List of cocktails


A cocktail is a mixed drink typically made with a distilled liquor as its base ingredient that is then mixed with other ingredients or garnishments. Sweetened liqueurs, wine, or beer may also serve as the base or be added. If beer is one of the ingredients, the drink is called a beer cocktail.
Cocktails often also contain various types of juice, fruit, honey, milk or cream, spices, or other flavorings. Cocktails may vary in their ingredients from bartender to bartender, and from region to region. Two creations may have the same name but taste very different because of differences in how the drinks are prepared.
This article is organized by the primary type of alcohol contained in the beverage. Cocktails marked with "IBA" are designated as IBA official cocktails by the International Bartenders Association, and are some of the most popular cocktails worldwide.

Absinthe

Beer

Cocktails made with beer are classified as beer cocktails.

Brandy

Cachaça

Gin

Mezcal

Rum

Sake

Tequila

Vodka

Whisky

Wines

Fortified wines

Wine

Wine variation

Sparkling wine

Champagne

Red wine

White wine

Flavored liqueurs

[Anise-flavored liqueurs]

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[Chocolate liqueur]

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Coffee-flavored drinks

[Cream liqueur]

A liqueur containing cream, imparting a milkshake-like flavor

[Crème liqueur]

;Crème de menthe – green
An intensely green, mint-flavored liqueur
;Crème de menthe – white
A colorless mint-flavored liqueur
;Crème de violette

[Fruit liqueurs]

Apple-flavored

  • Apple-kneel

Orange-flavored

One of several orange-flavored liqueurs, like Grand Marnier, triple sec, or Curaçao

Other fruit flavors

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A clear, bright-green, melon-flavored liqueur

[Nut-flavored liqueurs]

;Almond-flavored liqueurs

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Less common spirits

[Bitters]

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[Ouzo]

[Pisco]

[Schnapps]

Other

Historical classes of cocktails

  • Cobbler – traditional long drink that is characterized by a glass filled with crushed or shaved ice that is formed into a centered cone, topped by slices of fruit
  • Collins – traditional long drink stirred with ice in the same glass it is served in and diluted with club soda, e.g. Tom Collins
  • Crusta – characterized by a sugar rim on the glass, spirit, maraschino liqueur, aromatic bitters, lemon juice, curaçao, with an entire lemon rind as garnish
  • Daisy – traditional long drink consisting of a base spirit, citrus juice, sugar, and a modifier, typically a liqueur or grenadine. The most common daisy cocktail is the Brandy Daisy. Other commonly known daisies are the Whiskey Daisy, Bourbon Daisy, Gin Daisy, Rum Daisy, Lemon Daisy, Portuguese Daisy, vodka daisy, and Champagne daisy. The Margarita and Sidecar (cocktail) are both variants of the Daisy; both use the simplest form of the specification with triple sec as the modifier; the former uses tequila as the base spirit and lime juice, while the latter uses brandy as the base spirit and lemon juice.
  • Fix – traditional long drink related to Cobblers, but mixed in a shaker and served over crushed ice
  • Fizz – traditional long drink including acidic juices and club soda, e.g. gin fizz
  • Flip – traditional half-long drink that is characterized by inclusion of sugar and egg yolk
  • Julep – base spirit, sugar, and mint over ice. The most common is the mint julep. Other variations include gin julep, whiskey julep, pineapple julep, and Georgia mint julep.
  • Mizuwari – a mixture of a distilled spirit, such as whisky, diluted with water and ice
  • Negus – wine, mixed with hot water, oranges or lemons, spices, and sugar
  • Punch – wide assortment of drinks, generally containing fruit or fruit juice; see also punsch
  • Rickey – highball made from usually gin or bourbon, lime, and carbonated water
  • Sangria – red wine and chopped fruit, often with other ingredients such as orange juice or brandy
  • Shrub – one of two different types of drink – a fruit liqueur typically made with rum or brandy mixed with sugar and the juice or rinds of citrus fruit, or a vinegared syrup with spirits, water, or carbonated water
  • Sling – traditional long drink prepared by stirring ingredients over ice in the glass and filling up with juice or club soda
  • Smoking bishop – type of mulled wine, punch or wassail
  • Sour – mixed drink consisting of a base liquor, lemon or lime juice, and a sweetener
  • Toddy – mix of liquor and water with honey or sugar and herbs and spices, served hot

