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Difford's Guide (diffordsguide.com) is a large online guide to cocktails, spirits, liqueurs, beers and wines, aimed at both home drinkers and drinks-industry professionals. You can use it to find a cocktail to make from ingredients you already have, look up a specific recipe or bottle, or explore bars, makers and events. Much of the site is browsable directly, while a separate Premium membership and a shop sit alongside the main content.
Cocktail recipes and the Cocktail Finder
The core of the site is its recipe collection. The Cocktail Finder is the main entry point: it lets you search by ingredient, style, rating and bartender, and the site states it covers 22,700 recipes.
Other ways into the collection include:
- Cocktail of the Day – a daily featured drink; the site's example for 19 October 2026 is a Gin & Tonic, tied to International Gin and Tonic Day.
- 20 Best Cocktails, Top 100 Cocktails, Modern Classic Cocktails and Cocktail Hall of Fame – curated lists for browsing rather than searching.
- By Ingredient and Cocktails Made Easy – starting from what you have rather than from a drink name.
- "What can you make tonight?" – enter what's in your bar and the site shows matching cocktails; there is also a 3 Ingredient Cocktails section.
- How To Make Cocktails – technique-oriented content for people learning the basics.
If you want to keep your own material, the site supports adding cocktail recipes and building collections, cabinets, preferred brands, custom ingredients and lists, with ratings, favourites, wish lists and tried/liked markers.
Beer, wine and spirits
A separate directory covers spirits, liqueurs, beers and wines, with search and the same personal-organisation tools (collections, cabinets, preferred brands, lists, ratings). A "New Products" section lists the newest bottles added to the directory. This is the part to use if your question is about a bottle rather than a drink.
Bars, makers, people and events
Beyond recipes, the site covers the wider drinks world:
| Section | What it covers |
|---|---|
| Bars | A "Find A Bar" tool |
| Makers | Searchable directory of producers |
| People | Profiles of people across the industry, "from those who produce to those who pour" |
| Events | What's on in the drinks world, month by month, from cocktail weeks to tastings |
| Competitions | Cocktail competitions and challenges for bartenders and home enthusiasts |
Membership, Premium and the shop
The site has Log in, Join & Subscribe, Premium and Shop entries in its navigation, and a membership page at /membership/premium. There is also an "Early Access Content" area, which suggests some material is released to members first. The available page information does not state prices or exactly which content is restricted, so check the membership page directly if access level matters to you.
The book
Difford's Guide also publishes Difford's Guide to Cocktails, 18th edition: 3,081 recipes, each with a photograph, across 656 pages. That is a useful option if you want a fixed, offline reference rather than a searchable site.
Practical notes
- The site relies on JavaScript; with it disabled you get a notice rather than the full interface.
- The recipe count (22,700) and the book's recipe count (3,081) are different things — the book is a curated subset, not the whole database.
- For a quick answer, start with the Cocktail Finder or the "what can you make tonight" tool; for browsing inspiration, the Top 100 and 20 Best lists are faster.