Popular Cocktail Recipes

Cocktails and Cocktail Recipes

All the most sought after cocktail recipes all in one spot for you! Cocktail drinks became super popular in the roaring 20’s when vodka was brought back to America by the Soldiers from WWI. Nowadays, there are 1000’s upon 1000’s of drink recipes floating around in bookstores and online. Here a list of the most popular recipes worldwide – the drinks people know, order, and enjoy on every continent around the globe!

*Note: Bar Lime Mix is also known as Sweet & Sour Mix, Margarita Mix or sometimes even just Lime Juice.

Cocktail Drink Recipes

Blue Hawaiian –Video Tutorial

• Step 1
  Fill your shaker or blender with ice

• Step 2
  Measure 1 oz. of Light Rum and 1 oz. of Blue Curacao

• Step 3
  Add Coconut Cream and Pineapple Juice

• Step 4
  Shake or blend and strain into a tulip glass

• Step 5
  Garnish with a pineapple slice, umbrella and a straw

Long Island Ice Tea

• Step 1
  Fill your highball glass with ice
• Step 2
  Measure equal parts – 1/2 oz. of Tequila, Rum, Vodka, Gin
• Step 3
  Fill the rest of the glass with cola and bar lime mix
• Step 4
  Garnish with a lemon slice or lime wedge and a straw

Sex on the Beach

• Step 1
  Fill a highball glass with ice
• Step 2
  Add 2 oz. of Peach Schnapps
• Step 3
  Add Orange Juice and Bar Lime Mix
• Step 4
  Garnish with an orange slice and straw

Mojito – Video Tutorial

• Step 1
  Cut the lime into wedges and place them in the glass with 10-12 mint leaves and sugar
• Step 2
  Take the muddler and gently crush all the ingredients together (this releases the oils of the mint leaves and the juice of the limes).
• Step 3
  Fill a highball glass with ice
• Step 4
  Pour in 2oz of white rum
• Step 5
  Top off the glass with club soda.
• Step 6
  Gently stir the ingredients together with the spoon
• Step 7
  Garnish with the sprig of mint and a straw

Pina Colada

• Step 1
  Fill a shaker or blender with ice
• Step 2
  Add 2 oz. of Light rum and 2 oz. of Coconut Cream
• Step 3
  Shake or blend and strain on ice into either a tulip glass
• Step 4
  Garnish with a slice of pineapple, umbrella and straw

   

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  Amaretto Sour / Whiskey Sour

  • Step 1
    Fill a rocks glass with ice
  • Step 2
    Add 2 oz. of Amaretto or Whiskey
  • Step 3
    Fill with Bar Lime Mix
  • Step 4
    Garnish with a lime wedge and straw

Singapore Sling

• Step 1
  Fill a highball glass with ice
• Step 2
  Add 2 oz. of Gin
• Step 3
  Add Orange Juice and Bar Lime Mix
• Step 4
  Garnish with an orange slice and straw

Black Russian / White Russian – Video Tutorial

• Step 1
  Fill a rocks glass half with ice
• Step 2
  Add 1 oz. of Vodka and .5 oz. Kahlau
• Step 3
  Garnish with a cherry, or add milk to make it a

Blue Lagoon

• Step 1
  Fill a highball glass with ice
• Step 2
  Add 1 oz. of Vodka and 1 oz. Blue Carcao
• Step 3
  Add Bar Lime Mix
• Step 4
  Garnish with a lime wedge and straw

Fuzzy Naval

• Step 1
  Fill a rocks glass with ice
• Step 2
  Add 2 oz. of Peach Schnapps
• Step 3
  Add Orange Juice
• Step 4
  Garnish with an orange slice and straw

Gimlet

• Step 1
  Fill a rocks glass with ice
• Step 2
  Add 2 oz. of Gin and 2 oz. of Lime Cordial
• Step 3
  Garnish with a lime slice and straw

Rusty Nail

• Step 1
  Fill a rocks glass with ice
• Step 2
  Add 1 oz. Scotch and .5 oz. Drambuie

