Classic Cocktails
726 recipes. The recipes everything else is a variation on.
A classic earns the label by outliving the fashion that produced it. Most of the drinks here were written between about 1860 and 1935, and they survive because their proportions are right rather than because anyone is being nostalgic.
They are also the most useful thing to learn, because modern drinks are overwhelmingly variations on them. Know the Old Fashioned, the Martini, the Manhattan, the Daiquiri and the sour template and you can reverse-engineer most cocktail menus.
Start with one and make it three times, changing one thing each time. That teaches more than making three different drinks once.
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All 726 recipes
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- Egg Cream Chocolate Syrup, Whole Milk, Soda Water
- Snyder Dry Vermouth, Gin, Triple Sec Liqueur
- Blood Mary Extra Hairy Vodka, Lemon Juice, Tomato Juice
- Bronx Cocktail (Dry) Dry Vermouth, Gin, Orange Juice
- French 75 (Cognac) Cognac, Lemon Juice, Granulated Sugar
- Froupe Cocktail Sweet Vermouth, Brandy, Bénédictine(R) Herbal Liqueur
- Mark Twain Cocktail Scotch, Lemon Juice, Simple Syrup
- Mayflower Cocktail Sweet Vermouth, Dry Vermouth, Brandy
- New York Sour Blended Bourbon Whiskey, Simple Syrup, Lemon Juice
- Rock-and-Rye Toddy Rock & Rye(R) Liqueur, Angostura(R) Bitters, Lemon
- Satan's Whiskers Gin, Rosso Vermouth, Dry Vermouth
- Silver King Cocktail Gin, Lemon Juice, Confectioners' Sugar
- Sloe Gin Collins Sloe Gin, Lemon Juice, Carbonated Water
- Warrior Cocktail Sweet Vermouth, Dry Vermouth, Brandy
- Quarter Deck Cocktail Light Rum, Cream Sherry, Lime Juice
- Alexander Baby Dark Rum, Crème de Cacao Brun Liqueur, Cream
- Brandy Sour Brandy, Lemon Juice, Confectioners' Sugar
- Cooperstown Cocktail Sweet Vermouth, Dry Vermouth, Gin
- Cream Fizz Gin, Confectioners' Sugar, Lemon Juice
- Dry Negroni Cocktail Campari(R) Bitter, Gin, Dry Vermouth
- Icy Clean Martini SKYY(R) Vodka, Martini & Rossi(R) Dry Vermouth, Fee Brothers(R) Orange Bitters
- Indispensable Martini Gin, Dry Vermouth, Sweet Vermouth
- John Collins Gin, Lemon Juice, Simple Syrup
- Lemon Twist Absolut(R) Citron Vodka, Dry Vermouth
- Rory O'more Irish Whiskey, Sweet Vermouth, Orange Bitters
- Derby Fizz Scotch, Triple Sec Liqueur, Lemon Juice
- Hilgert Cocktail Dry Vermouth, Gin, Maraschino Cherry Liqueur
- Homestead Cocktail Gin, Sweet Vermouth
- Jamaican Rum Cocktail Jamaican Dark Rum, Lime Juice, Granulated Sugar
- Pink Lady Gin, Grenadine, Light Cream
- Portuguese Daisy Ruby Port, Brandy, Lemon Juice
- Prince of Wales Cognac, Bénédictine(R) Herbal Liqueur, Angostura(R) Bitters
- Spencer Cocktail Apricot Brandy, Gin, Orange Juice
- Coffee Royale Coffee, Granulated Sugar, Brandy
- Cognac Flip Egg Yolk, Sugar Syrup, Cream
- Diki-Diki Calvados, Swedish Punsch, Grapefruit Juice
- Gene Tunney Gin, Dry Vermouth, Lemon Juice
- Gibson Gin, Vermouth
- Grasshopper Crème de Cacao Blanc Liqueur, Crème de Menthe Verte Liqueur, Sweet Cream
- Hot-Buttered Rum Granulated Sugar, Butter, Rum
- Original Old Fashioned Bourbon, Aromatic Bitters, Sparkling Water
- Paradise Gin, Apricot Brandy, Orange Juice
- Rock And Rye Cocktail Rock & Rye(R) Liqueur, White Port, Dry Vermouth
- Port Cobbler LBV Port, Triple Sec Liqueur, Soda Water
- Apple Buck Apple Brandy, Ginger Ale, Lemon Juice
- Highland Fling Cocktail Scotch, Sweet Vermouth, Orange Bitters
- K.G.B. Cocktail Gin, Kümmel Liqueur, Apricot Brandy
- Porto Flip Brandy, Tawny Port, Egg Yolk
Worth reading
- Shake or Stir? The Rule and Its Exceptions Shake anything cloudy, stir anything clear. The rule takes one line, and knowing why it works tells you what to do with the drinks it does not cover.
- The Sour Formula: One Ratio, Twenty Drinks Two parts spirit, one part citrus, one part sweet. Learn the shape and the Daiquiri, the Margarita, the Gimlet and the Whiskey Sour come free.
