Whisky

Introduction :- Whisky is a type of distilled alcoholic beverage made

from fermented grain mash. Different grains are used for different kind of
whisky which includes barley, malted barley, rye, malted rye, wheat and
corn. There are different steps which gives the final product i.e,
fermentation of grains, distillation and ageing in wooden barrels. Whisky is
typically aged in wooden casks which is generally made of charred white
oak.
Key Points :- The word 'whisky' derives from uisge, which is an
abbreviation of uisge beatha, the Scots Gaelic for 'Water of Life'. It
was first used in the 18th century. Prior to that writers referred to
usquebaugh or aqua vitae (the Latin for 'Water of Life').
Tradition has it that the secrets of distilling came to Scotland from
Ireland, and were introduced there by St. Patrick in the 400s A.D.
Distilling was first done in monasteries, to produce medicine.

Type:- (a) Malt Whisky- made from malted barley, and

(b) Grain Whisky- made from any kind of grains.

(c) Blended Whisky- Blend of Malt & Grain

Scotch Whisky – Scotch whisky is a distinctive product of Scotland, it is believed that the first
whisky is made in the Highlands in the 16th century. Scotch whisky is a blend of (a) Malt Whisky,
which gives body and character to the product, and (b) Grain Whisky, which is used for lightness to
the final product.
Famous Blends of Scotch Whisky :-

1) Ballantines
2) Bell’s
3) Catto’s
4) Cutty Sark
5) Famous Grouse
6) Green Plaid
7) Hankey-Bannister
8) J & B Rare
9) MacArthur’s
10) Pinwinnie
11) Teachers
12) Whyte & Mackay

Bourbon Whisky- Bourbon is a type of American Whisky which is obtained from spirit distilled
from maize or corn and aged in charred oak barrels for at least 2 years.

Famous Brands-

1) Jeam Beam
2) Evan Williams
3) Wild Turkey
4) Maker’s Mark

Irish Whisky- Irish Whisky is made from mash of cereal grains (wheat, rye). Triple distillation and
long maturation is the uniqueness of Irish Whisky. This whisky is highly flavoured and smooth
whisky.

Famous Brands-

1) Jameson
2) Bushmills
3) Knappogue
4) Redbreast
5) Connemara

Canadian Whisky- The principle grains used in the making of Canadian Whisky are maize,
wheat, and malted barley. It’s a kind of blended whisky.

Famous Brands-

1) Canadian Club
2) Barton’s Canadian
3) Seagram’s
4) Glen Breton Rare
5) Pernod Ricard
6) Black Velvet

Whisky in Armani/Mediterraneo
 Scotch Whisky
1. Johnnie Walker Black Label
2. Glenmorangie the Original
3. Highland Park 12 Years Old
4. Macallan 12 Years Old
5. Chivas Regal 12 Years Old
6. Glenfiddich 15 Yeard Old

Other Brands
1. Jack Daniels, USA
2. Jameson’s , Ireland
3. Canadian Club, Canada

Whisky Cocktails Suggestion

Whiskey Sour

Ingredients
 Whiskey
 1/2 Lemon Juice
 1/2 tsp powdered sugar
 slice lemon
 1 cherry
How To Make
mix the whiskey, juice of lemon, and powdered sugar with ice in a cocktail shaker, then strain into a
whiskey sour glass
add half-slice of lemon, top with the cherry, and serve.

Manahattan

Ingredients
Bourbon Whisky – 60 ml

Sweet Vermouth – 30 ml

Angostura Bitters - 1 dash

Cherry – 1

1 Orange Peel twist

How To Make
Combine the Vermouth, Bourbon, and Bitters with 2-3 slice of ice cubes in mixing glass. Stir gently.

Place the Cherry in chilled cocktail glass and strain the mixture over cherry

Garnish with twisted orange peel over the rim of cocktail glass.

Tequila

Introduction:-
Tequila is a distilled beverage made from the blue agave plant primarily in the area surrounding the
city of Tequila, and in the highlands of Western Mexican State of Jalisco.