By mixer

Strawberry

Strawberries can be muddled or puréed and added to many drinks, and they are liquor-friendly, being compatible with, e.g., bourbon whiskey, Cointreau, vodka, tequila, rum, and Champagne, among other spirits and liqueurs and so on.
Some recipes call for a strawberry syrup that can be made using strawberries, vanilla extract, sugar, and water. Some strawberry cocktail recipes do not call for a syrup, but rely on puréed strawberries to play that part.
Strawberries are often mixed with basil. Strawberry is popular in smashes since after the beverage has been drunk, the alcohol-infused strawberries can be consumed as well.
  • Champagne bowler
  • Cherub's cup
  • Christmas Jones
  • Fresh strawberry and lime Tom Collins
  • Kentucky kiss
  • Strawberry beer margarita
  • Strawberry berryoska
  • Strawberry gin and tonic
  • Strawberry gin smash
  • Strawberry mint sparkling limeade
  • Strawberry pom mojito
  • Strawberry rose gin fizz
  • Strawberry smash
  • Strawberry whiskey lemonade
  • Strawberry Mango Bourbon Smash

Carrot juice

juice can be mixed with spirits such as agave spirits, whiskey, tequila, gin, or mezcal. Vodka is sometimes chosen because its neutral taste allows more of the carrot juice taste to shine through. Carrot juice can also be mixed with liqueurs such as amaro. ginger, orange, lemon and honey can be other ingredients in carrot juice cocktails. Turmeric infusions are also common. Examples of drinks made with carrot juice include:
  • 24 Carrot Gold Punch
  • Jessica Rabbit

Pineapple juice

Smashed fruit

A smash is a casual icy julep cocktail filled with hunks of fresh fruit, so that after the liquid part of the drink has been consumed, one can also eat the alcohol-infused fruit. The history of smashes goes back at least as far as the 1862 book How to Mix Drinks. The old-style whiskey smash was an example of an early smash.
The herb used in a smash is often mint, although basil is sometimes used in cocktails that go well with it, e.g. many strawberry cocktails. The name "smash" comes from the idea that on a hot day, one takes whatever fruit is on hand and smashes it all together to make a refreshing beverage. Generally a smash will have crushed ice.
  • Apple bourbon smash
  • Blueberry smash
  • Bourbon blackberry smash
  • Bourbon peach smash
  • Bourbon strawberry smash
  • Cranberry smash
  • Grapefruit smash
  • Kiwi smash
  • Pear bourbon smash
  • Pineapple smash
  • Raspberry smash
  • Watermelon smash

Lemonade

A number of hard lemonades, such as Lynchburg lemonade have been marketed. This section includes drinks that have the ingredients of lemonade.
  • Boozy frozen lemonade
  • Boozy lemonade sorbet
  • Fireball lemonade
  • Fresh raspberry vodka lemonade
  • Gin fizz
  • John Collins
  • John Daly
  • Lemonade margarita
  • Lemonade rum punch
  • Long Island iced tea
  • Moscato lemonade
  • Pink lemonade vodka punch
  • Sangria lemonade
  • Sour apple smash
  • Spiked pineapple lemonade
  • Strawberry lemonade margarita
  • Vodka lemonade slush
  • Watermelon vodka slush

Lemon-lime soda

A lemon-lime soda cocktail is a cocktail made with lemon-lime soda such as Sprite.

Apple juice

has been produced by a number of companies, e.g. Woodchuck Hard Cider. Apple-flavored malt beverage products have also been sold by companies like Redd's Apple Ale, but these do not actually contain fermented apple juice.
  • Apple chai gin and tonic
  • Appletini
  • Boozy apple cider slushie
  • Boozy cider slushie
  • Bourbon cider slushie
  • Hard apple cider slushie

Grape juice

  • Boozy Concord-grape ice pops
  • Early morning piece
  • Enzoni cocktail
  • Episcopal punch
  • Frosty grape fizz
  • Grape ape/bling bling
  • Grape fizz
  • Grape quencher
  • Grape rocket
  • Henry Joose
  • Jeweler's hammer
  • John Rocker
  • Mardi grape
  • Mardi Gras madness
  • Purple rain

Orange juice

Ginger soda

A ginger soda cocktail is a cocktail with ginger ale or ginger beer. Small Town Brewery produced the 5.90% ABV Not Your Father's Ginger Ale. Coney Island Brewing Co. Henry's Hard Soda produced the 4.2% ABV Henry's Hard Ginger Ale. Others have included Crabbie's Original Alcoholic Ginger Beer and Spiced Orange Alcoholic Ginger Beer, Fentimen's Alcoholic Ginger Beer, and New City Ginger Beer.

Cola

Some cola cocktails are made by the brewer; for example, McAles sells a "hard cola" that is a malt beverage with kola and other natural flavors and caramel color added. Jack Daniel's and Miller Brewing also introduced a hard cola, "Black Jack Cola". Henry's Hard Soda introduced a hard cherry cola.

Tonic

A tonic cocktail is a cocktail that contains tonic syrup or tonic water. Tonic water is usually combined with gin for a gin and tonic, or mixed with vodka. However, it can also be used in cocktails with cognac, cynar, Lillet Blanc or Lillet Rosé, rum, tequila, or white port.