Neal Bodenheimer’s Whiskey Sour

Neal Bodenheimer, Cure | New Orleans

WHiskey Sour Cocktail Recipe

To add bitters or to not add bitters? Neal Bodenheimer’s addition of a “spray” of Angostura bitters alongside the classic combination of whiskey, lemon, simple syrup and egg white earned him a spot in the top three during our recent blind tasting of nearly 20 Whiskey Sours.

Ingredients

Serving: 1

  • 2 ounces Evan Williams Single Barrel Bourbon
  • 2 ounces Evan Williams Single Barrel Bourbon
  • 3/4 ounce lemon juice
  • 3/4 ounce lemon juice
  • 3/4 ounce simple syrup (1:1, sugar:water)
  • 3/4 ounce simple syrup (1:1, sugar:water)
  • 1 small egg white
  • 1 small egg white
  • 1 spray Angostura bitters
  • 1 spray Angostura bitters

Garnish: lemon peel and a brandied cherry

Directions
  1. Add the egg and lemon juice to a mixing tin, and dry shake.
  2. Add bourbon and simple syrup to the other side of the shaking tin.
  3. Add 5 Kold Draft cubes and shake 20 times.
  4. Double strain over ice into a rocks glass.
  5. Allow the egg white to separate and spray Angostura on top of the foam.
  6. Express a lemon peel over the glass and garnish with the peel and a brandied cherry.

Tagged: whiskey, whiskey sour

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