There are two basic categories of tequila: Mixtos and 100% Agave. Mixtos use no less than 51%
agave, with other sugars making up the remainder. Mixtos use both glucose and fructose sugars.

Tequila is usually bottled in five categories:

 Blanco (white) or Plata (silver) - white spirit, un-aged and bottled or stored immediately after
distillation, or aged less than two months in stainless steel or neutral oak barrels.
 Joven (young) or Oro (gold) - a mixture of blanco tequila and reposado tequila.
 Reposado (rested) - aged a minimum of two months, but less than a year in oak barrels of
any size.
 Anejo (aged or vintage) - aged a minimum of one year, but less than three years in small oak
barrels.
 Extra Anezo (extra aged or ultra aged): aged a minimum of three years in oak barrels. This
category was established in March 2006.

Famous Brands of Tequila

1. Jose Cuervo Reserva de Familia
2. Gran Centanario Leyenda Extra Anejo Tequila
3. Herradura Seleccion Suprema
4. Don Julio Real
5. Jose Cuervo 250 Aniversario

Tequila in Armani/Mediterraneo

1. Jose Cuervo Classico

2. Jose Cuervo Gold
3. Don Julio Blanco
4. Patron Reposado

Tequila Cocktail in Armani/Mediterraneo

Margarita

Ingredients

Tequila – 30 ml

Cointreau – 15 ml

Dash of lime juice

Agave Syrup – 45 ml

Garnish – Lime wedge

Salted rim Martini Glass

How To Make

Pour all the ingredients into a cocktail shaker with ice cubes, and shake well.

Strain the mixture into a salted rim martini glass.

Garnish with Lime wedge over the glass rim.

Coctail Suggestion with Tequila

Tequila Sunrise

Ingredients

Tequila – 30 ml

Orange Juice- 60 ml

Grenadine – 15 ml

Garnish- 1 orange slice & Cherry

How To Make
Pour the tequila and orange juice into a highball glass with ice cubes.

Stir well.

Slowly pour the grenadine around the inside edge of the glass

Garnish with orange slice and cherry.

Passion Cocktail

Ingredients

Tequila – 300 ml

Cranberry Juice – 45 ml

Lime Juice – 10 ml

Grand Marnier – 30 ml

Garnish – Lime Slice

How To Make
Pour the tequila , cranberry juice, and lime juice into a cocktail shaker with ice cubes and
shake well.

Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

Splash with Grand Marnier.

Garnish with lime slice.

Gin
Introduction
Gin is a spirit which derives its predominant flavour from Juniper Berries named Juniperus Communis.

The name Gin is derived from either the French genievre or the Dutch jenever, which both mean
Juniper.

Type Of Gin
Juniper-Flavoured Spirit Drinks

Distilled Gin

London Gin

Compound Gin / Gin

Famous Brands of Gin

Beefeater- England

Blackwood's - Scotland

Bombay Sapphire – England

Booth's Gin – England

Gilbey's – England

Hendrick's Gin – Scotland

Plymouth – England

Seagram's - USA

Cocktail Suggestion with Gin

Pink Gin
Ingredients

Gin – 30 ml

Angostura Bitters – 3-4 dash

How to Make

Pour the ingredients into Cocktail shaker with ice cubes.

Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

Gin Genie
Ingredients
6 fresh mint leaves
20 ml lemon juice
10 ml sugar syrup
30 ml gin
1 blackberry

How To Make
Place the mint in highball glass and muddle with wooden spoon. Pour sugar syrup and gin
and stir well.
Strain the mixture in martini or long glass and garnish with blackberry and mint leaf.

Rum
Introduction
Popular in Central and South America, rum is distilled from fermented molasses or sugar
cane. Rum gets its name from saccharum, the Latin word for sugar. Rum can be produced
wherever sugar cane is grown. Its history dates back to the 17th century, when rum was first
produced in the West Indies. Rum is typically classified as light, dark or flavored.

