American Wiskey Flashcards
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
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
New York 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
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.
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
Ward 8
Ingredients:
2 oz. Rye Whiskey
1/2 oz. Lemon Juice
1/2 oz. Orange Juice
1/4 oz. Grenadine
Preparation: Shake and strain into an ice-filled glass.
Presentation: Old Fashioned Glass, Cherry
Whiskey sour
Ingredients:
2 oz. Bourbon or Rye Whiskey
3/4 oz. Lemon Juice
3/4 oz. Simple Syrup
Preparation: Shake and strain into an ice-filled glass.
Presentation: Old Fashioned Glass, Cherry, Half Orange Wheel
