Amaretto brings sweet almond flavor to the Amaretto Sour, the Godfather, and the Alabama Slammer — more nuanced when treated as an accent rather than the lead.

Almond liqueur's role in classic cocktails.

Cocktails with Amaretto

A flamed orange peel is one of bartending's most dramatic gestures — and a functional one, caramelizing the oils before they hit the drink.

The theatrical garnish that caramelizes citrus oil.

Flaming Garnish Cocktails

The Negroni's equal-parts blueprint — bitter liqueur, base spirit, sweet vermouth — is one of the most generative templates in cocktail history. From the Boulevardier and Cardinale to mezcal and rum variations.

Bitter, boozy, vermouth-forward variations on the original.

Negroni Riffs

Old Fashioneds, highballs, and Negronis built directly over ice — cocktails where the glass is the mixing vessel.

Assembled in the glass, no shaker needed.

Built Cocktails

Cynar's savory, herbaceous bitterness makes it the bartender's preferred modifier — earthy and approachable, exceptional in Negroni riffs.

Italy's artichoke-based amaro.

Cocktails with Cynar

Absinthe appears as a rinse in the Sazerac and the Corpse Reviver — a few drops transform a glass, and a full pour transforms the evening.

Anise-forward spirit used in measured doses.

Cocktails with Absinthe

Negronis, Boulevardiers, and spirit-forward cocktails that translate well to large-format preparation — mix the batch, refrigerate, pour.

Scale up for a crowd without the fuss.

Easy Batch Cocktails

Minimal equipment, maximum result — cocktails that work with whatever you have behind a home bar.

Just a glass and something to stir with.

No-Special-Tools Cocktails

Brandy Alexanders, Mudslides, and chocolate-forward cocktails that function as a liquid dessert course at the holiday table.

Sweet, rich, and better than dessert.

Holiday Dessert Cocktails

Brandy Alexanders, Grasshoppers, and chocolate-forward builds — cocktails that function as a liquid dessert course.

Rich, sweet, and meant for after dinner.

Dessert Cocktails

Blackberry Negronis, smoky mezcal drinks, and cocktails tinted purple or black — the ones that look right in dim light.

Dark, theatrical, and fun.

Halloween Cocktails

From the Zombie and Mai Tai to Three Dots and a Dash — the cocktails that launched tiki culture and kept it alive through every revival.

The definitive tiki drinks.

The Canon of Tiki

Highball glasses, fresh citrus, soda water, and light refreshment that makes a warm evening worth lingering over.

Long, cold, and made for the outdoors.

Summer Patio Drinks

Tropical and tiki-leaning cocktails with lush fruit, layered rum, spice, citrus, and crushed ice energy.

Rum, citrus, spice, and escapist structure.

Tiki & Tropical

The Gin Fizz adds soda for lift; the Flip adds whole egg for richness — two distinct traditions that both reward careful attention.

Carbonated with soda or enriched with egg.

Fizzes & Flips

Champagne, prosecco, soda water, and ginger beer — cocktails where carbonation lifts the whole drink.

Bubbles as an ingredient, not an afterthought.

Sparkling Cocktails

The Aperol Spritz defined a generation's drinking habits. These are its neighbors — low-ABV, sparkling, and good at any hour.

Aperol, Campari, and sparkling wine over ice.

Spritz Cocktails

Mojitos, Tom Collins, Gin and Tonics, and every other long drink in a tall glass — the format that maximizes refreshment.

Built tall, served cold, easy to drink.

Tall Highball Cocktails

Fresh herbs, botanical liqueurs, and herbal digestifs — cocktails where the green, grassy, or medicinal note is the whole point.

Chartreuse, Benedictine, and botanical complexity.

Herbal Cocktails

Rum punches and tropical drinks in holiday colors — for people celebrating in warm climates or wishing they were.

Festive cocktails with a tropical character.

Tropical Holiday Escapes

A focused Cocktail Gallery shelf for tropical escape cocktails, automatically refreshed from the cocktail inventory as recipes, ingredients, bars, and eras change.

Tropical Escape worth exploring.

Tropical Escape Cocktails

Spritzes, light highballs, and the cocktails that work when you have nowhere to be and no reason to rush.

Easy-drinking, leisurely, and low stakes.

Sunday Afternoon Cocktails

Blue Hawaiis, Tequila Sunrises, and the other cocktails that lean into chromatic intensity — visual drama is part of the point.

Blue Curaçao, grenadine, maximum color saturation.

Neon Tropical Cocktails

Dry vermouth in a Martini, sweet vermouth in a Manhattan or Negroni — vermouth is the modifier that civilizes spirits in the greatest stirred cocktails.

The fortified wine that makes a Martini.

