More and more cocktail parties gain popularity. For owners the device of such reception is easy – the feast isn't provided, as a treat give several types of alcoholic drinks, juice, light meals.
For guests on a separate table it is necessary to place trays with snack, glasses with tissues, cigarettes, ashtrays, lighters, a tray for the used ware. Snack have to be melkoportsionny that is called "on one sting", canapes are ideal.
From drinks whisky, cocktails – all that moves with ice are most popular on such intake of Martini. Together with whisky it is possible to serve vodka or gin with tonic to hot weather, rum cocktails and beer. On the basis of rum do punch, in the summer it gives cold. Rum or whisky, water, sugar, lemon juice and spices is a part of punch.
In case reception is carried out in the afternoon, before a lunch offer Martini, whisky or a julep – drink from whisky, icing sugar, water, the kneaded leaves of mint and a large amount (3/4 volume) of ice. He prepares in a shaker.
In cold weather in the fresh air if you invited guests to the country, it is good to drink a grog, mulled wine. Mulled wine is cooked from grape wine with spices and sugar, drunk goryache-burning from high and wide glasses. The grog is a cocktail from hard liquors, for example, of cognac and rum. Add syrup to it and dilute with boiled water.
Strong cocktails and aperitifs give in glasses in the form of a cone, lighter drinks – in the form of a half-closed tulip, whisky with ice in glasses with a thick bottom, with a capacity of 150 ml.