Cooler weather means it’s time to take a break from the rums, tequilas, etc. and get back into the comfort zone that only bourbon can satisfy.
Old Fashioned
2 oz Old Forester
1 tsp 1:1 simple syrup
2 dashes Regan’s Orange Bitters
Combine ingredients in a mixing glass, add ice. Stir. Strain over ice and garnish with an orange peel.
Manhattan
2 oz Rye Jack Daniels Single Barrel Tennessee Rye
1 oz sweet vermouth, preferably Carpano Antica
2 dashes Angostura bitters
Combine ingredients in a mixing glass, add ice. Stir. Strain. Serve neat with a brandied cherry.
Sazerac
2 oz Rye Jack Daniels Single Barrel Tennessee Rye
0.25 oz 1:1 simple syrup
2 dashes Peychaud’s bitters
0.25 oz of Herbsaint or Absinthe
Rinse a chilled cocktail glass with the Herbsaint/Absinthe and set aside. Combine remaining ingredients in a mixing glass, add ice. Stir. Strain into the chilled glass, neat. Express a lemon peel over the drink and run the peel around the rim of the glass. Discard the peel.
Boulevardier
1.5 oz Old Forester
1 oz Campari
1 oz sweet vermouth
Combine ingredients in a mixing glass, add ice. Stir. Strain over ice and garnish with an orange peel.
Whiskey Sour
2 oz Coopers Craft Bourbon
0.75 oz fresh lemon juice
1 egg white
3 dashes Peychaud’s bitters
Combine the first four ingredients in a shaker tin, adding the egg white last. Without adding ice, shake briskly for 10 seconds. Add ice and shake again. Finely strain into a cocktail glass, neat. Add 3 dashes of bitters.
The Difference Between Bourbon and Rye
Rye whiskey is, by law, made from a mash of at least 51% rye. The other ingredients of the mash are usually corn and malted barley. Bourbon, distilled from at least 51% corn, is noticeably sweeter, and tends to be fuller-bodied than rye.
Cocktails courtesy of Will Abner at Ovenbird
