Know your Algonguin from your El Diablo
The Glossary
Sometimes it can appear that us bartenders are speaking in a foreign tongue, this page helps to get us all speaking the same language.
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Magnum
Not just Tom Selleck's hunky private investigator but also the name given to a double size wine bottle (1.5lt).
Here's a useful list of bottle sizes:
Standard - 1 Bottle
Magnum - 2 Bottles
Jeroboam - 4 Bottles (Champagne & Burgundy) / 6 Bottles (Bordeaux)
Rehoboam - 6 Bottles (Champagne & Burgindy)
Methuselah - 8 Bottles
Salmanazar - 12 Bottles
Balthazar - 16 Bottles
Nebuchadnezzar - 20 Bottles
Melchior - 24 Bottles
NB: Sized shown those universally used across the wine industry, although Chapagne bottles can range up to 40 Bottles in size (Melchizedek).
Mash Bill
The Mash is what whisk(e)y producers call their recipe of ingredients, often referred to as the Mash Bill.
Medium Rum
Medium refers to the weight, or the body, of the rum and not the colour; although more often than not medium bodied rums with be gold in colour.
Mixers
Non-alcoholic drinks that make up the bulk of a long cocktail. i.e mineral water, soda, tonic water, ginger ale, etc...
Mixing Glass
A glass jug for the mixing (stirring) of cocktail that has no handle.
Mixing Spoon
A spoon holding about the same amount as a teaspoon but with a very long handle for stirring. May also have a muddlers disc on base. Also called a Barspoon.
Mixologist
The nickname for a cocktail bartender.
Muddle
The act of crushing fruit, sugar etc with a muddler, or muddling stick as it is often referred to.
Muddler
A muddler, or muddling stick, is used to crush fruit, sugar etc to extract flavour.
