WINTER EDIT: PART 5 – TOP 5 WARMING WHISKEY COCKTAILS

Windy, rainy and wintery weekends can be a little challenging to peel yourself off the lounge and head out for the night. So there’s no better way then to bring the night to you with some of these top warming whiskey cocktail recipe’s you can whip up for you and your mates…or just for one.

CHANCELLOR COCKTAIL
One gent who knows a thing or two about the perfect tipple is cocktail historian, author and writer, Mr David Wondrich. He notes this beverage as “a dry and slightly mysterious little fiddle — not unlike a Perfect Manhattan, with Port for the sweet vermouth and Scotch for the Rye — that screams out “club chair,” “billiards,” and “smoking jacket.”

RECIPE

Ingredients:
2 ounces whiskey (use a blended Scotch whisky).

1-ounce Ruby Port.

1/2 ounce vermouth (use French Vermouth).

2 dashes orange bitters.

Cocktail glass

Method:
With a few cubes of crushed ice, stir all the ingredients nicely in your cocktail mixer, then strain into a pre-chilled cocktail glass.

MILLIONAIRE
“Sweet, pleasant, even jovial”.

RECIPE

Ingredients:
2 ounces whiskey – Rye Whisky.

1/2 ounce Grand Marnier.

1 dash grenadine.

1 egg whites.

cocktail glass

Method:
This one requires some intense shaking, so put on your favourite tune to get you the zone.
With crushed ice added to your cocktail shaker, shake up this beverage vigorously to breakdown the egg white and help it mix through all the ingredients evenly. The better and bigger the shake, the creamier and smoother the results for the perfect top froth.

Strain into a pre-chilled glass.

SUBURBAN
“If you could distil carved-oak panelling and club chairs, leather-bound volumes and three-cushion billiard tables, this is what you’d get. Mellow, robust, comfortable. The rum mellows the tang of the Rye, the Port tames the raw edge of the distillates and the bitters adds a touch of the exotic”.

RECIPE

Ingredients:
1 1/2 ounces of whiskey (use Rye Whisky).

1/2 ounce rum ( use dark rum).

1/2 ounce Port.

1 dash orange bitters.

1 dash Bitters (use Angostura Bitters).

Cocktail glass.

Method:
Add some crushed ice in your cocktail mixed and stir well before staining over your pre-chilled cocktail glass.

BRAIN-DUSTER
Named by George J. Kappeler in 1895, this should be enjoyed one sitting down, as this one packs the perfect potent punch.

RECIPE

Ingredients
1-ounce whiskey (use Rye Whisky).

1-ounce Absinthe.

1-ounce Vermouth (use Italian Vermouth).

1 dash Bitters (use Angostura Bitters).

Cocktail glass.

Method:
Stirring all ingredients through with cracked ice and strain into a pre-chilled cocktail glass of choice.

ROB ROY
Like a Manhattan, but this uses Scotch Whiskey instead of Rye Whiskey.

RECIPE

Ingredients:
2 ounces whiskey (use blended Scotch Whisky).

3/4 ounce Vermouth (use Italian Vermouth).

1 dash Bitters (Orange Bitters).

Cocktail glass.

Method:
Add all ingredients to your cocktail shaker and shake well with crushed ice. Pour over the pre-chilled cocktail glass and garnish with either a lemon twist or a cherry.

Hope you enjoy some of the fine tipples.

Till next time, stay dapper.
Robbie – Dapper Lounge.