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IBA Official Cocktails
International Bartenders Association official recipe list.
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- International Bartenders Association
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Recipe versions
- 30 ml Bitter Campari
- 30 ml Sweet Red Vermouth
- A splash of Soda Water
Mix the ingredients directly in an old fashioned glass filled with ice cubes. Add a splash of Soda Water. Stir gently.
- 30 ml Gin
- 30 ml Apricot Brandy
- 30 ml Calvados
Pour all ingredients into cocktail shaker filled with ice cubes. Shake and strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
- 90 ml Prosecco
- 60 ml Aperol
- Splash of Soda water
Build all ingredients into a wine glass filled with ice. Stir gently. NOTE: There are other versions of the Spritz that use Campari, Cynar or Select instead of Aperol.
- 45 ml Gin
- 15 ml Maraschino Luxardo
- 15 ml Fresh Lemon Juice
- 1 Bar Spoon Crème de Violette
Add all ingredients into a cocktail shaker. Shake with cracked ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
- 100 ml Prosecco
- 50 ml White Peach Puree
Pour peach puree into the mixing glass with ice, add the Prosecco wine. Stir gently and pour in a chilled flute glass. NOTE: Puccini – Fresh Mandarin Orange Juice; Rossini – Fresh Strawberry Puree; Tintoretto – Fresh Pomegranate Juice.
- 30 ml White Rum
- 30 ml Cognac
- 30 ml Triple Sec
- 20 ml Fresh Lemon Juice
Add all ingredients into a cocktail shaker. Shake with ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
- 50 ml Vodka
- 20 ml Coffee Liqueur
Pour the ingredients into the old fashioned glass filled with ice cubes. Stir gently. strain ingredients into old fashioned glass filled with ice. NOTE: WHITE RUSSIAN – Float fresh cream on the top and stir in slowly.
- 50 ml Gin
- 25 ml Fresh Lemon Juice
- 12.5 ml Sugar Syrup
- 15 ml Crème de Mûre
Pour all ingredients into cocktail shaker except the Crème de Mûre, shake well with ice, strain into chilled old fashioned glass filled with crushed ice, then pour the blackberry liqueur (Crème de Mûre) over the top of the drink, in a circular motion.
- 30 ml Cognac
- 30 ml Crème de Cacao (Brown)
- 30 ml Fresh Cream
Pour all ingredients into cocktail shaker filled with ice cubes. Shake and strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
- 40 ml Gin
- 20 ml Dry Vermouth
- 10 ml Bitter Campari
Pour all ingredients into mixing glass with ice cubes. Stir well. Strain into chilled cocktail glass.
- 40 ml Old Tom Gin
- 10 ml Maraschino Luxardo
- 10 ml Fresh Lemon Juice
- 2 Dashes Orange Bitters
Pour all ingredients into cocktails shaker, shake well with ice, strain into chilled rocks glass with ice.
- 90 ml Chilled Champagne
- 10 ml Cognac
- 2 dashes Angostura bitters
- Few drops of Grand Marnier (optional)
- 1 sugar cube
Place the sugar cube with 2 dashes of bitters in a large Champagne glass, add the cognac. Pour gently chilled Champagne.
- 45 ml Green Chartreuse
- 30 ml Fresh Pineapple Juice
- 22.5 ml Fresh Lime Juice
- 15 ml Falernum
Pour all ingredients into a tall glass, add pebble ice. With the help of a swizzle stick (or cocktail spoon) mix vigorously, complete by filling the glass with more pebble ice.
- 45 ml Gin
- 15 ml Raspberry Syrup
- 15 ml Fresh Lemon Juice
- Few Drops of Egg White
Pour all ingredients into cocktails shaker, shake well with ice, strain into chilled cocktail glass.
- 30 ml Gin
- 30 ml Cointreau
- 30 ml Lillet Blanc
- 30 ml Fresh Lemon Juice
- 1 dash Absinthe
Pour all ingredients into shaker with ice. Shake well and strain in chilled cocktail glass.
- 50 ml White Rum
- 120 ml Cola
- 10 ml Fresh Lime Juice
Build all ingredients in a highball glass filled with ice.
