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Choosing the right glassware is vital when preparing a drink.
Well-designed glassware combines elegance, strength and stability.
Most drinks are enhanced by being served in fine-rimmed clear glass,
which should be clean and well polished. Any good bar should have
sufficient supply of different types of glasses, the amount of each
glasses naturally depends on the type and amount of drinks served, but
it is always good practise to have few of each kind of glasses in case
they are needed.
A sign of a good bartender is that he keeps his glasses clean,
in good order and polished. Glasses should placed so that
the bartender does not have to reach too far to get them. Placing
glasses on rack upside down above the bar desk is not a good idea, as
they act as collectors for cigarette smoke and other impurities.
Better is to have sufficient space on the work top, in front of the
bartender, or on lower shelves right behind the bartender's working
area. Always keep glasses on soft surface, either clean cloth that is
replaced daily, or on a special glass mat, upside down. When glasses are
upside down, it prevents impurities getting in them, but also as a sign
of a clean glass, rarely dirty ones are placed upside down on a desk.
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- Cocktail
- 100-160 ml; for cocktail, after-dinner.
Normal size: 6 oz.
The classical Cocktail glass.
A Cocktail glass is often used for:
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- Whisky
Old fashioned
- 150-250 ml; for on-the rocks, after-dinner, whisky, fix, daisy,
sour,
gin-fizz.
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- Collins
- 250-380 ml; for long-drink, highball,
zombie, swizzle, Collins, sling, cooler, Rickey,
screwdriver.
Normal size: 14 oz.
A Collins glass is often used for:
- Soft drinks
- Alcoholic Juice drinks
- Collins
- Sours
- Bloody marys
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- Goblet / Tumbler
- 200-280 ml; for lemonade,
fantasy poussé, aperitif,
long-drink, mist swizzle, fizz, cocktail, cobbler, cooler, julep,
fix, daisy, egg-nogg,
on-the-rocks, punch,
after-dinner.
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- General
- 200-280 ml; for water, fizz, egg-nogg, sparkling
wine, crusta,
long-drink, aperitif.
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- Flat Cocktail and Sparkling Wine
- 160-260 ml; for champagne cocktail, sour,
after-dinner, sparkling
wine, cup.
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- Red and White Wine
- 150-190 ml; for crusta, aperitif,
on-the-rocks, fizz, cocktail, cobbler,
red and white wine, sparkling
wine, cooler, flip, sour.
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- Pousse-Café
- 120-190 ml; for pousse-café.
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- Sparkling Wine
- 150-230 ml; for sparkling
wine, sour,
champagne and wine cocktail, cup.
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- Liqueur
- 50-95 ml; for liqueur,
bitters.
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- Small Liqueur
- 50-90 ml; for liqueur.
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- Sherry
- 80-130 ml; for sherry,
after-dinner.
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- Vermouth
- 120-150 ml; for cocktail, aperitif, vermouth.
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- Brandy Balloon
- 120-150 ml; for brandy, cognac,
after-dinner.
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- Shot
- 40-60 ml; for clear, cold spirits,
shot.
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- Tankard
- 150-310 ml; for punch,
hot toddy, beer.
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| Margarita Mainly for the drink
after which it was named
A.K.A. Coupette glass
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