Cocktails by ingredient

Vodka Cocktails – the 20 best vodka based cocktails

Vodka Cocktails – the 20 best vodka based cocktails

  • Vodka’s success is partly due to it being marketed from the 1940’s as a clear, pure, clean spirit that...
Elderflower Cocktails - cocktails with elderflower liqueur

Elderflower Cocktails - cocktails with elderflower liqueur

  • Elderflower liqueurs are delicately flavoured, aromatic and floral. Elderflower mixes brilliantly with pretty...
Pisco Cocktails - the best pisco based cocktails

Pisco Cocktails - the best pisco based cocktails

  • Pisco is the national spirit of both Peru and Chile and in both countries the iconic cocktail is the pisco...
Ginger liqueur cocktails

Ginger liqueur cocktails

  • As the weather turns colder so the warming effects of ginger can be both beneficial and pleasing in a drink....
Irish Whiskey Cocktails

Irish Whiskey Cocktails

  • Irish whiskey tends not to be peated so usually lacks the subtle smoky notes associated with Scotch whisky, so...
Maraschino Cocktails - the 20 best

Maraschino Cocktails - the 20 best

  • Maraschino is as a delicious a word as it is a liqueur made from sour Marasca cherries. The cherries’...
Cherry Brandy Cocktails - 20 best

Cherry Brandy Cocktails - 20 best

  • Two cocktails are synonymous for their use of cherry brandy: Blood & Sand and Singapore Sling, and as...
Coffee Cocktails

Coffee Cocktails

  • In 1947, an American journalist, Stanton Delaphane visited the bar at Ireland’s Shannon Airport where the...
Tequila Cocktails - the best tequila based cocktails

Tequila Cocktails - the best tequila based cocktails

  • With its earthy herbaceous flavours, tequila makes for a both versatile and interesting cocktail base spirit....
Cognac cocktails - 30 best

Cognac cocktails - 30 best

  • The most luxurious of all spirits, cognac has a velvety warmth capable of lifting the most grim of wintery...
Our 20 best Amaretto Cocktails

Our 20 best Amaretto Cocktails

  • The bittersweet almond and vanilla flavour of amaretto mixes brilliantly with dark spirits – particularly...
Gin cocktails – the 20 best

Gin cocktails – the 20 best

  • Gin challenges even vodka for its cocktail versatility, and as the leading spirit in vintage cocktail books...
Strega cocktails - the 10 best

Strega cocktails - the 10 best

  • Italy’s answer to France's Yellow Chartreuse, Liquore Strega is a complex liqueur made with 70 different...
Limoncello cocktails

Limoncello cocktails

  • Lemon is one of the most used cocktail ingredients, so it stands to reason that a liqueur flavoured with...
Gentian cocktails – the world's 100 best

Gentian cocktails – the world's 100 best

  • I’m part way through sampling 100s of gentian liqueur cocktails to boost the number of tasty drinks using...
Crème de noyau cocktails

Crème de noyau cocktails

  • Crème de noyau (or noyaux) are liqueurs based on distillates of apricot, peach or cherry kernels and have an...
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