It turns out that the recipes for some common and even “classic” cocktails actually vary quite a bit from site to site among the top 10 you’ll find in a typical web search. These variations are generally not random: each site tends to have a bias. Knowing the tastes a given recipe is catered toward can help you figure out where to get your favorite ratios and recipes from! So here’s my take on how each of the top 5-10 cocktail recipe sites (via Google) tend to bias their ratios.
This is super work-in-progress at the moment, but I wanted to get a start on it!
Liquor.com
- Most “serious” and modern
- Generally one of the best references
- Tends to be less sweet
- Recommends generally highest quality ingredients
Diffords Guide
- Generally somewhat sweeter
- Often more complicated or “fiddly” recipes (e.g. 1/3 oz measures)
- Sometimes suggests lower quality ingredients
All Recipes
- Wildcard, but generally less modern and “serious”
- Tends to be sweeter, less balanced
- Little culling of obviously imbalanced recipes like those without lemon/lime
- Often recommends lower quality ingredients