Distilled Beverages - Serving

Serving

Distilled beverages can be served:

  • Neat or straight — at room temperature without any additional ingredient(s)
  • Straight up — shaken or stirred with ice, strained, and served in a stemmed glass
  • On the rocks — over ice cubes
  • With a simple mixer, such as club soda, tonic water, juice, or cola
  • As an ingredient of a cocktail
  • As an ingredient of a shooter
  • With water
  • With water poured over sugar (as with absinthe)

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