Three-Ingredient Cocktails
2429 recipes. Short recipes, nothing to measure twice, no special bottles.
Nearly every cocktail worth knowing has three ingredients or fewer. A Negroni, a Daiquiri, a Margarita, an Old Fashioned and a Gimlet are all three or less, and the four-ingredient drinks usually turn out to be one of those with something added.
Short recipes are also where technique shows. With three ingredients there is nothing to hide behind, so the ratio, the ice and the dilution are the entire difference between a good version and a bad one.
This is the right list to build a home bar from. Pick three drinks here that share a bottle and you have a bar that makes all of them.
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The ones worth knowing before the rest.
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What a second bottle opens up.
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- Snitchee's Cider Spiced Rum, Apple Cider
- The Barbarella Tequila, Pomegranate Juice, Lime Juice
- The Classic Cognac, Lemon Juice, Maraschino Cherry Liqueur
- The Jolly Rancher Vodka, Midori(R) Melon Liqueur, Cranberry Juice
- Tom Sweeney Beefeater(R) London Dry Gin, Crème de Cassis Liqueur, Sour Mix
- Witch of Venice Vodka, Liquore Strega(R), Crème de Banane Liqueur
- Pink Fix Gin, Lemon Juice, Grenadine
- Bloody Margarita Tequila, Blood Orange Juice, Lime Juice
- Frozen Margarita Tequila Blanco, Triple Sec Liqueur, Lime Juice
- Piscola Pisco, Coca-Cola(R)
- Chambord Colada Chambord(R) Black Raspberry Liqueur, White Rum, Pineapple Juice
- Champagne Gem Champagne, Crème de Menthe Verte Liqueur
- Club Cuba Sweet Vermouth, White Rum, Maraschino Cherry Liqueur
- Dirty Martini Gin, Dry Vermouth, Olive Juice
- Electric Margarita Tequila, Blue Curaçao Liqueur, Rose's(R) Lime Juice
- Hot Gin Gin, Lemon Juice, Water
- Perfect Margarita 1800(R) Blanco Tequila, Jose Cuervo(R) Silver Tequila, Rose's(R) Lime Juice
- Russian Candy Vodka, Peach Schnapps, Grenadine
- Biscay White Rum, RumTree(R) Liqueur, Mandarine Napoléon(R) Liqueur
- Blue Edisonian Campari(R) Bitter, Brandy, Lemon Juice
- Bolero Apple Brandy, Light Rum, Sweet Vermouth
- Bourbon Milk Punch #3 Bourbon, Crème de Cacao Brun Liqueur, Milk
- Brandy Vermouth Cocktail Sweet Vermouth, Brandy, Aromatic Bitters
- Cafe Antrim Irish Whiskey, Cognac, Confectioners' Sugar
- Campari Champagne Campari(R) Bitter, Champagne
- Chanticleer Gin, Lemon Juice, Raspberry Syrup
- Cherried Cream Rum Light Rum, Cherry Liqueur, Light Cream
- Chocolate Corvette Dark Rum, Crème de Cacao Brun Liqueur, Hot Chocolate
- Cockney Champagne Champagne, Gin, Lemon Juice
- Coco Cognac Cognac, Tia Maria(R) Coffee Liqueur, Milk
- Coterie Cognac, Izarra(R) Herbal Liqueur, Gin
- David Bareface Light Rum, Heavy Cream, Crème de Cacao Blanc Liqueur
- Earthquake Gin, Whisky, Pernod(R)
- Emerson Sweet Vermouth, Gin, Lime Juice
- Fancy Brandy Brandy, Triple Sec Liqueur, Confectioners' Sugar
- Frozen Daiquiri Light Rum, Triple Sec Liqueur, Lime Juice
- Glad Eye Pastis, Peppermint Liqueur
- Green Fizz Gin, Crème de Menthe Verte Liqueur, Lemon Juice
- Hudson Bay Cherry Liqueur, Gin, 151 Proof Rum
- Hula-Hula Cocktail Gin, Orange Juice, Confectioners' Sugar
- Jamaican Blues Dark Rum, Blue Curaçao Liqueur, Coconut Cream
- Jersey Gentleman Blended Whiskey, Pernod(R), Pineapple Juice
- Jillionaire Bourbon, Triple Sec Liqueur, Grenadine
- Lady Be Good Brandy, Crème de Menthe Blanche Liqueur, Sweet Vermouth
- La Jolla Brandy, Crème de Banane Liqueur, Orange Juice
- McDuff Scotch, Triple Sec Liqueur, Aromatic Bitters
- Nicky Finn Brandy, Cointreau(R) Orange Liqueur, Lemon Juice
- Orange Bloom London Dry Gin, Cointreau(R) Orange Liqueur, Sweet Vermouth
Worth reading
- The First Five Bottles for a Home Bar Buy for coverage, not for variety. Five bottles chosen this way make more drinks than ten chosen one favourite at a time.
- 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.
