Cocktails & mixed drinks

Cocktail Finder

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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 258 cocktails are the preeminent and best-known of the 5,000+ cocktails on Difford's Guide and, subject to ingredients, these are all cocktails

20 best alternatives to a G&T

With the 100s of new gin distilleries that have sprung up and the numerous variations of tonic, there are now thousands of possible different combinations

Sir Walter Cocktail

The Sir Walter (or Swalter) first appears in Harry MacElhone's 1927 Barflies and Cocktails and is repeated in other regarded tomes such as The Savoy Cocktail

Amaroni

A cocktail promoted by The House of Angostura.

Black Fashioned

Adapted from a recipe created in 2019 by Vasilis Kyritsis at The Clumsies in Athens, Greece.

Macunaíma

Adapted from a recipe created in 2014 by Arnaldo Hirai at his Boca de Ouro bar in São Paulo, Brazil. According to Arnaldo, his recipe started to take

Downhill Daring

Named after a piece by American painter and illustrator, Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) and adapted from a recipe created in 2019 by Brian Nixon at the Truxton

Gin Blossom Martini

Adapted from a recipe created in 2009 by Julie Reiner at the House Martini for the opening menu of her Clover Club bar in Brooklyn, New York City, USA.

Waterlily

Adapted from an equal parts (¾oz each gin, triple sec, Crème de violette and lemon juice) recipe created in 2007 by Richard Boccato at Little Branch

Queen Elizabeth

Cocktail historian, David Wondrich, discovered this cocktail in an advertisement form Bénédictine liqueur published in the February 1935 edition of Esquire

Toffee Negroni

There's no toffee in this Toffee Negroni in the same way there's no coffee in the Coffee Cocktail yet both drinks are aptly named and delicious.

Old Barrel

Rye whiskey spice, herbal liqueur complexity and vinous sherry sit alongside each other in a harmonious trinity with dashes of aromatic bitters and lemon

Sahara Cubano

Adapted from a recipe created in 2020 by Rogerio Igarashi at Bar Trench in Tokyo, Japan.

Devil's Soul

Spirituous, smoky, earthy, bittersweet, floral, herbal and complex. We've reduced the original serve by one-third to produce a complex, serious and most

High King

Adapted from a recipe created by Joaquín Simón at Pouring Ribbons in New York City, USA.

The Prospector

Adapted from a recipe created in 2020 by Lewis Cooke at Black Pearl in Melbourne, Australia. Originally based on The Glenlivet 12 Year Old Speyside single

Winter

The Winter Cocktail appears in Albert Stevens Crockett's Old Waldorf Astoria Bar Book with the following recipe: Two-thirds glass Jamaica Rum Juice of