Alcoholic beverages is around the world hundreds. And preparation on their basis of various cocktails became some kind of art and distinctive sign of a set of pubs. But despite thousands of types of cocktails, exist conventional, that - who are known worldwide, they are which became classics of culture of drink.
Cocktails on the basis of alcohol are cooked already hundreds of years. The most ancient of them is dated 5000-year term and the Tiger was found in a clay jug on the river bank. It is impossible to try all variety of mixed together alcoholic products, but there are cocktails which are known and loved around the world. The best-known of them don't sort any national identity any more and move worldwide.
""Bloody Mary""
This cocktail on the basis of vodka and tomato juice for the first time began to be served in 1921 in the Parisian bar New York and his authorship is attributed to the bartender working there Fernanda Petio. And classical ""Bloody Mary"" from 45 ml of vodka, 90 ml of tomato juice, 15 ml of juice of a lemon with addition of the Tobasko sauce, juice of a celery and pepper prepares. All ingredients accurately mix up and move in a high glass. Over time this cocktail underwent some changes including creation of the stratified cocktail when vodka doesn't mix up, and is filled in separately on a knife tip.
""Screw-driver""
One more cocktail known around the world was thought up in the middle of the 20th century by the American oil industry workers working at towers in Saudi Arabia where alcohol intake was prohibited by Muslim laws. Not to draw attention, workers mixed vodka with orange juice and drank at all in sight. And they stirred this mix screw-drivers which were dragged eternally in pockets from where and the name of cocktail went. ""Screw-driver"" extremely simply is preparing, on 3 parts of vodka 7 parts of juice are added and shaken up.
""Mojito""
This cocktail for the first time appeared in Havana in Cuba at small small restaurant "La Bodeguita of del Medio" and quickly won popularity around the world, being not simply alcohol, and the great refreshing drink in hot day. Sparkling water, the Cuban rum, a lime, mint, sugar and ice is a part of traditional ""Mojito"". And it is necessary to train him, following some rules, but not by simple hashing of ingredients. Several leaflets of fresh mint warm up in a mortar with two teaspoons of sugar. In a high glass the turned-out mix pours out, 40 ml of rum, 30 ml of juice of a lime are added, imposed on two thirds of a glass of chipped ice and filled in to top with sparkling water. Cocktail is decorated with a mint branch, segment of a lime and is served with a straw.