Here are some things to retain from Tom Cruise’s “Cocktail” the movie, if you’re a bartender or someone interested in the art of cocktails 😉

Might be weird watching it as someone who knows about cocktails…

 

11 things to retain from the Cocktail the Movie

Here are some things to retain from Tom Cruise’s “Cocktail” movie, if you’re a bartender or someone interested in the art of cocktails 😉

As observed by VinePair’s Article 35 Years After Its Release, the Movie ‘Cocktail’ Shows Us How Far Drinks Culture Has Come

 

1. You’ll naturally observe it through the knowing eyes of the modern bar scene.

2. The movie indeed gives drinks aficionados ample fodder.

3. In the movie, they don’t know drink specs or use jiggers, fruit juices, or pretty much anything that creates a balanced drink.

4. They know how to toss a bottle over their shoulder or slam a Boston shaker onto a bar top in unison.

5. When the movie shifts from New York to Jamaica and Doug asks Brian to make him a Daiquiri after bragging that he taught Brian everything he knows, Brian immediately reaches for a blender instead of a shaker.

6. “Cocktail” provides a window into what the bar scene was like before the work of pioneers like Dale DeGroff, Audrey Saunders, Sasha Petraske, and Julie Reiner helped transform the industry for the better.

7. Cocktail mixers and canned, frozen juices were the weapons of choice behind the stick back then.

8. Craft spirits weren’t a thing, so options were limited at best.

9. Most of the drinks are relics of a time when creamy sweet concoctions with no base spirit and vodka drinks with dirty names dominated the scene.

10. the Angel’s Tit cocktail. Ordering the drink when “Cocktail” came out in 1988 got you a creamy drink consisting of a two-to-one ratio of maraschino liqueur and cream. Ordering it today may get you something better, thanks to an ingenious tweak. Sometime in the 2010s, The Dry Cocktail founder Mikka Kristola updated the recipe when she was a bartender at The Varnish in Los Angeles, adjusting the ratios to three-quarters of an ounce each and adding a bar spoon of both Heering Cherry liqueur and Fernet Branca.

11. The Ding-a-Ling cocktail, a concoction featuring vodka, peach schnapps, and lemon-lime soda is mentioned twice in the film. Author Simon Difford created his own cocktail called the Ding-a-Ling in 2022. It features mezcal, dark rum, amaretto, and lemon juice. Judging by the specs, it seems much more interesting than the original.

 

 

Don’t drink and drive. Enjoy responsibly.