Smoked Salty Sour

Difford’s Guide
Discerning Drinkers (53 ratings)

Serve in an Old-fashioned glass

Ingredients:
1 oz Blended Scotch whisky
1 oz Torabhaig Peated Single Malt Whisky
12 oz Green Chartreuse (or alternative herbal liqueur)
1 oz Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
12 oz Demerara/Muscovado/brown sugar syrup (2 sugar to 1 water)
1 dash Peychaud's or other Creole-style bitters
1 pinch Salt (sea salt)
12 oz Egg white (pasteurised) or Aquafaba (chickpea water) or 3 dashes Fee Brothers Fee Foam cocktail foamer
× 1 1 serving
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How to make:

  1. Select and pre-chill an Old-fashioned glass.
  2. Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist.
  3. SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
  4. FINE STRAIN into ice-filled glass.
  5. EXPRESS lemon zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

  • Egg white (pasteurised) - Eggs
Cocktail of the day:

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Review:

Salty Islay peaty malt and Green Chartreuse influence this Scotch whisky sour.

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History:

Adapted from a drink created in 2014 by Dennis Wolf at Bar Raclette, Puerto Rico.

Alcohol content:

  • 1.8 standard drinks
  • 18.56% alc./vol. (18.56° proof)
  • 25.1 grams of pure alcohol

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Egg McKenzie’s Avatar Egg McKenzie
14th March at 19:56
this looks superb
Calvin Grant’s Avatar Calvin Grant
14th March 2024 at 02:22
Quite enjoyed this, used genepy for the Chartreuse.
Loraine Herring’s Avatar Loraine Herring
11th January 2023 at 18:37
wow nice and smoky perhaps a clarified simple syrup to prevent the over cloudyness to the drink
Peychauds not needed perhaps a chocolate bitters instead to fight for attention