Top 10 Most Popular Bar Drinks

The most popular drinks requested at a bar are found right here in this list. If you’re a bartender or just an enthusiast – you want to know these recipes! It’s different if you’re just in college poppin vodka with orange juice or possibly some soda, but when you’re past that phase in life, there are a ton of better drinks out there!

The social value in knowing these drink recipes is fire, but with drink trends rising and fading so rapidly, it’s hard to keep up – that’s why we have come up with this list. Also to make it more manageable we have limited the list to cocktails worth knowing. So even if you don’t know these recipes, we’re sure your bartender will know them, so order with confidence and enjoy.

Top 10 Drink Recipes

1. Cosmopolitan Cocktail

Ingredients

1 oz - vodka
1/2 oz - triple sec
1/2 oz - Rose's® lime juice
1/2 oz - cranberry juice

Directions

Shake vodka, triple sec, lime and cranberry juice vigorously in a shaker with ice. Strain into a martini glass, garnish with a lime wedge on the rim, and serve.

2. Daiquiri Cocktail

Ingredients

1 1/2 oz - light rum
1 oz - limes
1 tsp - powdered sugar

Directions

Shake all ingredients with ice, strain into a cocktail glass, and serve.

3. Espresso Martini

Ingredients

1 oz - Starbucks® coffee liqueur
2 oz - Stoli® Vanil vodka
2 oz - espresso

Directions

Pour coffee liqueur, vodka, and espresso into a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake vigorously. Strain into a chilled Martini (cocktail) glass, and serve. The drink should be slightly frothy.

4. Manhattan Cocktail

Ingredients

3/4 oz - sweet vermouth
2 1/2 oz - bourbon whiskey
1 dash - Angostura® bitters
1 - maraschino cherry
1 twist - orange

Directions

Combine the vermouth, bourbon whiskey, and bitters with 2 - 3 ice cubes in a mixing glass. Stir gently, don't bruise the spirits and cloud the drink. Place the cherry in a chilled cocktail glass and strain the whiskey mixture over the cherry. Rub the cut edge of the orange peel over the rim of the glass and twist it over the drink to release the oils but don't drop it in.

VARIATION: No bitters. Substitute a twist of lime for the cherry and orange. Hold the lime twist in a lighted match over the drink and then drop it in. The heat really zips up the lime flavor.

5. Mojito

Ingredients

1.25 oz - Captain Morgan® Original spiced rum
12 - mint
1 tbsp - sugar
0.5 oz - lime juice
2 oz - soda

Directions

Place mint leaves in bottom of glass. Add crushed ice, Captain Morgan Original Spiced Rum, sugar, and lime juice, and muddle. Add soda water and garnish with mint leaves.

6. Moscow Mule

Ingredients

2 oz - Smirnoff® No. 21 Vodka
2 oz - lime juice
8 oz - ginger ale

Directions

Mix ingredients in a highball glass with ice.

7. Negroni Cocktail

Ingredients

1 oz - gin
1 oz - sweet vermouth
1 oz - Campari® bitters

Directions

Stir with ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass 3/4 filled with cracked ice. Add a splash of soda water if desired. Garnish with a half slice of orange.

8. Old Fashioned

Ingredients

2 oz - bourbon whiskey
2 dashes - Angostura® bitters
1 splash - water
1 tsp - sugar
1 - maraschino cherry
1 - orange

Directions

Mix sugar, water and angostura bitters in an old-fashioned glass. Drop in a cherry and an orange wedge. Muddle into a paste using a muddler or the back end of a spoon. Pour in bourbon, fill with ice cubes, and stir.

9. Whiskey Sour

Ingredients

2 oz - blended whiskey
juice of 1/2 - lemons
1/2 tsp - powdered sugar
1 - cherry
1/2 slice - lemon

Directions

Shake blended whiskey, juice of lemon, and powdered sugar with ice and strain into a whiskey sour glass. Decorate with the half-slice of lemon, top with the cherry, and serve.