Highball
Tall and straight. One spirit plus a mixer, served over ice.
Tall glass over ice, so the liquid tops out around 8 oz.
Drinks served in this glass
WhiskeyAdvanced
American Troubadour
Bourbon, Fernet Menta, and Grand Marnier over cold brew. Bitter, minty, and wide awake.
GinAdvanced
Fizz Kaffir
A refreshing, sweet, and sour drink that will hit the spot when you want dessert, but don’t have room for something heavy.
GinIntermediate
Kaikan Fizz
A milk fizz built on plain Gordon’s, which is the house gin for plenty of the world’s best bartenders.
GinBeginner
The Marylebone Crush
A fresh, punch-like drink that flirts with becoming a fizz, packed with herbal undertones and a spicy kick.
AgaveAdvanced
Peach Tea
White tea, peach, and clary sage. Barely there and completely deliberate.
RumBeginner
Cuba Libre
A rum and coke becomes a cocktail the moment you use a real lime.
RumBeginner
Dark 'n Stormy
Blackstrap rum floated over ginger beer, so it arrives in layers.
VodkaIntermediate
Bloody Mary
The only cocktail that doubles as breakfast. Season it like you'd season soup.
VodkaBeginner
Salty Dog
Grapefruit and salt. Seasoning belongs in drinks too.
LiqueurBeginner
Americano
The Negroni's older, gentler parent, and a much better afternoon drink.
Zero proofIntermediate
Ginger & Honey Fizz
Your own honey-ginger syrup does all the work here. Warm and sharp.
Zero proofBeginner
Shirley Temple
The first cocktail most people ever drink. Real grenadine makes it worth revisiting.
VodkaBeginner
Bay Breeze
Cranberry and pineapple over vodka or rum.
LiqueurBeginner
Buck (Any Spirit)
Less a recipe than a shape: a spirit, some citrus, ginger ale or beer on top.
VodkaBeginner
Cape Codder
Vodka and cranberry. Nobody is fooled and nobody minds.
Wine & BrandyIntermediate
Brandy Cobbler
Works with brandy, whiskey or dark rum. Pick whichever is open.
Wine & BrandyIntermediate
Brandy Crusta
The drink that invented the garnish. That lemon peel lining the glass is the whole idea.
RumIntermediate
Dark & Stormy
Dark rum poured over ginger beer, in that order, which is what the name describes. Gosling's hold the trademark, and theirs is the dark rum meant.
GinBeginner
Highball
Spirit and ginger ale, and very little else to it.
VodkaBeginner
Madras
Vodka or rum, cranberry and orange. Hard to get wrong.
WhiskeyBeginner
Mamie Taylor
Scotch and ginger ale with a lemon wedge. The Highball's more interesting cousin.
AgaveBeginner
Margarita
Tequila, orange liqueur, lime. Skip the mix and it's one of the great sours.
RumBeginner
Milk Punch
Spirit, sugar, and cold milk. Old as the hills and better than it sounds.
RumBeginner
Pink Paradise
Coconut rum and amaretto with two juices. No pretense whatsoever.
RumIntermediate
Planter's Punch
One sour, two sweet, three strong, four weak. The old rhyme still works.
RumBeginner
Rain Man
Overproof rum hidden in melon and orange juice. Count carefully.
RumBeginner
Rum Ricky
Lime, rum, soda. Nothing sweet in it at all, which is the point.
VodkaBeginner
Sea Breeze
Vodka, grapefruit, cranberry. Refreshing and unbothered by ambition.
AgaveBeginner
Tequila Sunrise (Original)
The original, with cassis and soda. Nothing like the orange-and-grenadine version.
RumBeginner
Tropica Cocktail
Mostly juice, lightly rummed. A long afternoon in a tall glass.
WhiskeyIntermediate
Whiskey Smash
Mint, lemon, whiskey, muddled together. A julep that stopped being precious.
LiqueurBeginner
Burning Sun
Strawberry schnapps and pineapple juice. Sweet, pink, and entirely unapologetic.
LiqueurBeginner
French Fantasy
Two liqueurs, two juices, no base spirit. Goes down like fruit punch.
VodkaIntermediate
Orang-a-tang
Six ounces of orange juice hiding two kinds of trouble.
LiqueurBeginner
Tiki Dream
Melon and cranberry in a sugar-rimmed glass.
WhiskeyIntermediate
A Balcony in Chiba
Shochu and Japanese whisky under a passion fruit foam. Two citruses, both necessary.
RumIntermediate
Chartreuse Mojito
A mojito with Chartreuse alongside the rum. Herbal on herbal, and it holds.
GinBeginner
Mead Highball
Mead lengthened with gin and soda.
Wine & BrandyBeginner
Horse's Neck
Named for the peel, cut in one piece and hung over the rim.
GinBeginner
Gin Fizz
A gin sour with soda on top, and no cherry to hide behind.
VodkaBeginner
Sex on the Beach
Peach, orange and cranberry over vodka. Built in the glass, so there is nothing to wash up.
GinBeginner
Albemarle Fizz
A Gin Fizz with a teaspoon of raspberry syrup in it, which is the whole difference.
WhiskeyBeginner
Blinder
Scotch lengthened with a lot of grapefruit and a teaspoon of grenadine.
GinIntermediate
Million Dollar Cocktail
Gin and pineapple shaken with egg white until it froths. Served long rather than up.
