Alcoholic cocktails have to be not only tasty, but also beautiful. The decorative effect of these drinks is peculiar "counter". There are several main receptions of ornament.
Beautiful glasses
For a start it is necessary to attend to purchase of the correct glasses suitable those types of cocktails which you want to mix. Serve various drinks in identical boring glasses — the best way to spoil the most cheerful party.
The simplest way to decorate a glass is to make a decorative sugar or salty edge. For this purpose it is necessary to wipe the edge of a glass with orange or a lemon and to lower damp edge in sugar of a fine crushing or salt. Instead of a lemon it is possible to use a vessel with liqueur, it will make an edge color. In certain cases instead of sugar and salt it is possible to use cocoa, small ground coffee, coconut flakes, sweet paprika, seeds of caraway seeds and many other things.
Various sweet fruit juice-syrup mixtures are most often decorated by means of berries and the cut fruit. In most cases use cherries, limes, oranges, lemons, olives, a kiwi, mint, a celery and so on. A citrus can be differently cut for dressing of a glass — segments, quarters, halves. The dried peel twirled in a spiral is very often used, it gives to "rollicking look" cocktail. As glue it is possible to use honey, syrup or liqueur, they will help to fix decorative details, and in certain cases will add to the cocktail the finishing notes. Small round berries can be strung on toothpicks or skewers, creating difficult designs. The main thing remember that all components have to be in harmony to taste with cocktail.
Other options of a decor
Carving — one of the best ways to make something special of cocktail. In translation from English this word means "cutting" though art arose in Thailand. If to be trained a little, it is possible to learn to cut out amusing and beautiful figures which will make a true piece of art of your cocktail from fruit and vegetables. Ice — almost obligatory component of the majority of cocktails. It gives a special charm to any drink. Ice for cocktails has to be absolutely clear without impurity of foreign smells and tastes. It can be lumpy, ground or colored. Light transparent cocktails well look with large cubes of the tinted ice. It is easy to make such ice, having added to water a little liqueur or fruit syrup. But in this case it is important to understand whether such additive will be well combined with taste of cocktail. It is possible to use special "thematic" icetrays. Skulls, small ships, sharks, octopuses will perfectly look in the corresponding cocktails. For decoration of cocktails it is possible to use various lovely details which are on sale in most supermarkets now — tags, umbrellas, sticks for stirring, fancy straws of different flowers and many other things.