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.
Start here
The ones worth knowing before the rest.
Add one more bottle
What a second bottle opens up.
All 2429 recipes
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- Nick and Nora Martini Gin, Dry Vermouth
- Peach Melissa Gosling's(R) Black Seal Rum, Simple Syrup, Orange Juice
- Ping-Pong Cocktail Sloe Gin, Lemon Juice, Egg Whites
- Polar Razz Triple Sec Liqueur, Raspberry Vodka, Lime Juice
- Royal Clover Club Cocktail Gin, Lemon Juice, Grenadine
- Schoko Royal Mozart(R) White Chocolate Liqueur, Cognac, Cream
- Tannersworth Dubonnet(R) Rouge, Gin, Dry Vermouth
- The Light in the Piazza Absolut(R) Citron Vodka, Limoncello Liqueur, Caster Sugar
- The Royale Absolut(R) Raspberri Vodka, Grand Marnier(R) Orange Liqueur, Cranberry Juice
- X.Y.Z. Cocktail Light Rum, Triple Sec Liqueur, Lemon Juice
- Debi D Vodka, Crème de Cassis Liqueur, Lemon Juice
- Poker Cocktail White Rum, Sweet Vermouth
- Silver Spider Vodka, Light Rum, Triple Sec Liqueur
- Tequini Tequila, Dry Vermouth, Aromatic Bitters
- The Original Margarita Cointreau(R) Orange Liqueur, Lemon Juice, Tequila
- Baby Fingers Cocktail Sloe Gin, Gin, Angostura(R) Bitters
- Balalika Vodka, Lime Juice, Cointreau(R) Orange Liqueur
- Bergenline Frangelico(R) Hazelnut Liqueur, Triple Sec Liqueur, Sweet Vermouth
- Between The Sheets White Rum, Cognac, Bols(R) Triple Sec Liqueur
- Blessed Event Laird's(R) Applejack Brandy, Bénédictine(R) Herbal Liqueur, Curaçao Liqueur
- Bloody Shame V8(R) Vegetable Juice, Tabasco(R) Sauce, Salt
- Blow Blue Bubbles Blueberry Liqueur, Champagne
- Brandy Flip Brandy, Egg, Caster Sugar
- Brighton Punch Brandy, Bourbon, Bénédictine(R) Herbal Liqueur
- Canyon Quake Irish Cream Liqueur, Brandy, Amaretto Liqueur
- Captain Cook Gin, Maraschino Cherry Liqueur, Orange Juice
- Coco Berry Raspberries, Chambord(R) Black Raspberry Liqueur, White Rum
- Darb Cocktail Apricot Brandy, Dry Vermouth, Gin
- Eggnotini Eggnog, Hazelnut Liqueur
- El Toro Tequila Blanco, Kahlúa(R) Coffee Liqueur
- Gilroy Cocktail Cherry Liqueur, Gin, Dry Vermouth
- Go for Broke Cocktail Dry Vermouth, Gin, Cointreau(R) Orange Liqueur
- Golden Rye Fizz Rye Whiskey, Orange Juice, Advocaat Liqueur
- Grape Vodka Froth Vodka, Grape Juice, Lemon Juice
- Hot Frenchman Red Wine, Grand Marnier(R) Orange Liqueur, Granulated Sugar
- Hot Rod Tanqueray(R) Gin, Pineapple Juice, Cranberry Juice
- Japanese Cocktail Brandy, Orgeat Syrup, Lime Juice
- Jimtini Ketel One(R) Vodka, Crème de Cacao Blanc Liqueur, Frangelico(R) Hazelnut Liqueur
- Kirsch and Cassis Crème de Cassis Liqueur, Kirschwasser, Soda Water
- Mandarine Imperiale Champagne, Mandarine Napoléon(R) Liqueur, Egg
- Mayflower Martini Plymouth(R) Gin, French Vermouth, Orange Bitters
- Ordinary Seaman White Rum, Dark Rum, Confectioners' Sugar
- Puerto Apple Laird's(R) Applejack Brandy, Light Rum, Orgeat Syrup
- Pyrenees Greeting Champagne, Sweet Sherry, Melon Liqueur
- Rheingold Gordon's(R) Gin, Cointreau(R) Orange Liqueur, Martini & Rossi(R) Dry Vermouth
- Ruby Cocktail Gin, Grenadine, Laird's(R) Applejack Brandy
- Toocan Sam Captain Morgan(R) Original Spiced Rum, Triple Sec Liqueur, Blue Curaçao Liqueur
- Warsaw Cocktail Vodka, Dry Vermouth, Blackberry Brandy
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.
