Highballs All Bartenders Should Know

Originally, when a guest walked up to the bar and asked for a highball, the bartender grabbed a bottle of rye whiskey and mixed it with ginger ale. Today a highball just means a drink containing a spirit mixed with a carbonated mixer.

 

The Most Popular Highballs

 

Vodka soda, Vodka Tonic, Gin & Tonic, Rum & Coke, Bourbon & Coke, Whiskey & 7, Bourbon & Water, Scotch & Water, and Scotch & Soda. Of course other mixers include, sprite or 7up, ginger ale, and diet coke.

Garnishes for Highballs

The only thing that you have to remember is that tonics get a lime wedge. The most common requests by guests are lemon wedges and lemon twists for scotch, but the lime wedge for tonics are a given.
A Presbyterian (press) means that the mixer is half ginger ale and half soda water. For example is a guest orders a Bourbon Press, they want bourbon with half ginger ale and soda water.

	The Juicy Family		The Shot Family
	The Creamy Family		The Classic Family
	The Sour Family		The Highball Family
	The Tropical Family		The Stick Family
	The Hot Family		Misc. Family