Scotch and sodas all round please.īorn in the ultimate gentleman's club in 1889, this classic cocktail has been a mainstay on cocktail menus ever since - and there’s good reason too. Get together with your crew and share around this long, easy-going cocktail, perfect for festivals or just chilling in the sunshine. Sugar-free soda water keeps this Chivas Highball super low cal, and naturally elevates the fruity flavours of Chivas 12 to your taste buds. The holy trinity of low calorie cocktails. Read on to discover the Chivas-based best low calorie drinks easy to make at home and even easier on the sugar.Ĭhivas x Soda x Ice. With zero calorie syrups and natural sweeteners in play, it’s easier than ever to drink low cal cocktails that taste just as good as (and in some cases, better) than their high-sugar alternatives. Whether you’re out partying, toasting your latest success or simply indulging at home, these refreshing, low calorie cocktails are the perfect accompaniment to help you create balance, while still enjoying the luxuries of life.įrom classic Old Fashioneds to twisted Highballs, these low calorie cocktail recipes prove that allowing yourself to indulge in a great cocktail doesn’t have to mean loading up on calories. However if you like to live a balanced life - and aren’t always in the mood for a rich or overly sweet cocktail - there are a range of low calorie whisky cocktail options out there. Garnish with a lemon peel and, if you like, a cherry.Yes, there are absolutely times where you should reach for the most indulgent of drinks because, well, you want to. Strain either over fresh ice in a large rocks glass or up in a coupe. Add ice and shake hard for eight to 10 seconds. “It’s difficult to overstate how many favors the addition of high-proof bourbon does for the Amaretto Sour,” we write, “it’s not a revision so much as it is born again.” See for yourself with the recipe below, or learn why amaretto is better than you think it is here.Īdd all ingredients to a cocktail shaker and shake without ice for five to seven seconds to whip the egg white. Morgenthaler’s version-Amaretto and lemon, punched up with a pour of high-proof bourbon, and smoothed out with an egg white-utterly transforms the drink. It’s been 10 years since a bartender named Jeffrey Morgenthaler wrote on his blog that he had derived “the best Amaretto Sour in the world,” and it was the shake heard round the world. “The Amaretto Sour? I thought this was about whiskey drinks?” Well, the Amaretto Sour is a whiskey drink, or at least, it should be. Shake hard over ice for 8 to 10 seconds, and strain into rocks glass over fresh ice. 1 grapefruit peel, maybe 1” x 2”, taking care to get as little of the white pith as possibleĪdd all ingredients, including grapefruit peel, to a cocktail shaker with ice.Check it out for yourself below, or find out what bourbons work best for the drink here. This so called “regal shake” transforms the cocktail, adding complexity and depth. The Gold Rush-whiskey, lemon juice, and honey syrup-is a good and important drink, but we admit we don’t love it: “The Gold Rush as it’s normally constructed,” we write, “will be forever stuck in third gear until you do something to push it to the next level.” Fortunately, that something can be as easy as spicing it with ginger, perfuming it with florals or smoke, or easier still and our favorite version, adding a grapefruit peel to the shaker tin before shaking on ice. Take two mint crowns, lightly bruise them with your fingers, and stick them against the inside close to the straw. Stir to chill, until a frost forms on the outside. Add bourbon, and fill 2/3 with crushed ice. In a metal cup, gently muddle the mint into the simple syrup. 0.5 oz.-0.75 oz simple syrup (to taste).Find out the best bourbon to use for your Mint Julep here, or if the race is about to start, quickly fix one up according to the recipe below. Nonetheless, some 120,000 Mint Juleps are consumed across two sunny days at Churchill Downs during the Kentucky Derby, proving that some cocktails can become refreshing daytime summer sippers just by sheer force of will, and a little crushed ice. Its campaign materials may have you convinced it’s just a harmless little minty refresher, but in reality it’s nearly a double-pour of bourbon, tempered only by mint and a touch of sugar.
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