Showing posts with label Basic Bartending Knowledge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Basic Bartending Knowledge. Show all posts

Thursday, 10 July 2008

Non-Alcoholic Drinks Structure

Non Alcoholic Beverages
Non-alcoholic beverages are drinks that would normally contain alcohol, such as beer and wine but are made with less than .5 percent alcohol by volume. The category includes drinks that have undergone an alcohol removal process such as non-alcoholic beers and de-alcoholized wines.

Wednesday, 9 July 2008

Alcoholic Drinks Structure

Alcoholic beverages
An alcoholic beverage is a drink containing ethanol, commonly known as alcohol, although in chemistry the definition of an alcohol includes many other compounds. Alcoholic beverages, such as wine, beer, and liquor have been part of human culture and development for 8,000 years.
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Cocktails Knowledge

Cocktail A cocktail is a style of mixed drink. Originally a mixture of distilled spirits, sugar, water, and bitters, the word has gradually come to mean almost any mixed drink containing alcohol. A cocktail today usually contains one or more types of liquor and flavorings and one or more liqueurs, fruit juices, sugar, honey, water, ice, soda, milk, cream, herbs, bitters, etc. Cocktails are made with gin, whiskey, rum, and especially vodka. Many cocktails traditionally made with gin, such as the gimlet, or the martini, or Collins are now made with vodka. A mixed drink is a type of beverage in which two or more different ingredients are mixed together to create a different drink. Mock tails

Bar Equipment

Bar Utensil Shaker Set, Long bar spoon, Cocktail strainer, Electric blander, cork screw, Cutting board, Can opener, Bottle opener, Bar knife, Brandy heater, Ice tong’s, Jigger, Mixing glass, Orange squeezer, Funnel, Ice picker, Ice hummer, Brush, Ice shaver, Champagne buck(wine cooler), Wine cooler stand, Ice bucket, Glass ware.
Glassware usually refers to glass items used as tableware, such as dishes, cutlery, flatware, and drinkware used to set a table for eating a meal. The term usually refers to the drinking vessels, unless the dinnerware is also made of glass.
Defined into:
Stemware (stem glass) is drinkware that stands on stems above a base. It is usually made from glass, but may be made from ceramics or metals.
Stemware includes:

Basic Liquor / Dry spirit

Liquor /dry spirit
A distilled beverage, liquor, or spirit is a drinkable liquid containing ethanol that is produced by means of distilling fermented grain, fruit, or vegetables. This excludes undistilled fermented beverages such as beer and wine. The term spirit generally refers to a distilled beverage that contains no added sugar and has at least 35% alcohol by volume. Popular spirits include absinthe, baijiu, brandy, gin, grappa, rum, tequila, vodka, whisky, and German Schnaps. Distilled beverages that are bottled with added sugar and added flavorings, such as Grand Marnier, Frangelico, and American schnapps, are liqueurs. Fortified wines are created by adding a distilled beverage to a wine. source:en.wikipedia.com pic by: alibaba.com
Kinds of Liquor/Dry Spirit;

Tuesday, 8 July 2008

Wine


WINE
Wine is an alcoholic beverage made from the fermentation of grape juice. The natural chemical balance of grapes is such that they can ferment without the addition of sugars, acids, enzymes or other nutrients. Wine is produced by fermenting crushed grapes using various types of yeast which consume the sugars found in the grapes and convert them into alcohol. Various varieties of grapes and strains of yeasts are used depending on the types of wine produced.
History
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Beer Knowledge

BEER
Beer is an alcoholic beverage produced by the fermentation of sugars derived from starch-based material.
It is the world's oldest and most popular alcoholic beverage. Some of the earliest known writings refer to the production and distribution of beer.
The most common starch source for beer is malted barley; however, wheat, corn, and rice are also widely used, usually in conjunction with barley. The starch source is mashed, steeped in

 
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