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Franklin D. Roosevelt popularized the New Deal and the Dirty Martini.
Ask the bartender to lace your cocktail, and she will top it with a splash of liquor.
A call drink means you’ve requested a particular brand of liquor.
Drinking it neat wets your whistle at room temperature.
Straight up will ensure a cocktail that is chilled but not served with ice.
On the rocks puts a drink over ice.
Bruising the gin shakes but doesn’t stir a martini. Many bar enthusiasts say they believe that shaking a martini will bruise the gin and cause the drink to have a slightly bitter taste.
Cordials and liqueurs are created by infusing fruits, herbs, spices with liquors such as brandy, scotch and whiskey.
A mixer is any nonalcoholic beverage used as an ingredient in a cocktail.
Rolling occurs when the bartender rolls ingredients from one glass into another and back again.
Dash describes the smallest bar measurement.
An aperitif precedes a meal and stimulates the appetite.
A digestif follows a meal and aids in digestion.
Lager is a beer made with bottom fermenting yeast and tastes smooth, crisp and clean.
Ale is similar to lager but features more of a bitter taste.
Bitter, a mainstay English-pub beer, is golden brown, top fermented, infused with hops, dry and lightly carbonated.
Stout, a dark, heavy and richly flavored beer, is top fermented and made from pale malt, roasted unmalted barley and often caramel malt.
A chaser, such as a beer or another mild drink, follows or "chases" a hard liquor.
A cooler combines wine or another spirit with a carbonated mixer.
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