Cocktails & mixed drinks

Cocktail Finder
Find cocktails with specific ingredients, combinations of ingredients, by bartenders, by style, by rating...

Cocktails Made Easy
Make 100s of cocktails at home just using things from your pantry, a 10 Bottle Bar + your favourite base spirit: vodka, gin, whiskey, rum, brandy etc...

3 Ingredient Cocktails
Most of the enduring classic cocktails comprise just three ingredients e.g. rum+lime+sugar=Daiquiri. A few, such as the Negroni consist of three equal

Cocktail Hall of Fame
The following 262* cocktails are preeminent and best-known of the 5,000+ cocktails on Difford's Guide and, subject to ingredients, these are all cocktails

Wildest Redhead
A honeyed Whisky Sour with allspice and a rich cherry base.

Fleur de Paradis
Sparkling wine charged elderflower gin with a freshening touch of grapefruit and lemon juice acidity.

Red Apple Manhattan
A calvados-based Red Hook. It has a touch of apple but a bit less bite than Vincenzo Errico's bottled-in-bond rye whiskey-based original.

20 best Honey cocktails
Honey predates sugar as a sweetener and is a delicious alternative to sugar to balance citrus in sour cocktails, particularly when flavoursome raw honey

Pink Frozen Margarita
A bittersweet Frozen Margarita. While you're at it, double the recipe and make two!

Green Deacon
Actually, a shade of orange-red rather than green, the name is a reference to the absinthe in this unusual combination of ingredients. The absinthe-rinse

Mad Monk Monkey
Monkey 47 tops a mad list of ingredients with a Monastic liqueur also influencing the name of this gin-laced herbal sour.

Monkey Business
Stop monkeying around and have a sip of this gin-forward banana summery cocktail.

20 best Mezcal cocktails
Mezcal is often used to add a touch of its distinctive lightly smoky character to cocktails based on other spirits particularly tequila. However, it's

20 best Tequila cocktails
With its earthy herbaceous flavours, tequila makes for both a versatile and characterful base spirit in cocktails. Contemporary pairings with tequila include

Difford's 20 best cocktails
Over the past 25 years I've made the 5,000 cocktails I've uploaded to this website and along the way I've created some 600 of my own cocktail recipes -

Sustainable yet luxurious cocktails
Cocktails are a luxurious indulgence, a special treat. Folk are careful about other purchases in order to afford little extravagances such as cocktails.

20 best Amaretto cocktails
The bittersweet almond and vanilla flavour of amaretto mixes brilliantly with dark spirits – particularly whiskey but this versatile liqueur also mixes

20 best Easter cocktails
There's more to Easter indulgence than mere chocolate eggs.

20 best White crème de cacao cocktails
Chocolate is made from cacao beans and crème de cacao is flavoured with these beans but crème de cacao is not a chocolate liqueur. Crème de cacao may

Pompanski Martini
Zesty with the sharp freshness of grapefruit and a hint of orange rounded with dry vermouth.