Ep. 8 50 Shades of Sour - The Whiskey (Boston) Sour & Amaretto Sour

Welcome to episode 8 of The Art of Drinking with Join Jules and Your Favorite Uncle

What are we drinking?

The Whiskey (Boston) Sour & Amaretto Sour

This cocktail is a Sour, and a Sour is a blueprint for so many other cocktails. You need to know it! Brad adds egg to his Whiskey Sour and turns it into a Boston Sour - it’s that easy. Jules takes an Amaretto Sour and packs some additional stone fruit excitement into her cocktail. No show is complete without a story about where the cocktail came from.

Tip: Perfecting your frothy eggwhite, using modern technology - where has this been all my life?

Uncle Brad’s Recipe

What do I need?

• Whiskey Sour:

  1. Bourbon

  2. Lemons for lemon juice

  3. Medium eggs for egg white

  4. Bitters because I said so

  5. Sugar for simple syrup

  6. Luxardo cherries

  7. Shaker Tin

  8. Jigger (if you don’t know this by now…)

  9. Hawthorn strainer

  10. Mesh strainer

  11. Ice

  12. Coupe or Nick and Nora glass

How do I make it?

Coupe glass or Nick & Nora in the freezer

In shaker tin:

1. 2 oz of bourbon

2. 3/4 oz fresh lemon juice

3. ¾ oz simple syrup

4. 1 egg white from MEDIUM egg

5. Add 2 health shakes of bitters

6. DRY SHAKE 30 seconds

7. Add ice to small side 

8. Shake for another 20

9. Remove chilled glass from freezer

10. Double strain (hawthorn over big top, mesh over glass)

Join Jules’ Recipe

What do I need?

• Amaretto & Bourbon

• Peaches for peach puree

• Lemons

• Sugar for simple syrup

• Luxardo cherries, get the good stuff

• Eggs! 

• Ice 

• Boston Shaker

• Jigger

• Rocks glass

How do I make it?

• 1.5 oz Amaretto

• 1 oz Fresh Peach or Nectarine puree

• 3/4 oz Bourbon

• 3/4 oz Lemon Juice

• 1/2 oz Simple Syrup

• 1 bar spoon of Luxardo cherry juice (optional)

• 1 egg white

• Ice

1. In a cocktail shaker add all ingredients and dry shake (shake without ice)

2. Add ice and shake again

3. Double strain into a rocks glass

4. Garnish with maraschino cherries!

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Here are a few things you should know about the Whiskey Sour

1. Balance, like anything, is key - and so is a personal preference. Like it more sour, back down the simple. Like it more sweet, back down the lemon

2. Add a little red wine, and it’s a new york sour

3. Add an egg white and it’s a Boston sour

4. Bourbon is best, in my humble opinion.