Fresh mint sprigs used as a garnish to provide a cooling, aromatic quality to cocktails. They are an essential component of the Mojito and Mint Julep, where they may also be muddled.

A New Orleans cafe classic in which anise-forward absinthe is poured over crushed ice with fresh mint and a splash of soda, yielding a frosty, licorice-scented cooler.

Absinthe Frappé

A classic tiki cucumber cooler from Trader Vic's, muddling fresh cucumber with mint into a light rum sour with tropical ease.

Aku Aku

A mountain-fresh herbal cocktail -- gin and yellow Chartreuse with lime, honey, and mint for an alpine-garden inspired sour.

Alpine Spring

A tiki cocktail with split rum, grapefruit, and orgeat -- grapefruit's bitter-sweet character pairs brilliantly with falernum's spice.

Aviator Tiki

Bermuda's national cocktail swizzling dark and light rums with pineapple and orange juices, falernum, and Angostura into a frothy, spice-kissed tropical sipper over crushed ice.

Bermuda Rum Swizzle

A Cuban mojito reworked with muddled blueberries so bright mint and lime meet jammy berry sweetness, topped with soda for a purple-hued, summer-porch refresher.

Blueberry Mojito

A tall, muddled smash combining bourbon with lemon, ginger syrup, and fresh mint, topped with soda for a herbaceous, spice-forward sipper with whiskey backbone.

Bourbon Ginger Smash

A porch-ready smash that muddles ripe peach and mint into bourbon with lemon and sugar, pairing stone-fruit sweetness with oak and mint lift for a Southern-summer sipper.

Bourbon Peach Smash

A Dale DeGroff-popularized classic where bourbon meets muddled mint, lemon, and sugar over crushed ice for a juicy, herb-streaked whiskey cooler.

Bourbon Smash

A Victorian-era cobbler built on chilled champagne, orange liqueur, and muddled citrus over crushed ice, garnished with mint for a festive, orchard-fresh sparkler.

Champagne Cobbler

Marcovaldo Dionysos's San Francisco creation that swizzles green Chartreuse with pineapple, lime, and falernum over crushed ice for a herb-garden-meets-tiki sipper of intense botanical depth.

Chartreuse Swizzle

A Clover Club garnished with mint, pairing gin's botanicals with raspberry and lemon over a silken egg-white foam for a pink, garden-fresh sour.

Clover Leaf

A beachy riff on the Cuban mojito that folds silky coconut cream into the usual mint, rum, lime, and soda build for a cooler that drinks like a tropical vacation in a glass.

Coconut Mojito

The 19th-century original Julep form before bourbon took over -- Cognac's oak, stone fruit, and spice shine over crushed ice with fresh mint.

Cognac Julep

Gin and cucumber muddled together then built with lime and soda -- crisp, green, and incredibly refreshing for warm weather.

Cucumber Cooler Fresh

A Cuban classic from Charles H. Baker where light rum is perfumed with yellow Chartreuse, lime, and mint for a floral, herbaceous tropical sour.

Daisy de Santiago

A pre-tiki South Seas rum punch popularized by Robert Louis Stevenson's doctor -- dark rum, agricole, absinthe, grenadine, and lime.

Dr. Funk

A modern classic born at Libations in New York in 2004 and popularized at Milk & Honey. Muddled cucumber adds a cool freshness to gin, lime, and simple syrup, making it one of the defining cocktails of the early 21st century.

Eastside

A digestif highball that has become a beloved post-meal ritual in Argentina, where Fernet-Branca is consumed per capita more than anywhere else outside Italy. The intensely herbal, menthol-forward spirit and soda water create a refreshing and deeply bitter long drink.

Fernet and Soda

Trader Vic's 1945 three-spirit tiki punch -- rum, brandy, and gin with orgeat, citrus, and a sherry float. The Fog Cutter cuts through any haze.

Fog Cutter Original

A Victorian-era sipper built over crushed ice with gin, a touch of sugar, and muddled citrus and mint, prized for its aromatic freshness and gentle sweetness.

Gin Cobbler

A British gin cup -- gin with elderflower, muddled cucumber, and lemon topped with soda. The Pimm's Cup alternative for gin lovers.

Gin Cup

A muddled mint-and-lemon classic from the smash family, where gin meets crushed herb and citrus for a bright, aromatic, quickly built sipper.

Gin Smash

A modern classic created by Audrey Saunders at Bemelmans Bar in New York, combining gin, fresh lime, ginger beer, and mint. The gin-forward take on the Moscow Mule shows how a classic template can transform with a spirit swap.

