White Russian (cocktail)

White Russian [ waɪt ' rʌʃ ( ə ) n] ( German " White Russian " ) is an alcoholic mixed drink vodka base.

In addition to vodka is this cocktail of coffee liqueur (such as Kahlúa ) and cream or milk. Classic is prepared of White Russian by adding vodka and Kahlua into the glass, mixed, and then infuses thick whipped cream ( float ). In the classic version, make sure that liquid cream and vodka / Kahlua do not mix. The cocktail is prepared not drink through a straw, but straight from the jar. In this way, cream and alcoholic components of the "Russian " mix only in the mouth and there is unfolding, in the opinion of lovers of the classic version, only the full creamy, slightly sweet - tart note of the drink. Depending on your taste served at the three ingredients stirred ( 4 cl vodka 2 cl Kahlua, 3 cl cream), in a tumbler (wider lower whiskey tumblers ) with three or four ice cubes.

In practice, various options are offered: with ice cubes, crushed ice with and without ice cream, or with whipped cream or unbeaten with milk or milk foam, shaken or layered, with or without straw - and all combinations thereof. As a vessel used in addition tumblers and martini glasses or cocktail glasses high. International standard is the version in the undecorated martini glass. The cream will not be beaten, but shaken with ice and then added without the ice on top of Kahlúa and vodka.

A certain degree of fame of the Cocktail in 1998 by the feature film The Big Lebowski as a favorite drink of the main character The Dude (played by Jeff Bridges). However, the dude uses in his apartment instead of cream Half & Half.

Black Russian ( " Black Russian " ) is a variant, in which dispenses with cream and milk. It was invented in the 1950s by Gustave Tops, the longtime bar manager of the Brussels Hotel Metropole.