17 No-Fuss co*cktail Recipes You Can Have Ready In About Five Minutes (2024)

FAQs

What are the 5 basic co*cktails? ›

For the most part, drinks are built in this order: prepare glassware/vessel. Add ice, ingredients, and anything fizzy to top up the ingredients and lengthen the drink. Finish with anything needing to be drizzled over the top or crowned. Don't forget a straw, followed by any garnishes.

Martini. The gin martini is the king of co*cktails. A clear, classic, very strong co*cktail. For such a simple co*cktail (gin, vermouth), the martini isn't afraid to court a little controversy.

Beer is the world's most widely consumed alcoholic drink, and is the third-most consumed drink overall, after water and tea.

Get a handle on those six drinks, the authors write, and you'll be able to create innumerable variations. They are the Old Fashioned, Martini, Daiquiri, Sidecar, Whiskey Highball, and Flip. In each drink, every ingredient falls into at least one category.

Almost all the classic drinks you know and love, from the Daiquiri to the Gimlet or the Margarita come down to the same basic ratio: 2:1:1. That's two parts spirit, one part sweet, and one part sour, commonly known as the Golden Ratio.

What makes a perfect co*cktail? ›

co*cktails are all about balance.

A great co*cktail is a balance of strong (alcohol), sweet (sugar, liqueur, syrup, or fruit juice), sour (citrus juice, vinegar or shrub, or even just that twist of lemon to finish), and bitter (bitters, bitter liqueur, bitter fruit, or tonic water).

1. Commonwealth. With a grand total of 71 ingredients (yes, you read that correctly), the Commonwealth is, without a doubt, the most ingredient-heavy drink on this list. In truth, we're not entirely sure how so many ingredients fit into a standard coupe glass.

As William Weis mentioned below, the Aunt Roberta co*cktail is considered one of the strongest, because the top ingredients are absinthe and vodka, followed by gin, brandy, and berry liqueur. Right up there with that is the Long Island Iced Tea - with 5 liquors in it: vodka, rum, gin, tequila, and triple sec.

Embury's six basic drinks are the Daiquiri, the Jack Rose, the Manhattan, the Martini, the Old Fashioned, and the Sidecar. Embury's preferred recipe for each is: Daiquiri.

The top six basic co*cktails that every mixologist should know are the Martini, Manhattan, Old-Fashioned, Margarita, Daiquiri, and Gimlet.

Get a handle on those six drinks, the authors write, and you'll be able to create innumerable variations. They are the Old Fashioned, Martini, Daiquiri, Sidecar, Whiskey Highball, and Flip. In each drink, every ingredient falls into at least one category.

These four drinks represent four essential co*cktail categories, clockwise from left: old pal (three-parter), gin buck (fizz), daiquiri (sour) and hanky-panky (Old-Fashioned/lowball).