Sour (Generic Name)

Name: Sour (Generic Name)
Total time: 2 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml; 30 ml Lemon juice; 15 ml Sugar syrup 'rich' (2:1); 3 dash Aromatic bitters; 15 ml Egg white (pasteurised)

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Ingredients
2 fl oz	Brandy, whisk(e)y, gin, rum etc.
1 fl oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
1/2 fl oz	Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water) 65.0°Brix
3 dash	Angostura Aromatic Bitters
1/2 fl oz	Egg white (pasteurised) or Fee Brothers Fee Foam cocktail foamer

How to make

Glassware

Serve in an Old-fashioned glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill an OLD-FASHIONED GLASS.
Prepare garnish of skewered lemon slice wheel and Luxardo Maraschino Cherry sail. (Skewer through either side of lemon with cherry skewered in the centre.)

Method

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

Garnish

Garnish with skewered lemon slice wheel and maraschino cherry (sail).

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Sour (Generic Name) contains 186 calories

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
14.85% alc./vol. (29.69° proof)
19.3 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Egg white (pasteurised) — Eggs

History

Sours are aptly named drinks. Their flavour comes from either lemon or lime juice, which is balanced with sugar.

Sours can be based on practically any spirit but the bourbon based Whiskey Sour is by far the most popular. Many (including us) believe this drink is only properly made when smoothed with a little egg white.

Sours are served either straight-up in a sour glass (rather like a small flute) or on the rocks in an old-fashioned glass. They are traditionally garnished with a cherry and an orange slice, or sometimes a lemon slice.

A detailed history of the Sours family of cocktails is available on our Sours cocktails page.

Review

This 4:2:8 formula is a tad sourer than the classic 3:4:8 which translates as: three quarter part of the sour ingredient (lemon juice), one part of the sweet ingredient (sugar syrup) and two parts of the strong ingredient (spirit). So if you find my formula too sour than best follow the classic proportions in future.

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