Vintage Drink Types

Browse old bar-book recipes by drink family, from punches and cobblers to juleps, sangarees, fizzes, toddies, smashes, and other vintage mixed drinks.

Cocktails

Mixed drinks named as cocktails in the source material, including brandy, whiskey, gin, champagne, and absinthe recipes.

11 recipes

Punches

Hot, cold, milk, wine, rum, whiskey, and champagne punches from old bar-book recipes.

34 recipes

Cobblers

Iced cobbler recipes built around wine, spirits, sugar, fruit, and old-style serving directions.

7 recipes

Egg Noggs

Rich egg nogg recipes, including sherry, cider, Baltimore, and bowl-style versions.

5 recipes

Mulled Drinks

Warm spiced drinks made with claret, port, sherry, and other wine-based mixtures.

4 recipes

Juleps

Mint-forward recipes with whiskey, gin, rum, pineapple, and other old julep variations.

5 recipes

Sangarees

Sangaree recipes made with brandy, port wine, sherry, gin, porter, ale, and related base drinks.

6 recipes

Fizzes

Light mixed drinks with citrus, sugar, spirits, egg variations, and sparkling water.

4 recipes

Toddies

Simple hot and cold toddy recipes using apple, gin, brandy, whiskey, and punch-style mixtures.

5 recipes

Smashes

Short mixed drinks built around whiskey, brandy, gin, Medford rum, sugar, mint, and ice.

4 recipes

Slings

Straightforward sling recipes, including hot gin, hot brandy, whiskey, and other spirit-based versions.

3 recipes

Fixes

Small iced drinks including brandy, gin, and St. Croix rum fixes.

3 recipes

Sours

Short spirit-and-citrus recipes, including St. Croix rum, brandy, and gin sours.

3 recipes

Flips

Rich flip recipes using egg, sugar, spice, sherry, brandy, and old wine or spirit bases.

3 recipes

Crustas

Crusta recipes for brandy, whiskey, gin, and related old cocktail-style drinks.

3 recipes

Lemonades

Old lemonade recipes using port wine, sherry, claret, egg, orgeat, and citrus-heavy mixtures.

10 recipes