Tipps & Tricks

Tips & tricks for mixing cocktails

What do you need to mix cocktails?

If you want to transform your kitchen into a private cocktail bar for mixing premium drinks, all you need is a few simple utensils. Cocktail mixing is not particularly complicated, nor does it have to be an expensive hobby.

You don’t need to train as a bartender to mix Trojka drinks. While it’s impressive to watch an experienced bartender juggling different bottles and ingredients behind the counter, you can take it easy. Practice makes perfect.

It’s important that you equip your mini house bar with a few utensils that are not necessarily found in every kitchen. These include, for example:

  • Special glasses
  • Elegant bar spoon
  • Various sieves
  • A jigger
  • Knives
  • Scoops
  • Pliers

The bar accessories should be well maintained. Spotlessly clean and neatly arranged like surgical instruments in an operating theatre, this looks great in the bar and is sure to impress your guests.

Why so much ice in cocktails?

Many people regard the ice in a drink as trivial and therefore pay little attention to it. Ice is an essential ingredient in practically all drinks. Without this ingredient, most popular drinks would never have reached such popularity.

There are two main factors that make ice an essential part of mixed drinks: the melting water of the ice and its cooling effect. In addition, there are physical properties that allow the different ingredients in the drink to combine aromatically with each other. Many drinks use ice as an ingredient to develop the full flavour of the chosen spirit. At the same time, the cooling effect prevents the taste from becoming too hard or the drink from becoming too strong. Especially in summer, it’s simply more pleasant if the drink is nice and cold – so it’s much more refreshing and tastes much better.

However, it’s important to add lots of ice cubes to a drink, not just a couple. Adding only a few ice cubes to a drink waters it down instead of keeping it cool.

What are classic cocktails?

Finally, we want to give you some delicious recipes: Cosmopolitan, Espresso Martini and Sex on the Beach. These simple drinks are real classics and can be mixed at home without much effort.

  • Espresso Martini

    Espresso Martini: a classic vodka cocktail that’s back in fashion with a bang! Tasting of sweet coffee, Espresso Martini really wakes you up. It’s typically served in a cocktail glass with a few coffee beans as decoration. With its neutral flavour and 40% ABV (alcohol by volume), Trojka Vodka is the perfect spirit for this cocktail.

    Ingredients
    • 4 CL TROJKA VODKA PURE GRAIN
    • 2 CL KAHLÚA
    • 2 CL ESPRESSO
    • 3 WHOLE ESPRESSO BEANS
    Steps
    • 1
      Fill a Boston shaker with ice cubes.
    • 2
      Add all the ingredients.
    • 3
      Shake and strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
    • 4
      Finally, garnish with coffee beans.
    • 5
      An additional tip: let the espresso cool down before adding it.

  • Sex on the Beach

    A vodka and fruit cocktail the colour of the sunset and a classic in the cocktail world – that’s Sex on the Beach.

    Ingredients
    • ICE
    • 4 CL TROJKA VODKA PURE GRAIN
    • 2 CL PEACH LIQUEUR
    • 4 CL ORANGE JUICE
    • 4 CL CRANBERRY JUICE
    • 1 ORANGE
    Steps
    • 1
      Fill a highball glass with ice cubes.
    • 2
      Add all the ingredients.
    • 3
      Garnish with a slice of orange (and a cocktail umbrella if desired).

About the Easy Mixer

With Trojka’s Easy Mixer concept, you can create simple drinks in no time and without much effort. The practical mixers are suitable for any occasion and help you mix refreshingly simple cocktails and vodka drinks in just a few steps.

Whether as a companion at your next home party, as a light aperitif to enjoy with friends or as a simple drink outdoors at a concert, Trojka Vodka is the key to an incomparable party. Variety is the key word here – because variety is a top priority at Trojka. That’s why the Trojka range also includes over twelve different flavours, which come in different, vibrant colours and help you mix simple drinks yourself with ease.

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