Carnival is a time for fun and meeting with friends. Original cocktails, served in stylish KROSNO brand drinkware, will make time spent together even more enjoyable. It's worth getting to know the most interesting ideas for preparing tasty drinks.
Carnival alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks
Although carnival favors lively parties where alcohol-based drinks are particularly popular, delicious drinks can also be prepared without alcohol. Most often, these are non-alcoholic versions of classic alcoholic drinks, two of which are included at the end of this list. The remaining 8 ideas are cocktails based on the most popular spirits. The list includes drinks with whiskey, vodka, martini, gin, rum, tequila, and bourbon, so everyone will find something for themselves. The compilation does not include the simplest and most popular drinks in Poland (such as vodka, whiskey, and rum with coke; vodka with orange juice; Wściekły Pies; Mojito; Cosmopolitan; Malibu with milk; or Bloody Mary), to make room for slightly more original suggestions.
What drinkware to choose?
Individual drinks should be served in appropriate glasses or cocktail glasses. Properly selected, high-quality KROSNO brand drinkware will allow you to fully enjoy the taste and aroma of the best cocktails. The most important types of drink glasses are tall highball (for many long drinks) and shorter, more bulbous old-fashioned (tumbler) glasses, which resemble whiskey and bourbon glasses and are used for serving short drinks. Drinks are also often served in so-called cocktail glasses, i.e., martini glasses, or in spacious hurricane glasses.
Ideas for 10 carnival drinks
The following recipes show what is needed to prepare each of the 10 drinks, how to make it, and in what glass to serve it. In addition to drinkware and ingredients, you will also need a shaker and a jigger. It is worth remembering that drinks prepared in a shaker with ice cubes should be mixed until the sides of the vessel are really cold. However, do not pour the remaining, undissolved ice into the glass or cocktail glass.
1. Dry Martini is a classic drink with Martini and gin with over 100 years of history.
photo: Elite Martini glasses
Glass: Martini glass (cocktail glass)
Ingredients:
- 60 ml gin
- 10 ml dry vermouth (e.g., Martini Bianco)
- 1-2 olives or a dash of lemon juice
- ice cubes
Preparation: mix the spirits well with ice in a shaker, pour into a glass and garnish with an olive or two, or squeeze a dash of lemon juice into the glass.
2. Hurricane is an exotic rum-based drink originating from New Orleans. The distinctive, spacious glass for tropical cocktails, similar to drink goblets, took its name from this drink.
Glass: hurricane
Ingredients:
- 50 ml light rum
- 50 ml dark rum
- 50 ml passion fruit juice
- 25 ml orange juice
- juice of 1/2 lime
- 1 tablespoon grenadine
- ice cubes
Preparation: pour all ingredients into a shaker with ice cubes, mix well, then pour into a glass.
3. Manhattan and Dry Manhattan are twin drinks with whiskey or bourbon and vermouth. In the first version, it's a red, sweet vermouth (e.g., Martini Rosso), and in the second, a white, dry one (e.g., Martini Bianco).
Glass: Martini glass (cocktail glass)
Ingredients:
- 40 ml whiskey or bourbon
- 20 ml sweet (Manhattan) or dry (Dry Manhattan) vermouth
- two dashes of Angostura bitters
- maraschino cherry (Manhattan) or lemon peel (Dry Manhattan)
- ice cubes
Preparation: mix spirits with Angostura and ice cubes in a shaker, pour into a chilled glass, garnish with a cherry or lemon peel.
4. Margarita is probably the most famous tequila drink after Tequila Sunrise. Many fruity variations in fanciful colors, the most famous of which is the Strawberry Margarita, have been created based on the classic recipe presented below. To create them, blended fruit (fresh or frozen) must be added to the ingredients.
Glass: special Margarita glass
Ingredients:
- 35 ml tequila
- 20 ml triple sec liqueur (e.g., Cointreau)
- 15 ml lime juice
- lime wedge
- salt
- ice cubes
Preparation: mix all ingredients well in a shaker, pour into a chilled glass with a salt rim, garnish with a lime wedge.
5. Negroni is a drink originating from Italy, consisting of three spirits mixed in equal proportions.
Glass: martini glass (cocktail glass)
Ingredients:
- 30 ml gin
- 30 ml Campari
- 30 ml sweet vermouth (e.g., Martini Rosso)
- orange slice
- ice cubes
Preparation: mix the spirits well with ice in a shaker, pour into a glass and garnish with an orange slice.
6. The Godfather is a very aromatic whiskey drink, dominated by almond notes.
Glass: old-fashioned (tumbler)
Ingredients:
- 35 ml whiskey
- 35 ml amaretto liqueur
- ice cubes
Preparation: pour the spirits directly into a glass filled with ice cubes, stir gently.
7. Whiskey Sour is a Bourbon-based drink, an American whiskey made from corn.
Glass: old-fashioned (tumbler)
Ingredients:
- 45 ml Bourbon
- 15 ml simple syrup (can be made by dissolving 1:1 sugar in water)
- 30 ml freshly squeezed lemon or lime juice
- orange slice or maraschino cherry
- ice cubes
Preparation: mix ingredients in a shaker, pour into a glass with ice cubes, and garnish with half an orange slice or a cherry.
8. White Russian, or Biały Rosjanin, is a very interesting vodka drink, lighter at the top and darker at the bottom.
Glass: old-fashioned (tumbler)
Ingredients:
- 50 ml vodka
- 20 ml coffee liqueur
- 30 ml cream or condensed milk
- ice cubes
Preparation: pour spirits into a glass with ice cubes, gently pour cream on top and stir slowly and briefly.
9. Virgin Sex On The Beach is a non-alcoholic version of the classic drink with vodka (40 ml) and peach schnapps (20 ml), which have been replaced by peach syrup.
Glass: highball
Ingredients:
- 40 ml peach syrup
- 40 ml orange juice
- 40 ml cranberry juice
- ice cubes
- orange slice
Preparation: mix syrup and juices in a shaker, pour into a glass filled with ice cubes, garnish with an orange slice
10. Virgin Piña Colada is another non-alcoholic variation of a well-known classic among drinks, this time based on white rum (30ml).
Glass: hurricane
Ingredients:
- 30 ml coconut milk
- 90 ml pineapple juice
- crushed ice
- 2 x 1/4 pineapple slice
Preparation: mix milk and juice well in a shaker, pour into a glass half-filled with crushed ice. Garnish the rim of the glass with 2 pieces of pineapple, serve with or without a metal straw.