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The Moscow Times presents Bar Guide.

This book is the result of a joint creative project between Russia’s only daily English-language newspaper The Moscow Times, which for 18 years has been an indispensable source of accurate, reliable and independent information about Russia for the English-speaking community, and the young and ambitious cocktail web site Inshaker.ru.

Whoever you are – student or academic, 24-hour party person or creative professional, middle manager or director of your own business – our Bar Guide will help you find the best watering holes on the cocktail map of Moscow, learn the basic secrets and skills of cocktail mixing, and embellish your vocabulary with new words and names.

Moscow is developing rapidly and becoming one of the centers of global bar culture, on par with New York, Berlin, Paris and Tokyo. We are delighted to be the ones to tell you all about this important social trend.

Cheers!
The Moscow Times

Tom and Jerry Brandy How to mix 1. Put the egg yolk and powdered sugar in the mixing glass 2. Pour in the brandy and dark rum 3. Whisk with the whisk 4. Pour into a warmed cup and add hot milk 5. Stir with the cocktail spoon 6. Garnish with freshly ground nutmeg 7. Serve with prunes, dried apricots and apples, drenched in honey and placed in the tartlet pastry case Necessary ingredients Brandy 25 ml Dark rum 25 ml Milk 150 ml Egg yolk raw 1 Green apple 2 small wedges Honey 1 teaspoon Icing sugar 1 teaspoon Nutmeg ground on the tip of a teaspoon Dried apricots 1 Prunes 1 Pastry case 1 Necessary utensils Cup Mixing glass Egg whisk Cocktail spoon

Russian national Vodka How to mix 1. Brew 100 ml of strong black tea 2. Put the cranberries into the Irish coffee glass 3. Cruss with the muddler 4. Pour the tea, raspberry syrup and vodka into the glass 5. Add the cloves and stir with the cocktail spoon 6. Garnish with the cinnamon sticks Necessary ingredients Vodka 40 ml Raspberry syrup 10 ml Black tea 10 g Cranberry 2.5 teaspoons Cloves 5 whole cloves Cinnamon 2 sticks Necessary utensils Irish coffee glass Muddler Cocktail spoon

Royal Flash Liqueurs How to mix 1. Pour the ginger syrup into the shot glass 2. Using the cocktail spoon, layer in the red grapefruit liqueur, juice from the quarter lemon and the orange liqueur Necessary ingredients Red grapefruit liqueur 15 ml Orange liqueur 15 ml Ginger syrup 15 ml Lemon 1 quarter Necessary utensils Shot glass Cocktail spoon Citrus press

Americano Vermouth How to mix 1. Fill the rocks glass to the top with ice cubes 2. Pour in the campari and red vermouth 3. Top up with soda water 4. Stir with the cocktail spoon 5. Garnish with the orange peel Necessary ingredients Campari 30 мл Red vermouth 30 ml Soda water 30 ml Orange peel of one ring Ice cubes 160 g Necessary utensils Rocks glass Cocktail spoon Citrus knife Straws

Autumn set Vodka, Whiskey, Brandy How to mix 1st dish 1. Fill the set tray to the top with crushed ice 2. Put the chopped green apple and 3 sprigs of rosemary in the mixing glass 3. Grind with the muddler 4. Pour in the apple syrup and vodka 5. Squeeze in the lemon wedge 6. Fill the glass with ice cubes and stir with the cocktail spoon 7. Pour through a strainer into the sundae dish 8. Put the sundae dish on the set tray and garnish with the ring of apple and remaining sprig of rosemary 2nd dish 1. Put the vanilla pod in the brandy bottle and leave for a week 2. Put the peach puree and 10 mint leaves in the mixing glass 3. Pour in the sugar syrup and vanilla brandy 4. Squeeze in the lemon wedge 5. Fill the glass with ice cubes and stir with the cocktail spoon 6. Pour through a strainer into the sundae dish 7. Put the sundae dish on the set tray and garnish with the orange ring 3rd dish 1. Pour the grapefruit juice, sugar syrup, amaretto liqueur and whiskey into the mixing glass 2. Fill the glass with ice cubes and stir with the cocktail spoon 3. Pour through a strainer into the sundae dish 4. Put the sundae dish on the set tray and garnish with the circle of grapefruit Necessary ingredients Vodka 20 ml Whiskey 20 ml Brandy 20 ml Amaretto liqueur 5 ml Sugar syrup 20 ml Apple syrup 10 ml Grapefruit juice 30 ml Peach puree 4 teaspoons Green apple 1/6 of apple and a small ring Lemon 2 small wedges Grapefuit 1 small ring Orange 1 small ring Rosemary 4 sprigs Mint 10 leaves Vanilla 1 pod Chipped ice 150 g Ice cubes 600 g Necessary utensils Set tray Sundae dish Mixing glass Muddler Citrus press Cocktail spoon Cocktail strainer

Bianco Tonic Vermouth How to mix 1. Fill the highball glass with ice cubes to the top 2. Pour in the white vermouth and tonic to the top 3. Carefully stir with the cocktail spoon 4. Garnish with 2 wedges of lemon Necessary ingredients White vermouth 50 ml Tonic 150 ml Lemon 2 wedges Ice cubes 200 g Necessary utensils Highball glass Cocktail spoon Straws

Blackberry shot Rum How to mix 1. Pour the blackcurrant liqueur into the shot glass 2. Put in two blackberries 3. Using a cocktail spoon, put in a layer of light rum Necessary ingredients Light rum 20 ml Blackcurrant liqueur 25 ml Blackberries 2 berries Necessary utensils Shot glass Cocktail spoon

Denis Simachev Shop&Bar

It is three and a half years since this institution exploded onto the stagnant Moscow party scene. Denis Simachev Shop & Bar, tracing a path from fashionable to stylish, has a bar on the ground floor and a boutique on the second. After trying on a couple of dubious pieces from the new collection, customers descend and enter a magical world of attractive people, stylish music and amazing cocktails.

Rolling Stone Bar&Tattoo

It’s safe to say that there is no other institution like this in Moscow. Firstly, Rolling Stone Bar & Tattoo features outstanding views from panoramic windows. Secondly, the face control somehow manages to screen the audience to create a light atmosphere full of positive and crazy fun.