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Browse 174 classic and modern cocktail recipes with ingredients, instructions, and AI-powered flavor profiles. From the Old Fashioned to modern craft cocktails.
Ancestrals (4)
Improved Whiskey Cocktail — Jerry Thomas's "Improved" version of the Old Fashioned.
Monte Carlo — A Manhattan variation from David Embury's "The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks".
Old Fashioned — The original "Whiskey Cocktail" defined in 1806, evolved by the 1880s.
Sazerac — New Orleans official cocktail. Originally Cognac, switched to Rye after phylloxera.
Creamy (4)
Fizz (3)
Gin Fizz — A frothy gin sour topped with soda.
Gunshop Fizz — A fruity and fizzy gin cocktail with raspberry.
John Collins — A bourbon version of the classic Collins.
Flip (2)
Cynar Flip — A rich, velvety flip featuring artichoke amaro.
Death Flip — A decadent whole-egg cocktail with tequila and Chartreuse.
Fruity (5)
Amélia — A fruity vodka cocktail with elderflower and blackberry.
Appletini — A sweet apple-flavored vodka martini.
Blood and Sand — A classic Scotch cocktail with cherry and orange.
Mary Pickford — A tropical rum cocktail named after the silent film star.
Monkey Gland — A gin cocktail named after a bizarre 1920s medical fad.
Highballs & Fizzes (7)
Dark 'n' Stormy — The national drink of Bermuda. Trademarked by Gosling's.
French 75 — Named after the French 75mm field gun used in WWI. "Hits with precision."
Gin & Tonic — Created by the British East India Company to make quinine palatable.
Moscow Mule — Marketing invention to sell Smirnoff Vodka and Cock 'n Bull Ginger Beer.
Paloma — More popular in Mexico than the Margarita.
Ramos Gin Fizz — Famous for requiring a line of "shaker boys" to shake for 12 minutes.
Tom Collins — Based on the "Great Tom Collins Hoax" of 1874.
Hot Drinks (1)
Low-Proof (10)
Adonis — Named after the first Broadway musical to run for over 500 performances.
Americano — Originally the "Milano-Torino". James Bond's very first drink order.
Aperol Spritz — The drink of Venetian summers.
Bamboo — Created for the railroad tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt.
Bicyclette — A French favorite, supposedly causing older men to wobble on their bicycles.
Garibaldi — Named after the unifier of Italy. Perfected by Dante NYC.
Michelada — "Mi chela helada" (My cold beer).
Port & Tonic — The national refresher of Portugal.
Sherry Cobbler — The drink that popularized the drinking straw in the 1830s.
Spaghett — A cult sensation from Baltimore.
Modern Classics (15)
Benton's Old Fashioned — Famous for using fat-washing technique with Benton's bacon.
Black Manhattan — Replaces Vermouth with Amaro Averna.
Chartreuse Swizzle — A modern tribute to the swizzle, showcasing Chartreuse.
Division Bell — A smoky variation of the Last Word, named after the Pink Floyd album.
Gin Basil Smash — Bright green and peppery.
Gold Rush — A Bee's Knees with Bourbon, created at the original Milk & Honey.
Greenpoint — Named after the Brooklyn neighborhood.
Naked and Famous — The "bastard love child" of the Last Word and Paper Plane.
Oaxacan Old Fashioned — The drink that kickstarted the Mezcal craze in the US.
Paper Plane — Named after M.I.A.'s song "Paper Planes". A Last Word riff.
Penicillin — The most famous modern classic. A medicinal, smoky, spicy cure-all.
Red Hook — A Brooklyn variation that became a modern classic.
Revolver — High-rye bourbon meets coffee.
Tommy's Margarita — Replaces Triple Sec with Agave Nectar for a purer agave profile.
White Negroni — A gentian-forward, clear riff on the Negroni created in Bordeaux.
Refreshing (16)
Cuba Libre — The classic rum and cola with lime.
Eastside — A refreshing gin cocktail with cucumber and mint.
El Diablo — A tequila cocktail with cassis and ginger.
Gin Rickey — F. Scott Fitzgerald's favorite cocktail, featured in The Great Gatsby.
Highball — The quintessential Japanese-style whisky and soda.
Irish Mule — A whiskey variation on the Moscow Mule.
Kentucky Buck — A bourbon-based buck with strawberry and ginger.
Kentucky Mule — A bourbon spin on the Moscow Mule.
Long Island Iced Tea — A potent multi-spirit cocktail disguised as iced tea.
Mezcal Mule — A smoky twist on the Moscow Mule.
Mojito — Cuba's beloved mint and lime rum cocktail.
Presbyterian — A simple whiskey highball with ginger ale and club soda.
Queen's Park Swizzle — A rum cocktail from Trinidad's Queen's Park Hotel.
Suffering Bastard — A ginger-forward tropical cocktail with bourbon and gin.
The Spell Spoke — A modern, bright Irish whiskey cocktail with exotic notes.
West Side — A refreshing vodka cocktail with fresh mint and citrus.
