Mountain Cocktail

Difford’s Guide
Discerning Drinkers (10 ratings)

Serve in a Coupe glass

Ingredients:
1 12 oz Bourbon whiskey
12 oz Strucchi Dry Vermouth
12 oz Strucchi Rosso Vermouth
12 oz Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
12 oz Egg white (pasteurised) or 3 dashes Fee Brothers Fee Foam cocktail foamer or Aquafaba (chickpea water) or Vegan egg white replacement
6 drop Bob's Abbotts bitters optional
× 1 1 serving
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How to make:

  1. Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
  2. Prepare garnish of skewered Luxardo Maraschino Cherry.
  3. SHAKE all ingredients with ice and strain back into shaker.
  4. DRY SHAKE (without ice).
  5. FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
  6. Garnish with skewered cherry.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Review:

Bone dry - I prefer with the addition of half spoon sugar syrup.

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History:

This vintage cocktail is thought to have been originally made at New York's Hoffman House and a recipe for the Mountain Cocktail appears in Charles S. Mahoney's 1905 The Hoffman House Bartender's Guide.

Mountain Cocktail.
Large whiskey glass full of whiskey, little shaved ice, six dashes Tonka bitters, five dashes of lemon syrup, six dashes of sugar syrup, five dashes of Vermouth, white of a beaten egg, one cherry; strain in cocktail glass.

Charles S. Mahoney, 1905

Nutrition:

One serving of Mountain Cocktail contains 162 calories

Alcohol content:

  • 1.3 standard drinks
  • 17.77% alc./vol. (17.77° proof)
  • 18.7 grams of pure alcohol

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John Hinojos’ Avatar John Hinojos
30th May 2023 at 00:39
Loved it. It is nicely dry and perfect with hors d'oeuvres. Did use the bitters. This cocktail has wonderful herbal hints from the ingredients with a hint of citrus.
Olga María Gómez Henderson’s Avatar Olga María Gómez Henderson
29th May 2022 at 10:55
You're welcome.
Olga María Gómez Henderson’s Avatar Olga María Gómez Henderson
29th May 2022 at 10:04
Why don't you dry shake this cocktail?
Simon Difford’s Avatar Simon Difford
29th May 2022 at 10:38
Indeed better if shaken. I've amended accordingly. Many thanks for bringing to my attention.