We vote Yea! for this smoky sipper.
These drinks feature citrus juice in a starring role. The juice is usually lemon or lime, sometimes grapefruit, and includes orange juice is usually more sweet. Sours are typically single-serving drinks, as opposed to some larger-scale punches that they may greatly resemble, and are usually shaken in a cocktail shaker and served straight up.
Sour drinks tend to break down into a couple of subcategories: Simple Sours, made with a base spirit, citrus juice and sugar (sometimes egg white is added for body and foam), such as a Whiskey Sour or a Daiquiri; and Complex Sours, in which the sugar is substituted in whole or in part by syrups, liqueurs and/or fortified wines; examples include the Clover Club, the Margarita, the Sidecar, the Corpse Reviver #2, the Last Word and the Cosmopolitan. Category description by Paul Clarke, Serious Eats
Sours
Maple Leaf
The Maple Leaf is a simple riff on the classic Whiskey Sour template.
Pink Palace
Living on the edge – of sweet and sour.
The Last Word
It’s the Chartreuse that makes this drink special.
Dirty Blonde
A simple sour with a modern twist.
Hunter’s Moon
The Hunter’s Moon is an exceptional sour – for people who don’t like sours.
Smoky Maple
Very, very tasty. (If you like Islay Whisky and Maple syrup).
Harvest Moon
This is a delicious, apple influenced drink for autumn.
Salty Dog
The Salty Dog was created as a variation of the Greyhound cocktail from that era when the actor George Jessel added a salt rim sometime in the 1950s, as a way to balance the bitterness of the grapefruit – or mask bad gin.
Bees Knees
The Bee’s Knees is a Prohibition-era cocktail. The name is a popular slang expression used to denote something excellent or outstanding. It’s a simple extension of the classic Gin Sour (gin, lemon, sugar) that features honey instead of sugar.