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1. 86 (also 86’d, 86ing) Within the bar and restaurant world, patrons and ingredients alike can get 86 ’d. If a bartender runs out of something or wants to get rid of it, she may tell other...
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- Bar Spoon – a long mixing spoon which often has a lemon zester or something similar on the other end. Bitters – a herbal alcoholic blend which is meant to be added to other cocktails to enhance flavour (e.g a Manhattan is rye, sweet vermouth and a couple dashes of bitters).
- Call Drink – Refers to when the customer orders a drink by giving both the specific name of the liquor and the name of the mixer. E.g. Tanqueray Ten and Tonic, Bacardi and Coke.
- Dash – A few drops or a very small amount of an ingredient. Dirty – Adding olive juice to a martini which makes it a Dirty Martini. The more olive juice, the dirtier the martini.
- Dry – Very little vermouth added to a martini. The more dry the customer wants their martini, the less vermouth added. Flame – Setting a drink on fire. Sambucca is often lit on fire to heat it up before putting the flame out and drinking it.
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- Michael Dietsch
- Behind the stick: A slang term for the act of getting behind the bar and doing the work of bartending. The origins of the phrase aren't perfectly clear, but "stick" seems to refer to the tap handles used for pulling glasses of draft beer.
- Building a drink: You probably know what it means to stir a drink or shake a drink. To build a drink, you add ice to a glass and then add the spirit and mixers.
- Rolling a drink: Another method for mixing a drink. In this case, you build the drink in the mixing glass, and then gently pour it into a shaker tin or another mixing glass to mix things together.
- Buy back: First rule of going out for drinks: Don't be a jerk. As if you need a good reason to be not a jerk, here's a good one: your bartender just might shower some appreciation on you in the form of a complimentary drink, or a buy back.
Oct 17, 2023 · Common citrus for expressing includes oranges and lemons. Bartenders will often rub the peel around the rim of the glass before adding it to the cocktail. Jigger. A jigger is one of the most handy tools for a bartender. Shaped like an hourglass, it’s used to make sure that you pour the correct amount of ingredients into every drink.
Jan 11, 2024 · From "bartender's ketchup" to "devil's cut," we explain the history and meaning of some insider-y drinks lingo and bartender terminology.
Oct 10, 2016 · It means the bartender is running out of something or want to get rid of something. A bartender can yell out to the staff to 86 the margaritas because they are out of tequila. Or they can tell the manager to 86 a patron because they have had too much to drink. The use of this bartending term supposedly dates back to the 1930’s restaurant ...