Sour (cocktail)

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Sours

Cocktail
A whiskey sour garnished with a wheel of lemon and maraschino cherries.
Type	Cocktail family
Common alcohol(s)	Gin Bourbon whiskey Brandy Pisco Rum Amaretto
Notes	See the article for specifics.

A sour is a traditional family of mixed drinks. Sours belong to one of the old families of original cocktails and are described by Jerry Thomas in his 1862 book How to Mix Drinks.^[1]

Sours are mixed drinks containing a base liquor,

It was popular during the 1940s, and Kevin Starr includes it in "an array of drinks (the gin sour, the whiskey sour, the gin Rickey, the Tom Collins, the pink lady, the old fashioned) that now seem period pieces, evocative of another era".^[1]

Pisco sour

The classic pisco sour recipe contains

The basic Daiquiri, sometimes called a Daiquiri sour, is made with rum, lime juice and simple syrup.^[7] One account of the drink's origin is that the general manager of the Spanish-American Iron Core Company, which operated the "Daiquiri" mine, ran out of gin one night when making gin sour for his guests, and switched to rum. This rum sour became known as the Daiquiri. However, earlier printed recipes for rum sour exist such as one from Jerry Thomas from 1887.^[8]

Whiskey sour

The whiskey sour is a mixed drink containing bourbon whiskey or rye whiskey, lemon juice, sugar, and optionally a dash of egg white to make it a Boston Sour. It is shaken and served either straight or over ice. The traditional garnish is half an orange slice and a maraschino cherry. If floated with claret red wine it's called a New York sour.^[9]

A notable variant of the whiskey sour is the Ward 8, which often is based with either bourbon or rye whiskey, both lemon and orange juices, and grenadine syrup as the sweetener. The egg white sometimes employed in other whiskey sours is generally not included in this variation.

Other sours

• Amaretto sour: Amaretto liqueur, lemon juice and sometimes egg white, bitters or sugar syrup.^[10]
• Brandy sour or
  curaçao
  , sugar, lemon juice, shaken and strained into a wine glass.
• Caipirinha: Cachaça, sugar, lime, ice in an old fashioned glass.
• Cypriot brandy sour: Cyprus brandy
  , lemon cordial and bitters, stirred in a tall glass, and topped with soda or lemonade.
• Midori sour: Honeydew melon liquor, grenadine, lemon juice. Poured properly, it resembles a green
  tequila sunrise
  with visible layers.
• Santa Cruz sour (Jerry Thomas, 1887): Santa Cruz rum, sugar, lemon juice, shaken and strained into a wine glass.
• Tequila sour: Tequila, lemon juice, lime juice, agave nectar, Bittercube Corazon bitters, egg white.[11]

See also

• List of cocktails
• List of lemon dishes and beverages
• Daisy (cocktail)
  , a class of cocktails similar to a sour but sweetened with a liqueur rather than syrup or sugar

Notes

1. ISBN 0-252-07029-1
   . Originally published by Small, Maynard and Co., 1898. Collected from newspaper columns. Online sources cite 1897 as the year of this particular quotation.
2. ISBN 0-19-512437-5, A9 page image
3. ^ Tom Bullock, 1917, The Ideal Bartender. Project Gutenberg eBook. The directions "½ Lime Juice" and "½ Orange Juice" are as given in the source and presumably refer to the juice of half a lime and half an orange, respectively.

References

1. ^ Paul Clarke. Make Yourself Comfortable. September 25, 2005. The Cocktail Chronicles. Retrieved on January 1, 2007.
2. ISBN 0609608843
   .
3. ^ Navarro, V. Classic Pisco Sour LA Speakeasy
4. ^ Pisco Sour recipe at DrinkBoy
5. ^ Peru.com, Redacción (December 6, 2013). "Maracuya sour: Qué necesitas y cómo se prepara este exquisito trago". Perú.com.
6. ^ "Todas las noticias de Día del Pisco Sour". El Comercio.
7. ^ "Daiquiri cocktail". Difford's.
8. ISBN 9781784720667
   .
9. ^ Difford, Simon. "New York Sour". Diffords Guide. Retrieved September 29, 2022.
10. ^ "Amaretto Sour". Difford's Guide. Retrieved 21 March 2018.
11. ^ "Tequila Sour". Awesome Drinks.

External links

The Wikibook Bartending has a page on the topic of: Whiskey Sour