Sours are a whole genre of cocktails unto themselves—built on a liquor, a lemon or lime component, and a sweetener. Which makes the whiskey sour “kissing cousins” with the margarita, daiquiri, and kamikaze.
Fill the shaker with ice.
Add 2 oz. of whiskey, add ¾ oz of lemon juice, and finally add 1 teaspoon of sugar.
Vigorously shake the ingredients.
Replace the sugar with a splash of orange juice and a teaspoon of grenadine and you’ve sweetened your sour into a new drink, called a Ward Eight.
Fill the rocks glass with ice.
Strain the mixture into the sour glass.
A sour glass, also often called a “whiskey sour glass,” is somewhere between a brandy glass and champagne flute.
Garnish with a cherry, and serve.
A federal tax imposed in 1791 ‘soured’ whiskey-makers on their new U.S. government and led to the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794.
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