Thanksgiving co*cktail Recipe: Fall Spiced Whiskey Sour - Modern Glam (2024)

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Maple Old Fashioned

You can't go wrong with the classics on Thanksgiving Day. But Old Fashioned fans might just find a new holiday favorite in this recipe from bar pro Allen Katz, which combines rum, maple syrup, and Angostura bitters.

Maple Old Fashioned

You can't go wrong with the classics on Thanksgiving Day. But Old Fashioned fans might just find a new holiday favorite in this recipe from bar pro Allen Katz, which combines rum, maple syrup, and Angostura bitters.

Both a whiskey sour and an old-fashioned co*cktail are made with whiskey—and that's the only similarity really. A whiskey sour balances the whiskey with lemon juice and sugar or simple syrup, while an old-fashioned is stronger, more spirit forward, and made with bitters and a sugar cube.

Many folks will also argue that a sour should be served up in a coupe glass, but presentation is the last step in customizing your personal best whiskey sour. Serve it up or on the rocks, with or without egg white, and whatever garnish speaks to you. Go with your heart.

Think: pumpkin drinks, apple cider co*cktails, and cranberry recipes. Even the classic co*cktails have a Thanksgiving twist, like the cranberry thyme gin and tonic and the apple cider sangria. If sweet drinks are more your speed, try the pumpkin pie martini that doubles as a Thanksgiving dessert.

You will want a bourbon in your personalized whiskey decanter to pair with your turkey. The roasted spices of the turkey go well with the vanilla notes and slight spice of bourbon. You might try expressions from Buffalo Trace, Bulleit, or Four Roses to complement the turkey.

In A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, Charlie Brown served his friends two slices of buttered toast, some pretzel sticks, a handful of popcorn and a few jelly beans. To drink I figured they probably had some fruit punch or water. Snoopy set it all up on a ping pong table with mismatched chairs.

The most important foodstuffs are calling: Canada's finest whisky, wine, and cider are what to be thankful for this year. NUVO has collected five uniquely Canadian drinks for our uniquely Canadian version of Thanksgiving.

Crown Royal Deluxe. Crown Royal is renowned for its smoothness and versatility, making it an excellent choice for crafting delicious whiskey sours.

Is a Whiskey Sour a classy drink? ›

The sweet and tart co*cktail is an undeniable classic, and when it's made well, it will blow you away. The Whiskey Sour is the best-known example of a sour, a co*cktail made with lemon, and sometimes other citrus as well, sweetener, and a distilled spirit.

Bourbon Is Best

If you love rye whiskey in your sour, go for it. But there's something about the softer, vanilla and caramel notes of bourbon that does the drink right. “With rye, there's more spice,” says McCoy.

They can be served either up or on the rocks (I lean towards rocks), and the addition of an egg white for a lighter, frothier texture is a pre-prohibition fixture which didn't survive too far past the 1930s, though many bartenders use them today. I personally like the egg white, but it's up to you.

Steps. Add bourbon, lemon juice, simple syrup and egg white, if using, to a shaker, and dry-shake for 30 seconds without ice. Add ice and shake again for 15–20 seconds, until well-chilled. Strain into a rocks glass over fresh ice, or into a coupe without ice.

A Lynchburg lemonade is a co*cktail (a long drink) made with, among other ingredients, Jack Daniel's Tennessee whiskey and a citrus-flavored soda or juice. It is named after Lynchburg, Tennessee, home of the Jack Daniel's distillery.

Wine is overwhelmingly the drink of choice to accompany the Thanksgiving feast. 63 percent of respondents stick to wine, with more than half of them serving red wine with dinner.

The Rakı is the Turkish national alcohol, it is aniseed-flavored alcohol of 40-45 degrees similar to Pastis or Ouzo. It is made from different fruits in different regions, but we can say that grapes, figs, and plums are its main ingredients.