Sour (33)
Sours (2)
Cranberrylicious Margarita — This Cranberrylicious Margarita delivers a vibrant blend of tart cranberry and zesty lime, elevated by the smooth agave
Just Peachy — Just Peachy is a delightful twist on the classic Whiskey Sour, showcasing the warm embrace of bourbon balanced by the ta
Sours & Daisies (12)
Aviation — Famed for its sky-blue color, though the violette was often omitted for decades.
Bee's Knees — Prohibition classic using honey to mask bathtub gin.
Clover Club — Named for the Philadelphia men's club.
Corpse Reviver #2 — "Four of these in swift succession will unrevive the corpse again." - Harry Craddock.
Gimlet — Originally made with Rose's Lime Cordial to prevent scurvy.
Margarita — A Tequila Daisy ("Margarita" is Spanish for Daisy).
Pisco Sour — Created by an American bartender in Lima, Peru.
Sidecar — Definitive Brandy sour.
Southside — Allegedly Al Capone's drink of choice. A gin Mojito served up.
The Last Word — A Detroit Athletic Club original that was forgotten until rediscovered in 2004.
Whiskey Sour — First written record in 1862. The grandfather of all sours.
White Lady — Originally made with Crème de Menthe, evolved to the gin sour we know.
Sparkling (2)
Hugo Spritz — A floral Italian spritz with elderflower.
Old Cuban — A sophisticated mojito-champagne hybrid.
Spirit-Forward (36)
Bijou — Named for the jewels: Gin (Diamond), Vermouth (Ruby), Chartreuse (Emerald).
Bitter Giuseppe — A stirred amaro cocktail with citrus and vermouth.
Boulevardier — The signature drink of Erskine Gwynne, editor of "The Boulevardier" magazine.
Brooklyn — One of the five borough cocktails, famously hard to source ingredients for.
Dirty Martini — A martini with olive brine for extra savory depth.
Dry Martini — Evolved from the Martinez. The ultimate test of temperature and dilution.
El Presidente — A Cuban rum cocktail from the pre-Prohibition era.
Elder Fashion — An Old Fashioned variation with elderflower liqueur.
Employees Only Manhattan — The signature Manhattan from NYC's legendary Employees Only bar.
Fancy Free — A bourbon cocktail with maraschino and orange bitters.
Gibson — A classic martini garnished with cocktail onions.
Godfather — A smooth blend of Scotch and amaretto.
Hanky Panky — Created for Sir Charles Hawtrey at the Savoy.
Kingston Negroni — A Jamaican rum variation on the classic Negroni.
La Rosita — A tequila Negroni variation with two vermouths.
Left Hand — A chocolate-bitter Negroni variation.
Little Italy — A rye whiskey cocktail with Cynar and sweet vermouth.
Manhattan — Created at the Manhattan Club for a banquet hosted by Lady Randolph Churchill.
Martinez — The "Missing Link" between the Manhattan and the Martini.
Mint Julep — The official drink of the Kentucky Derby.
Negroni — Count Camillo Negroni asked to strengthen his Americano with gin.
Oaxaca Old-Fashioned — The iconic mezcal Old-Fashioned from Death & Co, one of the most influential modern cocktails.
Queen Elizabeth — A gin cocktail with Bénédictine and dry vermouth.
Rusty Nail — A simple Scotch and Drambuie cocktail.
Scotch Mist — A simple, refreshing Scotch cocktail served on crushed ice.
Stinger — A cognac and crème de menthe after-dinner classic.
Strange Bedfellows — A rum and scotch cocktail with unique flavor combinations.
The Conference — A spirit-forward blend of four aged spirits, showcasing Death & Co's minimalist approach.
The Whiskey Cocktail — A complex, herbaceous whiskey drink from the Dead Rabbit's award-winning menu.
Tipperary — An Irish Whiskey Bijou, celebrating the song "It's a Long Way to Tipperary".
Tommy Gun — A modern whiskey cocktail with honey and chamomile.
Toronto — A Canadian rye cocktail with Fernet-Branca.
Vesper — Invented by James Bond in Casino Royale.
Vieux Carré — A complex New Orleans classic with rye, cognac, and two bitters.
Vieux Carré — A tribute to the French Quarter, created at the Hotel Monteleone.
Wooden Ship — A sophisticated gin and genever cocktail with orange liqueur notes.
Tiki (9)
Tiki & Tropical (9)
Jet Pilot — A riff on the Test Pilot, complex and dangerous.
Jungle Bird — A rare Tiki drink that utilizes bitter Campari.
Mai Tai — Means "Out of this world" in Tahitian. The single most bastardized drink in history.
Navy Grog — Frank Sinatra's favorite Tiki drink.
Painkiller — The BVI's answer to the Piña Colada.
Saturn — A rare Gin-based Tiki classic. Won the 1967 IBA World Championship.
Singapore Sling — Created at the Raffles Hotel Long Bar.
Three Dots and a Dash — Morse code for "V" (Victory) in WWII.
Zombie — The drink that started the Tiki craze. Limit 2 per customer.
Zero-Proof (4)