Cocktails with Vermouth

Old Fashioneds, Manhattans, and aged rum cocktails — the warm amber of barrel-aged spirits in a glass.

Aged spirits, honey, and warm amber tones.

Golden Amber Cocktails

Large-format punches, easy-build highballs, and the cocktails that work when you're serving a dozen people from a cooler.

Crowd-friendly drinks for outdoor entertaining.

Backyard Gathering Cocktails

Carbonation adds texture, lifts aromatics, and extends a cocktail — the highball is the most obvious example, but the format goes much further.

Bubbles as texture, lift, and length.

Carbonated Cocktails

A focused Cocktail Gallery shelf for the art of the negroni, automatically refreshed from the cocktail inventory as recipes, ingredients, bars, and eras change.

The Art of the Negroni worth exploring.

The Art of the Negroni

Sparkling, low-ABV, and aperitif-style drinks that open a holiday meal without overwhelming the palate before dinner arrives.

Light seasonal openers for holiday gatherings.

Festive Aperitif Cocktails

Spritzes, highballs, and citrus-driven long drinks — light cocktails built for outdoor drinking above the city.

Tall, cold, and good in the open air.

Rooftop Drinks

Cocktails with visual impact, unexpected flavors, or a story worth telling — the ones that make guests ask what they're drinking.

Drinks that generate a reaction.

Impressive Cocktails for Guests

The Zombie, the Long Island Iced Tea, and other cocktails that work despite — or because of — their complexity.

Many components, carefully balanced.

Complex Layered Cocktails

The Tequila Sunrise and the B-52 work by carefully layering liquids of different densities — a technique that's as visual as it is technical.

Density used to create visual separation.

Dramatic Layered Cocktails

Frozen drinks, rum punches, and citrus-forward cocktails designed for consumption in a swimsuit, on a beach chair, in direct sunlight.

Sand, salt air, and tropical refreshment.

Beach Vacation Cocktails

Campari and sweet vermouth were both invented in Italy in the 19th century — the Americano, the Negroni, and the full aperitivo tradition followed from there.

The aperitivo tradition and its founding recipes.

Historic Italian Aperitivo Cocktails

A focused Cocktail Gallery shelf for vacation holiday cocktails, automatically refreshed from the cocktail inventory as recipes, ingredients, bars, and eras change.

Vacation Holiday worth exploring.

Vacation Holiday Cocktails

Piña Coladas, Mojitos, and tropical builds — the cocktails that become the signature drink of a trip worth remembering.

Drinks best consumed far from home.

Vacation Cocktails

tropical

sparkling

Aged Rum

Sweet Vermouth

Amaretto

Cynar

Absinthe

Soda Water

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Flaming Dr. Pepper Cocktail Recipe

Flaming Dr. Pepper

Chili-infused spirits, chili-salt rims, and chili syrup — the cocktails where a controlled burn adds complexity rather than just pain.

Heat as a cocktail ingredient, done right.

Cocktails with Chili

Fat-washing, clarification, forced carbonation, and fermented syrups — cocktails where the process is as interesting as the result.

Technique-forward drinks that push the format.

Experimental Cocktails

Piña Coladas, the Painkiller, and the full range of tiki drinks where coconut cream provides richness and tropical character.

Cream of coconut, coconut milk, and tropical depth.

Cocktails with Coconut

Cocktails that borrow from modernist cooking — nitro freezing, edible garnishes, and preparations that blur the line between drink and food.

Spherification, gels, and the crossover with modernist cuisine.

Molecular Cocktails

Fresh ginger, ginger syrup, and ginger beer all bring different intensities — the Penicillin, the Moscow Mule, and the Dark and Stormy each use it differently.

Fresh root, syrup, and ginger beer across the menu.

Cocktails with Ginger

Red and gold cocktails, sake-based drinks, and the celebratory cocktails from across East and Southeast Asian traditions.

Festive drinks for the celebration of the new year.

Lunar New Year Cocktails

Hot Toddies, mulled wines, and warming spiced cocktails that make cold weather worth enduring.

Cinnamon, clove, and mulling spices.

Warm Spiced Cocktails

Citrus wheels on a Paloma, a Spritz, or a Collins are both garnish and flavor — their oils continuing to perfume the drink as you sip.

A dehydrated or fresh wheel as finishing touch.

Citrus Wheel Cocktails

Tropical fruit brings sweetness, acidity, and richness to cocktails in ways temperate fruit rarely matches — from Piña Coladas to Jungle Birds.

Pineapple, mango, and sun-soaked flavor.

Tropical Fruit Cocktails

A focused Cocktail Gallery shelf for cozy holiday cocktails, automatically refreshed from the cocktail inventory as recipes, ingredients, bars, and eras change.

