La Texana Cocktail Night

Last friday we hosted La Texana Cocktail Night at Casa Naña which is one of our student homes.

We invited a professional Bartender who brought all his equipment and taught us four delicious cocktail recipes. As a group of total beginners we had a lot of fun. We worked in teams of two and started a competition whose cocktails tasted the best.



We learned that every cocktail always is made of 3 basic ingredients:

- base of alcohol (in our case gin or vodka)
- base of juice
- a tasteful addition (like herbs, honey etc.)


Among others we used ingredientes like cucumbers and apple slices to experience a different taste than the usual Caipirinhas or Mojitos. It was pretty interesting learning about the secrets of cocktail mixing from a professional bartender.

Let's go: La Texana cocktail night

The equipment

Tasting the first cocktail

Cheers from Brazil and Germany

Our selection of cocktails:

1. Golden Fusion
    (Vodka, mint liquor, lemon juice,
     cucumber, marmalade, ginger ale)
2. Polar Gin
    (Gin, Blue Curacao, lemon juice, mint,
     sugar, ginger ale)
3. Red Joy
    (Gin, honey, apple juice, red fruit tea)
4. Spicy Ro 
    (Gin, orange juice, lemon juice,
     cucumber, chilli)


Our favorite was definitely Golden Fusion :)

Polar Gin, Golden Fusion, Red Joy and Spicy Ro (left to right)