What are the 6 basic cocktails for beginners?
Embury’s six basic drinks are the Daiquiri, the Jack Rose, the Manhattan, the Martini, the Old Fashioned, and the Sidecar. So a modern version of Embury’s list would have five cocktails: Martini, Manhattan, Old Fashioned, Daiquiri, and Margarita. To these, I would add the Negroni, even though it can be described as a riff on the Martini (with Campari used in place of bitters), just as the Jack Rose is a riff on the Sidecar.