Name: Horse's Neck with a Kick
Prep time: 4 min
Total time: 4 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Whisk(e)y - Bourbon whiskey; 2 Angostura or other aromatic bitters; 120 ml Ginger ale

Serve in a

Highball (max 10oz/300ml)

Garnish:

Lemon peel (whole)

How to make:

POUR ingredients into ice-filled glass and stir.

1 1/2 fl oz	Bourbon whiskey
2 dash	Angostura Aromatic Bitters
4 fl oz	Thomas Henry Ginger Ale
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Review:

Whiskey and ginger with added shrubbery.

Variant:

Brandy-based rather than whiskey-based.
Remsen Cooler

History:

A Horse's Neck without a kick (whiskey) is simply ginger ale and bitters. Indeed, that's how this drink was first served, with the "Kick" added sometime around 1910.

Nutrition:

One serving of Horse's Neck with a Kick contains 135 calories.

Alcohol content:

1 standard drinks
8.69% alc./vol. (17.38° proof)
14.4 grams of pure alcohol

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