What's the difference between a cocktail and a mixed drink? Is there a difference?
Or is it like tomato/tomato or potato/potato?
Or is it like tomato/tomato or potato/potato?
A Cocktail is a Roosters long feathers. Oh wait never mind.
Ah yes, but a Cuba Libre will appear on almost all cocktail menus and is essentially rum and coke! Lynchburg lemonade = Jack Daniel's and lemonade. The main difference is usually that if you order a rum and coke it will cost a bit less than choosing Cuba Libre from the cocktail menu!
The Old Fashioned is one of my go-to cocktails. It takes a degree of patience and skill to mix well but once you master it then there is no going back. I believe that a gentleman should have a short list of cocktails which he can turn to when entertaining.
For me this list is:
Old Fashioned
Negroni
Dry Martini
I had heard (but this is just from a respected source) that a cocktail combines multiple liquors, while a mixed drink is a liquor with a mixer.
You've not had an Old Fashioned? I just started drinking them about 4 or 5 months ago. They are great.I always thought that a mixed drink was something like Jack and Coke
Rum and Coke
And
A cocktail was a concoction of ingredients like alcohol, juice, bitters, etc.
I am going to try an Old Fashioned one of these days.
Thanks
I had heard (but this is just from a respected source) that a cocktail combines multiple liquors, while a mixed drink is a liquor with a mixer.