A sibling to the Bamboo swapping in sweet vermouth, this turn-of-the-century Broadway tribute is a low-ABV sipper with raisiny sherry depth and soft, bittersweet lift.

Adonis

A Southern-born crowd-pleaser stacking Southern Comfort, amaretto, and sloe gin over orange juice into a red-hued, almond-kissed drink with a juicy berry undertow.

Alabama Slammer

A gentle almond-forward fizz where amaretto's marzipan sweetness is cut by lemon and sugar, then topped with soda for a soft, nutty, approachable cooler.

Amaretto Fizz

An almond-driven whiskey sour with amaretto and bourbon shaken over egg white, creating a frothy, nutty drink crowned by a few drops of Angostura.

Amaretto Sour

An 80s bar standard lengthening the whiskey-less amaretto sour with orange juice, producing an almond-and-citrus crowd-pleaser that drinks easy and wears its sweetness openly.

Amaretto Stone Sour

A breezy orchard highball — apple brandy's honeyed fruit character lifted by lime's tang and the spicy effervescence of ginger beer — a lighter, autumnal alternative to the standard ginger-and-spirit mule.

Apple Brandy Buck

A 1990s lounge icon of vodka, green apple schnapps, and a splash of lemon, poured neon-chartreuse in a chilled coupe for a tart, candy-apple punch.

Appletini

A spiked Arnold Palmer stretching vodka with lemon juice, simple syrup, and soda water for a crisp, lemonade-forward sipper tailor-made for porch afternoons.

Arnold Palmer Spiked

A friendly, easy-drinking tropical highball in the Bahama Mama tradition — light rum doubled up with coconut rum over pineapple and orange juice, the grenadine sinking for a Tequila-Sunrise-style gradient of Caribbean colors.

Bahama Bob

A 1950s riff on the classic daiquiri that trades simple syrup's neutrality for banana liqueur, giving the rum-lime spine a creamy, tropical yellow-fruit note.

Banana Daiquiri

The house drink of Tequila's La Capilla bar — tequila, cola, and lime in a salt-rimmed glass — an easy, effervescent highball stirred traditionally with a knife.

Batanga

Don Javier Delgado Corona's iconic Tequila, Mexico drink — reposado tequila with fresh lime and cola over ice with a salted rim, stirred with a knife as tradition demands, a Mexican bar staple since the 1960s.

Batanga Reposado

A seaside vodka cooler splitting cranberry and pineapple juices for a tropical-leaning sipper where tart berry meets sunny fruit and a squeeze of lime.

Bay Breeze

A sunny pre-Prohibition cocktail evoking Bermuda's tropical spirit — gin paired with apricot brandy and orange juice, blushed with grenadine. Lightly sweet, citrus-bright, and fruit-forward, it's an elegant gateway to the era's fruity gin cocktails.

Bermuda Cocktail

A classic working-class American combination of a shot of whiskey alongside a glass of beer, served either as a chaser or dropped into the pint. One of the simplest and most satisfying two-component drinks in bartending history.

Boilermaker

An early 20th-century highball whose name comes from the long spiral of lemon peel draped over the glass rim — bourbon, ginger ale, and bitters combining into a gently spiced, supremely easy sipper.

Bourbon Horse's Neck

An American porch classic lengthening bourbon with lemon juice, sugar, and soda for a tall, tart, lightly honeyed sipper made for warm evenings.

Bourbon Lemonade

A bourbon Stone Sour named specifically for its base spirit, adding orange juice to the classic whiskey sour formula for a rounder, sweeter, and more fruit-forward drink that is approachable and versatile.

Bourbon Stone Sour

The bar-stool standby of bourbon stretched with cola and a squeeze of lime, balancing vanilla-and-caramel sweetness with cola spice and bubbles in a foolproof long drink.

Bourbon and Cola

A classic American highball -- bourbon's vanilla and caramel sweetness pairs beautifully with the sweetness and spice of ginger ale.

Bourbon and Ginger Ale

The original Highball — brandy and soda water over ice, served in a tall glass with a lemon twist. Before Scotch dominated the highball format, brandy was the spirit of choice for lengthening with charged water in late 19th-century saloons and clubs.

Brandy Highball

The classic Edwardian highball -- a large brandy and soda, once the most popular drink in British gentlemen's clubs.

Brandy and Soda

A pre-Prohibition Manhattan-martini hybrid shaking gin with orange juice and both vermouths, producing a soft, sunny sipper that drinks like a more botanical mimosa.

Bronx

The rum riff on the Caipirinha — light rum fills the glass where cachaça would normally go, creating a tropical, sugarcane-forward variation that is sweeter and more approachable than the Brazilian original.