- 60 ml White Cuban Ron
- 20 ml Fresh Lime Juice
- 2 Bar Spoons Superfine Sugar
In a cocktail shaker add all ingredients. Stir well to dissolve the sugar. Add ice and shake. Strain into chilled cocktail glass.
- 60 ml Goslings Rum
- 100 ml Ginger Beer
In a highball glass filled with ice pour the ginger beer and top floating with the Rum.
- 30 ml Gold Jamaican Rum
- 15 ml Cuban Rum
- 15 ml Passion Fruit Syrup
- 15 ml Fresh lime juice
- 15 ml Honey Syrup
Blend for a few seconds in a milkshake mixer with crushed ice and pour into a footed copo glass. Fill the glass with more crushed ice.
- 50 ml Vodka
- 30 ml Kahlúa
- 10 ml Sugar Syrup
- 1 strong Espresso
Pour all ingredients into cocktail shaker, shake well with ice, strain into chilled cocktail glass.
- 50 ml Fernet Branca
- Fill up with Cola
Pour the Fernet Branca into a double old fashioned glass with ice, fill the glass up with Cola. Gently stir.
- 30 ml Gin
- 15 ml Fresh Lemon Juice
- 15 ml Sugar Syrup
- 60 ml Champagne
Pour all the ingredients, except Champagne, into a shaker. Shake well and strain into a Champagne flute. Top up with Champagne. Stir gently.
- 35 ml Cognac
- 35 ml Amaretto
Pour all ingredients directly into old fashioned glass filled with ice cubes. Stir gently.
- 45 ml Vodka
- 15 ml Raspberry Liqueur
- 15 ml Fresh Pineapple Juice
Pour all ingredients into cocktail shaker, shake well with ice, strain into chilled cocktail glass.
- 45 ml Bitter Campari
- 120 ml Freshly Squeezed Orange Juice
Build all ingredients in a highball glass filled with ice.
- 60ml Gin
- 22.5 ml Freshly Squeezed Lemon Juice
- 22.5 ml Sugar Syrup
- 10 pcs Italian Basil leaves
Add all ingredients into shaker with ice. Shake vigorously and pour into chilled cocktail glass.
- 45 ml Gin
- 30 ml Fresh Lemon Juice
- 10 ml Simple Syrup
- Splash of Soda Water
Shake all ingredients with ice except soda water. Pour into thin tall Tumbler glass , top with a splash soda water. NOTE: Serve without ice.
- 45 ml Tequila 100% agave
- 30 ml Grand Marnier
- 15 ml Fresh Lime Juice
Rim the rock glass with good quality sea salt. Pour the ingredients into the shaker. Add ice to both glass and shaker. Shake hard for 10 seconds. Strain the drink into the glass.
- 20 ml Crème de Cacao (White)
- 20 ml Crème de Menthe (Green)
- 20 ml Fresh Cream
Pour all ingredients into shaker filled with ice. Shake briskly for few seconds. Strain into chilled cocktail glass.
- 45 ml London Dry Gin
- 45 ml Sweet Red Vermouth
- 7.5 ml Fernet
Pour all ingredients into mixing glass with ice cubes. Stir well. Strain into chilled cocktail glass.
- 40 ml Cognac
- 120 ml Ginger Ale
- Dash of Angostura Bitters (optional)
Pour Cognac and ginger ale directly into highball glass with ice cubes. Stir gently. If preferred, add dashes of Angostura Bitter.
- 30 ml Espadin Mezcal
- 15 ml Jamaica Overproof White Rum
- 15 ml Falernum
- 1 Bar Spoon Maraschino Luxardo
- 22.5 ml Fresh Lime Juice
- 15 ml Simple Syrup
- Few Drops of Egg White (Optional)
Pour all ingredients into the shaker. Shake vigorously with ice. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass, or “on the rocks” in a traditional clay or terracotta mug.