GinBeginner
Gin Fix
A sour served long over ice, with a spoon of water to open it up.
GinIntermediate
Silver Fizz
A Gin Fizz with the egg white in it. The silver is the foam on top.
Wine & BrandyBeginner
Bermuda Highball
Brandy, gin and dry vermouth in equal thirds, lengthened with soda.
RumIntermediate
Chicago Fizz
Rum and port in equal ounces, shaken with egg white and lengthened with soda.
Wine & BrandyBeginner
English Highball
Brandy, gin and sweet vermouth in equal thirds, lengthened with soda.
WhiskeyBeginner
Imperial Fizz
Whiskey and a half ounce of rum, soured and lengthened with soda.
WhiskeyIntermediate
Japanese Fizz
A whiskey fizz with a tablespoon of port and an egg white. The port is what makes it.
GinIntermediate
Lady Love Fizz
A gin fizz softened with two teaspoons of cream and an egg white.
GinIntermediate
Royal Gin Fizz
A Gin Fizz with the whole egg rather than the white. Richer, and yellow.
LiqueurBeginner
Vermouth Cassis
Dry vermouth and cassis over ice with soda. Low, purple and very French.
LiqueurBeginner
Alabama Slammer
Southern Comfort, amaretto and sloe gin in near-equal measure, with just a dash of lemon to keep it upright.
VodkaBeginner
Blue Lagoon
Vodka and blue curaçao lengthened with lemonade. The colour is the entire point and it makes no apology for that.
AgaveBeginner
Blue Margarita
A margarita with blue curaçao standing in for the triple sec. Same drink, louder about it.
GinBeginner
Orange Oasis
Gin and four ounces of orange juice with half an ounce of cherry brandy underneath, topped with ginger ale.
RumBeginner
Rum Milk Punch
The milk punch on light rum, shaken rather than stirred, with nutmeg grated over the top.
LiqueurIntermediate
Sherry Eggnog
A single-serve eggnog on cream sherry. One whole egg, shaken, and milk to fill.
AgaveIntermediate
Tequila Fizz
Tequila with three quarters of an ounce of grenadine and an egg white, finished with ginger ale rather than soda.
VodkaBeginner
Vodka Tonic
Vodka and tonic over plenty of ice, with a strip of lemon peel. There is nowhere for a warm one to hide.
GinBeginner
Liquorice & Blackberry Highball
Blackberries muddled into gin with liquorice syrup and a lemon cordial, lengthened with soda.
VodkaBeginner
Midori Illusion
Melon, triple sec and vodka lengthened with pineapple and lemonade. Green, cold, and gone quickly.
LiqueurBeginner
Fluffy Duckling
Advocaat and white crème de cacao lengthened with lemonade. The softer one, and long rather than short.
LiqueurBeginner
California Root Beer
Coffee liqueur, Galliano, soda and a splash of cola, which between them taste convincingly of root beer. There is no root beer in it.
WhiskeyBeginner
7 & 7
Whiskey and lemon-lime soda over ice. The name is the two sevens and nothing more.
LiqueurBeginner
Fernandito
Fernet and cola over ice. The ratio is the whole argument, and everyone who drinks it has a firm view.
Wine & BrandyBeginner
Dubonnet-Cassis
Dubonnet and crème de cassis lengthened with soda. A low-strength aperitif that tastes like it should be stronger.
LiqueurBeginner
Cherry Hooker
Cherry Heering and orange juice over ice. Two ingredients, and the cherry does all the work.
RumBeginner
Caribou Lou
Overproof rum and coconut rum under a long pour of pineapple. It tastes like almost nothing and is almost entirely rum.
RumBeginner
Liquid Marijuana
Four spirits, pineapple and lemon, shaken and poured long. Bright green for no reason other than the blue curaçao.
Wine & BrandyIntermediate
Brandy Eggnog
A whole egg shaken with brandy, sugar and milk. Richer than a flip and longer than one.
Zero proofBeginner
Roy Rogers
Cola with grenadine in it and a cherry on top. The Shirley Temple's cola half, and the one children actually ask for.
Zero proofBeginner
Stay Sober
Apple and cranberry under ginger beer. Sharp enough that nobody asks what is in it.
LiqueurBeginner
Fuzzy Navel
Peach schnapps and orange juice. Fuzzy is the peach, navel is the orange, and that is the whole joke.
VodkaBeginner
Russian Spring Punch
Vodka, lemon and cassis, lengthened with sparkling wine. Long and dry and pink, and it drinks faster than four measures should.
VodkaBeginner
Long Vodka
Vodka and tonic with four dashes of Angostura and a squeezed lime. The bitters are the whole difference.
RumIntermediate
Mai Tai (Advanced)
Two rums instead of one, and a little sugar on top of the orgeat. Longer and sweeter than the 1944 build, and it forgives a rougher bottle.
RumBeginner
Painkiller (Advanced)
The same two-to-one-to-one-to-four the original pours, built on coconut milk rather than cream. Thinner, and the pineapple carries further.
AgaveBeginner
Paloma (Basic)
The bottled-soda build rather than the fresh-juice one. Quicker, sweeter, and the pinch of salt is what keeps it from being a soft drink.
GinBeginner
Salty Dog (with Gin)
The gin Salty Dog. Salt on the rim pulls the bitterness out of the grapefruit, and the juniper gives it something to pull against.