Entertaining in your home can be a step up from normal if you are skilled enough to serve properly mixed and prepared cocktails. Many people enjoy a cocktail during brunch, at parties, and in the evening after work. Learning how to prepare cocktails is a beneficial skill that can be used in many different circumstances.
Also, investing in an ice bucket, shot glasses, metal shakers, mixing glasses, muddlers, shaker bases, jiggers, and stir spoons turns you into a good budding mixologist or bartender. At least if you can learn how to mix and serve the most ordered drinks, it would go a long way toward impressing your friends, family, and acquaintances:

1. The Bloody Mary
The classic Bloody Mary consists of tomato juice, vodka, lemon juice, Worcestershire sauce, horseradish, Tabasco, celery salt and black pepper. This is the one drink encouraged to be consumed before lunch and is often served at brunch or breakfast.

2. Gin and Tonic
Gin and Tonic were introduced to the world in the 1700’s through the British East India Company via English soldiers fighting off the effects of malaria, which was a common illness experienced by soldiers stationed in India. Because quinine was used to fight malaria and it is an ingredient in seltzer water, the soldiers were encouraged to drink. Because it wasn’t palatable as is, sugar, lime and gin were added to the mixture. This was the first instance of the drink we know today. The recipe for a gin and tonic includes ice cubes, gin, tonic water, lime juice and a lemon wedge.

3. Whiskey Sour
Take the egg white from a whole egg and drop it in a shaker, add 1/2 ounce of freshly squeezed lemon juice, also add 1/2 ounce of simple syrup, and add one dash of bitters. Dry shake this concoction to froth the mixture. In a 4-ounce glass full of ice, pour 2 ounces of bourbon. Next, pour the frothy mixture shaken in the shaker into the glass with the bourbon. You should have a nice whip at the top of the glass. Add a peel of orange to garnish. Squeeze the orange peel a little to release the oils and then deposit it near the top of the glass. Now, enjoy your whiskey sour.

4. Cosmopolitan
The cosmopolitan has a fancy name, but it was a major hit of the 1990’s cocktail scene. Begin with 2.5 parts citrus vodka, 3/4s parts orange liqueur, 3/4s parts cranberry juice, 1/2 a part of fresh lime juice. Add ice to a shaker and strain the excess water, add the mix and shake. Serve in a well-chilled cocktail glass and garnish with one wheel of fresh lime.

5. Moscow Mule
The Moscow Mule originated on the Sunset Strip in 1941. It was the cosmopolitan of its day. To make it, you combine one-quarter ounce of lime juice, 1 teaspoon of simple syrup, three ounces of ginger beer, one and three quarters of vodka. Stir ingredients together. Pour over in a full 4-ounce glass of ice and garnish with mint and one lime wheel.

Drinks with vodka are commonly served as cocktails. Another mixture with great popularity is the honey bourbon cocktail recipes. Bourbon mixed with honey is commonly the starter with additives ranging from canned peaches to herbs like rosemary, cardamom pods, cinnamon, and ginger. These drinks are made with apple spritzers, apricots, chamomile tea, apple cider, and a whole host of other unique ingredients to make the most eccentric variety of drinks.