Whiskey Cocktails, page 2
77 recipes, page 2 of 4
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Honey Sour
The Whiskey Sour is one of the most accommodating formats in the canon, because its three-ingredient structure takes sweetener variations that produce meaningfully different
Hot Spiced Cider
The Hot Spiced Cider is a spiced cider base for eight, held warm on the stove, with the spirit added one mug at a time. Fifty millilitres of bourbon or dark rum goes in at the
Hot Toddy
The Hot Toddy is drinking’s oldest comfort: spirit, sweetness, lemon and hot water, a formula eighteenth-century Scotland settled on and no century since has improved. The name
Hot Toffee Apple
The Hot Toffee Apple is the definitive Bonfire Night serve, and it is a house recipe rather than a classic: hot apple cider poured over bourbon and caramel syrup in a heatproof
Hunter
The Hunter is rye and cherry brandy at two to one, stirred over ice, and there is nothing else in it. It comes from the turn-of-the-century books, where it sat among a run of
Improved Whiskey Cocktail
This drink is why the Old Fashioned is called the Old Fashioned. The original cocktail of the early 1800s was spirit, sugar, water and bitters and nothing else. As the century
Irish Coffee
The Irish Coffee was invented at the Foynes flying-boat terminal on the Shannon estuary in 1943, when chef Joe Sheridan was asked to warm a planeload of passengers turned back by
Irish Maid
The Irish Maid is The Dead Rabbit’s contribution to the Maid family: four slices of cucumber muddled in the shaker, Irish whiskey over elderflower liqueur and fresh lemon, shaken
Jack’s Godfather Highball
Jack’s Godfather Highball is the Godfather stretched out and given cola. Tennessee whiskey and amaretto, which is the whole of the original, then 75ml of cola over ice in a tall
La Louisiane
La Louisiane was the house cocktail of Restaurant La Louisiane, one of New Orleans' most storied dining establishments, and appeared in Stanley Clisby Arthur's 1937 guide "Famous
Left Hand
The Left Hand is a Boulevardier with three dashes of chocolate bitters in it, which sounds like a footnote until you taste one. Cacao is dry rather than sweet, and it sits exactly
Lynchburg Lemonade
Lynchburg Lemonade is Tennessee whiskey, triple sec, fresh lemon and sparkling lemonade over ice, named for the town where Jack Daniel's is distilled. It drinks dangerously
Manhattan
The Manhattan is the oldest documented whiskey cocktail in the American canon and the template for every stirred, spirit-forward classic that followed. It appeared in bar guides
Maple Old Fashioned
The Maple Old Fashioned is autumn performing the Old Fashioned’s single swap: real maple where the sugar sat, bourbon and bitters left constant. It is the folk-modern reading that
Mint Julep
The Mint Julep is one of the oldest documented American cocktails, in written records by 1803 and tied to the American South throughout its history. The word julep derives from
Mizuwari
The Mizuwari is Japan’s answer to a question the West never thought to ask properly: what if whisky and water were the entire ceremony? The name means cut with water, and the
Monte Carlo
The Monte Carlo is a Manhattan with Bénédictine where the vermouth should be. Rye, 15ml of the abbey liqueur, two dashes of Angostura, stirred. Nothing else. Bénédictine is doing
Morning Glory Fizz
The Morning Glory Fizz is the Victorian morning after in a small glass: Scotch given the full fizz treatment with egg white, split citrus, a thread of absinthe and a brisk top of
New York Sour
The New York Sour is a whiskey sour wearing a cape of claret, and like several things named for New York it comes from Chicago. Bartenders there were floating red wine on whiskey
Old Fashioned
The Old Fashioned is the oldest documented cocktail in the American canon and the drink from which the word cocktail derives its original meaning. Its first print definition, in
Old Pal
The Old Pal is rye, Campari and dry vermouth in a Boulevardier's shape with the sweet vermouth swapped out. That single change does considerably more than it sounds like it
Paper Plane
The Paper Plane was created by Sam Ross at Milk & Honey in New York around 2007 and named after the M.I.A. song that was playing while he developed it. It is an equal-parts build
Penicillin
The Penicillin was created by Sam Ross at Milk & Honey in New York in 2005 and is one of the most significant original cocktails of the contemporary revival. Ross also created the
Pickleback
The Pickleback is two shots taken in strict order: whiskey first, cold dill pickle brine immediately after. The brine erases the whiskey's burn so completely that people meeting