2 shot of each and serve. Pour 1 oz Apple Pucker in shot glass. Advance preparation: Combine hot tea, apricot nectar, orange juice, sugar, and lemon juice. Before serving: Whiskey mixed drinks pour in ginger ale.
Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker half-filled with cracked ice. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass, garnish with an olive, and serve. Mix together in a highball glass, add some ice and a straw. How to Make 20 Very Good, Very Classic Whiskey Cocktails These are the best drinks to be had, no matter if you prefer Irish over Scotch or bourbon before rye. There isn’t much a good whiskey cocktail can’t cure. And there are quite a few ailments in this weird, all-time-worst year that could use a touch of spiritual healing. For one, drinks both stiff and well-mixed have become our tether to the more social nights of years past, only now we’re making most of them at home instead of entrusting a skilled bartender with our order.
If you want a whiskey cocktail as square-jawed as a bulldog but refined as a gold pocket watch, as timely as the news but as storied as the Seven Wonders, it’s the Old Fashioned you’ll make. Place the sugar cube in an Old Fashioned glass. Wet it down with Angostura bitters and a short splash of club soda. Crush the sugar with a wooden muddler, then rotate the glass so that the sugar grains and bitters give it a lining. Garnish with an orange twist, and serve with a stirring rod if you’re so inclined. Scotch tempered with the sweetness of amaretto is a dangerous pairing. No amaretto was seen on the set of “The Godfather,” but that didn’t prevent rumors spreading that Marlon Brando favored this drink.
Stir the scotch and Amaretto well with cracked ice in a mixing glass. Strain over fresh ice into an Old Fashioned glass. For a real Manhattan, you need rye whiskey, though you can opt for bourbon instead. In all of bartending, you won’t find a more authoritative partnership than that of the bitters, the vermouth, and the sharp, musky whiskey. Stir the rye, vermouth, and bitters well with cracked ice.
Strain into a chilled cocktail glass. This potent potion of a drink with dust your brain off of what clutters it—nagging worries, lingering doubts, existential fears, and all other mental cobwebs. That is, until you sober up. Stir ingredients well with cracked ice, then strain into a chilled cocktail glass.