whiskey sour
noun
: a cocktail usually consisting of whiskey, sugar, and lemon juice shaken with ice
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To commence a dining experience at The Liath, their version of a whiskey sour is introduced as a component of Tuś which is Gaelic for the beginning, birth or the start of something new, and seeks to deliver flavors based around the five taste characteristics - bitter, sour, salt, umami and sweet.
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Paul Caputo, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
Drink options vary from a Phillips Place Cosmopolitan to a whiskey sour.
—Heidi Finley, Charlotte Observer, 30 Jan. 2024
Upon arrival, trays of whiskey sours poured by friend and bourbon connoisseur Paul Wesley were the perfect pick-me-up on a school night.
—Eliseé Browchuk, Vogue, 13 Feb. 2024
People pickled them in beet juice and split them into meringues and whiskey sours and sucked them raw for hangovers and ran them over their naked bodies for spiritual cleansing.
—Hazlitt, 14 Feb. 2024
But the New York Sour (a whiskey sour topped with an ounce or so of red wine) lifts the coupling from good to perfect.
—Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 12 Nov. 2023
Coffee doesn’t have the intense sweet-sour push-and-pull of a whiskey sour or even a rum & coke; therefore, it can be easily overwhelmed.
—Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 10 Mar. 2022
Combining the best parts of a Manhattan and a whiskey sour (plus a splash of Cointreau) this cocktail goes down easy.
—Christopher Michel, Country Living, 20 June 2023
The orange vanilla flavor of sparkling water would work in a whiskey sour cocktail.
—Jeanette Hurt, Forbes, 4 May 2023
Paul Caputo, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
Drink options vary from a Phillips Place Cosmopolitan to a whiskey sour.
—Heidi Finley, Charlotte Observer, 30 Jan. 2024
Upon arrival, trays of whiskey sours poured by friend and bourbon connoisseur Paul Wesley were the perfect pick-me-up on a school night.
—Eliseé Browchuk, Vogue, 13 Feb. 2024
People pickled them in beet juice and split them into meringues and whiskey sours and sucked them raw for hangovers and ran them over their naked bodies for spiritual cleansing.
—Hazlitt, 14 Feb. 2024
But the New York Sour (a whiskey sour topped with an ounce or so of red wine) lifts the coupling from good to perfect.
—Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 12 Nov. 2023
Coffee doesn’t have the intense sweet-sour push-and-pull of a whiskey sour or even a rum & coke; therefore, it can be easily overwhelmed.
—Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 10 Mar. 2022
Combining the best parts of a Manhattan and a whiskey sour (plus a splash of Cointreau) this cocktail goes down easy.
—Christopher Michel, Country Living, 20 June 2023
The orange vanilla flavor of sparkling water would work in a whiskey sour cocktail.
—Jeanette Hurt, Forbes, 4 May 2023
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