AD]

Naturally - you're enhancing the liquor, not altering.

but, but, I don't like it when you can taste the alcohol!

[irul&ublo]

I'll need a Churchill first

You gonna do a Lewinsky on it?

[Arty50]

I would like to say something about vodka-redbulls for a second.

Request denied!!!

I've never understood why people ruin perfectly good vodka with that junk. Just fill 'er up with the clear stuff. Preferably in a pint glass...

[altagirl]

Naturally - you're enhancing the liquor, not altering.

When I mix drinks, they only look girly (because I tend to make them colorful and serve in martini glasses). There's rarely much in them other than straight liquor.

[Joey Bag O' Donuts]

Request denied!!!

I've never understood why people ruin perfectly good vodka with that junk. Just fill 'er up with the clear stuff. Preferably in a pint glass...

Oh god, I drank too much last night, and just reading that Arty made a little puke come up.

[smmokan]

I've never understood why people ruin perfectly good vodka with that junk. Just fill 'er up with the clear stuff. Preferably in a pint glass...

Most of the time, they're not ruining good vodka, they're "ruining" crap like Gordon's.

[Bodhi]

My cock feels awfully fine and good in her tail. Fuck mixing it up.

[cj001f]

who the fuck goes to garden parties?

I've learned my lesson well.
you see, you can't please everyone, so you've got to please yourself