Cocktail recipe

Clarified New York Sour

A built cocktail featuring Bourbon Whiskey, Milk, Lemon juice.

Clarified New York Sour cocktail

Ingredients

  • 60 ml Bourbon Whiskey
  • 30 ml Milk
  • 22.5 ml Lemon Juice
  • 22.5 ml Simple Syrup
  • 1 barspoon Red wine

Method

  1. Put the milk in a clean glass container. In a separate vessel, mix the Bourbon Whiskey, lemon juice, and syrup.
  2. Slowly pour the Bourbon Whiskey mixture into the milk and let it stand for 30 minutes, until curds form.
  3. Pour through a coffee filter and let it drain by gravity without pressing the curds.
  4. If the first liquid is cloudy, pass it through the same filter and curd bed again until clear.
  5. Pour the clarified liquid into a rocks glass over a large ice cube.
  6. Slowly pour the red wine over the back of a spoon onto the surface to form a float.

Story

A whiskey sour with a float of red wine, which appeared in the late 1800s under names like Continental Sour and Southern Whiskey Sour before New York claimed it.