Screwdriver

• Step 1
  Fill a rocks glass with ice
• Step 2
  Add 2 oz. of Vodka
• Step 3
  Fill glass with Orange Juice
• Step 4
  Garnish with a orange slice and straw

   

Tom Collins

• Step 1
  Fill a highball glass with ice
• Step 2
  Add 2 oz. of Gin
• Step 3
  Fill with Soda and Bar Lime Mix
• Step 4
  Garnish with a lime wedge and straw

Tequila Sunrise – Video Tutorial

• Step 1
  Fill a highball glass with ice
• Step 2
  Add 2 oz. of Tequila
• Step 3
  Add Orange Juice and Grenadine on top
• Step 4
  Garnish with an orange slice and straw

Zombie

• Step 1
  Fill a highball glass with ice
• Step 2
  Add 1 oz. of Light Rum, Dark Rum, Coconut Rum and Spiced Rum
• Step 3
  Fill with Orange Juice
• Step 4
  Float Triple Sec on top
• Step 5
  Garnish with a lime wedge and straw

Seabreeze

• Step 1
  Fill a highball glass with ice
• Step 2
  Add 2 oz. of Vodka
• Step 3
  Fill with Orange Juice and Grapefruit Juice
• Step 4
  Garnish with an orange slice and straw

Margarita – Video Tutorial

• Step 1
  Rim a Margarita glass with salt
• Step 2
  Add ice in a shaker or a blender
• Step 3
  Measure 1.5 oz. of Tequila and .5 oz. of Triple Sec
• Step 4
  Add bar lime mix
• Step 5
  Shake or Blend and Strain on ice
• Step 6
  Garnish with a lime wedge

Greyhound

• Step 1
  Fill a rocks glass with ice
• Step 2
  Add 2 oz. of Gin
• Step 3
  Fill with Grapefruit Juice

Kamikaze – Video Tutorial

• Step 1
  Fill a rocks glass with ice
• Step 2
  Add 1 oz. of Vodka and .5 oz. of Triple sec
• Step 3
  Fill with Bar Lime Mix
• Step 4
  Garnish with a lime wedge and straw

Manhattan

• Step 1
  Fill a rocks glass with ice
• Step 2
  Add 1.5 oz. of Rye or Bourbon and .5 oz. of Sweet Vermouth or Dry Vermouth for a Dry Manhattan
• Step 3
  Garnish with a cherry

Hurricane – Video Tutorial

• Step 1
  Fill a tulip glass or hurricane glass with ice
• Step 2
  Add 2 oz. of White Rum
• Step 3
  Fill with Orange Juice and Pineapple Juice
• Step 4
  Add Grenadine on top and a dash of Dark Rum
• Step 5
  Garnish with an orange slice and straw

Bloody Caesar / Bloody Mary – Video Tutorial

• Step 1
  Rim cocktail glass with celery salt
• Step 2
  Fill glass with ice
• Step 3
  Pour 1oz. of vodka
• Step 4
  Add a few shakes of Salt & Pepper
• Step 5
  Add a few dashes of Worcestershire sauce
• Step 6
  Add Tabasco sauce to your liking
• Step 7
  Fill with Clamato Juice or Tomato Juice for a Bloody Mary
• Step 8
  Add straw and Garnish with anything you like; Celery stalk, Cocktail onions, Lime, etc…

Alabama Slammer

• Step 1
  Fill a tulip glass with ice
• Step 2
  Add 1 oz. of Southern Comfort and .5 oz. of Amaretto
• Step 3
  Fill with Orange Juice and Bar Lime Mix
• Step 4
  Garnish with an orange slice and straw

   

  You can check out our other pages on Drink Recipes, like Martinis, Shooter Recipes, Mixed Drinks, Non-Alcoholic Drink Recipes, And everybody’s favourite Tequila Recipes.We also have Video Tutorials on how to make popular drink recipes like the Cosmopolitan, White Russian, Blue Hawaiian, Kamikaze, Hurricane, and the Bloody Caesar.

   

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