Name: Weissen Sour
Total time: 5 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Bourbon whiskey; 1 barspoon Orange marmalade; 22.5 ml Lemon juice; 2 dash Orange bitters; Top up with Weisse (wheat) beer

Ingredients

2 fl oz

Bourbon whiskey

1 barspoon

Orange marmalade

³⁄₄ fl oz

Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)

2 dash

Orange Bitters by Angostura

Top up with

Weisse (wheat) beer

How to make

Glassware

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COLLINS GLASS.

Prepare garnish of lemon slice wheel.

Method

STIR marmalade with bourbon in base of shaker to dissolve marmalade.

Add lemon juice and bitters, SHAKE with ice.

FINE STRAIN into ice-filled glass.

TOP with beer and briefly stir

Garnish

Garnish with lemon slice.

Health & Nutrition

Alcohol content:

We don't have enough information to calculate the alc./vol., but based on known ingredients, this recipe contains at least:

21.4 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Weisse (wheat) beer — Cereals containing gluten

Comments & Discussion

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Caspian Berggren Premium Member 35w

I tried it with a Franziskaner Weissbier and it was honestly pretty great. The beer isn't very assertive (and I used quite a bit more than just "a top up") but isn't overshadowed by the other ingredients either. Instead they rather serve to enhance the existing flavours in the beer. I was a bit concerned if the marmalade I had was too bitter but it worked just fine. It seems like it's pretty forgiving so you don't have to use your best bourbon, marmalade or Weissbier. Just use ingredients you like and it'll probably turn out great.

Roberto Boertje 2y

Is it an idea to swap bourbon for let's say a bold agricole rhum?

Nikolaj Thøgersen Premium Member 3y

How much beer are you adding? I don't think I'm hitting the right proportions here.

Avery Garnett 3y

Used one of my favourite witbiers - Gulpener Korenwolf. It's definitely more of an upgraded beer than a cocktail. If I came at this from the pov of a whiskey sour with wheat notes I would be disappointed; as a wheat beer with a nice orange and bourbon note? excellent.

Leslie Premium Member 3y

IDK why you’d bother…too little beer and all you get is a typical bourbon/lemon cocktail taste…too much beer and you get neither beer as a flavour nor the bourbon. (Full disclosure: I used Erdinger Dunkel for my weissen beer.)

Simon Difford Verified User Premium Member 3y

Such a dark chocolatey beer is a bold choice for this cocktail. Better with a lighter wheat beer.

John Champion 3y

A Dunkel is definitely not the right choice for this cocktail. I'd go with a hefeweizen or a Belgian wit, something lighter that will pair better with the citrus notes of the lemon and marmalade.