What to drink?

Showcases of modern wine shops are capable ofdelight and surprise even professional bartenders and sommeliers - the range of alcoholic drinks displayed in them is truly enormous. Even if connoisseurs do not always know exactly how and with what it is supposed to use the contents of this or that beautiful bottle, then what can we say about a simple person, not experienced in these matters! Perhaps some of our tips will help you understand all this diversity and choose the right drink, the most suitable for a particular case.

What to drink on fishing?

One of the most common cases of drinkingalcoholic drinks in a purely male campaign - to drink while fishing. Under a smelling haze, a hot, burning, rich soup prepared from freshly caught fish, a couple of glasses of cold vodka is a classic combination that has no alternative. The Russian vodka is good and under the frozen salt bacon with a slot, black bread and lightly salted herring sprinkled with green onions. In this combination, it is also recommended to consume it on a winter evening of the day off, sitting with friends at a cozy kitchen table.

What to drink alone?

Cognac, unlike vodka, does not drink in noisycheerful companies. Savoring cognac, do not tell anecdotes and do not sing under the guitar ,. Cognac is a drink of singles. He is poured into the bottom of the glass, they sit down in an armchair, cover their feet with a blanket and lead a sincere, unhurried conversation with their best friend. Cognac does not eat like vodka - a vase with olives, dark chocolate or some good cheese, that's all that is required for it. Another drink that is not drunk in a large company is absinthe. On the rules and features of its use on our site is a separate article How to drink absinthe in the home.

What to drink on friendly gatherings?

Beer is really the best budget optionA drink for a noisy and student brotherhood, not burdened with big incomes. To beer you can serve a variety of ready-made snacks from the category, that is called "cheap and angry" - salted crackers, nuts, chips, etc., a modest snack. Beer is also suitable for picnics in nature - it is good for them to drink shish kebabs roasted on the grill, barbecue sausages, or simply sautéed toasted sausages over the fire.

What to drink at a ladies' party?

The perfect sex for a party is the best waydessert wines - sherry, madera or marsala, that perfectly match the taste with sweets, cakes, fruits and ice cream. Also, "ladies'" wines have long been considered malaga, Muscat and Cahors.

A perfect alternative to fortified grape wines on a hot summer day can be beer.

This drink is traditionally considered male, butyou can find and women's light beer options. For example, beer can be unusual - berry or fruit. Such exotic ladies' beer, long produced in Belgium, contains very little alcohol and has a delicate and refreshing taste of cherries, raspberries or strawberries (depending on its type).

What to drink during a romantic dinner for two?

Classics of the genre is, of course, champagne. The best champagne is considered to be Champagne "Brut", but before inviting the girl for dinner, it will be useful to ask unobtrusively if she likes dry wines. If the girl is

sweet tooth, perhaps the classic "Brut"it seems to her too sour, in this case it is better to buy semisweet champagne. Champagne should be accompanied by a cozy table, semi-darkness, candles, flowers, a vase with strawberries and white chocolate.

If the champagne seems too banal,try to surprise the girl with an unusual liqueur and put on the table a bottle of blue "Curacao" or two-color "Sheridans". The exotic spicy "Sambuca" is also good, which should be burned before consumption. How to properly do this, is described in our article How to Drink Sambuku.

What to drink on a picnic?

At picnics, popular food is a shish kebab. I want to immediately warn that shish kebab and vodka are incompatible things. The fried meat on the coals is supposed to be washed down

red dry wine such as "Cabernet", "Saperavi"or Merlot. If dry wine seems excessively acidic and tart, red semisweet wines, such as Kadarka, Khvanchkara or Kindzmarauli, can be served with shish kebab.

In the case when a shish kebab is prepared from chicken fillet, sturgeon or other valuable fish, it is better to drink it with white dry or semi-dry wine - Risling, Sauvignon, Fetyaska or Rkatsiteli.

What to drink at a party?

The king of any glamorous party is His Majestycocktail. A good alcoholic cocktail is a pleasure, frankly, not cheap, because it sometimes includes up to ten very expensive ingredients - liqueurs, whiskey, champagne, cognac,

natural fruit juices, so be prepared in advance for significant expenses if you are going to organize a real cocktail party.

If you do not know which cocktails are bestto stop your choice, so as not to be mistaken, act for sure: go in a proven way and prepare several types of traditional cocktails according to the classic recipes - Margarita, Gin-tonic, Screwdriver, Whiskey with Coke or Mojito. In addition to these well-known cocktails, Daikiri, B-52 and Hiroshima are very popular in bars and nightclubs. By the way, how to cook the last of them is told in our article "Hiroshima Cocktail". If you want to drink something more exotic, try to prepare a cocktail "Armageddon."

The recipe for the cocktail "Armageddon"

To prepare one serving of a drink with such a sonorous name, you need:

• liquor "Amaretto";
• "Peach Schnapps";
• raspberry liquor;
• Sprite.

Each of these ingredients will require 15 ml. Also needed:

• cranberry and orange juice - 60 ml each;
• a little chopped food ice;
• a glass of "Hayboll".

In the glass, put the pounded ice, pour it over itraspberry liqueur, "Amaretto" and "Peach Schnapps", top with chilled orange and cranberry juice and then "Sprite". Gently mix the cocktail and serve it immediately.

Another no less delicious and extremelythe popular cocktail "Manhattan" is made not on the basis of liqueurs, as the two previous ones, but on the basis of the famous Italian vermouth "Martini", which is the main ingredient in the recipes of many famous alcoholic drinks. About the rules of their preparation and how to use Martini in its pure form, is described in our article How to Drink Martini.