Are you a Discerning Drinker?
Join thousands of like-minded professionals and cocktail enthusiasts, receive our weekly newsletters and see pages produced by our community for fellow Discerning Drinkers.
Cocktail Finder
Find cocktails with specific ingredients, combinations of ingredients, by bartenders, by style, by rating...
Cabinet
Find cocktails using the ingredients you have in your cabinet
Cocktails Made Easy
The best-known cocktails tend to have just three liquid ingredients so making cocktails at home is much easier than cooking and can be quicker than making
Cocktail Directory
Browse cocktails by their style, flavour, occasion, season, or best time to enjoy
Cocktail Hall of Fame
The following 294 cocktails are the preeminent and best-known of the 6,000+ cocktails on Difford's Guide. Subject to ingredients, these are all cocktails
20 Best Cocktails by Ingredient
Browse the top 20 cocktails by ingredient
Cocktail of the Day
26 June 2026
Today is The toothbrush's birthday, so we are drinking a Sweetie Pie.
20 best Summer cocktails
When it comes to cocktails, summer screams Sex on the Beach, or at least fruit-forward rather than spirit-forward, more refreshing cocktails, but not necessarily
Bittersweet Hello
Designed as a low-alcohol welcome drink that's also a palate cleanser.
Tia Juano
I've tried shaking this cocktail as originally called for and stirring it with various proportions of dry and bianco vermouth. However, it's best when
Milano '36
Relatively low in alcohol, this bittersweet aperitivo has attractive almond notes. The sambuca adds well-integrated depth of flavour, rather than being
Sentimental Gentleman
A surprisingly dry, herbal Scotch whisky Old Fashioned.
Eponine Collins
Gin-laced, grapefruit, bittersweet and sweet 'n' sourness, invigorated by a splash of soda water.
Bruised Pomegranate
This cocktail sits somewhere in the East River between a Manhattan and a Brooklyn with a splash of Thames Estuary.
Rumpari
Bittersweet grapefruit soda, subtly laced with funky overproof rum.
Bandolier
A chili-spiced Mezcal Martini.
King James Martini
The lemon zest twist is the only non-British ingredient in this patriotic, mead-infused riff on a Paisley Martini, but the citrus oils help pull the trio
Triple 'C' Martini
A chocolate and cranberry alternatini and aperitif.
Bloom No. 5
A floral, bittersweet and warming ginger-spiced riff on a Margarita. (Also good served in an old-fashioned glass over ice.)
Pineapple & Cardamom Daiquiri
Green cardamom and pineapple are a match made in heaven, here laced with rum to produce a super tasty Daiquiri.
Bacon Whiskey Sour
One of those few cocktails where its name perfectly sums up its taste.
Browned Butter Daiquiri
Characterful rhum agricole and pot still rum form the backbone of this Daiquiri, flavoured with the headline Browned Butter Fat Wash.
Roasted Duck Boulevardier
Exactly as headlined, a bourbon and rye whiskey-laced Boulevardier with Roasted Duck Fat Wash.
Fat Mexican Duck
Mexican corn liqueur. White port and duck wash flavour this tequila-based late-night sipper.
