Cocktail Recipes by Spirit and Style
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43 categories, and each one lists every recipe in it with ingredients, measurements and method.
By spirit and ingredient
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- Rum Cocktails 818 Light, dark and spiced, and why the recipe usually cares which.
- Triple Sec Cocktails 803 Orange liqueur, the most-called-for modifier in the book.
- Gin Cocktails 731 Juniper, citrus and botanicals: the most mixable spirit there is.
- Brandy Cocktails 553 The base of the oldest cocktails in the book, and still underrated.
- Vodka Cocktails 521 The spirit that gets out of the way, and what to put in front of it.
- Whiskey Cocktails 517 Bourbon, rye, Scotch and Irish, and which one a recipe wants.
- Pineapple Cocktails 392 The tropical workhorse: sweet, sharp and it foams when shaken.
- Dry Vermouth Cocktails 372 The other half of a Martini, and the bottle most bars mistreat.
- Creamy Cocktails 363 Dessert in a glass, and the ones that are better than they sound.
- Cocktails With Bitters 310 A few dashes of the most concentrated thing on the shelf.
- Coffee Liqueur Cocktails 269 Espresso Martinis, White Russians and everything in between.
- Sweet Vermouth Cocktails 269 Fortified, aromatised wine: half of a Manhattan and a third of a Negroni.
- Tequila Cocktails 230 Agave, citrus and salt, and why blanco is the bottle to buy.
- Cointreau Cocktails 206 The orange liqueur that most classics actually mean.
- Amaretto Cocktails 188 Almond, marzipan and apricot kernel, sweeter than it looks.
- Champagne Cocktails 171 Sparkling wine drinks, and how not to waste the bubbles.
- Bourbon Cocktails 152 Corn-sweet and round, the softer half of American whiskey.
- Cranberry Cocktails 147 Tart, dry and red: the mixer that is not actually very sweet.
- Coconut Rum Cocktails 140 Malibu and its relatives, and how to keep them from being dessert.
- Maraschino Liqueur Cocktails 132 Dry, funky cherry, and nothing like the syrup in the jar.
- Scotch Cocktails 132 Smoke and malt in a glass, and the drinks built to hold them.
- Cognac Cocktails 114 Brandy from one region, and the classics that ask for it by name.
- Campari Cocktails 80 Bitter, red, and the backbone of the aperitivo hour.
Two bottles
What a pair of bottles covers between them.
- Gin and Dry Vermouth Cocktails 186 Two bottles, and one of them is the Martini.
- Rum and Pineapple Cocktails 182 The entire tropical canon from two ingredients.
- Gin and Sweet Vermouth Cocktails 96 The older, richer half of the Martini family.
- Whiskey and Sweet Vermouth Cocktails 61 The Manhattan and everything descended from it.
- Vodka and Coffee Liqueur Cocktails 46 Espresso Martinis, Black Russians and the dessert shelf.
- Gin and Maraschino Cocktails 45 Where the Last Word and the Aviation live.
- Vodka and Cream Cocktails 34 White Russians, Mudslides and the after-dinner shelf.
- Brandy and Cointreau Cocktails 30 The Sidecar, and the oldest sour template still in use.
- Bourbon and Bitters Cocktails 25 An Old Fashioned is three ingredients and two of them are these.
- Tequila and Cointreau Cocktails 23 Two thirds of a Margarita, and what else they make.
- Scotch and Sweet Vermouth Cocktails 22 The Rob Roy, and the case for mixing with Scotch at all.
- Gin and Campari Cocktails 19 Bitter and botanical: the Negroni and its relatives.
By style
Drinks grouped by what they are for.
- Three-Ingredient Cocktails 2429 Short recipes, nothing to measure twice, no special bottles.
- Spirit-Forward Cocktails 1089 Short, strong and stirred, with nothing to hide behind.
- Classic Cocktails 726 The recipes everything else is a variation on.
- Tropical Cocktails 719 Tiki, rum and fruit, and why the good ones are not sweet.
- After-Dinner Cocktails 688 Dessert, digestif, or both at once.
- Aperitif Cocktails 682 Bitter, dry and built to be drunk before dinner.
- Sour Cocktails 483 Spirit, citrus, sweetener: the most useful formula in mixing.
- Low ABV Cocktails 459 Real drinks that will not end your evening early.
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