Whiskey Cocktail Recipes

Dive into the world of whiskey with The Drinky Drink Project. Here, you’ll find various whiskey cocktail recipes that will blow your mind. Contact me for more information.

I used the recipe on liquor.com.

The history of The Manhattan is muddy and uninteresting, so I decided to dive into the history of bitters. From Wikipedia, “A bitters is traditionally an alcoholic preparation flavored with botanical matter so that the end result is characterized by a bitter, sour, or bittersweet flavor. Numerous longstanding brands of bitters were originally developed as patent medicines, but now are sold as digestifs, sometimes with herbal properties, and cocktail flavorings.”⁣
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Patent Medicines. Meaning “cure all tonics” sold by snake-oil salesmen. To fix things like “chronic weakness” and “complaints of women” and “blood diseases”. 😂⁣
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The bitters commonly used in drinks is Angostura Bitters, named after a city in Venezuela. It was originally sold as a patent medicine, but rebranded itself. By 1900, Angostura Bitters were a big part of the “Golden Age of the Cocktail”, as bitters was an ingredient in many popular drinks. When the Pure Food & Drug Act in the US in 1906 came down on the patent medicine industry, Angostura Bitters survived the new regulations. Angostura wasn’t a cure-all medicine anymore, it was a cocktail flavoring. And the brand, and the oversized label, lives on to this day, since 1824.⁣
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The Manhattan is made with whiskey, sweet vermouth, and bitters. This one I’ve made is a Sweet Manhattan, because I’ve added a splash of the syrup from the maraschino cherries. Before this project, I had never really had whiskey before, and I didn’t think I liked it. Turns out I do! I doubt I could drink whiskey straight up, but this cocktail is very good.⁣
(Originally posted May 2, 2020)