Occasion

Drinks for Bachelorette Party.

28 recipes

Scotch Whisky / Fruity

Blood and Sand

Scotch, cherry liqueur, sweet vermouth and orange juice in equal parts. A strange-sounding drink that works, and the only classic built on…

3 min · Easy · 16.6% ABVView recipe ↗
Bourbon / Citrusy

Gold Rush

Bourbon, honey and lemon. Three ingredients, no bitters, no garnish — a Whiskey Sour with the sugar swapped for honey and nothing…

3 min · Easy · 20.6% ABVView recipe ↗
Cognac / Citrusy

Sidecar

Cognac, orange liqueur and lemon. The brandy sour that every other brandy sour is measured against.

3 min · Easy · 25.1% ABVView recipe ↗
Vodka / Citrusy

Cosmopolitan

Vodka, Cointreau, cranberry and fresh lime. Dismissed for twenty years because of what it became, and genuinely good when it is made…

3 min · Easy · 20.6% ABVView recipe ↗
Gin / Floral

Aviation

Gin, maraschino, lemon and a whisper of violet — a pre-Prohibition sour that spent fifty years incomplete because one ingredient vanished.

3 min · Easy · 26.8% ABVView recipe ↗
Espresso Martini in a coupe with a pale foam cap and three coffee beans
Vodka / Coffee

Espresso Martini

Cold espresso, vodka and coffee liqueur shaken hard enough to build its own crema.

5 min · Easy · 19.2% ABVView recipe ↗
Creamy Piña Colada in a hurricane glass with pineapple garnish
White Rum / Creamy

Pina Colada

Rum, pineapple and cream of coconut. The confusion between cream of coconut and coconut cream ruins more of these than anything else.

5 min · Easy · 11.2% ABVView recipe ↗
Golden Whiskey Sour with a pale foam cap, bitters drops and lemon garnish
Bourbon / Citrusy

Whiskey Sour

The sour template in its most familiar form — and the easiest place to learn what egg white actually does.

5 min · Easy · 18% ABVView recipe ↗