Pocket co*cktails have over 1,000 drinks in over a dozen categories. Each with a high resolution photograph, full recipe and all ingredients you need to make each drink. At the top of each drink page is a scrolling gallery of similar drinks so you will always have something new to explore.
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On the All Drinks page you can use our special Filtering widget that will allow you to create drinks based on liquor, liqueurs, and other mixing ingredients including pop, juices, and garnishes you have on hand.
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A co*cktail is an alcoholic mixed drink. Most commonly, co*cktails are either a single spirit or a combination of spirits mixed with other ingredients, such as juices, flavored syrups, tonic water, shrubs, and bitters. co*cktails vary widely across regions of the world, and many websites publish both original recipes and their own interpretations of older and more famous co*cktails.
The origins of the word “co*cktail” have been debated. The first written mention of “co*cktail” as a beverage appeared in The Farmers Cabinet, 1803, in the United States. The first definition of a co*cktail as an alcoholic beverage appeared three years later in The Balance and Columbian Repository (Hudson, New York) May 13, 1806. Traditionally, co*cktail ingredients included spirits, sugar, water and bitters; however, this definition evolved throughout the 1800s to include the addition of a liqueur.
In 1862, Jerry Thomas published a bartender’s guide called How to Mix Drinks; or, The Bon Vivant’s Companion which included 10 co*cktail recipes using bitters, to differentiate from other drinks such as punches and cobblers.
co*cktails continued to evolve and gain popularity throughout the 1900s, with the term eventually expanding to cover all mixed drinks. In 1917, the term “co*cktail party” was coined by Mrs. Julius S. Walsh Jr. of St. Louis, Missouri. With wine and beer being less available during the Prohibition in the United States (1920–1933), liquor-based co*cktails became more popular due to accessibility, followed by a decline in popularity during the late 1960s.
The early to mid-2000s saw the rise of co*cktail culture through the style of mixology which mixes traditional co*cktails and other novel ingredients. By 2023, the so-called “co*cktail in a can” had proliferated (at least in the United States) to become a common item in liquor stores.
In the modern world and the Information Age, co*cktail recipes are widely shared online on websites. co*cktails and restaurants that serve them are frequently covered and reviewed in tourism magazines and guides. Some co*cktails, such as the Mojito, Manhattan, and Martini, have become staples in restaurants and pop culture.
Queen Mary, a North American co*cktail, made by combining beer, grenadine and Maraschino cherries The term “co*cktail” can refer to a wide variety of drinks; it is typically a mixed drink containing alcohol.
When a mixed drink contains only a distilled spirit and a mixer, such as soda or fruit juice, it is a highball. Many of the International Bartenders Association Official co*cktails are highballs. When a mixed drink contains only a distilled spirit and a liqueur, it is a duo, and when it adds cream or a cream-based liqueur, it is a trio. Additional ingredients may be sugar, honey, milk, cream, and various herbs.
Mixed drinks without alcohol that resemble co*cktails can be known as “zero-proof” or “virgin” co*cktails or “mocktails”.
The first “co*cktail party” ever thrown was allegedly by Julius S. Walsh Jr. of St. Louis, Missouri, in May 1917. Walsh invited 50 guests to her home at noon on a Sunday. The party lasted an hour until lunch was served at 1 p.m. The site of this first co*cktail party still stands. In 1924, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Louis bought the Walsh mansion at 4510 Lindell Boulevard, and it has served as the local archbishop’s residence ever since.
During Prohibition in the United States (1920–1933), when alcoholic beverages were illegal, co*cktails were still consumed illegally in establishments known as speakeasies. The quality of the liquor available during Prohibition was much worse than previously. There was a shift from whiskey to gin, which does not require aging and is, therefore, easier to produce illicitly.[31] Honey, fruit juices, and other flavorings served to mask the foul taste of the inferior liquors. Sweet co*cktails were easier to drink quickly, an important consideration when the establishment might be raided at any moment. With wine and beer less readily available, liquor-based co*cktails took their place, even becoming the centerpiece of the new co*cktail party.
co*cktails became less popular in the late 1960s and through the 1970s, until resurging in the 1980s with vodka often substituting for the original gin in drinks such as the martini. Traditional co*cktails began to make a comeback in the 2000s,[33] and by the mid-2000s there was a renaissance of co*cktail culture in a style typically referred to as mixology that draws on traditional co*cktails for inspiration but uses novel ingredients and often complex flavors.
