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.
Add one more bottle
What a second bottle opens up.
All 2429 recipes
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- Absent Friend Gin, Grenadine, Whipping Cream
- Applejack Cocktail Laird's(R) Applejack Brandy, Grenadine, Lemon Juice
- Batida Abaci Sagatiba(R) Pura Cachaça, Pineapple, Granulated Sugar
- Bloody Maria Tequila, Tomato Juice, Lemon Juice
- Bronze Dragon Vodka, Green Chartreuse Liqueur, Amer Picon(R) Bitter Orange Liqueur
- Champagne Fizz Gin, Lemon Juice, Caster Sugar
- Chocolate Covered Candy Cane Godiva(R) Chocolate Liqueur, Rumple Minze(R) Peppermint Schnapps
- Chocolatini Vanilla Vodka, Crème de Cacao Blanc Liqueur
- Conqueror Mandarine Napoléon(R) Liqueur, Scotch, Orange Bitters
- Cucamonga coconut lime breeze Captain Morgan(R) Parrot Bay Coconut Rum, Lime, Simple Syrup
- Diamond Fizz Gin, Lemon Juice, Confectioners' Sugar
- Dry Rob Roy Scotch, Dry Vermouth
- Dundee Dream Scotch, Sweet Sherry, Mandarin Juice
- Dutch Trade Winds Jenever, Curaçao Liqueur, Lemon Juice
- El Salvador Aged Rum, Frangelico(R) Hazelnut Liqueur, Lime Juice
- Foxhound Brandy, Kümmel Liqueur, Cranberry Juice
- Frozen Melon Ball Midori(R) Melon Liqueur, Vodka, Pineapple Juice
- Golden Fleece Chartreuse(R) Yellow Liqueur, Danzig Goldwasser(R) Orange Liqueur
- Green Sunset Melon Liqueur, Coconut Rum, 7Up(R)
- Hard Dreamsicle Tuaca(R) Liqueur, Triple Sec Liqueur, Baileys(R) Original Irish Cream
- Harper's Ferry Light Rum, White Curaçao Liqueur, Southern Comfort(R)
- Hong Kong Aromatic Bitters, Sake, Rosso Vermouth
- Irish Whiskey Highball Irish Whiskey, Ginger Ale
- Jackath Vodka, Brandy, Crème de Cassis Liqueur
- Janet Standard Brandy, Angostura(R) Bitters, Orgeat Syrup
- Japanese Slipper Midori(R) Melon Liqueur, Cointreau(R) Orange Liqueur, Lime Juice
- Kiwi Casa White Rum, Kiwi Juice, Soda Water
- Klondike Cooler Blended Whiskey, Carbonated Water, Confectioners' Sugar
- Lillet Cocktail Lillet(R) Blanc, Gin
- Manhattan Dry Canadian Whisky, Dry Vermouth, Angostura(R) Bitters
- Mario Driver Myers's(R) Original Dark Rum, Grand Marnier(R) Orange Liqueur, Orange Juice
- May Blossum Fizz Swedish Punsch, Grenadine, Lemon Juice
- Monkey Gland Cocktail Gin, Bénédictine(R) Herbal Liqueur, Orange Juice
- Mr. New Yorker French Vermouth, Gin, Dry Sherry
- Mutiny Dark Rum, Aromatic Bitters, Dubonnet(R) Rouge
- Numbnut Dark Rum, Galliano(R) Herbal Liqueur, Crème de Cacao Brun Liqueur
- Orchard Orange Apple Brandy, Dry Vermouth, Amaretto Liqueur
- Paisley Martini Gin, Scotch, Dry Vermouth
- Pink Gin Aromatic Bitters, Plymouth(R) Gin
- Spider Bite Martini Vodka, Malibu(R) Coconut Rum, Triple Sec Liqueur
- The Drink Dry Sherry, Boodles(R) Dry Gin
- The Seabass Pineapple Rum, Peach Schnapps, Pineapple Juice
- The Waffler Maple Syrup, Oh Canada(R) Maple Liqueur, Baileys(R) Original Irish Cream
- Tumbleweed Amaretto Liqueur, Crème de Cacao Blanc Liqueur, Cream
- Vesuvio Light Rum, Sweet Vermouth, Lemon Juice
- Why Not? Apricot Brandy, Gin, Dry Vermouth
- B-52 #2 Kahlúa(R) Coffee Liqueur, Baileys(R) Original Irish Cream, Grand Marnier(R) Orange Liqueur
- Mango Orange Smoothie Mango, Orange
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.
