The Drink Lab way
Every cocktail on Drink Lab gets the same treatment. Real measures. Real technique. One line of voice so the recipe doesn’t read like a maths textbook. A hero photo when we’ve gotten round to shooting it, a hand-drawn placeholder when we haven’t. A nutrition estimate we actually calculated, not copy-pasted from another website that copy-pasted it from a third website that made it up in 2014.
If a cocktail has a story worth telling (the Sidecar’s birth in a Paris bar, the Margarita’s contested origin, the Espresso Martini’s specific 1983 Soho moment) we tell it. If a cocktail is called Slippery Nipple, we pour it, photograph it, and leave the nose-out-of-it academic reverence to somebody else.
How to use this site
Know what you want? Use the search or the A to Z.
Know what you’ve got but not what to make? Start with the Cocktail Builder, tick what’s in your bar, and it’ll tell you what you can pour.
Planning a party? Jump to the Drink Themes hub for the occasion, the movie, the colour scheme, or the vibe.
Prefer to browse by ingredient? The cocktails by ingredient index sorts every drink by what’s actually in it.
Sober-curious? Mocktail Recipes has the alcohol-free catalogue with proper technique and flavour.
Counting calories? Low Calorie Cocktails is sorted into under-100, 100-200, 200-300, and 300-400 calorie bands.
