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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- Dry Martini Gin, Dry Vermouth
- French 125 Sour Mix, Brandy, Champagne
- Hot Buttered Rum Light Rum, Granulated Sugar, Butter
- Beal's Cocktail Dry Vermouth, Sweet Vermouth, Scotch
- Brandy Fix Brandy, Lemon Juice, Confectioners' Sugar
- Fairbanks Gin, Dry Vermouth, Apricot Brandy
- French Connection Cognac, Amaretto
- Hot Whiskey Irish Whiskey, Granulated Sugar, Water
- Jupiter Cocktail Orange Juice, Crème de Violette Liqueur, Vermouth
- Stranger-In-Town Light Rum, Sweet Vermouth, Calvados
- Vernon's Grog Dark Rum, Water, Demerara Sugar
- B&B Collins Brandy, Bénédictine(R) Herbal Liqueur, Lemon Juice
- B & P Tawny Port, Brandy
- Beachcomber Caster Sugar, Light Rum, Maraschino Cherry Liqueur
- Beer Top Beer, 7Up(R)
- Claret Cobbler Claret Wine, Triple Sec Liqueur, Soda Water
- East India Cocktail #1 Brandy, Jamaican Rum, Triple Sec Liqueur
- El Presidente Cocktail #2 Dark Rum, Sweet Vermouth, Grenadine
- Habana Libre Dark Rum, White Rum, Grenadine
- Holland Martini Jenever, Vermouth
- Scotch Sour Scotch, Lime Juice, Confectioners' Sugar
- Sherry Cocktail Fino Sherry, Maraschino Cherry Liqueur, Absinthe
- Ti-Punch White Rum, Sugar Syrup
- Boilermaker Whiskey, Beer
- Astoria Gin, Dry Vermouth, Orange Bitters
- Benedictine Cocktail Bénédictine(R) Herbal Liqueur, Angostura(R) Bitters, Lemon Juice
- Black & Tan Bass(R) Pale Ale, Guinness(R) Stout
- Claridge Cocktail Dry Vermouth, Gin, Apricot Brandy
- Fox River Cocktail Blended Whiskey, Crème de Cacao Brun Liqueur, Aromatic Bitters
- Harvey Wallbanger Vodka, Galliano(R) Herbal Liqueur, Orange Juice
- Kangaroo Vodka, Vermouth
- Mikado Brandy, Triple Sec Liqueur, Crème de Noyaux Liqueur
- Moulin Rouge Cocktail Sloe Gin, Sweet Vermouth, Aromatic Bitters
- Rum Collins Light Rum, Lime Juice, Confectioners' Sugar
- Seven and Seven Seagram's(R) 7 Crown Whisky, 7Up(R)
- Rum and Coke Bacardi(R) Superior Rum, Coca-Cola(R)
- Absinthe Martini Gin, Dry Vermouth, Absinthe
- Apple Brandy Rickey Apple Brandy, Lime Juice, Soda Water
- Blood and Sand Cocktail Scotch, Rosso Vermouth, Cherry Brandy
- Boston Cocktail Gin, Apricot Brandy, Grenadine
- Finn Roses Four Roses(R) Bourbon Whiskey, Bols(R) Apricot Liqueur, Cinzano(R) Dry Vermouth
- Japanese Fizz Blended Whiskey, Lemon Juice, Confectioners' Sugar
- Montgomery Gin, Dry Vermouth
- Ward Eight Blended Whiskey, Lemon Juice, Grenadine
- Byrrh Special Byrrh(R) Grand Quinquina, Gin
- Martini #2 Gin, Dry Vermouth
- Authentic Pina Colada Light Rum, Coco López(R) Cream of Coconut, Pineapple Juice
- Brazil Cocktail Dry Sherry, Dry Vermouth, Anise
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.
