Today is World Whisky Day!
Yes, there is a website dedicated to World Whisky Day full of videos and articles for your learning pleasure.
“Brown Liquor” as my grandmother would generalize about Whiskey, Scotch, and Bourbon has NEVER been a favorite of mine. Nonetheless, I recently purchased a small bottle of Wild Turkey to make a beer bourbon glaze for a ham or mix with a barbecue sauce on some ribs.
Yet to celebrate World Cocktail Day this past Wednesday, I decided to make a simple Apple Jack.
Apple Jack
Ingredients
- 2 ounces whiskey
- apple juice
- mix together according to your taste
Apple Jack
Simple but good!
This drink can also be served warm using apple cider. I can well remember going to Cleveland, Ohio for the annual Pittsburgh Steelers football games (at least one in the month of December) and drinking hot toddies.
Hot Toddy
Basically, these were Apple Jack’s with honey and lemon juice in a thermos and they really warmed you up when the wind from nearby Lake Erie whipped around the stadium. Brrrr!
More Easy Recipes
Despite the fact that I rarely drink the “brown liquors”, I do remember enjoying a Whiskey Sour or a Manhattan in my nightclubbing days and here are the recipes.
Whiskey Sour
Ingredients
- 2 ounces bourbon
- ¾ ounce fresh lemon juice
- ¾ ounce simple syrup
- ½ orange wheel (for serving)
- Maraschino cherry (for serving)
Whiskey Sour
Read recipe instructions on Bon Appetit.
Manhattan
Ingredients
- 2 ounces bourbon or rye
- 1 ounce sweet vermouth
- 2 dashes Angostura bitters
- 1 dash orange bitters
- Garnish: brandied cherry
Manhattan
Instructions can be found on Liquor.com.
Finally, here’s an excellent Covid-19 article titled “A Beginner’s Guide to Whisky Cocktails – Seven Easy Lockdown Serves to Start“.
I might make another Apple Jack or get more complex…
It’s Saturday; read up and imbibe! Tomorrow, tell me how you drank your whiskey?
