All Cocktail Recipes

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)

• Brandy Alexander — A creamy after-dinner cocktail with cognac and chocolate.
• Death & Co Espresso Martini — A refined take on the coffee cocktail classic.
• Grasshopper — A minty green after-dinner cocktail.
• Peaches and Cream — A creamy bourbon cocktail with peach.

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)

• Dead Rabbit Irish Coffee — The world-famous Irish Coffee perfected by the Dead Rabbit.

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)

• Amaretto Sour — A classic almond liqueur sour elevated with bourbon.
• Bee's Knees — A Prohibition-era cocktail with honey and gin.
• Between the Sheets — A potent Prohibition-era cocktail with rum and cognac.
• Billionaire Cocktail — A bourbon-based sour with house-made grenadine and absinthe bitters.
• Bramble — A British gin classic with blackberry liqueur.
• Breakfast Martini — A gin cocktail featuring orange marmalade.
• Cable Car — A modern San Francisco classic with spiced rum.
• Caipirinha — Brazil's national cocktail made with cachaça.
• Classic Daiquiri — The Cuban rum sour that defined a category.
• Corpse Reviver No. 2 — The classic morning-after cocktail.
• Cosmopolitan — The pink vodka cocktail that defined the 1990s.
• Final Ward — A whiskey variation on the Last Word.
• Hemingway Daiquiri — A grapefruit daiquiri variation created for Ernest Hemingway.
• Hotel Nacional Special — A pineapple daiquiri with apricot from Havana's famous hotel.
• Industry Sour — A Fernet sour popular among bartenders.
• Jack Rose — An applejack cocktail with a beautiful pink hue.
• Latin Quarter — A cognac cocktail with Amer Picon and lemon.
• Lemon Drop Martini — A sweet-tart vodka cocktail with sugar rim.
• Lion's Tail — A bourbon cocktail with allspice dram and lime.
• Mexican Firing Squad — A citrusy tequila drink with grenadine and bitters.
• Midnight Stinger — A Fernet-laced whiskey sour with bold bitter notes.
• Mosquito — An equal-parts mezcal cocktail from the Attaboy 'Bug' family.
• New York Sour — A whiskey sour topped with a red wine float.
• Nuclear Daiquiri — An intense, chartreuse-forward daiquiri variation.
• Pegu Club — A colonial gin cocktail from British Burma.
• Port Light — A bourbon and passion fruit cocktail with egg white.
• Ready Fire Aim — A spicy mezcal cocktail with honey and pineapple.
• Scofflaw — A rye cocktail named after those who defied Prohibition.
• Tommy's Margarita — The agave-forward margarita that changed how we drink tequila.
• Too Soon? — A bright gin-amaro sour with muddled orange.
• Trinidad Sour — An Angostura bitters-forward sour that defies convention.
• Twelve Mile Limit — A Prohibition-era cocktail named after the offshore limit for drinking.
• Vodka Gimlet — A vodka variation on the classic gimlet.

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)

• Corn 'n' Oil — A Bajan rum cocktail with falernum and bitters.
• Fog Cutter — A potent tiki cocktail with multiple spirits.
• Hurricane — The potent New Orleans tiki-style cocktail.
• Jungle Juice — A tropical tequila cocktail with passion fruit.
• Modern Banana Daiquiri — A craft cocktail take on the blended classic.
• Piña Colada — Puerto Rico's national drink.
• Planter's Punch — A classic rum punch following the traditional formula.
• Smuggler's Cove Mai Tai — The authentic Mai Tai recipe as perfected by Smuggler's Cove.
• Smuggler's Cove Zombie — The definitive modern version of Don the Beachcomber's legendary cocktail.

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)

• Arnold Palmer — The golfer's favorite refresher.
• Phony Negroni — Convincing alcohol-free aperitif.
• Shirley Temple — Created for the child actress at Chasen's, Beverly Hills.
• Virgin Mojito — All the refreshment, none of the buzz.