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Pickleback

Name: Pickleback
Total time: 2 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 30 ml Irish whiskey; 30 ml Pickle juice

Difford’s Guide

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Measurements in:

Serves:

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Ingredients
1 fl oz	Irish whiskey
1 fl oz	Pickle juice/brine/vinegar from pickled cucumber/gherkin (chilled)

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Shot glass

Prepare

Select a SHOT GLASS.
Prepare garnish of 3 skewered green olives.

Method

POUR whiskey into one glass.
POUR pickle brine into other glass.

Garnish

Garnish with skewered olives.

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Pickleback contains 74 calories

Alcohol content:

0.7 standard drinks
18.18% alc./vol. (36.36° proof)
9.5 grams of pure alcohol

History

Created in 2006 at Brooklyn's Bushwick Country Club after the neighbouring business, McClure's Pickles, stored some of their pickles in the bar's basement.

Apparently, this inspired bartender Reggie Cunningham to serve Old Crow Bourbon with a shot of McClure's spicy pickle brine. The Ruotolo brothers, who owned the bar Whiskey Town in Manhattan's East Village, discovered the drink and began serving it there, but with Irish whiskey in place of bourbon.

Review

Now, we do like a juicy wally (gherkin) with our cod 'n' chips, but necking the brine they are packed in is another thing. Our American cousins have some strange habits – driving on the right, carrying the ball when playing "football", and bowling underarm. So, these eccentricities should be remembered when I tell you that the drinking of pickle brine, as one-half of a Pickleback, is popular in New York City.

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Comments & Discussion

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Hunter Newsome 3y

It's a miracle...you chase the liquor with the brine and any burn is immediately extinguished.

G. M. Genovese Premium Member 3y