Name: Baltimore Bang
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 50 ml Bourbon whiskey; 15 ml Apricot liqueur; 15 ml Lemon juice; 10 ml Sugar syrup (2:1)

Baltimore Bang
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Glass:

Photographed in a ZigZag Old-Fashioned Glass

Ingredients:
1 ²⁄₃ fl oz	Bourbon whiskey
¹⁄₂ fl oz	Luxardo Apricot Albicocca Liqueur
¹⁄₂ fl oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₃ fl oz	Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water, 65.0°Brix)

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Prepare:

Select and pre-chill an OLD-FASHIONED GLASS.
Prepare garnish of skewered orange slice wheel and Luxardo Maraschino Cherry (sail).

How to make:

SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into ice-filled glass.

Garnish:

Garnish with skewered lemon wheel and maraschino cherry sail.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

An apricot flavoured Whiskey Sour.

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Variations/similar cocktails:

Serve straight-up in a coupe.
Stone Sour
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History:

Adapted from a recipe in Stanley M. Jones' 1977 Jones' Complete Barguide.

(The) BALTIMORE BANG
Cocktail Glass
Shake/Blend
1-1/2 oz Early Times
1/2 oz apricot flavored brandy
1 oz lemon juice
1/2 tsp sugar
Orange slice & a cherry
Stanley M. Jones, Jones' Complete Barguide, 1977

Nutrition:

One serving of Baltimore Bang contains 192 calories

Alcohol content:

1.5 standard drinks
22.06% alc./vol. (44.11° proof)
21.3 grams of pure alcohol

Difford’s Guide remains free-to-use thanks to the support of the brands in green above. Values stated for alcohol and calorie content, and number of drinks an ingredient makes should be considered approximate.

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Simon Sedgley

17th March at 12:45

The addendum to our previous comment on this wonderful cocktail was addressed to our good host but we now realise that it may have the appearance of someone talking to themselves which, admittedly, we sometimes do. Anyway, if there's a history to this one we'd love to learn of it.

Simon Difford

17th March at 13:34

I found the reference this morning, but was waiting to reply until I'd had a chance to get behind the bar and make. I want to try with more lemon juice. Bear with me.

Simon Sedgley

16th March at 11:25

On the basis of comments hereunder, we were a bit trepidatious (if that's a word) that this might be a bit unbalanced. And so there was the pleasant anticipation of tinkering with a few iterations. All to be thwarted. For us this is exquisitely balanced, so fragilely (again if that's a word) that we had to serve it in a Coupe glass to ward off the sometimes dread and dead hand of dilution. We think it's a 'banger' (an excellent or memorable song...not a sausage).

Simon Difford

17th March at 20:07

I tried increasing the lemon juice to 22.5ml / 20ml, but ended up much preferring 15ml as per the original above.

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Simon Sedgley

16th March at 11:45

btw Simon, do you know the history to this one? We always enjoy reading the 'origin stories'.

Caitlin Eisner

14th March at 13:09

Quite nice, but it's nicer when the syrup is removed and the brandy is increased.

Bocman

8th November 2025 at 18:22

I use a peach liqueur and it was also great 🍑

Peter McCarthy

11th July 2024 at 23:04

Made this with 25 ml Wild Turkey 101 bourbon, 25 ml Wild Turkey 81 bourbon, 15 ml Rothman & Winter Orchard Apricot, 15 ml lemon juice, 10 ml 2:1 sugar syrup. Very tasty. I feel like this could work well with a Rye, too, so curious to try that...

Jose Cruz

29th May 2024 at 04:56

used 12 YO whiskey and orgeat and 5ml more apricot trying to improve this, is just decent. 8.4/10

Calvin Grant

16th April 2024 at 01:40

Nicely balanced with Ezra Brooks 99 sour mash and Rothman & Winter Orchard Apricot. Very good sour. Gets a heart!

Juniper Lately

3rd November 2023 at 21:04

I accidentally made this with equal parts bourbon and apricot (where are my reading glasses…) BUT it was delicious ?

Miguel Perales

20th June 2023 at 21:40

A dry, not overly sweet cocktail. Bourbon is upfront, citrus mid-palate and subtle Apricot at the finish. I'm a Bourbon guy so I may try a Bottled-in-Bond (BIB) Bourbon next time.

Beverly Stanton

21st January 2023 at 21:19

Thought the apricot would be a bit more noticable. Not a favorite.
Would not make again.

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