How to Make
Great Cocktails at Home
Sometimes the best happy hours and nightcaps are enjoyed in the comfort of your own home. Here, you’ll find all the latest and greatest from Epicurious about how to step up your bartending skills. Discover new cocktail recipes to shake or stir (or blend!), learn technique tips from the pros, and dig into the origin stories of the mixed drinks you know and love.
The Stories Behind the Drinks You Love Most
It’s Time to Give the Amaretto Sour Another Chance
This classic transcends its reputation for hangovers and heartburn.
Pro Moves
How to Make Ranch Water Like a Texas Bartender
The bubbly cocktail only requires three ingredients, but that shouldn't stop you from adding your own flourishes.
What to Drink Right Now
A Pizza-Flavored Cocktail? Hear Me Out
When pizza’s in a cocktail, you can drink pizza anytime.
23 Essential Gin Cocktails for Happy Hour Tonight
Whether you like your gin drinks bracing and boozy or light and refreshing, stirred or shaken, frozen or fizzy, there’s a cocktail recipe here for you.
23 Rum Drinks to Get You in a Summer Mood
These cocktail recipes will help your favorite bottle shine.
Build a Better Spritz With These 21 Recipes
Yes, you can branch out beyond Aperol in your spritz routine.
23 Easy Vodka Cocktails for Your Next Happy Hour
Variations on the Bloody Mary? Yes. But lots more too.
How Strong Is That Cocktail?
The Epicurious Cocktail ABV Calculator
This calculator below will tell you the ABV—that is, the proportion of pure alcohol a drink contains—of whatever you are sipping.
19 Low-Alcohol Cocktails That Still Bring the Party
Like a strawberry-rhubarb spritz, a watermelon-sherry-kombucha cooler, and more low-ABV drinks for day drinking and keeping your witz.
Hugo Spritz
With elderflower liqueur, mint, and prosecco, the effervescent Hugo spritz cocktail is a hit year round, but particularly on warm nights.
Frozen Espresso Martini With Spiked Whipped Cream
This frozen cocktail uses instant espresso for a strong flavor and unbeatable convenience.
Paloma Slushy
Frozen into a slushy, the classic tequila and grapefruit cocktail becomes even more refreshing.
Spicy Mango Margarita
Blend frozen mango, blanco tequila, and lime juice into these cooling margaritas. A Tajín rim adds a spicy-salty kick.
The Iciest Strawberry Daiquiri
Using frozen strawberries means no need for ice cubes. White rum adds just enough booze and fresh lime juice, bright acidity.
How to Pick Between Club Soda, Seltzer, and Tonic
Whether mixing drinks or sipping solo, which sparkling water you choose makes a difference.
Violet Vodka Slushy
Crème de violette is an exuberantly floral violet liqueur that gives vibrant color to this fun frozen cocktail.
19 Citrusy Cocktails to Make With Cointreau
A cosmopolitan spritz, blackberry margarita, the classic Sidecar, and more orange-liqueur-laced drinks.
Sake-Grapefruit Fizz
This light and drinkable cocktail pairs the bittersweet flavor of grapefruit with botanical gin and sparkling sake for a bubbly finish.
Brown Derby
This simple honey-grapefruit cocktail dates to Prohibition, though its origin is a matter of some debate.
Rob Roy
Named for a Scottish revolutionary, a New York City operetta—or both—this effortless scotch cocktail is built to last.
Dirty Spritz
In this nonalcoholic take on a spritz, which typically features a bitter liqueur with sparkling wine or fizzy water, the olive brine brings flavor and depth.
Hot Buttered Rum
Rich and satisfying, this warm winter drink provides unparalleled cozy vibes.
BA’s Best Old-Fashioned
A classic drink that never goes out of style. Stick with these steps and you’ll nail it every time.
17 Refreshing St-Germain Cocktails
Like a rosé spritzer, a honey-apple punch, and a tropical riff on the Last Word.
47 Festive Christmas Cocktails to Keep Spirits Bright
Make merry with spiked hot chocolate, crowd-pleasing punch, and warm whiskey cocktails.
Golden Hour
Pleasantly bitter Suze pairs with ginger syrup, sparkling wine, and a piece of candied ginger that fizzes and bubbles from the bottom of the glass.
Wassail
Bring in the cheer with this ruby red drink made with apple brandy, hot cider, cranberry, and plenty of warm spice.
Cranberry-Maple Mule
This big-batch cocktail made with ginger beer, cranberry juice, fresh lime, and a spiced maple simple syrup makes the perfect low-alcohol holiday drink.
Green Apple Martini
Call it an appletini if you wish, one thing's for certain: This Jolly-Rancher-hued drink, garnished with a candy-red cherry, is as striking as it is delicious.
9 Things You Can Do With Your French Press...Besides Making Coffee
Dinner, dessert, and even cocktails are easier when you tap into this underrated tool.
Manhattan
This classic rye cocktail doesn’t have to try hard. Just add vermouth and a dash of bitters for a deeply satisfying sip.
One-Bottle Vermouth Sangria
The world’s easiest sangria recipe skips the basic red wine, brandy, and liqueur and opts instead for sweet vermouth and fresh summer fruit.
Rusty Nail
Rumored to be a Rat Pack favorite, this two-ingredient cocktail is the ultimate throwback after-dinner drink.
Does Alcohol Expire? A Guide to Storing Liquor
Find out which bottles to keep in the fridge—and just how long they’ll last.
Siesta
Revive yourself for the night ahead with this vivid tequila, grapefruit, and Campari cocktail.
Spa Water Punch
This minty fino sherry punch is cooling and light, served by the pitcher. Float some cucumber slices in each glass, spa-water style.
Spa Water Punch
This minty fino sherry punch is cooling and light, served by the pitcher. Float some cucumber slices in each glass, spa-water style.
Hot Pink Punch
Rim some glasses with spicy salt and make this juicy watermelon cocktail recipe for your summer barbecue. It’s an easy gin cocktail served by the pitcher.
Ginger Snap
A low-alcohol cocktail made for the modern era, the Ginger Snap will be your go-to easy sipper all summer.
Frozen Garibaldi
This Frozen Garibaldi recipe transforms frozen orange juice concentrate and Campari into a slushy cocktail worthy of a fancy summer brunch or hot afternoon by the pool.
Boozy Banana Latte
This frozen coffee cocktail recipe combines cold brew concentrate, frozen bananas, mezcal, cinnamon, and vanilla, blended together until creamy. Whip one up for brunch this weekend.
Before Daylight
This mezcal, blackberry, and ginger ale cocktail is the ideal juicy summer refresher. Serve in a tall glass filled with crushed ice.
Americano
This Americano recipe is so simple you’ll quickly memorize it. The classic Italian predinner cocktail combines Campari, sweet vermouth, and seltzer or club soda.
Earl Grey Martini
Quickly infusing vodka with earl grey tea bags creates a distinct floral foundation for this fun (and caffeinated) take on a martini.