- 50 ml Irish Whiskey
- 120 ml Hot coffee
- 50 ml Fresh cream (Chilled)
- 1 teaspoon Sugar
Warm black coffee is poured into a preheated Irish coffee glass. Whiskey and at least one teaspoon of sugar is added and stirred until dissolved. Fresh thick chilled cream is carefully poured over the back of a spoon held just above the surface of the coffee. The layer of cream will float on the coffee without mixing. Plain sugar can be replaced with sugar syrup
- 45 ml Gin
- 30 ml Fresh Lemon Juice
- 15 ml Simple Syrup
- 60 ml Soda Water
Pour all ingredients directly into highball filled with ice. Stir gently. NOTE: Use ‘Old Tom’ Gin for Tom Collins.
- 45 ml Blackstrap rum
- 22.5 ml Campari
- 45 ml Pineapple juice
- 15 ml Freshly Squeezed Lime juice
- 15 ml Demerara sugar syrup
Pour all ingredients into a shaker with ice and shake. Strain into a rocks glass filled with ice.
- 90 ml Dry White Wine
- 10 ml Crème de Cassis
Pour Crème de Cassis into glass, top up with white wine. NOTE: Kir Royal – Use Champagne instead of white wine
- 30 ml Vodka
- 20 ml Triple Sec
- 15 ml Fresh Squeezed Lemon Juice
Pour all ingredients into a shaker with ice. Shake well and strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
- 15 ml Vodka
- 15 ml Tequila
- 15 ml White rum
- 15 ml Gin
- 15 ml Cointreau
- 25 ml Lemon juice
- 30 ml Simple syrup
- Top with Cola
Add all ingredients into highball glass filled with ice. Stir gently.
- 30 ml Amber Jamaican Rum
- 30 ml Martinique Molasses Rhum*
- 15 ml Orange Curacao
- 15 ml Orgeat Syrup (Almond)
- 30 ml Fresh Squeezed Lime Juice
- 7.5 ml Simple Syrup
Add all ingredients into a shaker with ice. Shake and pour into a double rocks glass or an highball glass. * The Martinique molasses rum used by Trader Vic was not an Agricole Rhum but a type of “rummy” from molasses.
- 50 ml Rye Whiskey
- 20 ml Sweet Red Vermouth
- 1 dash Angostura Bitters
Pour all ingredients into mixing glass with ice cubes. Stir well. Strain into chilled cocktail glass.
- 50 ml Tequila 100% Agave
- 20 ml Triple Sec
- 15 ml Freshly Squeezed Lime Juice
Add all ingredients into a shaker with ice. Shake and strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
- 45 ml London Dry Gin
- 45 ml Sweet Red Vermouth
- 1 Bar Spoon Maraschino Luxardo
- 2 Dashes Orange Bitters
Pour all ingredients into mixing glass with ice cubes. Stir well. Strain into chilled cocktail glass.
- 60 ml Gin
- 10 ml Dry Vermouth
Pour all ingredients into mixing glass with ice cubes. Stir well. Strain into chilled martini cocktail glass.
- 45 ml White Rum
- 45 ml Fresh Pineapple Juice
- 7.5 ml Maraschino Luxardo
- 5 ml Grenadine Syrup
Pour all ingredients into cocktail shaker, shake well with ice, strain into chilled cocktail glass.
- 75 ml Freshly Squeezed Orange Juice
- 75 ml Prosecco
Pour orange juice into flute glass and gently pour the sparkling wine. Stir gently. NOTE: Also known as Buck’s Fizz.
- 45 ml White Cuban Ron
- 20 ml Fresh Lime Juice
- 6 pcs Mint Sprigs
- 2 tsp White Cane Sugar
- Soda Water
Mix mint springs with sugar and lime juice. Add splash of soda water and fill the glass with ice. Pour the rum and top with soda water. Light stir to involve all ingredients.
- 45 ml Dry Gin
- 45 ml Fresh Orange Juice
- 1 Tablespoon Absinthe
- 1 Tablespoon Grenadine Syrup
Pour all ingredients into cocktail shaker, shake well with ice, strain into chilled cocktail glass.
- 45 ml Smirnoff Vodka
- 120 ml Ginger Beer
- 10 ml Fresh lime juice
In an Mule Cup or rocks glass, combine the vodka and ginger beer. Add lime juice and gently stir to involve all ingredients.
