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 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

Mastering the Margarita with Happy (Alex Gilmour)

Working across two of Sydney’s most famed tequila and mezcal destinations, Tio’s Cerveceria and Cantina OK!, Alex Gilmour is our go-to agave expert.

Six Fresh Watermelon Cocktails To Keep Summer Going

Watermelon cocktails shout summer. Here's six of the best drinks using a variety of fresh fruit, watermelon syrup and watermelon liqueur.

Dunderstruck

Fruity in every sense of the word – not to mention estery with namesake dundery rum notes taking centre stage. (Flavours are somewhat reminiscent of

20 best Valentine's Day Cocktails

Valentine's Day cocktails tend to have corny names and due to the shape of strawberries looking uncannily like hearts, consequently, many of the cocktails

Mastering Clarified Milk Punches with Darren Leaney

Clarified milk punches have been doing the rounds since the 1700s but no one makes them quite as deliciously as Capitano’s manager Darren Leaney. This

Building Aroma with Ryan Chetiyawardana

If you’re creating classical cocktails with citrus, or drawing acidity from the likes of vermouth, then you’ll have aroma by the bucket load. Turn

Dragon Punch

An almond, mezcal and Chartreuse Margarita with a touch of fire breathing hot pepper sauce.

Making Shelf-Stable Lime Juice with Remy Savage

London-based bar owner Remy Savage talks us through how to distill your way to a shelf-stable lime juice, which not only tastes like lime from a citric

Smashes

The Smash, at points called a Smasher or Smash-Up, is a family of cocktails closely related to the Mint Julep.

Mezcal Martinez

Bold flavours combine harmoniously if this characterful riff on a classic Martinez

Grand White Lady

Rich gin-laced Grand Marnier and tart sour lemon juice nestle harmoniously under a fluffy head.

Sherry Valance

Armagnac-laced dry sherry and rich almond with zesty refreshing citrus and a touch of creole bitter complexity.

Your Top 10 Cocktails of 2020

2020... the year we sat on our couches and googled how to make cocktails. Here's the top 10 recipes according to all 620,000 of you who hit the Australian

Mastering the Espresso Martini – with Martin Hudák

Co-founder of Sydney bar Maybe Sammy and coffee ambassador for Mr Black Coffee Liqueur, Martin Hudák is the only person we’d ask to school us on how

Australian Christmas Cocktails

Eggnog and Snowballs, Mulled Wine and Christmas Velvet Alexanders... all very fitting for 25th December if you're wrapped up by the fire. Drinking creamy

Why SSIXX is the Best News You’ve Heard All Year

Early next year The Everleigh’s owners Zara and Michael Madrusan, in collaboration with Aussie chef Peter Gunn (Ides) are creating a collision of culinary