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

The Best Tequila Cocktails Invented in Australia

Australia has some of the world's most inventive and creative bartenders - something Patrón tequila revealed when they put a call out for recipes as part

French Martini

Raspberry and pineapple laced with vodka. Easy drinking and very fruity.

Bartender's Guide to Foraging: Australian Edition

Australia is quite unlike any other country when it comes to foraging, for not only does it have an abundance of its own native flora, but also most of

How To Stock A Home Bar: For Gin Lovers

If you like making gin cocktails, this is the most useful article you’ll ever have clicked on. In a way, you’ve just won the juniper lottery of mixed

Louisiana’s Best Gifts to Cocktail Culture

The amount of drinks America’s Louisiana has birthed is eye-wateringly high, but as far as quantity over quality, we’ve been lucky enough to have both

A Short History of Growing Mangoes in Australia

The tropical taste of Australia’s summer, mangoes become a ubiquitous sight come November, stacked in crates and boxes in every fruit shop and supermarket.

Speyside Single Malt Old Fashioned

Some may want to use a Demerara sugar syrup but pure cane sugar delicately mellows the malt whisky without masking its flavour, indeed it amplifies its

Cocktails at Eileen's Bar

The gin bar in Sydney's Surry Hills is already up to its seventh volume of cocktails. Always innovative and unusual, here's two stand-out cocktails from

Your Old Fashioned is Missing Some Banoffee Pie

Dessert cocktails used to be thicc. You’d order an Alexander or an Affogato and a martini glass filled with cream, booze and crème de cacao would come

Cocktails at Carlton's Capitano

A step-by-step guide to three of Capitano's most popular cocktails from 2020 - the Tiramisu Milk Punch, the Peanut Butter & Miso Old Fashioned and the

Damn-the Weather

Gin and herbal vermouth with zippy zesty orange.

Australia's Take on the Whisky Aperitif

For years, the world has marveled at the careful construction, layering and stirring of the Japanese Whisky Highball. This simple serve of whisky and soda

Bali Rum Trader

Looks like swamp water but tastes delicious.

Naramata

Brandy and brandy fortified apple sit harmoniously with rich herbal vermouth complexity.

Butler's Tipple

Almost creamy with vanilla, bittersweet rootiness and cognac.

Sabot

The Sabot is a White Lady topped with a splash of champagne. Once you've experienced the firepower of a Sabot you'll never want to settle for a mere White