G-Spot
1 part Sprite
1 part Captain Morgan’s spiced rum
1 part Wilderberry
1 part sour mix
Mix and pour into a glass.
Ghetto Margarita
1 oz tequila
1 oz 7-Up® soda
Stir ingredients together over ice in a short glass, and serve.[20]
Geisha
2 oz (60 mL) bourbon
1 oz (30 mL) sake
2 tsp (5 mL) sugar syrup
1½ tsp (7.5 mL) lemon juice
Shake with ice. Strain into a glass filled with ice cubes. Garnish with fruit if desired. Serve.
Gentle Fruity White
Fruit juice, especially hand-made or equivalent (i.e. tropical mix)
Riesling white wine, such as the extremely common Aufkellerein.
Mix to taste as one would a Cuba Libre or vodka cocktail.
Gibson Martini
½ oz (15 mL) dry vermouth
2 ½ oz (75 mL) gin
2 cocktail onions
Gimlet
London Dry Gin 2 oz. (60 mL)
Rose’s Lime 2 oz. (60 mL)
Pour gin and lime cordial into a mixing glass and top with ice. Stir well. Strain into a frosted Martini glass and garnish with a lime peel or green cherry.enjoy.
Gin and Ginger
Approximately 1.5 ounces (37.5 milliliters) of gin is poured over ice in a chilled Highball glass – this is then topped with Ginger Ale.
Gin Buck
1½ oz (45 mL) gin
juice of ½ lemon
ginger ale
Pour gin and juice of lemon into an old-fashioned glass over ice cubes. Fill with ginger ale, stir and serve.
Gin-Cassis Fizz
2 ½ oz (75 mL) gin
1½ oz (45 mL) lemon juice
1 tsp (5 mL) superfine sugar
4 oz (120 mL) club soda
½ oz (15 mL) creme de cassis
In a shaker half-filled with ice cubes, combine the gin, lemon juice and sugar. Shake well. Strain into a Collins glass almost filled with ice cubes. Add the club soda. Stir well. Drop the cassis into the centre of the drink.
Gin Fizz
2 oz (60 mL) gin
juice of ½ lemon
1 tsp (5 mL) powdered sugar
carbonated water
Shake gin, juice of lemon and powdered sugar with ice and strain into a highball glass over two ice cubes. Fill with carbonated water, stir and serve.
Gin Highball
1 jigger (45 mL) gin
1 lemon twist
ginger ale to file
Built as a highball. Reference: The Official Harvard Student Agencies Bartending Course, Third Edition, ISBN 0-312-25286-2.
Gin Rickey
1½ oz (45 mL) gin
juice of ½ lime
carbonated water
1 wedge lime
Pour juice of lime and gin into a highball glass over ice cubes. Fill with carbonated water and stir. Add the wedge of lime and serve.
Gin Sour
2 oz (60 mL) gin
½ tsp (2.5 mL) sugar
1 oz (30 mL) lemon juice (or other citrus juice)
In a shaker half-filled with ice cubes, combine gin, lemon juice and sugar. Shake well. Strain into a sour glass and garnish with the orange slice.
Gin and Tonic
1 jigger (45 mL) gin
tonic water to fill
1 lime wedge
Build as a highball.
Gin And Juice
1 part gin
1 part grapefruit juice
1.5 parts orange juice
Pour all ingredients into a shaker, shake well and pour into a highball glass filled with ice. Garnish with a slice of lime. The drink is notable for sharing a name with the 1993 Snoop Dogg song Gin and Juice.
Glögg
1 bottle (750 mL) of red wine
150 mL (5 oz) of vodka
7 pcs of cinnamon
20 cloves
ginger
cardamom
200 mL (7 fl oz) of sugar
1 tbsp (15 mL) of vanilla sugar
Godmother
1.5 oz (45 mL) vodka
0.5 oz (15 mL) amaretto
served in a rocks glass over ice
A godfather is made with scotch in place of vodka. A fairy godmother is made with creme de noyaux in place of amaretto.
Golden Cadillac
20 mL white crème de menthe
20 mL Galliano
20 mL orange juice
20 mL cream
Shaken with ice cubes for mixing. Strain and drink.
Golden Elk
½ shot (15 mL) Goldschläger
½ shot (15 mL) Jägermeister
The ingredients are combined into a shot.
Golden Fizz
This is a Gin Fizz made with egg yolk instead of egg white.
Goodbye Russia With Love[edit]
1 shot (30 mL) vodka
1 shot (30 mL) brandy
1 shot (30 mL) amaretto
crushed ice
2 maraschino cherries
Combine ingredients, sans cherries, in a cocktail shaker. Shake well and pour over cherries in whiskey glass.
Gorilla Fart
1 part Bacardi 151 rum
1 part 101 Wild Turkey whisky
This drink is flammable. Variations include adding one part Southern Comfort
Grasshopper
½ oz (15 mL) green crème de menthe
1 oz (30 mL) white crème de cacao
1½ oz (45 mL) cream
The ingredients are shaken and served either straight up or on the rocks. Variations include using cream or vodka.
Green Cow
1 part Pisang Ambon liqueur
1 part milk
This is a type of drink that is better well blended and frozen. Serving it cold helps keeps the taste and makes the flavour last longer than served warm.
Green Cow (Alternative recipe)
40 mL Absolut vodka
30 mL Pisang Ambon liqueur
20 mL milk
fill with Sprite soda
Then mix everything and serve.
Green Garden
1 orange
half a lemon or 1 lime
1/2t brown sugar
100 mL pineapple juice
2 drops peppermint extract
sparkling mineral water
peppermint leaves (optional). Squeeze one orange and half a lemon.
In a shaker mix 50 mL of orange and lemon (or lime) juice with other liquids and sugars. Pour into a 300 mL glass and add ice cubes and mashed peppermint leaves. Add mineral water until the glass is full.
Greyhound
1½ oz (45 mL) gin
5 oz (150 mL) grapefruit juice
Pour ingredients into a highball glass over ice cubes. Stir well and serve. (Vodka may be substituted for gin, if preferred.)
Gully Wash
1 part sweetened condensed milk
1 part coconut milk (traditionally, it would be the “juice” straight from the coconut)
1 part gin
Blend the above ingredients, adding the sweetened condensed milk last. Serve over ice. Gully Wash is a Bahamian drink – not a tourist drink, something enjoyed by islanders.
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