American Whiskey Flashcards
4th Regiment
Ingredients:
1 ounce rye whiskey
1 ounce sweet vermouth
1 dash each orange bitters, Peychaud’s bitters, and celery bitters
Preparation: Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into a cocktail coupe.
Presentation: Lemon peel
Alonquin
Ingredients:
1 1/2 ounces rye
3/4 ounce dry vermouth
3/4 ounce pineapple juice
2 dashes Peychaud’s bitters (optional)
Preparation: Shake all ingredients with ice and strain.
Presentation: Cocktail coupe; bitters can be incorporated in the drink or reserved to garnish the foamy surface
Boothby Cocktail
Ingredients:
1 1/2 ounce whiskey (bourbon or rye)
3/4 ounce sweet vermouth
2 dashes Angostura’s bitters
2 dashes orange bitters
1 ounce Champagne
Preparation: Stir the first four ingredients into the glass and top with Champagne.
Presentation: Cocktail coupe, garnished with orange peel
Boulevardier
Ingredients:
1 ounce bourbon
1 ounce sweet vermouth
1 ounce Campari
Preparation: Stir all ingredients with ice and strain.
Presentation: Cocktail glass, garnished with orange twist
Brooklyn Cocktail
Ingredients:
1 1/2 ounces rye whiskey
1 1/2 ounces dry vermouth
Dash Maraschino liqueur
Dash Amer Picon bitters
Preparation: Stir all ingredients with ice and strain.
Presentation: Served up or on the rocks, garnished with lemon twist, orange twist, or both
Collins
Ingredients:
2 ounces bourbon or gin
3/4 ounce lemon juice
3/4 ounce simple syrup
Chilled club soda
Preparation: Shake the spirit, lemon juice, and syrup with ice and strain into an ice-filled glass. Top with club soda.
Presentation: Highball or Collins glass, garnished with orange slice or cherry
Horse’s Neck
Ingredients:
2 oz. Bourbon
2-3 dashes Angostura Bitters
Ginger Ale
Preparation: Build the ingredients in an ice-filled glass.
Presentation: Highball Glass, Lemon Twist
Manhattan
Ingredients:
2 oz. Rye Whiskey
1 oz. Sweet Vermouth
2 dashes Angostura Bitters
Preparation: Stir all ingredients with ice and strain.
Presentation: Cocktail Glass, Cherry
Mint Julep
Ingredients:
2 oz. Bourbon
10-12 Mint Leaves
1/2 oz. Simple Syrup
Preparation: Add syrup and mint leaves to the base of the glass and muddle. Add crushed ice and 1 oz. of the bourbon the glass and mix with a bar spoon. Add more crushed ice and the rest of the bourbon to the glass, mixing again. Cap with crushed ice and garnish with two mint sprigs. Arrange the straws next to the mint sprigs.
Presentation: Silver or Pewter Julep Mug, Mint
NY Sour
Ingredients:
2 oz. Rye or Bourbon
3/4 oz. Lemon Juice
3/4 oz. Simple Syrup
One Egg White
1 oz. Red Wine (fruit-driven)
Preparation: Shake all ingredients except for the wine vigorously and strain into an ice filled glass.
Presentation: Old Fashioned Glass. Use the back of a bar spoon to gently layer the red wine on top of the drink. Garnish with a flag(orange/lemon slice with a cherry)
Old Fashioned
Ingredients:
2 oz. Spirit(Typically American Whiskey)
2 Dashes of Bitters
1 Sugar Cube
Preparation: Add enough water to the sugar cube to dissolve with muddling. Add bitters and Spirits, stir with ice, and strain over fresh ice.
Presentation: Thick Bottomed Old Fashioned Glass
Old Pal
Ingredients:
1 oz. Rye Whiskey
1 oz. Dry Vermouth
1 oz. Campari
Preparation: Stir the ingredients over ice. Strain.
Presentation: Cocktail Glass, Lemon Twist
Paper Plane
Ingredients:
3/4 oz. Bourbon
3/4 oz. Aperol
3/4 oz. Amaro Nonino
3/4 oz. Lemon Juice
Preparation: Combine in a shaker with ice. Chill and double strain.
Presentation: Cocktail Glass, Lemon Twist
Sazerac
Sazerac
Ingredients:
2 oz. Sazerac Rye Whiskey
5 Dashes Peychaud’s Bitters
Splash of Absinthe
Half of a Sugar Cube
Preparation:
Chill the low ball glass with ice water.
Muddle the sugar cube and a splash of water in a mixing glass
Pour the icewater out of the lowball glass and add absinthe to rinse the glass. The residual water in the glass should cause the absinthe to loosh, and therefore become more aromatic. Add whiskey, bitters and the lemon peel to the mixing glass with the muddled sugar and bitters and stir with ice to chill.
Strain into the absinthe rinsed lowball glass.
Presentation: Lowball Glass
Scofflaw
Ingredients:
1oz. Canadian or Rye Whiskey
1oz. Dry Vermouth
1/2 oz. Lemon Juice
1/2 barspoon Grenadine
1 dash Orange Bitters
Preparation: Shake all ingredients with ice and strain.
Presentation: Cocktail Glass, Orange Peel
