Author: Joe Bruno

The most popular drink recipes change every year and 2009 was no exception. New liquors cocktail drink recipes are introduced and promoted by the distilling companies every year. At American Bartending Schools our batending course always teachs the most popular drink recipes . These are the top 10 most requested cocktail drink recipes of 2009. We have over 300 more cocktail drink recipes at bartenders guide drink recipe pages. Many of the recipes have how to videos that are available for your bartending pleasure.

Apple Martini or Appletine

• 2 oz Vodka

• 1 oz Apple Schnapps

• Cherry garnish

Long Island Ice Tea

• 1/2 oz Vodka

• 1/2 oz Gin,

• 1/2 oz Rum

• 1/2 oz Triple Sec

• Fill with sweet/sour and coke

• Garnish with a lemon wedge

Mai Tai

• 1/2 oz Rum

• 1/2 oz Triple Sec

• 1/2 oz Crème de almond

• 1/2 oz Dark Rum floated on top

• 1 oz each sweet/sour, pineapple and orange juice

• Garnish with cherry

Cosmopolitan

• 1oz Vodka

• 1/2 oz Triple Sec

• 1/2 oz Roses Lime Juice

• Splash cranberry juice

Jolly Rancher

• 1 oz. vodka

• 1 oz. Midori or melon liquor

• Splash of cranberry juice

Chocolate Martini

• Rim cocktail glass with coco power

• Coat inside of cocktail glass with chocolate syrup

• 2 oz Vodka

• 1/2 oz Chocolate Liqueur

Amaretto Sour

• 1½ oz. Amaretto

• 2 oz. Sour mix

Sex on the Beach

• 1 oz Vodka

• 1/2 oz Peach Schnapps

• Fill 1 oz each of orange juice and cranberry juice

Zombie

• 1/2 Rum

• 1/2 oz Triple Sec

• 1/2 oz Crème de almond

• 1/2 oz Dark Rum floated on top

• 1 oz each of sweet/sour, orange juice and pineapple juice

• Garnish with a cherry

Vodka Martini

• 2 oz vodka

• dash dry vermouth

• olive garnish

Go to your local club and you’ll see the recent shot craze, the bomb shot. This is the hottest craze of cocktail alcoholic mixed drinks since prohibition. This new cocktail drink trend offers a variety of enticing options for shot lovers. Try out these new and old recipes to find your favorite. Although Red Bull is the most mentioned energy drink in recipes, any energy drink will work.

Warning, these drinks are powerful and drinking and driving after a few of these can be dangerous. Best to be sampled when you’re not driving.

Bombs. The energy drink, shot of liquor combination that will keep you up all night and never let you down. Which one is your favorite? The Irish Car Bomb? The Jager Bomb? The Obama? No matter what you like, there’s bound to be a shot out there for you. The concept of the bomb shot is a no brainer. Take a shot of liquor, and drop it into a cup filled about half

way with a “wash.” Shots can be taken either “clean,” dropping the shot into a cup, or “dirty,” pouring the shot directly into the wash.

New glassware has been invented to make the shots easier for bartenders to make and more fun for you to drink. Plastic bomb cups, or bombers, are as cheap as other plastic cups, and now there are companies that sell a plastic bomb shot glass that separates the two main ingredients by pouring one on top of the other. This type of glassware is easier to use but more expensive to purchase.

The Jager Bomb

The grand daddy of bomb shots is the Jager Bomb. It gets its name from the German liquor Jagermeister which is made from 56 different ingredients. Many describe as tasting like cough medicine. You decide.

The recipe is simple. A shot of Jagermeister dropped in half a glass of Red Bull, this shot is famous worldwide.

• Can of Red Bull

• 1 shot of Jagermeister

Pour Red Bull into a glass. Drop shot of Jagermeister into glass.

The Obama

Named for the president of the United States. Smother and better tasting than the Jagermeister.

• Can of Red Bull

• 1 oz of Bacardi O

• Splash of Orange Juice

Combine Red Bull and splash of orange juice into glass. Drop shot of Bacardi O into glass.

Irish Car Bomb

A hearty bomb that is guaranteed to give you that good feeling. Especially popular on St. Paddy’s Day or at Irish funerals.

• 3/4 pint Guinness Stout

• 1/2 oz Irish Creme

• 1/2 oz Jameson Irish whiskey

Pour the Irish Creme into the shot glass first and then slowly add the Jameson Irish Whisky. Fill a pint glass ¾ with Guinness. Drop the shot glass into the Guinness.

Fruit Flavored Bombs

Fruit flavored bombs come in a wide variety of flavors. Pick your favorite fruit flavor and there’s probably a liquor flavor. Cherry seems to be the most popular, but any flavored liquor will work.

Cherry Bomb

• 1 oz Cherry vodka

• Can of Red Bull

Pour Red Bull into a glass. Drop shot of cherry vodka into glass.