- 22.5 ml Mezcal
- 22.5 ml Yellow Chartreuse
- 22.5 ml Aperol
- 22.5 ml Fresh Lime Juice
Pour all ingredients into cocktail shaker, shake well with ice, strain into chilled cocktail glass.
- 30 ml Gin
- 30 ml Bitter Campari
- 30 ml Sweet Red Vermouth
Pour all ingredients directly into chilled old fashioned glass filled with ice. Stir gently.
- 30 ml Bourbon Whiskey
- 30 ml Amaro Nonino
- 30 ml Aperol
- 30 ml Fresh Lemon Juice
Pour all ingredients into cocktail shaker, shake well with ice, strain into chilled cocktail glass.
- 30 ml Gin
- 20 ml Apricot Brandy
- 15 ml Fresh Orange Juice
Pour all ingredients into cocktail shaker, shake well with ice, strain into chilled cocktail glass.
- 50 ml White Rum
- 30 ml Coconut Cream
- 50 ml Fresh Pineapple Juice
Blend all the ingredients with ice in a electric blender, pour into a large glass and serve with straws. Note: Historically a few drops of fresh lime juice was added to taste. 4 slices of fresh pineapple can be used instead of juice
- 60 ml Pisco
- 22.5 ml Fresh Pineapple Juice
- 15 ml Simple Syrup
- 15 ml Fresh Lemon Juice
- 30 ml Dry White Wine
- 3 pcs Cloves
Gentle mash the simple syrup with the cloves, add the remaining ingredients except the wine. Shake vigorously and double strain into a large goblet. Add the wine on top and gently stir.
- 60 ml Pisco
- 30 ml Fresh Lemon Juice
- 20 ml Simple Syrup
- 1 Raw whole Egg White
Add all ingredients into a shaker with ice. Shake and strain into a chilled goblet glass.
- 45 ml Jamaican Rum
- 15 ml Lime Juice
- 30 ml Sugar Cane Juice
Pour all ingredients directly in a small tumbler or a typical terracotta glass. NOTE: Add dilution up to taste, it can be given by water, ice or fresh juices.
- 15 ml Brandy
- 45 ml Red Tawny Port Wine
- 10 ml Egg Yolk
Pour all ingredients into cocktail shaker, shake well with ice, strain into chilled cocktail glass.
- 60 ml Cachaca
- 20 ml Sweet Vermouth Cinzano Rosso
- 15 ml Cynar
- 2 Drops Angostura (Optional)
Combine all the ingredients into a rocks glass, add ice and stir briefly.
- 60 ml Rye Whiskey
- 22.5 ml Sweet Vermouth
- 15 ml Cherry Brandy Luxardo
- 7.5 ml Absinthe
Pour the absinthe into a coupe glass and swirl to completely coat the inside. Discard the absinthe and set the glass aside. Add the other ingredients to a mixing glass and fill it 3/4 full with ice. Stir until chilled, then strain into the glass rinsed with the absinthe.
- 45 ml Scotch Whisky
- 25 ml Drambuie
Pour all ingredients directly into an old fashioned glass filled with ice. Stir gently.
- 50 ml Cognac
- 10 ml Absinthe
- 1 Sugar Cube
- 2 Dashes Peychaud’s Bitters
Rinse a chilled old-fashioned glass with the absinthe, add crushed ice and set it aside. Stir the remaining ingredients over ice in a mixing glass. Discard the ice and any excess absinthe from the prepared glass, strain the mixed drink into the glass. NOTE: The original recipe changed after the American Civil War, Rye Whiskey substituted Cognac as it became hard to obtain.
- 40 ml Vodka
- 120 ml Cranberry Juice
- 30 ml Grapefruit Juice
Build all ingredients in a highball glass filled with ice.
- 40 ml Vodka
- 20 ml Peach Schnapps
- 40 ml Fresh Orange Juice
- 40 ml Cranberry Juice
Build all ingredients in a highball glass filled with ice.
