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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- Tequila Grapefruit Tequila, Lime Juice, Grapefruit Juice
- Thunder Brandy, Confectioners' Sugar, Ground Cayenne Pepper
- Americano Campari(R) Bitter, Cinzano(R) Rosso Vermouth, Soda Water
- Gold Margarita Tequila Reposado, Cointreau(R) Orange Liqueur, Lime Juice
- Soviet Sunset Stoli(R) Limonnaya Vodka, Triple Sec Liqueur, Rose's(R) Sweetened Lime Juice
- Spicey Scot Butterscotch Schnapps, Spiced Rum, Hot Chocolate
- Americana Jack Daniel's(R) Tennessee Whiskey, Granulated Sugar, Aromatic Bitters
- Barbados Cocktail Light Rum, Triple Sec Liqueur, Pineapple Juice
- Breakfast Martini Bombay Sapphire(R) Gin, Lemon Juice, Cointreau(R) Orange Liqueur
- Charles Cocktail Brandy, Sweet Vermouth, Aromatic Bitters
- Daiquiri Liberal White Rum, Sweet Vermouth, Amer Picon(R) Bitter Orange Liqueur
- Damn-The-Weather Cocktail Sweet Vermouth, Gin, Orange Juice
- Dr. Debbie Bärenjäger(R) Honey Liqueur, Crown Royal(R) Canadian Whisky
- Duke of Marlboro Dry Sherry, Rosso Vermouth, Orange Bitters
- Everybody's Irish Cocktail Irish Whiskey, Crème de Menthe Verte Liqueur, Green Chartreuse Liqueur
- Fancy Free Rye Whiskey, Maraschino Cherry Liqueur, Orange Bitters
- Gin And Sin Gin, Orange Juice, Lemon Juice
- Godfather Scotch, Amaretto Liqueur
- Highland Sling Caster Sugar, Water, Lemon Juice
- Hotel Plaza Cocktail Dry Vermouth, Sweet Vermouth, Gin
- Italian Sombrero Amaretto Liqueur, Light Cream
- Kentucky Cocktail Bourbon, Pineapple Juice
- Lady Finger Cherry Liqueur, Gin, Kirschwasser
- Nightmare Gin, Cherry Liqueur, Madeira
- Purple Kiss Gin, Lemon Juice, Crème de Noyaux Liqueur
- Real Sazerac Granulated Sugar, Water, Peychaud's(R) Bitters
- Rosalind Russell Aquavit, Rosso Vermouth
- Royal Silver Champagne, Marie Brizard(R) Poire Williams Pear Liqueur, Cointreau(R) Orange Liqueur
- Rumless Rickey Lime Juice, Grenadine, Aromatic Bitters
- San Remo Champagne, Triple Sec Liqueur, Mandarin Liqueur
- Sweet Surrender Peach Brandy, Orange Juice, Champagne
- Tachyon Pernod(R), Tequila, Lemon Juice
- Tequila Sour Tequila, Lemon Juice, Confectioners' Sugar
- The Nick Tequila Reposado, Sour Mix, Amaretto Liqueur
- Three Miller Cocktail Light Rum, Brandy, Lemon Juice
- Vermouth Cocktail Dry Vermouth, White Vermouth, Orange Bitters
- Victor Gin, Sweet Vermouth, Brandy
- Black Martini Gin, Black Sambuca
- Bleeding Heart Campari(R) Bitter, Crème de Cassis Liqueur, Soda Water
- ABC Amaretto Liqueur, Baileys(R) Original Irish Cream, Cognac
- Almeria Dark Rum, Kahlúa(R) Coffee Liqueur, Egg Whites
- Buck's Fizz Champagne, Orange Juice, Grenadine
- Hanky Panky London Dry Gin, Cinzano(R) Rosso Vermouth, Fernet Branca(R)
- Italian Heather Scotch, Galliano(R) Herbal Liqueur
- Jam Donut Baileys(R) Original Irish Cream, Chambord(R) Black Raspberry Liqueur, Sugar Syrup
- Million-Dollar Cocktail Gin, Sweet Vermouth, Pineapple Juice
- White Heart Sambuca, Crème de Cacao Blanc Liqueur, Cream
- Absinth Sour Absinthe, Water, Sugar Syrup
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.
