Sours, page 2
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Daiquiri
The Daiquiri is a sour in its most elemental form: white rum, fresh lime juice and sugar syrup, shaken and served up. Three ingredients, no bitters, no liqueur, nothing to hide
Division Bell
The Division Bell is Phil Ward's mezcal answer to the Last Word, built at Mayahuel in 2009 and named for the Pink Floyd album: mezcal, Aperol, maraschino and lime, with the mezcal
Earl Grey MarTEAni
The Earl Grey MarTEAni is the cocktail renaissance drinking tea: gin infused with Earl Grey, shaken with lemon, sugar and egg white into a sour wearing a scented foam. Audrey
Eastern Standard
The Eastern Standard is a cucumber and mint gin sour served over ice, and it is the house cocktail of Soho House, poured to the same specification in every club the group runs.
Eastside
The Eastside is the modern classic that tastes like a garden: gin, lime, mint and cucumber, shaken cold and strained silky, out of the early-2000s New York revival and most often
El Floridita Daiquiri
The El Floridita Daiquiri is the house version from the Havana bar that called itself la cuna del daiquiri, the cradle of the daiquiri. Two things separate it from the shaken
Enzoni
The Enzoni is a Negroni spliced with a sour, and the graft is five muddled grapes. Gin and Campari come from the first family, lemon and sugar from the second, and the grapes hold
Explorers Gold
Explorers Gold is the Jerry Can Spirits rum and honey: a cold sour built on Expedition Spiced Rum, honey syrup and fresh lemon, with an egg white for texture and two dashes of
Fitzgerald
The Fitzgerald is proof that a modern classic can be four ingredients old. Dale DeGroff built it at the Rainbow Room in the 1990s when a guest asked for a gin drink that was not a
Gimlet
The Gimlet is the Royal Navy in a coupe. In 1867 the Merchant Shipping Act made lime rations compulsory aboard British ships, and in the same year Lauchlin Rose of Leith patented
Gin Sour
The Gin Sour is the sour family’s plainest statement and one of its oldest: spirit, lemon and sugar, the template Jerry Thomas codified in 1862 applied to the botanical spirit,
Gold Rush
The Gold Rush was invented at Milk and Honey, the Lower East Side bar that rewrote modern cocktail culture, when T.J. Siegal asked Sasha Petraske for a whiskey sour and got talked
Grand Margarita
The Grand Margarita is a Margarita with Grand Marnier in place of triple sec, and the substitution changes more than the label suggests. Grand Marnier is built on cognac rather
Hemingway Daiquiri
Ernest Hemingway wandered into El Floridita in 1932, tried the house daiquiri and issued his amendment: no sugar, double the rum. The bar named the result the Papa Doble, and its
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
Honeysuckle
The Honeysuckle is a daiquiri with honey syrup instead of sugar, and that single change does considerably more than sweeten it. Honey has floral weight and a waxy texture that
Hotel Nacional
The Hotel Nacional is a pineapple daiquiri with ten millilitres of apricot brandy in it, and that small measure is what makes it worth knowing. Pineapple and rum on their own are
Illegal
The Illegal is a mezcal sour with a rum backbone, and it is one of the drinks that made mezcal make sense to people who thought they disliked it. Thirty millilitres of espadín
Jack Rose
The Jack Rose is one of the great pre-Prohibition American classics, documented in bar guides from the early twentieth century. Its base is applejack, the American apple brandy
Jasmine
The Jasmine is the modern classic that performs a magic trick: gin, Campari, orange liqueur and lemon, and the finished drink tastes, unmistakably and to everybody who tries it,
Kamikaze
The Kamikaze is the 1970s in a shaker: vodka, triple sec and lime, born by most accounts in the American bars of the disco era and named with the decade’s customary subtlety. It
Knickerbocker
The Knickerbocker is the daiquiri’s New York grandfather: rum, raspberry syrup, citrus and a curaçao thread, printed by Jerry Thomas in 1862 among the first rum sours in any book,
Lemon Drop Martini
The Lemon Drop is a vodka sour with a sugared rim, and the rim is structural rather than decorative. The liquid is balanced sharper than a standard sour precisely because every
London Calling
London Calling is a gin sour with fino sherry in it, and the sherry is doing the job salt does in cooking. Fifteen millilitres is not enough to taste as sherry. It is enough to