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.
Forum
Top 100 cocktail ingredients
Crunching the data resulting from the over 5,000 recipes on our constantly changing and growing cocktail database can throw up some surprising and very...
Stephen Murray
10th May at 11:41
Can't make a bramble or the exceptionally good Black Cocktail without Crème de mure, why is it not on the list?
11th May at 09:07
The list was generated by the number of cocktails on our database that each ingredient is used in. Crème de mûre is not used in many cocktails.
11th March 2023 at 16:28
I am kinda surprised by such a high postition of some ingredients
11th March 2023 at 06:18
Love this list, thankyou - it really is helpful when the “diffords” website is my fallback for allthings cocktail.
11th March 2023 at 00:52
Love seeing data like this. I’d be interested to see what this list looks like if after the top 10 or 20 on the list, the order is by what additional ingredient to the ingredients above adds the most new cocktails able to be made.
10th March 2023 at 22:23
Very useuful. Can you expand to 150 ? Or better can you expand to Ferro china amaro, this one is not in my bar !
10th March 2023 at 16:56
Interesting list...but of your 5,000+ cocktails in the database, this must include the ingredients in many rarely made or not-so-great-tasting drinks. A list of the top ingredients in the top 100 (or 500) recipes viewed - or most highly rated drinks - would really give an insight into what you have to have on the back bar or home bar. Is there a data whizz on the team who could crunch those numbers??
12th March 2023 at 16:16
Hi Chris. I'll need to chat with our IT team but I envisage a breakdown of all the ingredients in our Hall of Fame Cocktails and how many cocktails each ingredient is used in.
12th March 2023 at 16:04
Totally agree with this idea. I made my own attempt at designing the very first 15-20 ingredients for a cocktail bar starter, but most cocktails one could do with them were repetitive or uninteresting, and left many cocktail classics apart. A great expert with a great database could do this far better.
26th January 2021 at 17:57
Hi Simon. Would love to see this updated for Version 15. Any plans in your manic schedule? Cheers.
28th November 2021 at 06:38
Same for me! I’m trying to get some inspiration to broaden my home bar even further and this is a great list to expand the overall repertoire!