Cocktail

Alicia Perry's Whiskey Sour

Alicia Perry & Mary Anne Porto & Punch

Coupe Glass

Ingredients

1 oz

Elijah Craig Small Batch

or other small batch bourbon
1 oz

Rittenhouse Rye Bottled-in-Bond

Rittenhouse Straight Rye preferred
0.75 oz

Lemon Juice
0.75 oz

Cane Syrup

1:1 cane sugar to water simple syrup
1 whole

Egg White
2 dashes

Aromatic

Angostura bitters, dashed decoratively over foam
1 whole

Lemon Twist

expressed

Expressed over the drink from a distance, then discarded

Instructions

Combine all ingredients in a shaker tin and dry-shake vigorously without ice until the seal begins to loosen. Open the shaker, add large-format cubed ice, and shake again firmly to chill without overdiluting. Strain into a chilled coupe and allow the drink to settle briefly. Hold a lemon twist at a distance above the surface and express the oils over the cocktail, then discard the twist. Finish with a minimal decorative dash of Angostura bitters across the foam.

About

A split-base whiskey sour from bartender Alicia Perry that earned top honors in Punch's 2024 blind tasting, balancing bourbon richness with rye spice, brightened by an expressed lemon twist and a delicate dash of Angostura atop the silky egg white foam.

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