Name: Weissen Sour
Total time: 5 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Bourbon whiskey; 1 barspoon Orange marmalade; 22.5 ml Lemon juice; 2 dash Orange bitters; Top up with Weisse (wheat) beer

Weissen Sour
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Serve in a Collins glass

Ingredients:
2 oz	Bourbon whiskey
1 barspoon	Orange marmalade
³⁄₄ oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
2 dash	Orange Bitters by Angostura
Top up with	Weisse (wheat) beer

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Collins glass.
Prepare garnish of lemon slice wheel.
STIR marmalade with bourbon in base of shaker to dissolve marmalade.
Add lemon juice and bitters, SHAKE with ice.
FINE STRAIN into ice-filled glass.
TOP with beer and briefly stir
Garnish with lemon slice.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Weisse (wheat) beer - Cereals containing gluten

Review:

Wheaty bourbon with wheat beer and marmaladey citrus notes - they all go hand in hand and so work harmoniously in this unusual long drink.

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Variant:

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History:

Adapted from a recipe created in 2010 by Kevin Diedrich at the Burritt Room in San Francisco, California.

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Roberto Boertje

3rd July 2024 at 14:46

Is it an idea to swap bourbon for let's say a bold agricole rhum?

Nikolaj Thøgersen

7th September 2023 at 18:36

How much beer are you adding? I don't think I'm hitting the right proportions here.

Avery Garnett

17th August 2023 at 18:17

Used one of my favourite witbiers - Gulpener Korenwolf. It's definitely more of an upgraded beer than a cocktail. If I came at this from the pov of a whiskey sour with wheat notes I would be disappointed; as a wheat beer with a nice orange and bourbon note? excellent.

Leslie

16th July 2023 at 02:10

IDK why you’d bother…too little beer and all you get is a typical bourbon/lemon cocktail taste…too much beer and you get neither beer as a flavour nor the bourbon. (Full disclosure: I used Erdinger Dunkel for my weissen beer.)

John Champion

28th August 2023 at 16:47

A Dunkel is definitely not the right choice for this cocktail. I'd go with a hefeweizen or a Belgian wit, something lighter that will pair better with the citrus notes of the lemon and marmalade.

Simon Difford

16th July 2023 at 08:20

Such a dark chocolatey beer is a bold choice for this cocktail. Better with a lighter wheat beer.

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