Homemade vodka cocktails – simple and tasty

Of course, it is better to drink vodka in its pure form, with a good snack and in good company. But sometimes it’s out of place, and it’s just boring – I want to try something that catchy. In such cases, we recommend that you prepare simple vodka cocktails that are easy to prepare at home.

In general, vodka is ideal for cocktails – it is strong, has no smell or taste (of course, we are talking about high-quality vodka). Many bartenders recognize it as the perfect ingredient for mixed drinks, and in this they are 100% right. State-owned can be safely added to a cocktail in order to increase its degree, without affecting the taste and smell.

In addition, you can completely create your own cocktail from vodka, using the formula for the perfect drink, which walks around the Web:

A + 2V + 7C, where

A – sweet part (liquor or syrup);

B – sour part (lime or lemon juice);

C is the bitter part, that is, the alcohol base.

Thus, mixing 7 parts of vodka with two parts of lemon juice and adding one part of sugar syrup or liquor to this, we get the perfect cocktail. However, there is absolutely no need to reinvent the wheel. In fact, there are a huge number of vodka-based cocktails. We have chosen the simplest ones.

Vodka Cocktail Recipes

Of course, it would be foolish to rush into all serious when there is an unshakable classic. The simplest mixed drink with vodka has always been and will be the legendary Screwdriver cocktail, we have already written about it. No less popular is the Bloody Mary cocktail, the recipe of which can be easily adapted to home conditions by replacing expensive sauces with ordinary salt and pepper.

Even easier to make Vodka on Zeros is to simply pour 50 ml of vodka into an old-fashioned glass with ice, but this will require very high quality vodka. But it’s too easy. In the end, we should not forget about more interesting classic drinks, about Black Russian, for example. We went through all this. Today we have new heroes visiting us.

Cocktail Vodka sprite (long drink, build)

Ingredients:

• 50 ml of vodka;
• 150 ml sprite;
• 20 g lime.

Preparation:

Everything is very simple. You need to take a highball, a tall narrow glass, fill it with ice. Then pour 50 ml of vodka into it and top the sprite. Stir gently with a bar spoon and garnish with two lime wedges. A very simple and refreshing drink that can be prepared without any difficulties. The next mixed drink is not inferior to him.

Energy drink vodka / RedBull vodka (long drink, build)

Ingredients:

• 50 ml of vodka;
• 150 ml energy drink (RedBull);
• 10 g of lemon.

Preparation:

Everything is very simple. Take a highball and fill it with ice. Add vodka and top with RedBull. We mix all this stuff with a bar spoon and decorate with a slice of lemon. If desired, you can add a couple of drops of grenadine for color. This is probably one of the most popular cocktails in nightclubs – it invigorates not like a child. It is not recommended to drink no more than two copies, because it is not an iron heart. The next drink is safer.

Cape Coder (long drink, picture)

Ingredients:

• 50 ml of vodka;
• 150 ml cranberry juice;
• 5 g cranberries optional.

Preparation:

Everything is very simple. Pour ice into a highball glass and pour 50 ml of vodka. Add cranberry juice to the top, mix with a bar spoon and decorate with cranberries. The latter, however, is not required. By the way, an incomparable cocktail with a very subtle and unusual taste. To heighten the effect, we recommend using cranberry vodka (for example, Finlandiya Klyukva).

IQ (long drink, build)

Ingredients:

• 50 ml of vodka;
• 20 ml honey syrup;
• 150 ml grapefruit juice;
• 10 g orange.

Preparation:

Everything is very simple. Fill a highball with ice and pour 50 ml of vodka, 20 ml of syrup and juice into it to the top. Stir everything with a cocktail spoon and garnish with orange zest. This drink is designed for lovers of bittersweet cocktails.

Vodka martini (short drink, shake)

Ingredients:

• 50 ml of vodka;
• 15 ml of dry vermouth;
• 1 olive

Preparation:

Everything is a little more complicated. Fill the mixing glass with ice, stir it until frost appears on the walls of the glass and drain the melted water through the strainer. Add 15 ml of vermouth and 75 ml of vodka. Stir the cocktail with a bar spoon and pour it through a strainer into a cocktail glass. Garnish with a green olive.

