Relishing your favorite cocktails does not have to be something that you enjoy only when you’re out and about. It is easy enough to learn to mix a few of your favorites at home. With a few trials and errors, it is easy enough to learn. To begin, you can start with some easy cocktail recipes for beginners.

Most of the easy recipes for beginners use ingredients that are easy to obtain with simple glassware and a cocktail mixer.

1. Gin and tonic
A gin and tonic are two of the most basic cocktails that you can learn to mix. This is a classic cocktail that is ideal for hot weather. It is as simple as mixing gin and tonic water in proportion to your taste and then pour it over ice. The drink can be garnished with a lime wedge.

Ingredients
Dry gin, tonic water, and a lime wedge

2. Martini
A martini is an elegant drink that is also one of the easy cocktail recipes for beginners. It dates back to 1863, but the exact proportion of the ingredients is a matter of personal taste.

To make a martini add two ounces of gin and one ounce of dry vermouth to a cocktail shaker. This is stirred (unlike the way James Bond prefers it) very briefly and strained into a glass. It is garnished with lemon peel. There are many variations of the martini that you can experiment with by adding more ingredients to the basic martini recipe.

Ingredients
Dry vermouth, gin or vodka, lemon peel, and orange bitters only if you use gin. The bitters are omitted when vodka is used.

3. Daiquiri
This is one of the easy cocktail recipes for beginners that takes a little practice to get just right. This is a drink that is said to be invented in Cuba, and it became popular in the country in the early 1900s. To make a daiquiri, add two ounces of white rum, one ounce of freshly squeezed lime juice, and ¾ ounce of syrup to ice. Shake well and then strain it.

Ingredients
White rum, freshly squeezed lime juice, and sugar syrup

4. Pina colada
A pina colada is one of the easy cocktail recipes for beginners, as it is very popular.

The ingredients are added to a shaker and then served on ice. To make the recipe even easier, replace white rum, coconut cream, and single cream with Malibu.

Ingredients
50 ml white Rum, 25 ml coconut cream, 25ml single cream, and 200 ml pineapple juice

5. Mojito
Mojitos are a fun and easy cocktail for beginners. To make this cocktail, we also need a spatula or implement to mash ingredients with. We first add the lime, mint, and sugar to a glass and then mash them. One can add berries also if preferred. The rum and soda water are then added to the glass and stirred.

Ingredients
Four pieces of lime, five fresh mint leaves, a tablespoon of sugar, 50 ml golden rum, soda water, and a handful of strawberries or raspberries