Cocktail ingredients
Understanding cocktail ingredients is a great start to making great cocktails. If you know what flavours and alcohol levels you’re dealing with, you’ll find mixing your own cocktails so much easier.
Below, you’ll find all of our articles about the ingredients we LOVE to use in our cocktails: guides to what they are, and reviews of the brands worth buying. Happy mixing!
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Alcohol information
What’s in the bottle, what it tastes like and how to use it in cocktails.
What is gold rum?
Aged rum with a smoother, richer flavour than white rum.
What is peach schnapps?
A sweet peach liqueur and the key to a Sex on the Beach.
What is sloe gin?
A ruby-red liqueur made by steeping sloe berries in gin.
What is blue curacao?
An orange liqueur coloured bright blue, as used in a Blue Lagoon.
What is triple sec?
A clear orange liqueur used in Margaritas and Cosmopolitans.
What is Campari?
A bitter Italian aperitif best known for the Negroni.
Alcohol reviews
Which brand to buy, and whether the one you’ve got is any good.
Best white rum for cocktails
White rum mixes with pretty much anything, but which bottle should you buy?
Is Smirnoff good vodka?
It’s in every shop and it’s cheap, but is it any good? Our honest review.
The best vodka for cocktails
Vodka is a fantastic base for cocktails, but which brand is best?
Ready to buy a bottle?
Our alcohol recommendations list every brand we rate, from vodka and rum to bitters and absinthe.
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