Gold Rush Recipe
A bourbon sour sweetened with honey instead of sugar — rich, lemony and silky, with the whiskey's vanilla coming through.
- Category: Popular
- Glass: Old fashioned glass
- ABV: 17%
- Difficulty: Easy
Ingredients
- Bourbon60 ml (2 oz)
- Honey syrup30 ml (1 oz)
- Fresh lemon juice22 ml (0.7 oz)
How to Make It
- Add the bourbon, honey syrup and lemon juice to a shaker with ice.
- Shake until well chilled.
- Strain over a large ice cube in a rocks glass.
- Garnish with a lemon twist.
Garnish
Lemon twist
The Story
Created in the early 2000s at Milk & Honey in New York by T. J. Siegal, a friend of owner Sasha Petraske, it quickly became a modern classic.
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