Whiskey Cocktails, page 3
77 recipes, page 3 of 4
Base Spirit
Difficulty Level
Port Old Fashioned
The Port Old Fashioned splits the base: bourbon leading, tawny port second, and the port doing work that sugar and vermouth would do elsewhere. It is a whiskey drink with a wine
Presbyterian
The Presbyterian is whiskey topped with equal parts ginger ale and soda water, and the split is the entire recipe. Ginger ale on its own makes a sweet highball. Soda on its own
Raspberry Lynchburg
The Raspberry Lynchburg is a Lynchburg Lemonade with Chambord taking half the triple sec's measure. Tennessee whiskey, black raspberry liqueur, a little orange, fresh lemon and
Rattlesnake
The Rattlesnake arrives with the best joke in the Savoy Cocktail Book attached to it. Harry Craddock printed the spec in 1930 with a note that it is “so called because it will
Red Hook
The Red Hook is a Brooklyn that can actually be made. The original calls for Amer Picon, a French bitter orange aperitif that stopped reaching America decades ago and was
Remember the Maine
Remember the Maine comes with a war correspondent attached. Charles H. Baker Jr. recorded it in The Gentleman’s Companion in 1939, having drunk it in Havana in 1933 with
Revolver
The Revolver is a modern classic with an unusually precise birth certificate: Jon Santer, behind the bar at Bruno’s in San Francisco in the early 2000s, building a drink around a
Rob Roy
The Rob Roy was created at the Waldorf Astoria in New York in 1894, named after the premiere of a comic opera based on the life of the Scottish folk hero Robert Roy MacGregor. It
Rusty Nail
The Rusty Nail is two Scotches talking to each other: whisky neat, and whisky that went to finishing school as Drambuie, honey and herbs smoothing the same spirit into a liqueur.
Sazerac
The Sazerac is one of the oldest documented cocktails in American history, originating in New Orleans in the mid-nineteenth century and taking its name from the Sazerac de Forge
Seelbach
The Seelbach has the best origin story in the modern canon, twice over. As first told: a pre-Prohibition house cocktail of Louisville’s grand Seelbach Hotel, lost when the
Shamrock Sour
The Shamrock Sour is a house serve built for the one night a year that expects the glass to be green: Irish whiskey shaken with fresh lime, honey syrup, blue curaçao and a splash
Snowdonia Sour
The Snowdonia Sour is our whisky sour rebuilt around Welsh ingredients: Penderyn shaken with fresh lemon, elderflower liqueur, a short measure of syrup and an optional egg white,
Stone Fence
The Stone Fence is as old as American drinking: spirit poured into cider and handed across a tavern bar. The colonial original was rum into hard cider, and legend has Ethan
The Emerald
The Emerald is the Manhattan carried across the Atlantic: Irish whiskey over sweet vermouth with orange bitters, stirred cold and strained into a coupe under a lemon twist. It was
Tipperary
The Tipperary is Irish whiskey, sweet vermouth and green Chartreuse, and it is the boldest thing Irish whiskey does anywhere in the classic canon. Everything else the spirit
Toffee Apple Sour
The Toffee Apple Sour is the cold answer to Bonfire Night’s signature flavour: a bourbon sour carrying cloudy apple juice and caramel syrup, dry shaken with egg white for a foam
Toronto
The Toronto is the drink that taught fernet manners. It appears in the bar manuals of 1922 as the Fernet Cocktail, whisky sweetened and seasoned with Milan’s most feared amaro,
Vieux Carré
The Vieux Carré was created by Walter Bergeron, head bartender at the Hotel Monteleone in New Orleans, in the 1930s. The name means old square in French, for the French Quarter in
Ward Eight
The Ward Eight was created at Locke-Ober Café in Boston in 1898, named after the eighth ward of the city, whose Democratic machine was celebrating the anticipated election victory
Welsh Gold
The Welsh Gold is a house Old Fashioned written for St David’s Day: Penderyn Madeira Finish on a large cube with Welsh honey syrup, two dashes of Angostura and expressed orange.
Whiskey Collins
The Whiskey Collins is the Collins template on bourbon: spirit, fresh lemon and sugar shaken together, strained over ice and lengthened with soda. It is the same build as a Tom
Whiskey Highball
The Highball is one of the oldest and most debated drink formats in the canon, with origin stories placing it variously in American railroad culture, British officers’ messes, and
Whiskey Smash
The Whiskey Smash is the smash family’s famous face. Jerry Thomas printed the format in 1862 and described it as a julep on a small plan; Dale DeGroff made this reading his