> Here are a few reasons I can think of, at the moment, why a bartender
> wouldn't know a particular drink.
>
> 1) Its a recipe you made up yourself.
>
> 2) Its a recipe your friends made up.
>
> 3) There are hundreds of classic cocktails, and there are 10,000s of
> variations. They may just have missed your particular recipe.
>
> 4) The bartender doesn't have much experience of cocktails.
>
> 5) The drink you ask for has multiple different recipes, some similar
> some not.
>
> 6) The drink recipe is obscure, and is only mentioned in one book,
> which you are the only person who has a copy. Stump the bartender is
> a bad game to play.
>
> 7) The bartender in question doesn't bother to learn recipes which
> include any of the following: gatorade, everclear, mulitple colours
> of sambucca, blue curacao, hypnotic, etc etc.
>
> 8) lime juice, blue curacao, grenadine, is not a combination of
> ingredients that they would care to remember, let alone give it a
> specific name.
>
> 9) A recipe which you yourself consider good/ fantastic/ OMFG is not
> necessarily going to be seen that way by someone else.
>
> 10) The bartender doesn't like to make drinks which are all name, no
> actually substance.
This is a beautiful list. No joke at all, I f-ing love it :)
Four to add...for posterity sake...
11) It's the latest trend cocktail that has a serving radius of Paris Hilton
and it's yet to be heard of by anybody that hasn't read the right source yet.
12) It's a regional cocktail, of which you're in the wrong region. If they've
only heard of it on the west coast (USA), don't expect to find the recipe on
index cards in the Florida Keys.
13) It may be a recipe that already exists by another name, and you're the
poor individual that was taught the wrong name for it.
14) The recipe is the latest creation of a marketting campaign by Bacardi,
Skyy, Midori, etc. Most bartenders don't waste their time learning these
drinks that nobody else will know and will be forgotten in 2 months.
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Cody