Cocktails and Cocktail Recipes - Difford's Guide
A searchable library of over 3,000 easy to follow recipes, including the Mojito, Margarita, Old Fashioned and Daiquiri, and thousands of other vodka cocktail...
French 75 Cocktail Recipe - Difford's Guide
Variant: Soixante-Quinze (1915 Washington Herald recipe) - with dry gin, applejack bonded, grenadine and lemon juice. "75" Cocktail (Vermeire's 1922 recipe) - with dry gin, calvados, …
Long Island Iced Tea Cocktail Recipe - Difford's Guide
History: This infamous drink reached the height of its popularity in the early 1980s and by 1985 The New York Times reported, "A potent alcoholic drink called Long Island Iced Tea is …
20 best Chartreuse Verte (Green) cocktails - Difford's Guide
Formulated by Carthusian monks to a recipe dating back to 1764, Chartreuse Verte (Green Chartreuse) adds very distinctive complex herbal notes to a wide variety of cocktails, and with …
Dirty Martini Cocktail Recipe - Difford's Guide
History: Cocktail historian David Wondrich has traced the origins of the Dirty Martini back to 1901 and a bartender called John E. O'Connor, who served a Dry Martini with muddled olives at …
Manhattan (Perfect) Cocktail Recipe - Difford's Guide
How to make: Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.; Prepare orange zest and Luxardo Maraschino Cherry for garnish.; STIR all ingredients with ice.; FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.; Express …
Rusty Nail Cocktail Recipe - Difford's Guide
History: Created in 1942 at a Hawaiian bar for the artist Theodore Anderson but popularized in the 1950s at Club 21 in New York City. David Wondrich has traced the mixing of scotch whisky …
Paloma Cocktail Recipe - Difford's Guide
History: Paloma is Spanish for 'dove'. Its origins are unknown although it is reputed to date back to the 1950s. Some attribute its creation to the legendary Don Javier Delgado Corona, the …
20 best Angostura Bitters cocktails - Difford's Guide
I've heard it said, You can tell a newly opened cocktail bar is successful when they need a second bottle of Angostura. Over 500 cocktails on this website include Angostura Aromatic Bitters in …
20 best Blue Curaçao cocktails - Difford's Guide
Blue curaçao equals BLUE DRINKS, or at least various shades of aquamarine. There are numerous other orange-flavoured liqueurs but blue curaçao stands out as the only vivid blue …