Name: Greenwich Sour
Total time: 2 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Rye whiskey 50% abv; 22.5 ml Lemon juice; 10 ml Sugar syrup (2:1); 1 dash Aromatic bitters; 15 ml Egg white (pasteurised); 22.5 ml Shiraz red wine

Greenwich Sour
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Serve in an Old-fashioned glass

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Straight rye whiskey (100 proof /50% alc./vol.)
³⁄₄ oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₃ oz	Monin Pure Cane Syrup (65.0°brix, equivalent to 2:1 rich syrup)
1 dash	Angostura Aromatic Bitters
¹⁄₂ oz	Egg white (pasteurised) or 3 dashes Fee Brothers Fee Foam cocktail foamer or Aquafaba or Vegan egg white alternative
³⁄₄ oz	Shiraz red wine

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Garnish: Orange zest twist

How to make:

SHAKE first 5 ingredients with ice and strain back into shaker. DRY SHAKE (without ice) and strain into ice-filled glass. DRIZZLE red wine around surface of the drink.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Egg white (pasteurised) - Eggs
Shiraz red wine - Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

A Whiskey Sour smoothed by the addition of egg white and made more visually appealing and interesting by red wine tannins.

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Variant:

Brunswick (a rye Whiskey Sour with a red wine float but with no egg white); New York Sour (a bourbon sour with a red wine float but no egg white)

History:

Although this egg white enriched Whisky Sour with a New York Sour red wine float was made in other numerous bars, particularly in London, prior to Manhattan's Employees Only opening in 2004, this cocktail is closely associated to EO and almost certainly owes its name to the bar's proximity to New York's Greenwich Villiage district.

A detailed history of the Sours family of cocktails is available on our Sours cocktails page.

Nutrition:

One serving of Greenwich Sour contains 161 calories

Alcohol content:

1.3 standard drinks
16.19% alc./vol. (16.19° proof)
18.7 grams of pure alcohol

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