Cocktail recipe

Whiskey Highball

Simple whiskey and soda refresher.

Whiskey Highball cocktail

Ingredients

  • 1.5 oz Rye Whiskey
  • 4 oz Soda Water
  • 1 piece Lemon Twist

Method

  1. Build over ice in a highball glass.
  2. Add whiskey then chilled soda.
  3. Garnish with lemon twist.

Story

The highball is an American invention of the 1890s, named either for a railway signal or for the tall glass, and made into an art form in Japan a century later.