Bourbon & Whiskey Recipes

With the arrival of September in a few weeks comes National Bourbon Month! We've rounded up some bourbon and whiskey recipes for you to add to your cocktail menus as you transition from summer to fall.

The Revolver

Ingredients:

2.0 oz Bulleit Bourbon
.50 oz Mr. Black Coffee Liqueur
2 dash Reagan’s Orange Bitters
Garnish: Orange Peel

Directions:

1. Add bourbon, liqueur & bitters into a mixing glass over ice.
2. Stir until well-chilled.
3. Strain.
4. Flame an orange peel, express oils, garnish.

Strawberry Bourbon Lemonade

Ingredients: 

2 oz Rabbit Hole Cavehill Whiskey

2 muddled strawberries

1 tsp simple syrup

1 oz lemon juice

Lemon sparkling water or seltzer

Strawberry slice and lemon slice for garnish

Directions: 

1. Muddle berries with simple syrup and lemon juice in a glass.
2. Add in Cavehill and ice.
3. Top off with sparkling water or seltzer and garnish with strawberry slice and lemon slice.

Bourbon Maple Pumpkin Cold Brew Martini

Ingredients:

1 1/2 oz bourbon

1 oz Monin Maple Pumpkin Spice Cold Brew Concentrate

1/2 oz Monin Caramel Sauce

1/2 oz heavy cream

Directions:

1. Chill serving glass.
2. Pour ingredients into mixing glass with 2/3 ice in order listed.
3. Cap, shake and strain into chilled serving glass.
4. Add garnish and serve.

The Deacon Penicillin

Ingredients:

1 ½ oz Deacon Scotch Whisky

½ oz ginger liqueur

¾ oz honey syrup (equal parts honey and water)

¾ oz lemon juice

2 dashes aromatic bitters

Directions:

1. Shake all ingredients over ice.
2. Strain into a glass over fresh ice.
3. Garnish with fresh ginger.

Black-Eyed Rye

Ingredients:

1.5 oz Sagamore Small Batch Rye Whiskey

.5 oz Lime Juice

1 oz Blackberry Simple Syrup*

3 oz of Ginger Beer

Mint Leaves or dehydrated lime for garnish

Directions: 

For the Blackberry Simple Syrup:

1. Mix equal parts water, sugar, and blackberries in a pot.
2. Bring to a boil and reduce to a simmer for 10 minutes.
3. Chill overnight and strain.
4. Need a quick fix? Muddle blackberries with pre-made simple syrup.

For the cocktail:

1. Shake Sagamore Small Batch Rye Whiskey, lime juice, blackberry simple syrup, with ice and strain into a highball glass.
2. Top with Ginger Beer.
3. Garnish with mint sprigs or a dehydrated lime.

Monkey Jam Sour

Ingredients:

2.5 parts Monkey Shoulder Whisky

1 part lemon juice

2 tsp of jam or marmalade

1 dash of orange bitters

1 egg white or 2 tbsp of aquafaba

Directions:

1. Add all ingredients to a shaker.
2. Add fresh ice and shake.
3. Strain into an ice-filled glass.

Good Trouble Fig and Rosemary Smash         

1. In a shaker, muddle fresh figs.
2. Add Good Trouble Bourbon, honey syrup, and fresh lime juice.
3. Shake well and strain into a rocks glass filled with ice.
4. Garnish with a fresh rosemary sprig.

 

 

Mango Pash

Ingredients:

1.5 oz Coconut-Gochujang-infused Great Jones Four Grain Bourbon

1.5 oz Mango syrup (contains: mango puree, lactic acid, sugar, soy sauce, and water)

Chili thread garnish

Directions:

1. In a cocktail shaker, combine all ingredients, fill with ice, and shake until chilled.
2. Strain into an ice-filled fancy double rocks glass.
3. Finish with a chili thread garnish.

 

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