Cocktail
Carrot-Ginger Shrub
Pair this sweet, slightly spicy carrot-ginger shrub with vodka or gin, or use it in salad dressing with olive oil, salt, and pepper.
By Michael Dietsch
Blueberry-Lavender Shrub
Floral and fruity, with just the right amount of tang, this blueberry-lavender shrub is your new summer fave.
By Michael Dietsch
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29 Best Nonalcoholic Drinks (Just Don’t Call Them Mocktails, Please)
Alcohol-free cocktails aren’t just for Dry January.
By Joe Sevier and The Editors of Epicurious
How to Calculate the Strength of Any Cocktail
You can tell how much alcohol is in a beer by looking at the number on the can. But how do you know how strong a drink is when it’s made of a handful of ingredients that are stirred or shaken with ice?
By Derek Brown
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.
By Maggie Hoffman and Derek Brown
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11 Summer Vodka Drinks to Keep You Refreshed
Because no one wants a hot martini.
By The Editors of Epicurious
How to Make Raspberry Syrup, the Original Summer Grenadine
These four refreshing drinks are just the beginning of what you can shake up with fresh raspberry syrup—the original summer grenadine.
By Al Sotack
Redheaded Saint
A compelling combination of mezcal, tequila, fresh lime, ginger beer, and raspberry syrup.
By Al Sotack
Applejack Fix
This is a perfect sipper for a warm day. The boozy sour is tempered by lots of ice and brightened by tart and tender raspberry.
By Al Sotack
Raspberry Syrup
Raspberry syrup appears over and over in some of the most influential historic cocktail books.
By Al Sotack
Clover Club
While the Clover Club cocktail may have originated in the 1890s at the Bellevue Hotel in Philadelphia, where the social organization that lends the drinks its name would carouse, it’s very much a drink of the 20th century. It was then that the famously pink drink became a cultural phenomenon beyond a small set of Philly-area lawyers and business folk. It arrived in New York perhaps thanks to hotelier George Boldt, who operated both the Bellevue and the new Waldorf-Astoria. His other culinary cla.…
By Al Sotack
Cosmopolitan Cocktail
To make this pretty pink drink, remember this mnemonic device: Very Cute Little Cocktail. That’s V for vodka, C for Cointreau, L for lime, and another C for cranberry.
By The Gourmet Test Kitchen
Classic Daiquiri
Using just three ingredients—light rum, fresh lime, and simple syrup—this cocktail shows how good the classics can be.
By The Epicurious Test Kitchen
The Classic Margarita
Our best margarita recipe is refreshing, strong, and tart. The secret? Good tequila, the right orange liqueur, fresh lime juice, and finding the ideal balance.
By The Epicurious Test Kitchen
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37 Easy Cocktails to Make as Soon as It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere
Making delicious cocktails doesn’t have to be fussy.
By The Editors of Epicurious
Mint Julep
A classic whiskey cocktail made with bourbon and mint is even more fragrant when you flavor your simple syrup.
By Cindy Kebbell
The Ultimate Paloma
This Paloma recipe is a refreshing tequila cocktail with grapefruit soda, brightened with a quick squeeze of fresh lime and grapefruit.
By Maggie Hoffman
Cynar-Berry Spritz
Bold cranberry mingles with bittersweet Cynar in this bitter and bubbly variation on the spritz cocktail.
By Danielle Centoni
Apercot Spritz
Delicately apricotty, this easy spritz can be made with or without Aperol.
By Danielle Centoni
Mojito
For this adaptation of a classic Cuban cocktail, you don't need a muddler. Tear the mint, then stir with lime juice, sugar, white rum, and soda water.
By Eben Freeman