Name: Black Hawk
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Rye whiskey 50% abv; 30 ml Sloe gin liqueur; 6 drop Boker's style bitters

Ingredients

1 ¹⁄₂ fl oz

Straight rye whiskey (100 proof /50% alc./vol.)

1 fl oz

Hayman's Sloe Gin liqueur

6 drop

Difford's Bokers Bitters By Bob's Bitters (optional)

How to make

Glassware

Prepare

Method

STIR all ingredients with ice.

STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

Garnish with maraschino cherry dropped into cocktail.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Black Hawk contains 170 calories

Alcohol content:

1.7 standard drinks
31.8% alc./vol. (63.6° proof)
23.9 grams of pure alcohol

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Comments & Discussion

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Chris Garner Premium Member 21w

I came up with a variation I call the Golden Eagle with name being after the unofficial national bird of Scotland according to Google. 1.5oz (45ml) scotch, Jonny Walker Double Black, 1/2 (15ml) Plymouth sloe gin, 2 dashes orange bitters, a long lemon twist and an orange wheel served on the rocks.

Chris Garner Premium Member 21w

Sorry, 1/2oz (15ml) Plymouth sloe gin.

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Chris Garner Premium Member 21w

I named it that looking up the national bird of scotch land to play on the fact it uses scotch. Apparently the golden eagle is considered the unofficial bird of Scotland

John CARR Premium Member 25w

Needs plenty of dilution, especially if using Rittenhouse, as I was. Would be interesting to try with other and lower abv ryes. Was really enjoying the Woodford reserve recently, bottle now sadly finished. Hayman’s sloe gin.

John CARR Premium Member 25w

Also be sure to serve in a Nick & Nora as it is important to concentrating the flavours here (I initially poured into a coupe; learn from my mistake 😋😂).

Chris Brislawn 22w

Great Manhattan variation. Hayman's "slow" gin really mellows the spirituous Whistle Pig PiggyBack rye, which is only 96.56 proof according to the bottle but 100% rye. Difford's 3:2 proportions are about right with these ingredients. And as The Man Behind The Bar I was careful to use Nick & Nora's as you stressed; Kristi says we should watch "Thin Man" movies while sipping these.

John CARR Premium Member 20w

Kristi is entirely correct: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_%26_Nora_(glass)

John CARR Premium Member 20w

Whistle pig might be a happy medium re abv. I had local Gospel rye this evening at 42.5 abv, bumped to 50ml. It was slightly struggling to keep up with the other ingredients, tho overall still VERY delicious cocktail. Will def be playing with this some more!