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.
All 2429 recipes
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- Anna's Banana Vodka, Lime Juice, Honey
- Apple Car Calvados, Triple Sec Liqueur, Lemon Juice
- Bijou Cocktail Sweet Vermouth, Gin, Green Chartreuse Liqueur
- Bourble Bourbon, Triple Sec Liqueur, Lemon Juice
- Brittany Cocktail Gin, Amer Picon(R) Bitter Orange Liqueur, Orange Juice
- Broken Spur Cocktail Sweet Vermouth, Port, Triple Sec Liqueur
- Burnt Embers Aged Rum, Apricot Brandy, Pineapple Juice
- Butterscotch Truffle Martini Vodka, Butterscotch Schnapps, Crème de Cacao Brun Liqueur
- Carolina Champagne, Liquore Strega(R)
- Chain Lightning Gin, Triple Sec Liqueur, Lemon Juice
- Charlie Shaker Charleston Follies(R) Coffee Liqueur, Aquavit, Lime Juice
- Cherry Flip Cherry Liqueur, Confectioners' Sugar, Light Cream
- Classic Old-Fashioned Aromatic Bitters, Water, Sugar Cubes
- Coffee and Dreams Coffee, Baileys(R) Original Irish Cream, Whipped Cream
- Count Currey Gin, Confectioners' Sugar, Champagne
- Dusty Martini Gin, Dry Vermouth, Scotch
- Eldorado Tequila, Lemon Juice, Honey
- Georgia Gin Gin, Peach Schnapps, Orange Juice
- Ice Cream Flip Maraschino Cherry Liqueur, Triple Sec Liqueur, Egg
- Jersey Toddy Apple Brandy, Angostura(R) Bitters, Water
- Last Round Gin, Brandy, Pernod(R)
- Nightboat to Brasil Cachaça, Cointreau(R) Orange Liqueur, Lime Juice
- Opal Cocktail Gin, Triple Sec Liqueur, Orange Juice
- Park Paradise Canadian Whisky, Sweet Vermouth, Maraschino Cherry Liqueur
- Pink Iguana Stoli(R) Persik Vodka, Coconut Rum, Lime Juice
- Preakness Cocktail Blended Whiskey, Sweet Vermouth, Bénédictine(R) Herbal Liqueur
- Racquet Club Gin, Dry Vermouth, Orange Bitters
- Raspberries Romanoff Stoli(R) Razberi Vodka, Triple Sec Liqueur, Raspberries
- Robinson Dark Rum, White Rum, Sugar Syrup
- Smiler Tequila, Lemon Juice, Caster Sugar
- Suntory Cocktail Absolut(R) Citron Vodka, Midori(R) Melon Liqueur, Grapefruit Juice
- The Blitzen Cranberry, Jose Cuervo(R) Tequila, Grand Marnier(R) Orange Liqueur
- Webster Cocktail Apricot Brandy, Dry Vermouth, Gin
- Baroness Pear Juice, Lemon Juice, Cinnamon
- Gin and Pear Bombay Sapphire(R) Gin, Looza(R) Pear Nectar
- Turkey Shoot Bourbon, Triple Sec Liqueur, Cranberry Juice
- Two Minute Warning Smirnoff(R) Orange Vodka, Cranberry Juice, Rose's(R) Lime Juice
- 9 1/2 Weeks Absolut(R) Citron Vodka, Orange Curaçao Liqueur, Strawberry Liqueur
- Adonis Cocktail Sweet Vermouth, Dry Sherry, Orange Bitters
- American Grog Rum, Confectioners' Sugar, Lemon Juice
- Aurum Cocktail Sweet Vermouth, Aurum(R) Liqueur, Gin
- Babbie's Special Cocktail Apricot Brandy, Gin, Light Cream
- Beautiful One Grand Marnier(R) Orange Liqueur, Hennessy(R) Cognac, Cranberry Juice
- Biscayne Cocktail Gin, Light Rum, Forbidden Fruit(R) Liqueur
- Bitch-On-Wheels Gin, Dry Vermouth, Crème de Menthe Blanche Liqueur
- Black Stripe Dark Rum, Molasses, Cinnamon
- Bloody Bull Vodka, Tomato Juice, Beef Bouillon
- Bloody Mary #4 Lemon Vodka, Tomato Juice, Dill
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.