Caipirissima

The Russian-Brazilian hybrid — vodka takes cachaça's place in the classic Caipirinha template, muddled with lime and sugar over crushed ice for a cleaner, crisper variation that swaps sugarcane funk for neutral spirit clarity.

Caipiroska

A Cuban predecessor to the Daiquiri, stirring light rum with honey and fresh lime over ice — a rustic, three-ingredient sipper with floral sweetness and bright tropical tartness.

Canchanchara

Served in a salt-rimmed clay cup, this Jalisco favorite stretches tequila with orange, grapefruit, and lime juices topped with grapefruit soda for a tart, fizzy, sunshine sipper.

Cantarito

The original vodka-cranberry highball, named for the Massachusetts bogs that supply the juice, delivering tart berry sweetness with a bright lime squeeze.

Cape Codder

The Cape Codder -- vodka and cranberry juice with a squeeze of lime -- the simplest version of the vodka cranberry, made right.

Cape Codder Fresh

Mexico's answer to the Rum and Coke -- tequila and cola with a squeeze of lime and a salt rim for a simple, crowd-pleasing highball.

Charro Negro

A vodka-based cousin to the Piña Colada that blends pineapple juice and coconut cream into a creamy, alabaster poolside slush without rum's warmth.

Chi Chi

Peru's beloved pisco highball -- a ginger ale-topped long drink with fresh lime and Angostura that serves as the national cocktail alongside the Pisco Sour.

Chilcano Ginger

Peru's most popular cocktail after the Pisco Sour — pisco over ice with fresh lime, ginger ale for gentle spice and fizz, and Angostura bitters for complexity, a refreshing everyday Lima bar staple of complete simplicity.

Chilcano de Pisco

A breezy tropical cooler with coconut rum, fresh pineapple, and lime topped with soda -- beach-ready and effortlessly refreshing.

Coconut Rum Cooler

The second Coronation variation from Harry Craddock — sherry and dry vermouth with a barspoon of maraschino and orange bitters, producing a nutty, dry, complex low-ABV aperitif of understated elegance.

Coronation No. 2

The Havana-born rum-and-cola highball lifted by fresh lime, drinking sweet, fizzy, and nostalgic — a Spanish-American War-era drink built around one of the world's simplest flavor pairings.

Cuba Libre

Bermuda's national cocktail — dark rum floated over ginger beer, the trademark storm cloud effect created by gently pouring the rum over ice and ginger beer. The tangy ginger and molasses-rich dark rum are an iconic pairing recognized worldwide.

Dark and Stormy

An adults-only update of the kiddie Shirley Temple in which vodka joins grenadine and orange juice for a pink-candy highball that leans unapologetically sweet.

Dirty Shirley

Argentina's unofficial national drink pours Fernet-Branca over ice and tops with cola, building a bittersweet highball where menthol, saffron, and cola spices play off one another.

Fernandito

A 1980s New York creation of vodka, Chambord, and pineapple juice that drinks silky and fruit-forward with a dark raspberry sweetness — glamorous, low-bite, and undeniably disco-era.

French Martini

The Lemon Drop done properly with fresh-squeezed lemon juice -- bright, tart, and balanced with a sugar rim for contrast.

Fresh Lemon Drop

A breezy 1980s highball of peach schnapps and orange juice, soft and sweet enough to drink at brunch and unabashedly nostalgic in its simplicity.

Fuzzy Navel

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 juniper-forward highball where gin's botanicals play against tart cranberry and lime, yielding a crisp, ruby-tinged easy drinker with more bite than its vodka sibling.

Gin Cranberry

A simple, classic British pub highball -- London dry gin and ginger ale with lemon, clean and refreshing.

Gin and Ginger Ale

The California-casual highball of gin cut with orange and lime juice, where juniper peeks through bright citrus sweetness for a breezy, daytime-friendly pour.

Gin and Juice

A tart, two-ingredient tall drink of vodka over fresh grapefruit juice, crisp and lightly bitter with a clean, thirst-quenching finish.

Greyhound

A seventies-era Screwdriver crowned with a float of Galliano, adding a vanilla-anise stripe to orange juice and vodka for kitschy, sunshiny nostalgia.

Harvey Wallbanger

A Prohibition-era three-ingredient classic where light rum is softened by honey syrup and brightened with lemon for a rounded, golden little sour.

Honey Bee

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

A Bronx cocktail with a dash of Angostura — gin, both vermouths, and orange juice stirred to a soft, bittersweet balance that reads gentler than a martini.

