How To Choose the Proper Cocktail Glass

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Present cocktails like a pro by serving them in the correct glass.

To complete this How-To you will need:

A variety of glasses

Step 1: Have a highball

Mixed drinks like gin and tonics and Long Island iced teas go into a tall, 10- to 12-ounce, straight-sided glass known as a "highball."

Step 2: Use a Collins glass

Use the highball's taller, skinnier cousin, the 14- to 16-ounce Collins glass, for weaker, juice-based cocktails like Cape Cods and screwdrivers. The reduced surface keeps drinks colder, longer.

Tip: Always put stronger cocktails in shorter glasses; they take up less space because they've got less mixer in them.

Step 3: Know your sour glasses

Use a sour glass when serving a whiskey sour or some other drink that ends in "sour." A shorter, slightly wider version of a champagne flute, the sour glass lends elegance to drinks with a foam head and allows the drinker to preserve the cocktail's coldness by holding it by the stem.

Step 4: Be old-fashioned

Serve "on-the-rocks" cocktails, which are liquor poured over ice, in an old-fashioned glass, also known as a "rocks glass."

Step 5: Plot a coup

Use a coupette glass, which has a broad rim for dipping into salt or anchoring a fruit garnish, when you make margaritas and daiquiris.

Step 6: Be prepared for Hurricanes

Use Hurricane glasses -- so named because they resemble Hurricane lanterns -- to serve their namesake drink and any exotic, tropical concoctions.

Step 7: Use martini glasses

Use martini glasses for martinis and any shaken, strained cocktail, like a Cosmopolitan. The conical shape helps prevent ingredients from separating.

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