Peter & Kathy's Cocktail Hour

Recipe Chart for the Sours

A Sour includes spirit, lemon or lime juice and a sweetener. Simple (sugar) syrup, flavored syrups and liqueurs are used as the sweetener, sometimes with additional fruit juices. Bitters or herbs can also be added as an aroma accent.

Here's a chart of the ingredients in our Sour recipes. They appear to fall into five groups: Simple Sours, Daisies (Liqueur Sours), Syrup Sours, Juiced-up Daisies and Tiki Punch. Even our Tiki drinks may be counted among the Sours.

The cocktails on our Top Shelf are marked. All the recipes are good but these we return to time and again.

Cocktail	Spirit	Juice	Syrup	Liqueur	Extras
Simple Sours
Daiquiri	rum	lime	simple
Bennett	gin	lime	simple		bitters
Gin Basil Smash	gin	lemon	simple		basil
Windsor Garden	gin	lemon	simple		basil
Lemon Drop	vodka	lemon	simple
Pisco Sour	pisco	lime	simple		egg white
Daisies (Liqueur Sours)
Margarita	tequila	lime		triple sec
Bramble	gin	lemon		cassis
Aviation	gin	lemon		violette maraschino
Corpse Reviver #2	gin	lemon		triple sec	kina
Intro To Aperol	gin	lemon		Aperol	bitters
Last Word	gin	lime		Chartreuse maraschino
Lumière	gin	lime		Chartreuse elderflower	bitters
Royal Basil Smash	gin	lemon lime	simple	pamplemousse	basil
Royal Bermuda	rum	lime		falernum curaçao
Syrup Sours
Gimlet	gin		lime cordial
Ginger Basil Gimlet	gin	lime	ginger		basil
Bacardi Cocktail	rum gin	lime	grenadine
Original Hurricane	rum	lemon	passion
Barbados Rum Punch	rum	lime	Demerara		bitters
Rumbustion Punch	rum	lime	cinnamon Demerara	Herbsaint	bitters
Mai Tai	rum	lime	orgeat	curaçao
Marlin	rum	lemon lime	orgeat	curaçao maraschino
Heaven is a Place	gin	lime	honey	curaçao falernum allspice	bitters
Fire of Olympus	tequila	lime	blackberry reduction	triple sec	jalapeño
Rio Verde	mezcal	lime	jalapeño-agave	Chartreuse	vermouth
Juiced-up Daisies
Cosmopolitan	vodka	cranberry lime		triple sec
Hemingway Daiquiri	rum	grapefruit lime		maraschino
Hotel Nacional	rum	pineapple lime		apricot
Singapore Sling	gin	pineapple lime		triple sec cherry Bénédictine	bitters
Tiki Punch
Royal Hawaiian	gin	pineapple lemon	orgeat
Piña Colada	rum	pineapple lime	cream of coconut		bitters
Planter's Punch	rum	orange pineapple lemon	simple grenadine		bitters
Hurricane	rum	orange lime	passion grenadine
Missionary's Downfall	rum	pineapple lime grapefruit	cinnamon honey	apricot
Cobra's Fang	rum	orange lime	passion	falernum	bitters
Port Au Prince	rum	pineapple lime	Demerara grenadine	falernum	bitters
Navy Grog	rum	grapefruit lime	Demerara	pimento dram
The Undead Gentleman	rum	grapefruit lime	cinnamon	falernum absinthe	bitters