ThatstheSPIRIT.com: Drink and cocktail recipes, plus entertaining and party ideas

ThatstheSPIRIT.com is your best choice for cocktail recipes and entertaining and party ideas.

We have over 3,000 cocktail and mixed drink recipes, advice on setting up a home bar, a handy occasions calendar listing events and holidays and lots of theme party ideas.

Our extensive list of cocktail recipes feature all your classic favourites, such as the Bloody Mary, the Mojito, the White Russian, and the classic Canadian drink, the Caesar. We also have many tropical drinks, such as the Daiquiri, the Margarita, the Mai Tai and the Pina Colada.

Whether you're a fan of rum drinks, tequila drinks, gin drinks or vodka cocktails (including how to make your own infused vodka), we have something for you. We have over 90 martini recipes, including the apple martini, chocolate martini, James Bond martini and the popular dry martini. Should you shake or stir a martini? We weigh into that debate, too.

If you're burning up from the summer heat, try frozen cocktails or iced coffee cocktails. By the fireplace during the holidays? Enjoy hot drinks, eggnogs and other Christmas cocktails and holiday drinks. Never fear, we have Valentine's Day cocktails, scary Halloween drinks and suggestions for Thanksgiving drinks.

Wine lover? We have a wide range of content devoted to wine, from how to read a wine label and starting your own wine cellar to simple advice about pairing wine with food and a useful wine glossary so you can learn the lingo.

If you prefer beer, we have plenty for you, too. Try one of our 17 awesome beer cocktails or learn how to pair beer with food. We have advice on how to host a beer tasting party and if you want something really interesting, check out 15 beer myths debunked.