Drinks with ‘Before Dinner, Cherries, Ice, Old Fashioned Glass’

A Brandy Manhattan is a cocktail made with brandy rather than whiskey, sweet vermouth, and bitters. Commonly used whiskeys include rye (the traditional choice), Canadian whisky, bourbon, blended whiskey and Tennessee whiskey. The cocktail is often stirred with ice and strained into a cocktail glass, where it is garnished with a Maraschino cherry with a stem. A Manhattan is also frequently served on the rocks in an old-fashioned glass (lowball glass).

Ingredients:

• 5 cl (1.69 fluid onces) Brandy
• 2 cl (0.68 fluid onces) Sweet red vermouth
• Dash bitters
• Maraschino cherry (Garnish)

Preparation:

Stirred over ice, strained into a chilled glass, garnished, and served straight up.

The Sazerac is one of the oldest known cocktails, with its origins in pre-Civil War New Orleans, Louisiana. The original drink is based on a combination of Cognac and bitters created by Antoine Amédée Peychaud in the 1830s, and is reported to be the first cocktail ever invented in America. Since its creation, many different recipes have evolved for the drink, usually involving some combination of Cognac, rye whiskey, absinthe or Herbsaint and Peychaud’s Bitters.

Ingredients:

• 1/2 ounces (56.7 grams) Sazerac Rye whiskey
• Three dashes Peychaud’s Bitters
• One sugar cube or Simple Syrup
• 1/4 ounce (113.4 grams) Absinthe

Preparation:


One old fashioned glass is packed with ice. In a second old fashioned glass, a sugar cube and 3 dashes of Peychaud’s Bitters are muddled. The Rye Whiskey is then added to the sugar/Bitters mixture. The ice is emptied from the first old fashioned glass and the Absinthe is poured into the glass and swirled to coat the sides of the glass. Any excess Absinthe is discarded. The Rye-Sugar-Bitters mixture is then poured into the Absinthe coated glass and the glass is garnished with a lemon peel.