Cocktail highball: what is it, cooking recipes

The cocktail-highball got its name from the dishes in which it is served. Highball in English means simply a "tall glass". Typically, it is a glass with a volume of 270 milliliters, a simple round or square shape. Highball is higher than a glass called an old fashion, but lower than collins. It is clear that from such utensils only longas are drunk - cocktails designed for prolonged savoring. Short- and shot-drinks are usually drunk in one gulp, so the dishes for them are "short". But does this mean that every cocktail, poured into a tall glass, will be called highball? Does this drink have one recipe or several? In this article we will clarify this issue. Below you will find not only a description of what a cocktail-highball is and how it differs from other longes, but also recipes for the preparation of this delicious drink.

What is primary - dishes or filling?

A tall glass is created for a large amount of liquid. As we found out, highball contains from 250 to 300 milliliters. But the shape of the glass is also important. Simple, with even walls, it holds the foam well. This is the essence of a drink, like a cocktail highball. He saw the light in America, at the end of the nineteenth century, and at first was a strong alcohol, diluted with mineral water (soda or lemonade). Then the ingenious fantasy of bartenders awarded highball with numerous younger "brothers" and "sisters". So, if you pour into a tall glass of sweet liquor, lemon juice and mineral water, then this cocktail will already be called rikki. And if in the number of ingredients gets egg white, then as a result of birth fiz. If you add a lot of lemon juice to the strong alcohol, as well as sugar syrup, then this drink will be called a sling. When we replace the distillate with wine, crush berries, orange and ground ice, we get a cobbler.

Hot highballs

A tall glass with thick walls holds the temperature well. Often in the long ice add. But this does not mean that the cocktail-highball is an exceptionally cool drink. Depending on the season, they are also warming. A classic example of a winter highball is the grog. Classic drink is made on the basis of rum, but it is also allowed to use cognac, brandy, liqueurs. The second ingredient of Grog is tea. Since the drink was invented by British sailors, soon hot milk or cream was added to it. Here is the recipe for a winter highball. Mix in a glass 50 g cognac, 15 grams of dark rum, two teaspoons of liquor. We pour over a hundred milliliters of hot, but not boiling milk. A classic grog is obtained by mixing 50 grams of rum with a mug of tea. If desired, you can add a circle of lemon or two spoons of honey.

Fixes

So called mixed cocktails, which are prepared outside the highball glass. A tall glass filled with ice cubes. The prepared cocktail is poured on top of it. It is believed that, penetrating down through the ice layers, cocktail ingredients completely reveal their taste characteristics. Here is an example of the Brandy Buck cocktail. We put ice cubes in highball. In the shaker bowl, mix 45 ml of any brandy, 30 ml of light liquor (better "Cream de Ment") and 15 ml of squeezed lemon juice. Pour the mixture on the ice. We supplement the glass with ginger beer (about one hundred milliliters).

Frappe

Initially, Frappe meant strong sweet alcohol (liquor, liqueur, tincture), which was passed through the ice. From the Frappe fixes the shape of the latter. These are not cubes, but small crumbs. Before chopping ice at home, make sure that the bowl of the blender is not plastic. Also important is the amount of "snow". In frappe, the glass is filled to the top with finely chilled ice. Mixed cocktails that were poured onto this snow crumb did not exceed fifty milliliters in its total volume. Then the drink was stirred with a special spoon-straw. Now they serve not only alcoholic frappe. It is prepared with various juices and syrups. And the leader in popularity was the coffee version. One thing remains unchanged: they serve such drinks in a high straight glass, like a cocktail-highball.

A recipe for a chocolate-orange frappe. Coffee Frappe

We fill the glasses with iceball ice. In a separate bowl we mix dark liqueur "Cream de Cacao", orange juice and "Mandarin Napoleon". The proportions are as follows: 1.5: 1: 0.75. Mix and pour into glasses. How to make a coffee-frappe cocktail? First, brew a fragrant arabica or robust robusta. Let's strain coffee from the thick. Let's add sugar. We poured into highball, filled almost to the brim with ice chips. Coffee frappe also overgrew with a mass of modulations. You can add milk, liqueur, cognac. The coffee itself also depends entirely on your choice. It can be espresso, macchiato, latte. In Cyprus, frappe is made from soluble coffee, while adding cold water. The powder is ground to form a thick and stable foam. To do this, add five water to the spoon of coffee and beat the drink with a submerged mixer.

Popular cocktails in highballs

In high glasses it is customary to do fizzy - effervescent, foaming beverages. Stable foam can create soda, lemonade, coca-cola, but also champagne. Consider, for example, how to make a cocktail "Gene-fizz." Fill the shaker to half the ice cubes. We pour in 60 milliliters of gin. We add a spoonful of powdered sugar. Squeeze the juice out of half a lemon. Shake the shaker to make the ingredients come to a friendly balance. We pour content into highball. We add to the edges of the soda. Serve with a straw.