Cocktail "Grasshopper": softness of taste and amazing color

Among the abundance of drinks made by barmen, special attention is paid to the cocktail "Grasshopper". Gentle color and soft taste made it popular among connoisseurs of sophistication, and not a very high fortress allows to sip a drink sip all evening without losing memory and human kind. Cocktail "Grasshopper" refers to the category of digestives. This means that you need to drink it after eating, when the feast can be considered complete, and it's time for communication, dancing and other cultural rest.

Intriguing story

It is clear that the name "Green Grasshopper" received a cocktail because of the light green color given to the drink by a mint liqueur called Creme de Menthe. He was "born" two centuries ago, and began to participate often in cocktails - from the beginning of the 20th century. The very first version of the Grasshopper included only two components: mint and cocoa liquor - and was not particularly noteworthy. But the transformation into a modern drink - a controversial item, which has two versions. On the first, the cocktail "Grasshopper" became one of several interpretations of the most popular cocktail "Alexander" in those days (according to other versions, the basis is "Sister Alexander"). On the other, the "father" of the cocktail is Gilli Tudzhek, who kept a bar in New Orleans and composed a drink in the wiped out 1856. Before his death, Tudzhek sold the institution to Philbert Huish, who already in 1919 won with a cocktail at the tournament of these drinks in New York, after which he started a victorious procession in all the bars of the world. The first attack of popularity falls on the 40s of the last century: its promotion was engaged in the Philadelphia company Leroux. To the classic cocktail "Grasshopper" is numbered in the 50's and 60's, and the peak of his fame falls on the times of hippies, which gave a boost to the fashion for creamy cocktails.

Cocktail "Grasshopper": recipe classic

So, to get a legendary drink, you will need:

1. A light version of the liqueur "Cream de cocoa".
2. Liqueur "Cream de ment".
3. Cream low-fat, optimal - 10 percent.
4. Naturally, the ice.
5. A slice of orange and fresh mint leaves, which will go to the decoration. In some bars for decoration used strawberry, planted sideways on the edge of the glass; In others - sprinkling chocolate crumbs, so that in this regard, you can and fantasize.

Liquid components are taken in equal parts, usually 20 or 30 milliliters. There are two options for cooking: either ice is placed on the bottom of the glass, and the liquids are poured layer by layer, neatly, or all the ingredients (except for the decorations) are put into the shaker and shaken for a few seconds. The second method is most often used.

«Frozen grasshopper»

The more popular the drink, the more diverse its modifications become. The cocktail "Grasshopper" (photo) was not an exception to this rule. Among ladies, for example, a very popular version with ice cream: the ice from the list of components is removed, the cream too. In the shaker go to 25 milliliters of both liquors and 120 grams of ice cream. Recommended vanilla or mint, but strict rules on this topic does not exist, you can try to whip with any other. With brown (coffee or cocoa), it should definitely turn out well.

«The flying grasshopper»

This drink is suitable for those who like stronger cocktails. It combines both traditional liquor and vodka, all 30 grams. The components are shaken in a shaker with two tablespoons of ice and poured into a conventional, faceted, glass. Drinking, however, is laid through a straw. If vodka is to take hemp, Green dragon, then the cocktail will turn into a "High Grasshopper".

Dead Grasshopper

Another strong version, but more exotic and less gradual. Ice is shaken in a shaker with 30 ml of milk and poured into a glass, designed for martini. Over the same carefully poured the same volume of mint liquor, on it - an equal amount of "Cream de cocoa", so that the layers do not mix. The final touch is a spoonful of brown schnapps; It must be distributed over the surface, so that it can not be shaken again.

Coffee Grasshopper

This version of the bartender is prepared in different ways. Some as a basis use the traditional cocktail "Grasshopper", just adding to it another liqueur - "Kaloua". Others remove from the classics "Cream de cocoa", replacing it with a new component.

All cocktail modifications are worthy of attention. But connoisseurs of cocktail culture are advised to begin acquaintance with it from the traditional version, in order to know what to compare and what taste should be originally.