Types of Rum

 Light Rum- Light-bodied rum is sometimes referred to as White or Silver

Rum. These rums are generally aged in stainless steel tanks for up to a
year and filtered before bottling. This process gives light rums their clean,
light flavour.
 Gold Rum- Medium-bodied rums are often called Gold or Amber rum and
are rich and smooth. Gold rums are often aged in oak casks which also
contribute to their dark, smooth characteristics.
 Dark Rum- These are the richest rums that receive their flavour from
being aged in charred oak casks.

Rum in Armani/Mediterraneo
 Bacardi
 Havana Club Anejo Blanco
 Mathusalem Silver

Rum Cocktail in Armani/Mediterraneo

Mojito

Ingredients

White Rum
Mint Leaves
Lime Juice
Sugar to taste
Soda water

How to Make

Place mint leaves, crushed ice, white rum, sugar, soda water, lime juice, and muddle.
Add soda water and garnish with meant leaves.

Suggestion for Rum Cocktails:

Ingredients

Bacardi- 2 measure
Lime Juice- 20 ml
Sugar- 1 tsp

How to make:

Pour sugar and lime juice into a cocktail shaker and stir until sugar is dissolved. Add
Bacardi with ice cubes, shake well. Strain the mixture into a chilled cocktail glass.
Garnish with lime wedge.

Planter’s Punch
Ingredients:

Dark Rum- 3 measure

Simple Syrup- 1 measure
Lime Juice- 20 ml
Angostura Bitters- 2-3 dash

How to make:

Combine all ingredients in a tall glass and fill the glass with crushed ice. Mix the
drink slowly using the bar spoon until ice is almost dissolved. Add more ice and
garnish with mint sprig.

Vodka
Introduction
Vodka is a neutral spirit that traditionally lacks a distinctive character, aroma, taste or color. It
originated in Russia during the 14th century and its name is derived from Voda, the Russian
word for water. Vodka can be produced from potatoes, grains, corn, wheat or even more
unconventional items such as grapes.

Production:
Distillation, Filtration and Dilution

Distillation-The initial stage of vodka production is very similar to whisky, or beer. The raw
material is processed to extract the sugars.It is then fermented to give an alcoholic wash
which is then ready to be distilled. All vodka is distilled in a column still (although there are
some distillers who will then dilute the resultant spirit and redistill it through a pot still to give
character) to a level of around 96% ABV, almost pure ethyl alcohol.
Filtration – The spirit is then filtered in one of a number of methods. The most common of
these is to use activated charcoal, which strips out any remaining congeners and impurities,
creating a very pure, neutral spirit.
Dilution - The vodka will then be diluted to bottling strength.

Types of Vodka
a) Neutral Vodka

b) Flavoured Vodka

Neutral Vodka - Neutral vodka refers to the drink that is made from traditional
Russian or Polish recipe. Its flavour comes exclusively from the alcohol aroma,
and quantity of alcohol determines in which class the drink is categorized.
Russians separate their natural vodkas into high quality, strong (with over 55%
alcohol by volume) and export-worthy. Polish define their vodka into standard,
premium and deluxe. United States used classic or regular types, and all of their
vodkas are completely devoid of specific aromas. To distinguish themselves,
manufacturers of neutral vodka in US use varying amounts of alcohol content,
brand recognition and price.

Flavoured Vodka - As the techniques for creating vodka became more advanced,
brewers from all around the world started devising the ways to introduce many
new flavours. Some of the best known flavoured vodkas come from Russia and
Poland - Limonnaya Vodka (lemon), Kubanskaya Vodka (lemon and orange),
Pertsovka Vodka (peppercorns and chili peppers), Okhotnichya or Hunter Vodka
(coffee, lemon, ginger, brandy and more). In recent years, fruit flavored vodkas
started receiving much more popularity than before (oranges, apples, berries,
and more).

