Name: Irish Buck
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Irish whiskey; 7.5 ml Lime juice; 105 ml Ginger ale

Irish Buck
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Serve in a Collins glass

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Irish whiskey
¹⁄₄ oz	Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
3 ¹⁄₂ oz	Thomas Henry Ginger Ale

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Collins glass.
Prepare lime slice wheel for garnish.
POUR all ingredients into ice-filled glass.
Briefly STIR.
Garnish with lime wheel.

Strength & taste guide:

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Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

Simple but surprisingly delicious and very refreshing thanks to cleansing lime sourness.

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History:

Bucks are a family of cocktails which emerged during Prohibition and always contain ginger ale or ginger beer. Incidentally, that's why we named our very fury ginger cat 'Buck'.

Nutrition:

One serving of Irish Buck contains 139 calories

Alcohol content:

1 standard drinks
9% alc./vol. (9° proof)
14.2 grams of pure alcohol

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eddie richards

18th March at 03:42

For a slightly spicier variation, Fentimans Ginger Beer adds an extra bite & I used Monin Line Rantcho in place of Fresh Lime as it was on hand.. All in all a solid upgrade

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Peter McCarthy

11th March 2024 at 21:16

Whiskey was a little lost for me. Might be the blend I used? Will have to play around with this one.

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Egg McKenzie

16th March at 09:37

i don't disagree with big pete mac. you couldn't go wrong with this refreshing drink, but for me, soda is preferable to ginger ale. it lets the whisky do the talking and it's irish so it can talk a LOT.

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