Income Tax

An Irish whiskey riff on the Moscow Mule where smooth, slightly malty Irish whiskey meets spicy ginger beer and a squeeze of lime for a long, snappy highball.

Irish Mule

The gentle Irish answer to the classic Old Fashioned — the light, floral character of Irish whiskey pairs beautifully with demerara sweetness and bitters, making for an approachable, warming, and effortlessly smooth stirred cocktail.

Irish Old Fashioned

The spicy margarita in its most direct form — fresh jalapeño muddled and shaken with silver tequila, orange liqueur, and fresh lime juice. The capsaicin from the jalapeño creates a slow-building heat that lingers pleasantly on the palate, balanced by the citrus-sweet framework.

Jalapeño Margarita

The Japanese Highball is a study in minimalist perfection — Suntory-style highball bars in Tokyo have elevated whisky and soda into a ritual, using precisely chilled glassware, a single large ice spear, vigorously carbonated water poured gently over the whisky, and a lemon twist.

Japanese Highball

The bourbon-based variant of the Collins family, lengthening whiskey sour ingredients with soda for a tall, honeyed, lemony refresher that drinks breezy on a porch.

John Collins

A vodka-based Collins with lemon juice, sometimes called a Vodka Collins, that serves as an approachable entry point to the Collins family. Light, effervescent, and easy to drink.

Lemon Collins

A sugar-rimmed martini-glass sour born in 1970s San Francisco, balancing vodka and orange liqueur against fresh lemon for a candied, tart sip that reads like liquid lemon meringue.

Lemon Drop

A San Francisco-born sugar-rimmed vodka sour that brightens orange liqueur and lemon into a candy-sweet, lip-puckering dessert martini reminiscent of a liquid lemon drop.

Lemon Drop Martini

A forgotten Savoy-era equal-parts gem that melds gin with orange liqueur and a citrus split of fresh lemon and orange juice for a clean, sunny, easy-drinking aperitif.

Maiden's Prayer

An eighties disco-era pour of vodka, Midori, and pineapple juice that drinks like a bright green, candy-sweet fruit punch with unmistakable honeydew aroma.

Melon Ball

A neon-green twist on the margarita shaking tequila with Midori-style melon liqueur and lime juice for a sweet, honeydew-forward sip over salted ice.

Melon Margarita

The Buck format — spirit, citrus, and ginger beer — applied to vodka with a dash of Angostura bitters to add complexity. Distinct from the Moscow Mule in that it's served in a highball rather than a copper mug and adds bitters; the Buck format predates the Mule by decades.

Moscow Buck

The 'botched' Negroni where prosecco stands in for gin, softening Campari and sweet vermouth into a fizzy, lower-proof aperitivo suddenly back in vogue.

Negroni Sbagliato

A classic Irish Manhattan — smooth Irish whiskey in place of rye or bourbon produces a softer, lighter take on the stirred vermouth-and-bitters template, perfect as an easy introduction to spirit-forward cocktails.

Paddy Cocktail

The original Paloma -- tequila with grapefruit soda and lime in a salted highball, the most popular cocktail in Mexico.

Paloma Classic

A softly fruity Savoy-era mix of gin, apricot brandy, and orange juice that drinks like a stone-fruit orchard in a glass, with juniper and bright citrus keeping it from turning syrupy.

Paradise

A tropical pineapple rum cooler -- fresh pineapple juice, grenadine, and lime topped with soda for a refreshing Caribbean beach cocktail.

Pineapple Rum Cooler

The Gold Rush-era San Francisco classic of pisco, pineapple syrup, lemon, and a splash of white wine that drinks deceptively soft — grape-bright, fruity, and dangerously easy.

Pisco Punch

One of the earliest documented American cocktails -- port wine, a touch of sugar, soda water, and nutmeg in a Colonial long-drink format.

Port Sangaree

A British pub classic lengthening ruby port with lemon juice, a touch of sugar, and soda water into a low-ABV, berry-tinged highball that drinks like grown-up fruit punch.

Port and Lemon

A vivid purple cocktail combining vodka, blue curaçao, cranberry, and pineapple juice. The blue curaçao reacts with the cranberry's red to produce a striking purple hue that made this a bar staple of the 1980s and 1990s.

Purple Rain

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-powered cousin to the Tom Collins where light rum joins lemon and sugar in a tall soda build, served over ice with lemon and a cherry for sunny porch-sipping ease.

Rum Collins

A light-rum highball stirred with tart cranberry juice and lime, leaning softly sweet and tropical-adjacent with a blush-pink color and easy, low-effort appeal.

Rum Cranberry

Fresh lemonade spiked with rum -- light rum's tropical sweetness enhances the classic summer refresher for a simple crowd-pleaser.

