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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- Porterhouse Blue Canadian Whisky, Armagnac, Blueberry Syrup
- Shaft Aperol(R) Aperitivo, Gin, Sparkling White Wine
- Abigail Bourbon, Pernod(R), Angostura(R) Bitters
- A Brain Teaser Amaretto Liqueur, Southern Comfort(R), Cream
- Accordion Brandy, Triple Sec Liqueur, Dry Vermouth
- Armour Cocktail Dry Sherry, Sweet Vermouth
- Bentley Calvados, Dubonnet(R) Rouge
- Bourbon Flip Bourbon, Egg, Caster Sugar
- Burning Sunset Amaretto Liqueur, Orange Juice, Grenadine
- Champagne Julep Champagne, Bourbon, Caster Sugar
- Coco's Cocktail Gin, Campari(R) Bitter, Dry Vermouth
- Combo Dry Vermouth, Brandy, Triple Sec Liqueur
- Cuban Island White Rum, Vodka, Cointreau(R) Orange Liqueur
- Danish Toddy Aquavit, Cherry Vodka, Lemon Juice
- Deansgate Cocktail White Rum, Drambuie(R) Liqueur, Rose's(R) Lime Juice
- Free Silver Dark Rum, Gin, Lemon Juice
- French Green Dragon Cognac, Green Chartreuse Liqueur
- Gloom Lifter Irish Whiskey, Lemon Juice, Sugar Syrup
- Graceland Dry Vermouth, Sweet Vermouth, Scotch
- Guillermo's Dream Tequila, Cointreau(R) Orange Liqueur, Tonic Water
- KiBa Cherry Juice, Banana Juice
- Killarney Irish Mist(R) Herbal Liqueur, Gin, Dry Vermouth
- Loch Ness Mystery Scotch, Apricot Brandy, Orange Curaçao Liqueur
- Madras Vodka, Cranberry Juice, Orange Juice
- Narragansett Bourbon, Sweet Vermouth, Anisette Liqueur
- Novebuche Campari(R) Bitter, Grapefruit Juice, Gin
- Pink Gin Tonic Gin, Tonic Water, Campari(R) Bitter
- Pink n' Tart Rum, Lemon Juice, Lime Juice
- Port Wine Eggnog Port, Milk, Confectioners' Sugar
- Rosetta Stoli(R) Ohranj Vodka, Cointreau(R) Orange Liqueur, Campari(R) Bitter
- Saucy Sue Cocktail Apple Brandy, Apricot Brandy, Pernod(R)
- Scarlett O'Hara Southern Comfort(R), Cranberry Juice, Lime Juice
- Silver Cocktail Gin, Dry Vermouth, Sugar Syrup
- Smoky Martini Gin, Scotch
- Tequila Suave Tequila, Lemon Juice, Crème de Cacao Blanc Liqueur
- The Graduate Amaretto Liqueur, Southern Comfort(R), Pineapple Juice
- Tipperary Irish Whiskey, Cinzano(R) Rosso Vermouth, Green Chartreuse Liqueur
- Ulanda Cocktail Gin, Anise, Triple Sec Liqueur
- Washoe Peel Knob Creek(R) Bourbon Whiskey, Triple Sec Liqueur, Lemon Juice
- Favorite Slammer Vodka, Southern Comfort(R), Amaretto Liqueur
- G-String Vodka, Crème de Cacao Brun Liqueur, Cream
- Queen Elizabeth Dry Vermouth, Gin, Bénédictine(R) Herbal Liqueur
- Alhambra Cognac, Hot Chocolate
- Appian Way Amaretto Liqueur, Gin, Liquore Strega(R)
- Armada Martini Vodka, Amontillado Sherry
- Balalaika Vodka, Cointreau(R) Orange Liqueur, Lemon Juice
- Banana Rum Cream Dark Rum, Crème de Banane Liqueur, Light Cream
- Basin Street Bourbon, Triple Sec Liqueur, Lemon Juice
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.
