DO YOU LIKE COCKTAILS ?

Do you like cocktails? If you don’t, you are going to love them, when you read and see this new post.
A cocktail is a preparation of a mixture of different drinks in different proportions, which usually contains one or more types of alcohol with other ingredients like juice, fruit, honey, milk or cream, spices, etc. There are also common ingredients in cocktails, carbonate drinks or soft drinks, soda and tonic water. Sometimes they can be decorated with different fruits or funny objects. Normally they are drunk with a straw.

The English word comes from “cock’s tail” which means rooster’s tail. In Queen Victoria’ s period, English merchants of precious wood including “logwood” arrived to the port of San Francisco de Campeche in Mexico. They drank wine and liquor without mixing in taverns. Sometimes they drank called “dracs” of rum or other alcohol. They were composed drinks that merchants scrambled with a metal spoon which might give a bad taste to the drink. One day the saw the “barman” used a thin and smooth roots from a plant called “rooster’s tail” (by its shape)to avoid the bad taste. Merchants asked him what it was, and he answered in his language “cock’s tail”. Then it was popularized the use of this term.

(Logwood)

Do you know this information? Me neither, I think that is very interesting.
Now I let you some kinds of cocktail that you can taste in some bars, pubs… They are the most popular.
Bloody Mary, Caipirinha, Dry martini, Gin tonic, Long Island Iced Tea, Manhattan, Mojito, Negroni, Old fashioned,Red Margaret, San Francisco, Tom Collins, etc.

By María José Gómez