Cozy Holiday worth exploring.

Cozy Holiday Cocktails

Spiced rum punches, mulled wines, and winter-spiced builds — cocktails flavored with the season and designed for a crowd.

Seasonal drinks for late-year gatherings.

Holiday Cocktails

Punches, mulled wines, and large-format cocktails that scale for a crowd — the holiday bar menu curated in one shelf.

Batch-friendly drinks for festive gatherings.

Holiday Party Cocktails

A focused Cocktail Gallery shelf for holiday crowd-pleasing cocktails, automatically refreshed from the cocktail inventory as recipes, ingredients, bars, and eras change.

Holiday Crowd-Pleasing worth exploring.

Holiday Crowd-Pleasing Cocktails

Apple cider cocktails, spiced whiskey drinks, and the full range of autumnal flavors — seasonal and better in October than any other month.

Apple, pear, and the flavors of fall.

Autumn Harvest Cocktails

The kind of drinks you make when you're not going anywhere — full-proof, unhurried, and worth taking your time over.

Cozy, indulgent drinks for staying in.

Rainy Day Cocktails

Hot Buttered Rum, Glühwein, and the other cocktails that make sense after a long cold day on the mountain.

Hot drinks and warming spirits for after the mountain.

Apres-Ski Cocktails

Rich, slow-sipping drinks for evenings that don't require going anywhere — Hot Toddies, Irish Coffees, and spirit-forward nightcaps.

Warming, indulgent, made for staying in.

Cozy Cocktails

Irish Coffees, Hot Toddies, and the full range of warming cocktails that justify staying in on a cold night.

Hot drinks, brown spirits, and cold-weather comfort.

Winter Warmers

A focused Cocktail Gallery shelf for winter holiday cocktails, automatically refreshed from the cocktail inventory as recipes, ingredients, bars, and eras change.

Winter Holiday worth exploring.

Winter Holiday Cocktails

Hot Toddies, mulled wines, Irish Coffees, and the whiskey-forward cocktails that make cold nights better.

Brown spirits, warm spice, and cold-weather warmth.

Winter Cocktail Staples

A focused Cocktail Gallery shelf for cold weather essentials, automatically refreshed from the cocktail inventory as recipes, ingredients, bars, and eras change.

Cold Weather Essentials worth exploring.

Cold Weather Essentials

Daiquiris, Margaritas, Mojitos, and Gimlets all depend on fresh lime juice — the most widely used citrus behind any bar.

The essential citrus in a third of all cocktails.

Cocktails with Lime

Bone-dry Martinis, extra-dry Manhattans, and the other cocktails for palates that want their spirit with minimal sugar interference.

Little sweetness, full flavor.

Dry Cocktails

A focused Cocktail Gallery shelf for clear spirit cocktails, automatically refreshed from the cocktail inventory as recipes, ingredients, bars, and eras change.

Clear Spirit worth exploring.

Clear Spirit Cocktails

The White Lady, the Clover Club, the Ramos Gin Fizz — cocktails that use egg white to achieve a pale, creamy appearance and silky texture.

Pale, frothy, and usually egg white forward.

Elegant White Cocktails

Martinis, clarified milk punches, and the other cocktails that look like water and taste like concentrated spirits — visual restraint as confidence.

Cocktail Designer

Transfusion

Christmas Margarita

Steamboat Willie

Nuclear Daiquiri

Bywater

Widow’s Kiss

Fuzzy Navel

Lemon Drop

Kamikaze

Hurricane

Salty Dog

Sex on the Beach

Sea Breeze

Planter's Punch

Rum Punch

Mimosa

Tuxedo

Scorpion

Painkiller

Zombie

Cuba Libre

Harvey Wallbanger

Tequila Sunrise

Irish Coffee

Campfire in Georgia

Naked & Famous

Trinidad Sour

Jungle Bird

Southside

Hemingway Daiquiri

Bramble

Vesper

Singapore Sling

Long Island Iced Tea

Pimm's Cup

Brandy Alexander

Bellini

Sazerac

Ramos Gin Fizz

Amaretto Sour

Clover Club

Vieux Carré

Corpse Reviver No. 2

Paper Plane

Last Word

Penicillin

White Russian

Caipirinha

Pisco Sour

Dark and Stormy

Paloma

Boulevardier

Negroni

Mint Julep

Cosmopolitan

Bloody Mary

Gin and Tonic

Gimlet

Tom Collins

Whiskey Sour

Manhattan

Martini

Old Fashioned

Chef’s Negroni

Mezcal Margarita

Espresso Martini

Daiquiri

French 75

Shaken Piña Colada

Flaming Dr. Pepper

Saigon Heat