Rum Lemonade

The definitive Caribbean formula: one of sour, two of sweet, three of strong, four of weak — here dark rum over orange, pineapple, lime, grenadine, and bitters for a sun-soaked, fruit-forward island classic.

Rum Punch Classic

The Cuban-born Cuba Libre in its simplest form, where light rum, cold cola, and a squeeze of lime come together into the most casual of highballs.

Rum and Coke

A dark-and-stormy-style highball of aged rum and ginger ale lifted with lime, where molasses warmth meets ginger's peppery bite for an easy, spicy sipper.

Rum and Ginger

The simplest tropical highball in any bartender's arsenal — light rum's clean sugarcane sweetness poured into golden pineapple juice with a whisper of lime for balance, an effortless island sipper in under a minute.

Rum and Pineapple

A two-ingredient highball that lets aged rum's caramel and oak play against quinine's dry bitterness, garnished with lime for a crisp, easygoing alternative to gin and tonic.

Rum and Tonic

A Canadian highball built simply with rye whiskey, ginger ale, and a lime squeeze, producing an easy, spice-kissed sipper that lets the rye's pepper peek through.

Rye and Ginger

The Scottish solution to the Scotch and Soda — ginger ale's warm spice and sweetness complement Scotch's malt and smoke far better than plain soda water, while the lemon's acidity keeps the sweetness in check.

Scotch and Ginger

Scotch whisky with ginger ale -- smoke and malt tempered by ginger's spice and sweetness in one of Britain's most beloved simple highballs.

Scotch and Ginger Fresh

A two-ingredient lowball of Scotch whisky topped with soda water, dialing back the spirit's heat to let malt, honey, and faint smoke ride on a clean, effervescent finish.

Scotch and Soda

The original vodka-and-orange-juice highball, supposedly stirred by oilfield workers with their tools, offering a bright, sunny build with almost no effort.

Screwdriver

A 1980s disco-era highball of vodka with cranberry and grapefruit juices that drinks tart, faintly bitter, and beach-breezy without ever tipping sweet.

Sea Breeze

The Sea Breeze -- vodka with cranberry and grapefruit juices, a crisp 1980s beach cocktail that's pink, refreshing, and perfectly balanced.

Sea Breeze Fresh

A neon-hued Florida beach-bar highball pairing vodka and peach schnapps with cranberry and pineapple juices — a sweet, fruit-forward vacation drink with a faintly tart finish.

Sex on the Beach

A beer-and-lemonade British pub staple, long and lightly sweet, designed to quench summer thirst at half the alcohol of a pint.

Shandy

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

The diner-counter mocktail bubbling ginger ale over a grenadine splash and orange juice, topped with a Luxardo cherry for a sweet, cherry-tinged childhood classic.

Shirley Temple

The original non-alcoholic classic named for the child actress -- ginger ale, grenadine, and orange juice with a cherry garnish.

Shirley Temple Classic

A beloved British pub classic — half lager or stout, half dry hard cider, poured carefully to layer the two into a single pint glass, producing a bittersweet, malty, fermented blend with a sharp bite that explains its name.

Snakebite

The Sour Apple Martini — or Appletini — became a defining drink of the early 2000s bar scene. Vodka and sour apple schnapps shaken with fresh lime juice and a touch of simple syrup, creating a vivid green, candy-tart cocktail that remains a crowd-pleaser.

Sour Apple Martini

A charming pre-Prohibition gin cocktail from the Savoy era combining dry gin with fruity apricot brandy and fresh orange juice, brightened by a dash of Angostura. Approachable, fruit-forward, and effortlessly elegant.

Spencer Cocktail

Spiced rum's vanilla and warming spices double down with ginger beer in a long, aromatic highball with lime's fresh contrast.

Spiced Rum Highball

A spiked Arnold Palmer -- vodka added to the classic half-lemonade, half-iced-tea combination for a refreshing summer sipper.

Spiked Frosty Palmer

A rustic Colonial American combination of rye whiskey and hard apple cider — reputedly drunk by Vermont Green Mountain Boys during the American Revolution — updated here with Angostura bitters for balance and a cinnamon stick for warming autumn spice.

Stone Fence

Brazil's most beloved Caipirinha variation — strawberry purée muddled into the classic cachaça, lime, and sugar template, turning the national cocktail into a vivid, sweet-tart, berry-forward sipper popular from Rio to São Paulo's beach bars.

Strawberry Caipirinha

Cocktails that welcome newcomers — low in alcohol bite, balanced in sweetness, and easy to enjoy. Good for anyone new to cocktails.