An alphabetical listing of all drinks found on this site, along with a listing of components. To search for drinks by base spirit, use one of the category tags to your right; to search by other components (for example, “Peychaud’s bitters”), use the search function. A Absinthe, Italian style — absinthe, maraschino, anisette Algonquin — [...]
On the family tree of drinks, the Improved Holland Gin Cock-Tail is written near the top of the page. Nearly two hundred years ago, when cocktails were first defined as a spiritous liquor, sweetened with sugar, fortified with bitters and softened with water, the gin cocktail was one of the first ones out of the [...]
There are lots of different ways you can sweeten a drink, from using liqueurs to plain sugar to more exotic sweeteners like agave syrup or cane juice. But one once-ubiquitous sweetener (when I say “once,” I’m talking handlebar-mustache-and-spats times) is almost never seen anymore (and that “almost” is pretty generous): gomme syrup. Hold on–sure, there’s [...]
In the two years or so since my interest in cocktails really blossomed, I’ve collected somewhere around 50 books related to drinks and drinking. And while I have a few books on wine, bar ware, and other stuff, by far most of my books are cocktail guides–what cocktails are, how to mix ‘em, and so [...]