Famous Brands:
 Absolut (Sweden)
 Armadale (US)
 Belvedere (Poland)
 Chopin (Poland)
 Finlandia (Finland)
 Gray Goose (France)
 Ketel One (Netherlands)
 Popov (England)
 SKYY (California, USA)
 Smirnoff (England, originaly founded in Moscow)
 Three Olives (England)
 Vox (Netherlands)
 White Diamond (Latvia)

Vodka In Mediterraneo
 Russian Standard Platinum
 Absolut Blue
 Skyy
 Ketel One
 Belvedere
 Grey Goose

Vodka Coktails In Armani/Mediterraneo

Long Island Ice Tea

Ingredients:

Vodka - 1 measure
Tequila - 1 measure
Rum – 1 measure
Gin – 1 measure
Cointreau – 1 measure
Lime Juice – 1 ½ measure
Coca Cola – 1 splash

How to Make

Mix ingredients together in a shaker with some ice cubes. Shake well to form a fizzy touch.
Pour the mixture in a tall glass and garnish with lemon.

Cosmopolitan
 Ingredients:

 Black Currant Vodka – 1 measure

 Orange Liqueur - ½ measure
 Lime juice – ½ measure
 Cranberry juice – ½ measure

How to make

Shake the vodka, orange liqueur, cranberry juice and lime together in a cocktail shaker with
ice. Strain the contents into a martini glass and garnish with a lime wedge on the rim of the
glass.

Vodka Cocktail Suggestion:

 Bloody Mary

Ingredients:

 1 1/2 cups ice cubes

 4 ounces tomato juice
 1 1/2 ounces vodka
 1/4 ounce fresh lemon juice
 4 dashes Tabasco
 2 dashes Worcestershire sauce
 1 pinch salt and ground black pepper
 ice
 1 stalk celery, for garnish

How to Make

Put the ice cubes into a shaker with dash of Worcestershire sauce, Tabasco sauce, vodka,
tomato juice and lemon juice. Shake vigorously until a frost forms. Strain into a tall, chilled
glass, add a pinch of salt and a pinch of black pepper. Decorate with celery stick and/ or
slice of lemon.

Harvey Wallbanger
 Ingredients:

 One large shot (50ml) of vodka

 Fresh orange juice
 Half a small shot (25ml) of Galliano
 Slice of orange

How to Make:

Pour the vodka shot into an ice filled highball and then fill almost to the top with fresh orange
juice. Stir well, and then float the shot of Galliano on top. Garnish with a slice of orange.
Cognac
Introduction
Cognac is a type of grape brandy produced in the wine-growing Charente region in South
West France. The region is a recognized AOC spread around the small town of Cognac,
from which it takes its name. Wine from white grapes is double distilled according to a
traditional method, and then aged in oak casks for many years to produce a brandy of gold
coloration and expressive aromas and flavours. Brandy comes from the Dutch word
brandewijn which means burnt wine.

Grape brandy is a mixture of distillates obtained from the fermented juice or mash of grapes.
There are brandies which are made from other fruits as well, such as peach, apricot, and
apple.

Types of Cognac
 VS (Very Special) or *** (3 star) where the youngest cognac is aged at least two
years in an oak cask.
 VSOP (Very Superior Old Pale) where the youngest cognac is aged at least four
years in an oak cask, but the average wood age is much older.
 XO (Extra Old) where the youngest cognac is aged at least six, but usually average
upwards of 20 years.

Top Brands of Cognac

 Henri IV, Cognac Grande Champagne

 Hennessy Beaute du Siecle Cognac

 Remy Martin Cognac Black Pearl Louis XIII

 Hardy Perfection 140 years Cognac

 Le Voyage de Delamain

 Martell Creation Cognac In Handcarved Baccarat Decanter

 Frapin Cuvée 1888

 Hine Triomphe Talent De Thomas

 Jenssen Arcana

 Courvoisier L’Esprit Decanter

Cognac in Armani/Mediterraneo

Hennessy VSOP

Martell VSOP