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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

12 best Celery cocktails

Crunchy succulent celery screams summer and Waldorf salad or even a Waldorf Daiquiri (see below). That distinctive crunch hides the fact that celery is

Sunray

Adapted from a recipe in W. J. Tarling's 1937 Café Royal Cocktail Book where the invention of this cocktail is credited to A. L. Jones. (Our thanks to

Café Colonial

Adapted from a recipe created in 2020 by Alberto Martinez at 1862 Dry Bar in Madrid, Spain.

Tears of Joy

Adapted from a recipe created in 2020 by Tess Posthumus at Flying Dutchmen in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

20 best Pineapple cocktails

Pineapples are luxuriant and tropical, their rich fruitiness balanced by an enlivening cutting acidity. Pineapple blends harmoniously with all spirits

Best pineapple liqueur cocktails

Good pineapple liqueurs are a fairly recent development as the enzymes in the fruit make infusing fresh pineapples in alcohol to produce a stable and tasty

Watermelon cocktails

Watermelon cocktails shout summer and you can enjoy the succulent flavour of watermelon without all the faff of chopping up football-sized fruit by using

Elderflower Cocktails - with elderflower liqueur

Elderflower liqueurs are delicately flavoured, aromatic and floral. Elderflower mixes brilliantly with pretty much every spirit, both white and brown,

Cherry Brandy Cocktails - 20 best

Two cocktails are synonymous for their use of cherry brandy: Blood & Sand and Singapore Sling, and as illustrated by these two classics, cherry brandy

Julep cocktails

Juleps are tall drinks served over crushed ice and based on a spirit, liqueur, wine or fortified wine. They are most often served with fresh mint in julep

Why you should keep an eye on Mexico

There is no way I'm going back to Mexico. I can't stand to be in a country that is more surrealist than my paintings. - Salvador Dalí

Tears in Heaven

Adapted from a recipe created in 2020 by Giacomo Gianotti at Paradiso, Barcelona, Spain.

Eye Opener

Created by Katalin Bene at Voodoo Reyes Geneva.

Best Blue Curaçao cocktails

Blue curaçao equals BLUE DRINKS, or at least various shades of aquamarine. There are numerous other orange-flavoured liqueurs but blue curaçao stands

Back To Black

Adapted from a recipe created in 2020 by Thomas Girard, Head bartender at Operation Dagger, Singapore.

Spring cocktails

Spring has sprung – well at least it has here in the northern hemisphere. It's time to rediscover the delights of floral cocktails – think elderflower

Pedaling Diplomat

Adapted from a recipe by Iván Villegas, created after being inspired by Martini Ciclismo 2020 La Cassica. Iván says, As we crossed the villages and cruised