How To Make a Whiskey Sour
- December 3, 2007
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Georgia Haege
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Karin Olsen
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Edison Music Corp
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Dew Gueramian
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.
You Will Need
- Ice
- A measuring jigger
- 2 oz. whiskey (bourbon or rye)
- 3/4 oz. lemon juice
- 1 tsp. sugar
- A maraschino cherry
- A cocktail shaker
- And a sour glass (or rocks glass)
Step 1: Fill with ice
Fill the shaker with ice.
Step 2: Add whiskey, lemon & sugar
Add 2 oz. of whiskey, add ¾ oz of lemon juice, and finally add 1 teaspoon of sugar.
Step 3: Shake
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.
Step 4: Fill with ice
Fill the rocks glass with ice.
Step 5: Strain into glass
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.
Step 6: Garnish
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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