Whisk(e)y

Question 1

Old Fashioned

Answer 1

2 oz bourbon (or any other specified whiskey)
1 bar spoon rich demerara
6 dashes angostura bitters
3 dashes orange bitters

Build: build ingredients in rocks glass, stir with kd ice, and garnish with expressed lemon and orange twists. (Rabbit ears)

Question 2

Manhattan

Answer 2

2 oz rye whiskey( or other specified whiskey)
.75 oz house sweet vermouth
6 dashes angostura bitters

Build: build ingredients in mixing glass, stir with kd ice, strain into nick and nora glass served up and garnished with cherry.

Question 3

Remember the Maine

Answer 3

2 oz rye whiskey (or any other specified whiskey)
.5 oz house sweet vermouth
.5 oz cherry heering
5 dashes angostura bitters
5 dashes absinthe verte

Build: build ingredients in mixing glass, stir with kd ice, strain into nick and nora glass served up and garnish with expressed lemon twist.

Question 4

Brooklyn

Answer 4

2 oz rye whiskey (or any other specified whiskey)
.75 oz bigallet china-china amer
.25 oz dry vermouth
Barspoon luxardo maraschino

Build: build ingredients in rocks glass, stir with kd ice, no garnish.

Question 5

Boulevardier

Answer 5

1.25 oz. rye whiskey (or any other specified whiskey)
.75 oz. campari
.75 oz. house sweet vermouth

Build: build ingredients in mixing glass, stir with kd ice, strain into nick and nora glass served up, and garnish with long, fancy orange twist.

Question 6

Mint Julep

Answer 6

2 oz. bourbon
.25 oz. demerara syrup
12 mint leaves (plus full bouquet for garnish)

Build: build ingredients in steel julep cup, fill halfway with pebble ice, then swizzle lightly until cup is frosty. Top with more ice and garnish with a heavy mint crown topped with powdered sugar (if applicable).

Question 7

The Conference

Answer 7

.5 oz. rye
.5 oz. bourbon
.5 oz. calvados
.5 oz. vs cognac 
Barspoon demerara syrup
1 dash bittermens mole bitters

Build: build ingredients in rocks glass, stir with kd ice, then garnish with one lemon twist and one orange twist.

Question 8

Whiskey Sour

Answer 8

2 oz. bourbon
1 oz. lemon juice
.75 oz. vanilla bean or simple
.75 oz. egg white
.5 oz. light fruity red wine (nyc sour style)

Build: build ingredients in a shaker tin (egg whites first or in seperate tin) dry shake for 8 secs. Then shake with kd ice and double strain into nick and nora glass, served up. Garnish skewered cherry through an orange slice, and a streak of angostura bitters across egg-white foam. Float the optional red wine using the back of a stirring spoon.

Question 9

Paper Plane

Answer 9

.75 oz. bourbon
.75 oz. aperol
.75 oz. amaro nonino or amaro montenegro
.75 oz. lemon juice

Build: build ingredients in shaker tin, shake with kd ice, then strain into nick and nora glass served up, no garnish.

Question 10

Sazerac

Answer 10

1 oz. rye
1 oz. pierre ferrand cognac
Barspoon demerara syrup
5 dashes peychauds 
2 dashes absinthe (plus rinse in glass)

Build: fill hatch rocks glass with ice, water, and 3 dashes of absinthe to louche while building the rest of the ingredients in mixing glass, and stirring with kd and cracked ice for 35-40 rotations. Strain into absinthe-essenced hatch glass, serve neat, then spray surface of cocktail with absinthe.

Question 11

Rob Roy

Answer 11

2 oz. blended scotch
.75 oz. house sweet vermouth
2 dashes angostura bitters

Build: build ingredients in mixing glass, stir with kd ice, strain into nick and nora glass served up, and garnish with cherry.

Question 12

Godfather

Answer 12

2 oz. blended scotch
3/8 oz. lazzarroni amaretto
2 dashes angostura bitters
Rinse of laphraoig 10 or ardbeg

Build: build ingredients in hatch rocks glass, stir with kd ice, and garnish with expressed orange twist and laphraoig 10 spray.

Question 13

Penicillin

Answer 13

1.75 oz. blended scotch
.75 oz. lemon juice
.75 oz. burnt-honey-ginger syrup
.25 oz. laphraoig 10 ardbeg peated scotch

Build: build ingredients in shaker tin, shake with kd ice, strain into hatch rocks glass with kd and lemon wheel, garnish (fresh or dehydrated), and float laphraoig 10 on top.

Question 14

Wildest Redhead

Answer 14

1.5 oz. blended scotch
.75 oz. lemon juice
.5 oz. honey
.25 oz. st elizabeth all-spice dram or hamilton pimento dram
.25 oz. cherry heering

Build: build ingredients in shaker tin except cherry heering, shake with kd ice, strain into hatch rocks glass with kd and lemon wheel garnish (fresh or dehydrated), and float cherry heering on top.

Question 15

Tipperary

Answer 15

1.25 oz. irish whiskey
.75 oz. house sweet vermouth
.5 oz. green chartreuse
2 dashes angostura orange bitters

Build: build ingredients in mixing glass with kd and cracked ice, stir 30-35 rotations, then strain into nick and nora glass served up with lemon twist.

Question 16

Hot Toddy

Answer 16

2 oz. bourbon (or rum, if you nasty!)
.25 oz. st elizabeth allspice dram or hamilton pimento dram
.25 oz. vanilla bean syrup
.25 oz. honey syrup
Barspoon lemon juice

Build: fill shaker tin 1/3 full with hot water, and building ingredients temper and heat up. Serve in flower tea cup, top with hot water, and garnish with long, tailored orange slice studded with flamed cloves. Set flower tea cup on saucer with three lemon wheels topped with grated nutmeg and spoon.

Question 17

Irish Coffee

Answer 17

2 oz. irish whiskey
.5 oz. vanilla bean syrup, plus additional .5 oz for whipped cream
5 oz. hot coffee
3 oz. heavy whipping cream

Build: fill shaker tin with heavy whipping cream, .5 oz of vanilla syrup, and the coiled spring from a hawthorne strainer, and dry shake ingredients for about 15 seconds, until heavy cream lightly thickness. Build remaining ingredients in coffee mug, then slowly pour thickened whipped cream on top of hot coffee. Top with fresh grated nutmeg or allspice.