A cocktail reference

The cocktails to know, and what to know about them.

Every recipe here is traced to a source you can check — the IBA list, the Savoy, Difford's, PUNCH, Death & Co. The way it's actually made.

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255 recipes 102 IBA classics 24 non-alcoholic

The catalog

Browse the catalog

255 drinks, sourced and growing

34 The Unforgettables The thirty-four drinks the IBA says every bar should know cold. 34 Contemporary Classics Later additions that earned their place in the canon, from the '70s on. 34 New Era Drinks This century's classics, already taught in every good bar. 89 Notable Classics The drinks history remembered, from pre-Prohibition to now. 40 Modern Notables The craft canon, from the bartenders working today.

Non-Alcoholic · 24 Real drinks for anyone not drinking tonight — poured alongside everything else, designed not subtracted.

Open Bar

Show your guests what you can make.

Mark what's on your shelf in the app and share one link. Your guests open it on any phone and see the live list of drinks your bar can make right now. It updates as you go.

Non-alcoholic options show up right alongside everything else.

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Where to start

Six drinks, six templates. Almost every cocktail ever made is a variation on one of them.

Why these six?

Unforgettable IBA

Old Fashioned

Bourbon · Sugar Cube · Angostura Bitters · Water

Old-fashioned · Built

Classic

Tom Collins

Old Tom Gin · Fresh Lemon Juice · Simple Syrup · Soda Water

Collins · Shaken

Unforgettable IBA

Daiquiri

White Rum · Fresh Lime Juice · Simple Syrup

Cocktail glass · Shaken

Unforgettable IBA

Dry Martini

Gin · Dry Vermouth

Cocktail glass · Stirred

Unforgettable IBA

Negroni

Gin · Sweet Vermouth · Campari

Old-fashioned · Stirred

New Era IBA

Penicillin

Blended Scotch Whisky · Fresh Lemon Juice · Honey-Ginger Syrup · Islay Scotch Whisky

Rocks · Shaken

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