Gin-Gin Mule

A Barbadian-Caribbean classic — light rum with lime and a measure of green Chartreuse swizzled over crushed ice until the glass frosts, producing a vivid, herbal, daiquiri-adjacent drink of striking appearance and layered complexity.

Green Swizzle

A low-proof aperitif from Harry McElhone's 1927 recipe book blending amontillado sherry, dry vermouth, and a dash of peach bitters. Named after the famous West Virginia resort hotel.

Greenbriar

Bourbon with fresh lemon and honey syrup topped with soda -- a Southern-style lemonade that's refreshing, floral, and perfectly balanced.

Honey Bourbon Lemonade

A Polynesian kiss — meaning 'to rub noses' in Hawaiian — this bright tiki sipper melds light rum with orange liqueur, lime, a hint of almond-rich orgeat, and pineapple into an easygoing tropical drink.

Honi Honi

The Hugo originated in South Tyrol, northern Italy in 2005 and swept through Alpine Europe — elderflower liqueur, Prosecco, soda, fresh mint, and a slice of lime create a floral, refreshing aperitif lighter and more fragrant than the Aperol Spritz.

Hugo

A Northern Italian alpine spritz of elderflower liqueur, prosecco, and soda with muddled mint, drinking floral and herbal with a gentle spring-meadow softness.

Hugo Spritz

The IBA's official Tiki cocktail is a nutty, tropical tall drink layering two rums with amaretto, Frangelico, and maraschino over passion fruit, pineapple, lime, and ginger.

IBA Tiki

A Hawaii-born tiki cooler with split rum base, pineapple, lime, orange juice, and orgeat -- breezy and fruity with tropical depth.

Kahala Cooler

A Caribbean latitude cocktail with dark rum, allspice dram, falernum, pineapple, and lime delivering a spiced tropical punch.

Latitude 19

Trader Vic's 1944 tiki cornerstone of aged rum, orange liqueur, orgeat, and lime, floated with dark rum — a complex, nutty, citrus-bright benchmark of the Polynesian pop era.

Mai Tai

A tropical mojito brightened with mango, where muddled mint, lime, and light rum meet stone-fruit sweetness for a jammy, golden-hued cooler topped with soda.

Mango Mojito

Mezcal's smoke and ginger beer's spice create a dramatically flavored Mule -- this is the Moscow Mule for those who want more character.

Mezcal Mule Fresh

The bourbon staple of the Kentucky Derby, built on crushed ice, muddled mint, and sugar, served in a frosted silver cup that amplifies the drink's cooling herbal lift.

Mint Julep

A blended, frappé-style Don the Beachcomber tiki built from light rum, peach brandy, honey, lime, fresh mint, and pineapple — tasting like a green, herbal orchard smoothie.

Missionary's Downfall

A Cuban highball of light rum, lime, sugar, and muddled mint finished with soda, producing the quintessential summer refresher: herbal, tart, and sunshine-bright.

Mojito

Trader Vic's Navy Grog with three rums -- aged, light, and dark -- with grapefruit, lime, and honey for a complex, sailor-worthy tiki punch.

Navy Grog Fresh

Audrey Saunders's modern classic lifts a mojito with aged rum, Angostura, and a Champagne top, producing a dressier, mint-kissed sparkler with oaked depth and effervescent shimmer.

Old Cuban

A beloved riff on the Eastside from New York's Milk & Honey — cucumber and mint muddled with gin and lime produce a vivid, garden-fresh, effortlessly refreshing cocktail.

Old Maid

A Southern summer Smash -- bourbon with ripe peach puree, lemon, and muddled mint for a juicy, refreshing seasonal cocktail.

Peach Bourbon Smash

A Caribbean long drink of dark rum, lime, and simple syrup brightened with mint and Angostura, yielding a molasses-rich, refreshingly tart sipper with deep island character.

Planter's Punch

A Civil War-era julep combining cognac and rye whiskey in a split-base formula. The combination of French brandy and American rye creates a deeply complex julep with layers of fruit, grain, and herbal mint.

Prescription Julep

A Trinidadian classic from the Queen's Park Hotel where dark rum is swizzled with lime, demerara, and mint over crushed ice, then crowned with a dark float of Angostura bitters.

Queen's Park Swizzle

A berry-forward take on the Havana highball where muddled mint, light rum, and lime meet sweet raspberry syrup and soda, giving the classic mojito a jammy, rose-tinted lift.

Raspberry Mojito

A crushed-ice classic where aged rum mingles with orange, mint, and a whisper of sugar, producing a lazy, aromatic sipper built for a hot afternoon.

