Name: Penthouse Cocktail
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Bourbon whiskey; 7.5 ml Maraschino liqueur; 22.5 ml Lime juice; 15 ml Sugar syrup 'rich' (2:1)

Ingredients

2 fl oz

Bourbon whiskey

1/4 fl oz

Luxardo Maraschino liqueur

3/4 fl oz

Lime juice (freshly squeezed)

1/2 fl oz

Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water) 65.0°Brix

How to make

Glassware

Prepare

Method

SHAKE all ingredients with ice.

FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

Garnish with maraschino cherry.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Penthouse Cocktail contains 219 calories

Alcohol content:

1.7 standard drinks
20.59% alc./vol. (41.18° proof)
23.2 grams of pure alcohol

Comments & Discussion

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Joseph Nelson Premium Member Commenter Appreciated Commenter 6 months ago

I love a whiskey sour and this variant was decidedly pleasant on the tongue. Reading comments first, I did up the Maraschino to 10ml (probably could have done a tweak more since I use Lazzaroni) but otherwise followed as listed and it was a nice whiskey sour with a soft finish. Very appealing!

Benedikt Premium Member Commenter Appreciated Commenter 10 months ago

This has too much citrus imo, maraschino is barely noticeable (which iÍ thought impossible). It wasn't bad by any metric, but the whole time sipping it I thought of things that could be improved

Christopher Chaffin Commenter Appreciated Commenter 1 year ago

I think there are a lot of ways you could change or improve on this recipe. My first gut reaction was to express and discard a lime peel over the drink which brought out the bright notes in the citrus more. you could also reduce the amount of lime to make the bourbon more pronounced or reduce the simple to make it into more of a sour. Good as is but could definitely be improved on.

Ion Ghiba 2 years ago

With 7.5 ml more of a maraschino, went better for my taste. I added also a drop of Bob's vanilla bitter. I feel like you can play so much with the measures. It's a good base the whole recipe.

Miguel Perales Premium Member Commenter Appreciated Commenter 2 years ago

Really nice cocktail, well balanced. I went half way between John's recommendation and the listed amount of rich syrup and used 1/3 oz/10 ml rich syrup. Bourbon is prevalent but not overpowering with a good citrus finish.

John Hinojos Premium Member Commenter Appreciated Commenter 3 years ago

Great. Put in 1/2 the amount of sugar syrup as we like our cocktails a bit more sour. Cocktail has a great hint of citrus and cherry. Bourbon blends in quite well.

Brandon B 4 years ago

I accidentally made this with 1/2 shot Maraschino, but I was pleased with the result. All other ingredients kept the same, it gave a nice balance to the lime.