Whiskey Sours

How we make it.

*serves 6*

2 cups bourbon
1 cup lemon juice (about 5 lemons)
½ cup simple syrup (recipe below)
Garnish: orange wedges, cherries

Stir ingredients together in a pitcher. Refrigerate. When ready to serve pour over ice into a cocktail shaker by the drink, shaking until ice cold. Strain each drink into a lowball glass over ice. Garnish with an orange wedge and a cherry.

Simple Syrup

1 cup water
1 cup sugar

In a small saucepan heat water and sugar, stirring until sugar is dissolved. Let cool and store in the refrigerator.

*by the drink*

3 ounces bourbon
1 ½ ounces lemon juice
½ ounce simple syrup (recipe below)
Garnish: orange wedge, cherry

Combine bourbon, lemon juice and simple syrup into a cocktail shaker over ice and shake until frosty ice cold. Strain into a lowball glass over ice. Garnish with an orange wedge and a cherry.

Why we make it.

Mid-century magic finds it peak in the whiskey sour. If you ask me. Which you didn't. But I'm telling you anyway. I've told you before I'm not a big bourbon drinker but being from where I'm from that's really no fun, so over the years I've found a few bourbon cocktails I can truly love. Most involve lemon. That's really all the whiskey sour does involve. Whiskey, lemon, a little sugar syrup. The ruby burst of a bourbon-soaked cherry. A wedge of orange, a hunk of ice. Cocktail culture at its finest, if you ask me. If you want to get a party started get out your shaker and sling some sours. Refreshing, sweet and tart, they're a light way to introduce your friends to the wonders of whiskey without drowning their palates in the hard stuff. That's why we shake them!