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Salty Dog
1 1/2 oz. Vodka
Grapefruit
Juice (to fill)
Salt the rim of a highball glass, and fill with ice. Pour in the vodka and juice, stir well, and
serve.
Tips: For added taste, use a
lime wedge to moisten the rim of the glass for salting, as shown here.
Sangria
Category: Wine Drinks
3 oz. Red or White Wine
1/4 oz. Brandy
1 tbsp. Triple Sec
Orange Juice
(to fill)
Orange
Slice
Pour into a large wine glass or brandy snifter, garnish with the fruit
and serve.
Tips: Make a pitcherful and let
it sit overnight with fruit slices floating in the liquid, for even more fun
and flavor. For the sweeter style of
Sangria popular in Mexican restaurant chains, add sugar syrup to taste.
Scorpion
Category: Tropical Drinks
2 oz. White Rum
1 oz. Brandy
1/2 oz. Triple Sec or
Creme de Noyeaux
1 1/2 oz. Orange Juice
3/4 oz. Lemon Juice
Orange
Slice
Maraschino
Cherry
Stick the fruit together with a toothpick. Then blend the drink ingredients together with ice and pour into
a highball glass. Garnish with the
fruit and serve.
Scotch & Soda
Category: Basic Cocktails
1 1/2 oz. Scotch
3 oz. Soda Water
Pour into an ice-filled highball glass, stir to chill, and serve.
Tips: This drink is often taken
without ice, so if you're pouring for someone else, make sure to find out if
they want it "neat" or "on the rocks".
Scotch Sour
Category: Basic Cocktails
1 1/2 oz. Scotch
3 oz. Sour Mix
Maraschino
Cherry
Shake with ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with the cherry and serve.
Screwdriver
Category: Basic Cocktails
1 1/2 oz. Vodka
Orange
Juice (to fill)
Pour the vodka into an ice-filled highball glass. Fill with orange juice and stir before
serving.
Variations: Any other white
good, such as rum or gin, may be substituted for the vodka. Or add a splash of Galliano to create a
Harvey Wallbanger (see recipe).
Trivia: According to bar lore,
the screwdriver was named by the Texas oil rig workers who invented the drink,
and used their tools as impromptu swizzle sticks.
Seven & Seven
Category: Highballs
1 1/2 oz. Seagram's 7 Crown Whiskey
7-Up (to fill)
Pour the whiskey into an ice-filled highball glass. Top off with 7-Up and serve.
Variations: While Seagram's is
the traditional liquor for this popular drink, any blended whiskey can be
used. Common garnishes include an
orange slice and cherry or a lemon twist.
Sevilla
Category: Manhattan Variations
1 oz. Dark Rum
1 oz. Sweet Vermouth
1 dash Bitters
Maraschino
Cherry
Shake or blend with ice and pour into a chilled martini glass. Garnish with the cherry and serve.
Seville
1 1/2 oz. Gin
1/2 oz. Sherry
1/2 oz. Lemon Juice
1/2 oz. Orange Juice
1/2 oz. Sugar Syrup
Shake or blend with ice, and strain into a chilled rocks glass.
Sex on the Beach
3/4 oz. Vodka
3/4 oz. Peach Schnapps
2 oz. Grapefruit or Pineapple Juice
2 oz. Cranberry Juice
Pour the liquors into an ice-filled highball glass. Top off with juices and stir before serving.
Shandy
Category: Coolers
Beer
7-Up (to
fill)
Pour beer into mug until it's 3/4 full.
Top off with the 7-Up and serve.
Trivia: Shandy is a popular
drink in England, where young adults and light drinkers enjoy it in pubs. If you order one there, don't be surprised
if the barkeep refers to 7-Up as "lemonade".
Shirley Temple
Category: Non-alcoholic Drinks
1/4 oz. Grenadine
Ginger
Ale
Who doesn't remember how adult they felt when their parents allowed them
to order this cocktail for the first time?
Pour the grenadine into an ice-filled collins or rocks glass, top off
with ginger ale and garnish with the cherry before serving.
Variations: Substitute cola for
the ginger ale to pour a Roy Rogers.
7-Up works well, too.
Sidecar
1 1/2 oz. Brandy
3/4 oz. Triple Sec
3/4 oz. Sour Mix
Shake or blend with ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
Variations: Loosely defined, a
Sidecar is any drink that combines liquor and liqueur in a 2-to-1 ratio, with a
splash of sour mix thrown in for good measure.
Recognized variations include substituting bourbon, gin, scotch or
applejack for the brandy to pour a Bourbon, Gin, Scotch or Apple Sidecar.
