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Alexander

Base Spirit: Gin (classic dry)
Style: Creamy (e.g. Dirty banana)
SHAKE all ingredients with ice and strain back into shaker. DRY SHAKE (without ice) and fine strain into...

Amaretto Sour II (Morgenthaler formula)

Base Spirit: Bourbon whiskey
Style: Top 100 Best Known Cocktails
Adapted from a drink created in 2012 by Jeffrey Morgenthaler in Oregon, USA. Jeffrey’s original formula...

Anejo Highball

Base Spirit: Rum - 6-10yr old Caribbean blended rum
Style: Top 100 Best Known Cocktails
Created in the late 1990s by Dale DeGroff, New York City, USA.

Aperol Spritz

Style: Aperitivo / aperitif
POUR ingredients into ice-filled glass and lightly stir.

Aviation Cocktail (Difford's recipe)

Base Spirit: Gin (classic dry)
Style: Classic/vintage
My (Simon Difford) adaptation of Hugo R. Ensslin's Aviation Cocktail in his 1916 Recipes for Mixed Drinks.

Bee Sting

Base Spirit: Whiskey - Straight rye whiskey
Style: Top 100 Best Known Cocktails
Discovered in 2005 at The Royal Exchange Grand Café & Bar, London, England.

Bellini (Difford's recipe)

Style: Classic/vintage
It has long been traditional in Italy to marinade fresh peaches in wine and the Bellini draws on this tradition, combining prosecco wine with puréed...

Benton's Old Fashioned

Base Spirit: Bourbon whiskey
Style: Modern
Created in 2008 by Don Lee at Manhattan’s exclusive and elusive PDT bar. PDT is short for ‘Please Don't Tell’ and perhaps the...

Blood and Sand (Difford's recipe)

Base Spirit: Scotch whisky blended
Style: Classic/vintage
SHAKE all ingredients with ice and fine strain into chilled glass.

Bobby Burns cocktail (Embury's recipe)

Base Spirit: Scotch whisky blended
Style: Classic/vintage
Recipe adapted from David A. Embury's 1953 'Fine Art of Mixing Drinks', in which he writes of this drink, "Peychaud,...

Brandy Alexander

Base Spirit: Cognac
Style: Creamy (e.g. Dirty banana)
Originally known as Alexander #2, the Brandy Alexander is thought to have been created sometime during the 1930s,...

Brandy Crusta

Base Spirit: Cognac
Style: Classic/vintage
Created in the 1850s by Joseph Santini, an Italian from Trieste, in New Orleans, USA, either at the City Exchange in the French...

Buck's Fizz

Style: Champagne
Thought to have been created in 1921 by Pat McGarry, first bartender at the Buck's Club, London. Very similar to the Mimosa created in Paris four years later.

Caipirinha

Base Spirit: Cachaça
Style: Classic/vintage
1. Cut lime in half (from pole to pole) and slice on half into 3-4mm thick half-moon shaped segments and drop into the base of a...

Champagne Cocktail

Base Spirit: Cognac
Style: Top 100 Best Known Cocktails
COAT sugar cube with bitters and drop into glass. POUR chilled cognac over soaked cube, then TOP with champagne.

Clover Club Cocktail No.3 (Difford's recipe)

Base Spirit: Gin (classic dry)
Style: Top 100 Best Known Cocktails
Version of a vintage classic by Simon Difford at the Cabinet Room, London, England.

Cuba Libre

Base Spirit: Rum Golden
Style: Top 100 Best Known Cocktails
POUR ingredients into ice-filled glass and lightly stir.

Dirty Martini Cocktail

Base Spirit: Gin (classic dry)
Style: Classic/vintage
Some attribute the creation of this drink to Roosevelt: the 32nd president was a keen home bartender, although his...

Dry Martini #1 (Preferred 5:1 ratio)

Base Spirit: Gin (classic dry)
Style: Classic/vintage
STIR all ingredients with ice and strain into chilled glass.

Fish House Punch #1

Base Spirit: Cognac
Style: Classic/vintage
Probably the most famous of all punch recipes this is believed to have originated at a Philadelphia fishing and social club called...

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