You can make any type of cocktail with these machines. Cocktail machines usually come in single, double and triple bowl varieties. So it is possible to have three different flavours on one machine. Flavours are usually a fruit mix, that can be mixed with alcohol as well.
There were no cocktails that long ago. They had wine.
A Manhattan is a cocktail made with whiskey, sweet vermouth, and bitters.
Punch is made of mostly fruit drinks while cocktails are made of mixture of different drinks and fruit drinks too. Cocktail has more alcohol than punch. Punch and cocktail are not served the same way. Punch doesn't usually involve mixture of syrups.
A mixed drink is any drink that contains an alcoholic beverage as an ingredient. The definition of a cocktail is an iced drink made with wine or distilled spirits, and a variety of other flavoring ingredients. Some of the more well known cocktails are an Old Fashioned, a Cosmopolitan, a Martini, or Margarita. There are as many types of cocktails with many different names and new ones made up every day.
Cocktails began being made from the leftovers of a cask of ale which were called rock tailings. These tailings from different spirits were mixed together and sold at low prices and were called cocktails. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Way back then, I also wonder why drinks are called cocktail, since there are lots of cocktail bars here in hk, it got me curious and make me searched for what's the real score. Then I have read lots of tales of stories (read here to know more about the tales: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/07/origin-word-cocktail-alcoholic-drink/) behind the history of cocktails, but the official definition of a "cocktail" according to the modern Merriam-Webster Dictionary is "an iced drink of wine or distilled liquor mixed with flavoring ingredients."
The first cocktail ever was made in Mesopotamia 5,000 years ago, using wine, beer, apple juice and honey.
* Mojito - cocktail made from rum, sugar, lime juice, carbonated water and mint. It is a sweet and refreshing cocktail, with a minty citrus flavour and a strong kick of the rum. * Daiquiri - made by filling a cocktail shaker with ice, rum, lime juice and sugar syrup. It is then shaken well and strained into a chilled cocktail glass. * In the US they make a drink from rum instead of sugarcane to emulate Caipirinha - Brazil's national cocktail - which is made with cachaça, sugar and lime.
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Alcohol and other stuff
A cocktail is a kind of drink in which multiple ingredients are mixed, usually including at least one fruit juice and one hard liquor, although virgin (i.e. nonalocholic) cocktails also exist.
Syrup for cocktails made from pomegranites.
The movie Cocktail came out in 1988.