This, one might say, is a legend that, for some reason, did not make it to the IBA list. But there is a Dry Martini, which completely makes up for this loss. We will definitely write a separate article about Vodkatini, James Bond’s favorite drink.

Kaipiroska (long-drink, madl)

Ingredients:

• 50 ml of vodka;
• 20 ml sugar syrup;
• 25 g lime.

Preparation:

Everything is a little more complicated. This is the closest analogue to the popular classic Caipirinha cocktail. Place two thick lime wedges in a rocks glass and pour in the sugar syrup (you can just add a teaspoon of sugar). Crush the muddler lime, fill the glass with crushed ice to the top and pour in 50 ml of vodka. Stir with a bar spoon, top with more crushed ice and garnish with a lime wedge. It’s kind of a sour, but with a lot of crushed ice.

Sea breeze (long drink, build)

Ingredients:

• 50 ml of vodka;
• 100 ml cranberry juice;
• 50 ml grapefruit juice;
• 30 g grapefruit optional.

Preparation:

Everything is very simple. Fill the highball with ice, pour vodka and juices into it, mix everything with a bar spoon. Garnish with a grapefruit wedge or two, if desired. A very simple and refreshing cocktail with a perfectly balanced taste – here you have sourness, bitterness, and sweetness. This cocktail is almost 100 years old, but in the 20s of the last century it was prepared with gin and pomegranate syrup. And here is the next cocktail for an amateur.

Salt dog (long drink, build)

Ingredients:

• 50 ml of vodka;
• 150 ml grapefruit juice;
• 1 g salt.

Preparation:

Everything is very simple. Make a salty rim (crunch) on the rock: moisten the rim of the glass with lemon or lime juice and dip it in salt (you can use a saucer for this). Fill a glass to the top with ice and pour in 50 ml of vodka and 150 ml of juice. Gently stir the cocktail with a bar spoon and garnish with a grapefruit wedge. Drinking such a drink should be without a straw.

It is believed that this drink was invented not without the participation of Russians, namely sailors. The latter brought a lot of vodka with them to Texas. Cowboys then loved to savor alcohol with grapefruit juice, sailors – with salt, as a tribute to the sea. While playing Texas poker, Russian sailors savored this cocktail, and when the coyotes howled at sunset, they shouted in unison: “Hey, bartender! Pour us some more Salty Dog.”

Trans-Siberian Express (long drink, mudl)

Ingredients:

• 50 ml of vodka;
• 50 ml orange juice;
• 35 g of orange;
• Xnumx ginger root;
• 3 g rosemary;
• 10 g sea buckthorn jam.

Preparation:

Everything is a little more complicated. Put a small wedge of ginger, 2 teaspoons of sea buckthorn jam into a highball glass and muddle everything. Fill a glass with crushed ice, pour vodka and juice into it, stir with a bar spoon. Top with more crushed ice and garnish with a sprig of rosemary and an orange circle. It is advisable to immerse the highball in a cup holder before serving, which must be slammed at the Russian Railways. Such a Russian cocktail that you need to drink in the company of a bear playing the balalaika.

Its creator, Bek Narzi, is said to have traveled the Trans-Siberian Railway several times to come up with this cocktail. And this, by the way, is more than 10 thousand km one way!

Good morning tea (long drink, build)

Ingredients:

• 50 ml of vodka;
• 50 ml of apple juice;
• 50 ml sprite;
• 50 ml of cold green tea;
• 20 g green apple optional.

Preparation:

Everything is very simple. Fill a highball glass to the top with ice, add all ingredients and stir with a bar spoon. Garnish with apple slices. A very simple and very refreshing cocktail that should probably make you happy in the morning.

Here they are, cocktails with vodka, which you can effortlessly prepare even for your guests at the bar, even at home. How difficult? Can’t you find sea buckthorn jam in your grandmother’s bins? You can also fork out for honey syrup once, because you can make a whole lot of interesting cocktails with it.