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Little bartenders - Giuseppe Mazzarella
Introduction
When we talk about cocktails, we immediately think of alcoholic products and in fact this is the case in most of the times.
The cocktail was born as a mixture of various components, both alcoholic and non-alcoholic; however, over the centuries several non-alcoholic cocktails have been created and have become famous.
In addition, it’s possible to create non-alcoholic versions of the most famous world cocktails: these are the Virgin cocktails.
The world of non-alcoholic mixing is often referred to by the terms mocktail (joke or fake cocktail) and kiddy cocktail (cocktail for kids), both used in a reductive sense.
Today it’s possible to talk about a mixing exclusively dedicated to children, but not only: many adults don’t drink alcohol by choice or necessity, like when they must drive a car.
This work is dedicated to all those who, giving up on alcohol, don’t wish to renounce at the pleasure and taste of a good cocktail too.
A whole series of non-alcoholic products will be treated, they can replace the alcoholic ones in the creation of a Virgin cocktail.
It won’t always be possible to guarantee the same taste, lacking a strong aromatic component, but we’ll try to maintain the preparation technique as much as possible.
In addition, the ease of finding many professional tools, often at cheap prices, provides the starting point to entertain even the kids without the need to use alcoholic products.
Thus, it becomes possible to create a mixing dedicated to the youngest, not forgetting that often, behind each cocktail, one or more stories and curiosities are hidden.
Over time, a cocktail has changed, as the result of a mistake or for lack of an ingredient, perhaps just to adapt to new fashions or simply to the needs of a new client or, again, in the ambitious claim to defeat competitors.
Many of them were born so, as a variant of a previous recipe, what in technical jargon is now called a "twist".
In the substitution of non-alcoholic products to alcoholic ones it could happen that several classic cocktails correspond to a single Virgin version.
Aim of this work is introducing children to the techniques of mixing without the need to handle alcohol, allowing them to exercise just like adults or maybe just tasting a cocktail in all respects similar to the one drunk by other guests.
Maybe seasoned with some anecdote or curiosity about birth, story or fame related to it, but not only... there will also be some personal additions.
Today are fashionable the acrobatic bartenders (flair technique), with amazing movements and modern cocktails, but it’s always necessary to start from the classics, which are the basis of the preparation of all cocktails.
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1. Origins and history of mixed drinks
The cocktail is a combination of alcoholic drinks, usually consisting of a mixture of one or two types of alcoholic elements (spirits) with non-alcoholic ones and aromas (fruit juice, flavored syrup, or cream) with contrasting characteristics but harmonized with each other.
A well-made cocktail must have balanced structure, aroma, and color; if made without the use of alcoholic components, it’s called non-alcoholic cocktail. In America it’s also called mocktail (fake or joke cocktail) or kiddy cocktail, while a virgin cocktail is simply an alcohol-free version of a classic cocktail.
The most popular legend tells that the word cocktail come from the English terms cock (rooster) and tail, maybe because around 1400s, in the English countryside, people drank a colorful drink inspired by the colored tail of the fighting rooster or mixed with the tail of the defeated rooster (as described in stories of Central America).
Others believe that it comes from the French term coquetier, a container for eggs to which look like the glasses (called coquetelle) where the Sazerac (the oldest codified cocktail in the world) was served by barman John Schiller at Sazerac Coffee in New Orleans around 1830. However, the word cocktail officially appears in a New York newspaper on 13th of May 1806.
There are many other stories about cocktails, some with common elements, while others totally different: for each one it claims that it’s the original one!
Birth of mixed drinks is lost in the folds of time, perhaps until the dawn of history...
1.1. Alcohol in the ancient past
Man has always produced and consumed