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Bathtub Gin
Ingredients:
• 0.75 oz Fresh lemon juice
• 0.75 oz Simple syrup (one part water, one part sugar)
• 1.5 oz Bourbon
Garnish:
1 Cherry and/or lemon wedge (optional)
Glass: Rocks
Directions: Add all the ingredients to a shaker and fill with ice. Shake, and strain into a rocks glass filled with fresh ice. Garnish with a cherry and/or lemon wedge if desired.
Review: The Whiskey Sour, with its frothy egg-white topping, was a lesson in contrast. Once you get past the tasteless, but fluffy, egg-white precursor, your mouth is flooded with full
flavor of bourbon and lemon. The Bourbon taste is a playful character dancing on the stout foundation of the lemon. It will grab your full attention with every sip.
Whiskey Sour
Bathtub gin refers to any style of homemade spirit. The term first appeared in the 1920's, during the prohibition in the U.S., in
reference to the poor-quality alcohol produced by mixing cheap grain alcohol, water, flavorings, such as juniper berries, and glycerine, and allowed to steep for several hours or even days. Because the bottles used to allow fermentation were too tall to be topped off with water from a sink, they were filled from a bathtub, as well as sometimes directly created in bathtubs or large containers. Since the sale or manufacture of distilled alcohol was prohibited,
many bootleggers used denatured or wood alcohol instead, which
could cause death if not thoroughly processed. The end result was extremely dry and not very palatable; therefore, it was mixed with tonic water, vermouth, or fruit juices, as speakeasy bartender came up with recipes to cover up the awful taste, paving the way for the cocktails of our days.
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