Monday, August 29, 2011

Whiskey sour

1 shot whiskey, 1 shot lemon juice, 1 shot simple syrup, over ice. Simple & effective.

4 comments:

  1. Are you taking orders?

    Are you laying down a gauntlet with regard to more traditional proportions?

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  2. I *wish* I could send, and order, drinks over the internet!

    Just reporting on my recent experiments. The bottle of simple syrup I purchased bore a recipe with a much lower proportion of syrup - rather selfless of them - which Mrs. TBA found unpalatable. The 1:1:1 blend is sour, but not aggressively so.

    I will not however impugn anyone who varies the proportions to taste, which is not an offense against ethics in the way a 2:1 martini is.

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  3. I see recipes that double the whiskey and scale down the syrup (3/4 oz, for instance). While I like this drink, I've never messed with it enough to have my own formula. It may vary some with how tart your lemons are, though.

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  4. Doubling the whiskey would bring the drink more in line with my preferred margarita recipe (2:1:1); I confess part of my aim was to find a formula that would satisfy my wife, who likes her drinks less strong than that. And if one shot of whiskey doesn't get a fella where he's goin', why, that's just a pleasant excuse to have a second drink.

    I tried less syrup (like, 1 oz vs. 1 shot of the lemon juice) but found it too sharp.

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