1. Cocktail Club Presents

2. WHISKEY The first ingredient

3. THE TERM COCKTAIL IS DESCRIBED AS “A COMBINATION OF A STIMULATING LIQUOR, COMPOSED OF SPIRITS OF ANY KIND, SUGAR, WATER, AND BITTERS.”

4. Whiskey: A Stimulating Liquor Whiskey, in all its varieties, is an alcoholic drink derived from distilled grains that are then aged in oak casks. The word "whiskey" comes from the Irish Gaelic word loosely translated as “the water of life”

5. Whiskey: A Stimulating Liquor It's made from fermented grain or “mash.” The product never ages in the bottle, only in the cask

6. Whiskey: A Stimulating Liquor The three types of grain used for mash are: CORN: Bourbon BARLEY: Scotch RYE: American

7. Whiskey: A Stimulating Liquor The cask is of the utmost importance in whiskey production. Chemically, the whiskey is changed by the oak cask. Thus, the age of whiskey is defined as the time between distillation and bottling.

8. Whiskey: A Stimulating Liquor The biggest manufacturers of whiskey come from Ireland, Scotland, and America. They all have different laws which govern what can be labeled as a whiskey. According to United States regulations, the mash for each type of whiskey must be at least 51% pure grain.

9. VERMOUTH The second ingredient

10. Vermouth: It’s really wine booze! Vermouth is a fortified wine. Fortified means the alcohol percentage of the wine has been raised through the addition of spirits (a fairly neutral grape brandy is ideal in most cases).

11. Vermouth: It’s really wine booze! The word “vermouth” derived from the German word for “wormwood”, which was once one of vermouth’s primary infused botanicals. Some vermouths still employ a little wormwood. Vermouth was originally developed in Italy. (If wormwood sounds familiar to you, it’s because it’s also the bitter herb that is used in Absinthe. It can be lethal in high doses.)

12. Vermouth: It’s really wine booze! Vermouth is produced by starting with a base of a neutral grape wine. Each manufacturer adds additional alcohol and a proprietary mixture of dry ingredients, consisting of aromatic herbs, roots, and barks, to the base wine. After the wine is aromatized and fortified, the vermouth is sweetened with either cane sugar or caramelized sugar. Of course Italians would figure out how to turn salad into wine!

13. BITTERS The shake-shake ingredient

14. Angostura: Shake it to Make it The botanical ingredients used in preparing bitters typically consist of aromatic herbs, bark, roots, and/or fruit for their flavor and medicinal properties, Most bitters contain both water and alcohol. In the 19th century, the British practice of adding herbal bitters to cocktails (used as preventive medicines) had become immensely popular in the American colonies. Leave it to Americans to add medicine to their booze and booze to their medicine!

15. Angostura: Shake it to Make it Angostura (ANGUS-stir-ah) bitters are the most purchased brand today, although many bars and drink aficionados are offering house-made bitters as additions to their featured cocktails.

16. THE MANHATTAN A truly American Cocktail

17. The Manhattan: True American Cocktail The history of the is a controversial one. The most famous rumor states that the drink was made for Lady Randolph Churchill, Winston Churchhill’s mother at the Manhattan Club in the 1870’s and it was thoroughly enjoyed and became popular. The story has been picked apart and it seems it may not be true. The reality is that the Manhattan was probably one of the five borough cocktails (Brooklyn, Bronx, Manhattan, Queen’s and the Staten Island cocktail) made to represent the parts of New York city.

18. The Manhattan: True American Cocktail Whatever the actual story is, it’s obviously a delicious cocktail that can be enjoyed for any occasion. The history of the drink can be celebrated by our American heritage when American immigrants took the booze of their Italian grandparents and mixed it with the whiskey made in the back woods of the early Colonies. The Manhattan= ‘Merica

19. The Manhattan: True American Cocktail Behold, the marvelous Manhattan. CHEERS!