What is a mixed drink? What’s a highball and how do they relate to defining a cocktail?
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All cocktails are mixed drinks, but not all mixed drinks are cocktails. All highballs are mixed drinks, but not all mixed drinks are highballs. A great highball has a ratio of 1.5 ounces of spirit to 5.5 ounces of juice/mixer. The highball is a single ingredient plus a core spirit or liqueur.
Broadly speaking, a cocktail is a complicated mixed drink that usually contains three or more ingredients. Harry Croswell may have defined the original “cock-tail”, but Jerry Thomas perfected the design by publishing recipes with acidity. Jerry Thomas perfected the cocktail over sixty years after the original definition. A quality cocktail contains spirit, sugar, acidity (sour), and bitters.
It is easy to discount those that drink a “basic” mixed drink as uneducated cocktail enthusiasts… newbies… posers… wanna be’s you name it. There is a time and place for a mixed drink and a cocktail, you just get to choose the time and place.
Over time many new drinkers will begin to explore the fun of a more complicated cocktail. Those soon-to-be cocktail enthusiasts will begin to understand and appreciate the slightly more complicated cocktail recipes. Those well trained enthusiasts may explore the ease and simplicity of a basic mixed drink just to relax and shut down the brain after a long day at work. There are plenty of styles of drinks for different people and different moods. Keep an open mind and always encourage people to keep exploring flavor combinations.
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