Adding carbonated water turns it into a Gin Fizz. A Gin Sour substitutes gin for whiskey.A Brandy Sour, mentioned by Jerry Thomas in 1887, combines brandy, curaçao, sugar, and lemon juice, shaken and strained into a wine glass.A Boston Sour adds a dash of egg white.A Scotch Sour trades the bourbon for scotch.The traditional garnish is half an orange wheel and a maraschino cherry. A Whiskey Sour uses bourbon, lemon juice, and sugar, shaken and served straight up or over ice.Sours are mixed drinks containing a base liquor, lemon or lime juice (the “sour”), and a sweetener (grenadine, simple syrup, sugar, pineapple juice, triple sec). The oldest English printed mention of a Whiskey Sour was in the Waukesha Plain Dealer in 1870. But this was pre-Information Age, so history is wiggly, at best. One might deduce that many other bartenders who purchased The Bartender’s Guide created whiskey sours. A 1962 a Spanish-language article cited a prior article in the Peruvian newspaper, El Comercio de Iquique, giving credit to Elliott Stubb for creating the Whisky Sour in 1872-10 years after Thomas’ book. Sours are one of the old families of original mixed drinks described in Jerry Thomas’ seminal 1862 book, The Bartender’s Guide. A medium lemon yields 2 tablespoons of juice a large lemon can deliver up to 4 tablespoons.A medium lime yields 1-1/2 to 2 tablespoons of juice 1 cup requires 8 to 10 limes.GARNISH with a maraschino cherry (these are the best!) or a fresh cherry in season or go 21st-century and sprinkle with dried cherries. Pour over ice cubes or crushed ice into your choice of a rocks or a collins glass.ĥ. ASSEMBLE the cocktail: Shake 1-1/2 ounces of whiskey (Bourbon, Canadian, Jack Daniels, Irish whiskey, or Scotch) with three ounces of sour mix. If you have too much, you can also freeze it.Ĥ. BLEND thoroughly, pour into a clean bottle or another container (we reuse the bottles from grapefruit juice), cap, and refrigerate. You may also wish to try batches with only lemon juice or only lime juice, to see if you prefer either to the blend.ģ. ADD 1 cup of fresh-squeezed lemon juice and 1 cup of fresh-squeezed lime juice. Heat, stirring constantly as the water begins to simmer until completely dissolved. MAKE simple syrup by combining 1 cup of sugar with 1 cup of water in a saucepan. Making sour mix is just one step tacked on to a simple syrup recipe: It’s half simple syrup and half lemon and/or lime juice.ġ. So, start juicing and then kick back with a well-deserved Whiskey Sour. While an electric juicer will get every last drop of juice from the citrus, here are techniques that anyone can use to get the most juice. Take a look at this Oster juicer, moderately priced with a small footprint. If you aren’t keen on juicing, consider an electric juicer, which makes juicing a snap (and fun, too). There’s no substitute for fresh citrus juice in any recipe-unless the goal of substituting is to cut down on the cost of ingredients, and by extension, deliver a finished product that doesn’t taste anywhere as good. T brand of sweet and sour mix uses bottled lime juice, bottled lemon juice, corn syrup, sugar, and artificial coloring. Real Lemon brand reconstituted bottled lemon juice is made from lemon juice concentrate, water, lemon oil, and the preservatives sodium benzoate, sodium metabisulfite, and sodium sulfite. Mixes use bottled, reconstituted juice (concentrate and water) or citrus oil from the peel (a very different flavor profile from the juice). WHY YOU SHOULDN’T USE A PRE-MADE SOUR MIX If your Margarita (or other sweetened cocktail) tastes better in certain establishments, it’s probably not because of better tequila, but due to the use of fresh lime juice instead of a mix. There’s nothing better than fresh-squeezed citrus juice. We think it’s far better to make your own sour mix. Ready-to-use sour mixes are available in supermarkets and are used in many bars. Long Island Iced Tea, Margarita, Mai Tai, Texas Tea, and Singapore Sling are examples. Sour mix is found in numerous other cocktail recipes that require sweetness (sugar) and tartness (lemon or lime juice). Sweet and sour mix, also known as sour mix or bar mix, is an ingredient in many cocktails-and not just those called “sour,” such as Apricot Sour, Bourbon Sour, Brandy Sour, Southern Comfort Sour, Whiskey Sour, and Vodka Sour. But due to the popularity of the “sour” family of drinks, bartenders, and then consumers, have used a purchased mix. What’s a Whiskey Sour? The original recipe calls for bourbon, lemon juice, and simple syrup. The classic Whiskey Sour garnish is half an orange wheel and a maraschino cherry (photo courtesy Fillmore Room | NYC). With egg whites, the foamy drink is called a Boston Sour (photo © Lognetic | Fotolia). You can make a whiskey sour with or without egg whites, for a foamy top (photo © Lognetic | Fotolia).
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