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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- Warm Witch's Blood Apple Cranberry Juice, Orange Juice, Clove
- Warrior Cocktail Sweet Vermouth, Dry Vermouth, Brandy
- Blue Balalaika Vodka, Cointreau(R) Orange Liqueur, Blue Curaçao Liqueur
- Hair Raiser 100 Proof Vodka, Rock & Rye(R) Liqueur, Lemon Juice
- Hammer & Sickle Vana Tallinn(R) Liqueur, Russian Sparkling Wine
- Quarter Deck Cocktail Light Rum, Cream Sherry, Lime Juice
- Winter Garden Canadian Whisky, Peach Schnapps, Sweet Sherry
- 73 Bus #2 Gin, Triple Sec Liqueur, Lime Juice
- Alexander Baby Dark Rum, Crème de Cacao Brun Liqueur, Cream
- Banderas Tomato Juice, Tequila Blanco, Lemon Juice
- Bloodhound Cocktail Sweet Vermouth, Dry Vermouth, Gin
- Blue Cowboy Gin, Blue Curaçao Liqueur
- Blue Fizz Blue Curaçao Liqueur, Gin, Soda Water
- Blushing Geisha 42 Below(R) Vodka, Sake, Crème de Fraise des Bois Liqueur
- Brandy Sour Brandy, Lemon Juice, Confectioners' Sugar
- Chocolate Martini Vodka, Crème de Cacao Brun Liqueur
- Circular Incision Scotch, Dry Vermouth, Drambuie(R) Liqueur
- Cooperstown Cocktail Sweet Vermouth, Dry Vermouth, Gin
- Cream Fizz Gin, Confectioners' Sugar, Lemon Juice
- Damn-Your-Eyes Aged Rum, Dubonnet(R) Blanc, Dry Vermouth
- Diana Cocktail Crème de Menthe Blanche Liqueur, Brandy
- Dry Negroni Cocktail Campari(R) Bitter, Gin, Dry Vermouth
- Elderflower Martini Elderflower Syrup, Bombay Sapphire(R) Gin, Cinzano(R) Dry Vermouth
- Favorite Cocktail Apricot Brandy, Dry Vermouth, Gin
- Forester Bourbon, Cherry Liqueur, Lemon Juice
- Glacier Mint Vodka, Crème de Menthe Blanche Liqueur, Lime Juice
- Grease Lightning Gin, Dry Vermouth, Cherry Brandy
- Harry Boy Cointreau(R) Orange Liqueur, Baileys(R) Original Irish Cream, Whiskey
- Harry Denton Martini Bombay Sapphire(R) Gin, Green Chartreuse Liqueur
- Icy Clean Martini SKYY(R) Vodka, Martini & Rossi(R) Dry Vermouth, Fee Brothers(R) Orange Bitters
- Indispensable Martini Gin, Dry Vermouth, Sweet Vermouth
- John Collins Gin, Lemon Juice, Simple Syrup
- Juniper Blend Gin, Cherry Liqueur, Dry Vermouth
- Lemon Twist Absolut(R) Citron Vodka, Dry Vermouth
- Mainbrace Gin, Cointreau(R) Orange Liqueur, Grapefruit Juice
- Moon Inn Cocktail Pushkin(R) Black Sun Vodka, Monin(R) Coconut Syrup, Lime Juice
- Palm Beach Cocktail Gin, Sweet Vermouth, Grapefruit Juice
- Prince's Smile Apple Brandy, Apricot Brandy, Gin
- Rory O'more Irish Whiskey, Sweet Vermouth, Orange Bitters
- Sitarski Dark Rum, Lime Juice, Lemon Juice
- Solitaire Aged Rum, Triple Sec Liqueur, Apricot Brandy
- Southern Delta Bourbon, Southern Comfort(R), Lime Juice
- Temptation Cocktail Blended Whiskey, Dubonnet(R) Rouge, Triple Sec Liqueur
- White Way Cocktail Gin, Crème de Menthe Blanche Liqueur
- Tequila Screwdriver Tequila, Orange Juice
- Calming Draught Baileys(R) Original Irish Cream, Milk
- Canadian Cider Yukon Jack(R) Liqueur, Canadian Whisky, Spiced Cider
- Connoisseur's Treat Cognac, Galliano(R) Herbal Liqueur, Grand Marnier(R) Orange Liqueur
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.
