lets know some famous whisky based cocktail with history and Recipe

            Cocktail are mixed drinks that have become popular since the first quarter of the twentieth century and all the bars offer a list of selected cocktails.

whisky based cocktail🍸

1. Rob Roy 
 
 Ingredients :
       
1. 45 ml Scotch whisky 
2. 50 ml Sweet Vermouth
3. 2 ml Angostura Bitter 
4. Lemon Twist
Glass : Cocktail
Method : Stirred

Procedure:

1. Pour all ingredients except lemon peel into a mixing glass filled with ice
2. Stir until chilled. strain into a chilled cocktail glass .garnish with lemon twist.

Origin and History

 Created in 1894 by a bartender at the Waldorf Astoria in Manhattan, New York City. The drink was named in honor of the premiere of Rob Roy, an operetta by composer Reginald De Koven and lyricist Harry B.Smith loosely based upon Scottish folk hero Rob Roy MacGregor.

2. Rattle Snake
 
  Ingredients :

1. 45 ml Whiskey
2. 2 tsp Lemon juice
3. 10 ml Sugar syrup
4. Egg white
Glass : Old Fashioned
Method : Shake

Procedure:

1. Add all ingredients into an ice filled cocktail shaker, shake.
2. Strain cover crushed ice in the glass.

Origin and History

   The Rattlesnake first appeared as a recipe for six people in Harry Craddock's 1930 The Savoy Cocktail Book with the nation, ''so called because it will either cure Rattlesnake bite, or kill Rattlesnake or make you see them''.

3. Old Fashioned

  Ingredients :

1. 45 ml Rye Whiskey
2. 2 dash Angostura bitters
3. 1 tsp Castor sugar
4. 4-5 Ice cubes
 
Glass : Old Fashioned
Method : Build Up

Procedure

1. In an old fashioned glass, add the castor sugar, angostura bitters and dash of chilled water.
2. Muddle the mixture.
3. Add in the ice cubes. Top with whiskey.

Origin and History

   The first mention in print of old fashioned cocktails was in the chicago Daily Tribute in February 1880. However, the Pendennis Club a gentlemen's club founded in 1881. claims the old fashioned cocktail was invented there. The recipe was said to have been invented by a bartender at that club in honor of Colonel James E. Pepper a prominent bourbon distiller, who brought it to the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel bar in New York City.

4. Manhattan

  Ingredients :

1. 45 ml Rye whiskey
2. 10 ml Sweet vermouth
3. 1 dash Angostura bitters
4. Cherry
Glass : Cocktail Glass
Method : Stirred

Procedure:
 
1. Pour ingredients into a mixing glass with ice.
2. Stir until well chilled.
3. Pour into a chilled cocktail glass, garnish with cherry.

Origin and History

The drink originated at the Manhattan Club in New York City in the mid 1870s, where it was invented by Dr. Lain Marshall for banquet hosted by Jerome in honor of presidential candidate Samuel J. Tilden.

5. Rustynail

  Ingredients :

1. 45 ml Scotch whiskey 
2. 20 ml Drambuie
3. Lemon Twist
Glass : Old fashioned 
Method : Build Up

Procedure :

1. Add ice cubes into the glass
2. Pour in the whiskey and Drambuie
3. Garnish with a lemon twist

Origin and History

  the Rusty Nail is often credited to the clever bartenders at the 21 Club in Manhattan sometime in the early 1960s. The cocktail's name was finally cemented in 1963, when Gina MacKinnon, the chairwoman of the Drambuie Liqueur Company, gave the Rusty Nail her endorsement in The New York Times.

6. God Father

Ingredients :

1. 45 ml Whiskey 
2. 15 ml Amaretto
3. Ice cubes
Glass : Old Fashioned
Method : Build Up

Procedure :

1. Add ice cubes to the glass
2. Pour the Whiskey and Amaretto on top of the ice cubes.

Origin and History

 the origin of the Godfather's name is uncertain. The amaretto brand Disaronno claims the drink was the favorite cocktail of American actor Marlon Brando, known for playing the titular character in the popular American film adaptation of Mario Puzo's The Godfather, which prominently features the Italian mob.

7. Hunter

  Ingredients :

1. 45 ml Rye Whiskey 
2. 15 ml Cherry Brandy
Glass : Cocktail
Method : Stirred

Procedure

1. Pour all ingredients into an ice filled mixing glass. stir until chilled
2. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass. 

Origin and History

 The origins of this cocktail are clouded in mystery, but it does come highly recommended by famed bartender Hidetsugu Ueno at his High Five bar in Ginzo, Tokyo, Japan.










 

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