Singapore Sling
Category: Tropical Drinks
1 1/2 oz. Gin
1 oz. Cherry Brandy
1/2 oz. Lemon Juice
Club Soda
(to fill)
1 dash Cointreau
Lemon Slice
Maraschino
Cherry
Stick the lemon and cherry together with a toothpick. Then shake the gin, brandy, and sour mix
together, and strain into an ice-filled collins glass. Fill with club soda, top with the Cointreau,
and garnish with the fruit to serve.
Tips: No cherry brandy on
hand? Substitute 1 oz. of sloe gin or
1/2 oz. of grenadine instead. Some
bartenders also prefer to use sour mix instead of lemon juice.
Trivia: The Singapore Sling was
invented at the famous Writer's Bar at the Raffles Hotel in Singapore. Joseph Conrd and Rudyard Kipling were among
the many famous colonial-period authors who downed a drink or two there under
the breeze of a slowly-turning ceiling fan.
Sloe Gin Fizz
Category: Fizzes
1 oz. Sloe Gin
2 oz. Sour Mix
Club Soda
(to fill)
Lemon Slice
Stick the fruit together with a toothpick. Shake or blend the sloe gin and sour mix with ice, and strain
into a tall collins glass. Fill with
club soda, and garnish with the lemon before serving.
Tips: Use a blender to produce
the frothiest (and showiest) drink.
Sloe Screw
1 oz. Vodka
1 oz. Sloe Gin
Orange
Juice (to fill)
Orange
Slice
Maraschino
Cherry
Fill a highball glass with ice, and stick the fruit together with a
toothpick. Add the vodka and sloe gin,
then fill with orange juice. Garnish
with the fruit before serving.
Variations: Substitute Southern
Comfort for the vodka to create the drink with the name we'd rather leave to
your imagination.
Sloe Sunset
1 1/2 oz. White Rum
3/4 oz. Sloe Gin
Orange
Juice (to fill)
Fill a highball glass with ice, then pour in the rum and sloe gin. Add orange juice to fill and serve.
Variations: Substitute tequila
for rum to pour a Sloe Sunrise.
Snowflake
1 1/2 oz. Gin
1 1/2 oz. Peppermint Schnapps
Fill a wineglass with crushed ice, then pour in the liquors. Stir until chilled and serve.
Sombrero
Category: Cream Drinks
1 1/2 oz. Coffee Liqueur
1 oz. Half & Half
Fill an old-fashioned glass with ice cubes, pour in the liqueur, and
give it a couple of stirs. Float the cream
on top of the liqueur by pouring it slowly over the back of a spoon that's held
with its tip just touching the drink's surface.
Soul Kiss
1 oz. Whiskey
1 oz. Dry Vermouth
1/2 oz. Dubonnet
1/2 oz. Orange Juice
Pour into an ice-filled mixing glass and stir well. Strain into an ice-filled rocks glass, and
serve.
Tips: Top off with an orange
twist or slice, for added appeal.
South of Manhattan
Category: Manhattan Variations
1 1/2 oz. Southern Comfort
3/4 oz. Sweet Vermouth
Maraschino
Cherry
Shake or blend with ice, and strain into an ice-filled rocks glass. Garnish with the cherry before serving.
Stinger
1 1/2 oz. Brandy
1/2 oz. White Creme de Menthe
Pour into an ice-filled mixing glass and stir to chill. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass and
serve.
Variations: Simply substitute
vodka for brandy to create the Vodka Stinger variation of this classic
cocktail.
Tips: Garnish your drink with a
sprig of fresh mint, as we have, for extra panache.
Sunburst
1 1/2 oz. Vodka
1/4 oz. Triple Sec
3 oz. Grapefruit Juice
Pour the vodka and grapefruit juice into an ice-filled rocks glass. Top off with the triple sec, and serve.
Swampwater
1 1/2 oz Dark Rum
1/4 oz. Blue Curacao
1 1/2 oz. Orange Juice
1/2 oz. Lemon Juice
Shake or blend with ice, and strain into an ice-filled rocks glass.
Tips: If you're lookinf for a
"conversation cocktail", this may be your ticket: As disgusting as a Swampwater looks, it
tastes darn good! In a pinch, regular
Curacao or Triple Sec can be substituted for the Blue Curacao, though you'll
lose the colorful effect.
Sweet Martini
Category: Martini Variations
1 1/2 oz. Gin
3/4 oz. Sweet Vermouth
1 dash Bitters
Pour into an ice-filled mixing glass and stir until well chilled. Strain into a chilled martini glass and
serve.