- 50 ml Cognac
- 20 ml Triple Sec
- 20 ml Fresh Lemon Juice
Pour all ingredients into cocktail shaker, shake well with ice, strain into chilled cocktail glass.
- 30 ml Gin
- 15 ml Cherry Sangue Morlacco
- 7.5 ml Cointreau
- 7.5 ml DOM Bénédictine
- 120 ml Fresh Pineapple Juice
- 15 ml Fresh Lime Juice
- 10 ml Grenadine Syrup
- A dash of Angostura bitters
Pour all ingredients into cocktail shaker filled with ice cubes. Shake well. Strain into Hurricane glass.
- 60 ml London dry Gin
- 30 ml Fresh Lemon Juice
- 15 ml Simple syrup
- 5/6 Mint leaves
- Few drops Egg white (Optional)
Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker, shake well with ice, double-strain into chilled cocktail glass. Note: If egg white is used shake vigorously.
- 50 ml Cognac
- 20 ml White Crème de Menthe
Pour all ingredients into mixing glass with ice cubes. Stir well. Strain into chilled martini cocktail glass.
- 45 ml Tequila
- 90 ml Fresh Orange Juice
- 15 ml Grenadine Syrup
Pour tequila and orange juice directly into highball glass filled with ice cubes. Add the grenadine syrup to create chromatic effect (sunrise), do not stir.
- 22.5 ml Gin
- 22.5 ml Green Chartreuse
- 22.5 ml Maraschino Luxardo
- 22.5 ml Fresh Lime Juice
Add all ingredients into a cocktail shaker. Shake with ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
- 50 ml Irish Whiskey
- 25 ml Sweet Red Vermouth
- 15 ml Green Chartreuse
- 2 Dashes Angostura Bitters
Pour all ingredients into mixing glass with ice cubes. Stir well. Strain into chilled martini cocktail glass.
- 60 ml Tequila 100% agave
- 30 ml Fresh Lime Juice
- 30 ml Agave Nectar
Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker, shake well with ice, strain into chilled rocks glass filled with ice.
- 45 ml Angostura Bitters
- 30 ml Orgeat Syrup
- 22.5 ml Fresh Lemon Juice
- 15 ml Rye Whiskey
Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker, shake well with ice. Strain into chilled cocktail glass.
- 30 ml Old Tom Gin
- 30 ml Dry Vermouth
- 1/2 Bar Spoon Maraschino Luxardo
- 1/4 Bar Spoon of Absinthe
- 3 Dashes Orange Bitters
Pour all ingredients into mixing glass with ice cubes. Stir well. Strain into chilled martini cocktail glass.
- 45 ml White Smooth Grappa
- 22.5 ml Fresh lemon Juice
- 15 ml Honey mix (replace water with chamomile)*
- 15 ml Chamomile cordial
- Few Drops of Egg White (Optional)
Pour all ingredients into the shaker. Shake vigorously with ice. Strain into a chilled small tumbler glass filled with ice. NOTE: *If desired water can be replaced by chamomile infusion in the honey mix.
- 45 ml Gin
- 15 ml Vodka
- 7.5 ml Lillet Blanc
Pour all ingredients into cocktail shaker filled with ice cubes. Shake and strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
- 30 ml Rye Whiskey
- 30 ml Cognac
- 30 ml Sweet Vermouth
- 1 Bar Spoon Bénédictine
- 2 Dashes Peychaud’s Bitters
Pour all ingredients into mixing glass with ice cubes. Stir well. Strain into chilled cocktail glass.
- 45 ml Bourbon Whiskey
- 25 ml Fresh Lemon Juice
- 20 ml Sugar Syrup
- Few Drops of Egg White (Optional)
Pour all ingredients into cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake well. Strain into cobbler glass. If served “On the rocks”, strain ingredients into old fashioned glass filled with ice. NOTE: If egg white is used shake little harder to release and incorporate the foam from the egg white.
- 40 ml Gin
- 30 ml Triple Sec
- 20 ml Fresh Lemon Juice
Pour all ingredients into cocktail shaker, shake well with ice, strain into chilled cocktail glass.
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