Rum Cobbler

A rum-based mule built tall over ice with lime, spicy ginger beer, and fresh mint, giving the Moscow Mule template a brighter, more tropical lean.

Rum Mule

A lime-and-mint smash built on light rum, combining muddled herb, tart citrus, and sugar over crushed ice for a mojito-adjacent, shorter cooler.

Rum Smash

The Stinger's classic brandy-and-creme-de-menthe formula given a tropical spin with aged rum -- cooling, sweet, and surprisingly refreshing.

Rum Stinger

Rye whiskey's spice and pepper bring a drier, more assertive character to the classic Julep -- particularly refreshing in summer.

Rye Julep

A Trader Vic tiki classic blending rum and brandy with orange, lemon, and almond orgeat, delivering a nutty, citrusy punch often served communally over crushed ice.

Scorpion

Scotch whisky's smoke and malt meet muddled mint and lemon in a cooling Smash format -- herbaceous, refreshing, and distinctly Scottish.

Scotch Smash

A Donn Beach tiki curiosity of light rum, lime, pineapple, sugar, and grenadine, swirled over crushed ice for a ruby, fruit-streaked beach sipper.

Shark's Tooth

A pre-Prohibition icon of crushed ice, two sherries, sugar, and citrus wheels where nutty, oxidative wine layers over orange and lemon into a refreshingly low-proof sipper.

Sherry Cobbler

Sloe gin's bramble-fruit sweetness makes it a natural for the Smash format — fresh mint muddled and shaken with sloe gin, lemon, and simple syrup, served over ice and topped with soda. Bright, berry-forward, and refreshing, a perfect introduction to sloe gin.

Sloe Gin Smash

A Prohibition-era gin sour brightened with muddled mint — essentially a gin mojito without the rum or soda — drinking crisp, herbaceous, and country-club clean.

South Side

A long, sparkling version of the Southside cocktail adding soda water to the gin, lime, and mint base. Refreshing and herbal, it has the soul of a mint julep with a gin backbone.

Southside Fizz

The Southside elevated with champagne -- gin, mint, and lime shaken and strained into a flute, topped with sparkling wine.

Southside Royale

A Cairo-born hair-of-the-dog lengthener combining bourbon, gin, lime, and Angostura over ice with ginger beer, balancing boozy warmth against spicy, effervescent lift.

Suffering Bastard

Joe Scialom's authentic 1942 Shepheard's Hotel Cairo original — gin and cognac combined over ice with lime and bitters then topped with ginger beer and mint, the actual Suffering Bastard as its inventor made it, distinct from the later rum variation.

Suffering Bastard (Gin)

Tequila's agave and pepper notes pair naturally with crushed mint and lemon in a refreshing Smash format that drinks like a Mexican Julep.

Tequila Smash

Don the Beachcomber's Morse-code tiki tribute — three cherries, one pineapple — layering aged rum with falernum, allspice dram, honey, and citrus into a warmly spiced, amber tropical sipper.

Three Dots and a Dash

A tropical variation on the classic Fix -- aged rum with pineapple, lime, and honey built over crushed ice with fresh mint.

Tropical Rum Fix

The Mojito's spirit-free version -- muddled mint with lime and simple syrup topped with soda water for all the refreshment, none of the alcohol.

Virgin Mojito

A clean, mint-forward smash using vodka as a neutral stage for muddled herb, lemon, and sugar, producing a bright, garden-fresh sipper.

Vodka Smash

A refreshing summer variation on the Mojito featuring fresh watermelon juice alongside the classic mint, rum, and lime framework. The watermelon adds a juicy sweetness and vivid pink color that makes this an ideal warm-weather crowd-pleaser.

Watermelon Mojito

A 19th-century American classic where bourbon is poured over crushed ice with muddled orange, lemon, and mint for a fragrant, gently sweet sipper once popularized by Mark Twain.

Whiskey Cobbler

Bourbon's warm sweetness and the Moscow Mule format combine -- ginger beer and lime in a copper mug create a distinctly Southern twist.

Whiskey Mule

An American summer cocktail that muddles fresh mint with bourbon, peach purée, lemon, and sugar — the orchard fruit, crushed mint, and corn whiskey creating a crushable warm-weather smash of Southern charm.

Whiskey Peach Smash

A muddled-mint Mint Julep cousin shaken with lemon and simple syrup, turning bourbon bright and herbal without any of the stirred Julep's stately reserve.

Whiskey Smash

Don the Beachcomber's infamous three-rum tiki bomb layering falernum, citrus, cinnamon, and absinthe into a stratified, warm-spiced tropical drink meant to be sipped slowly and respected.