Baseball Sour Bourbon Cocktail

Thomas Fondano -

IT’S WORLD SERIES TIME!

Maybe your team is in it, maybe they were plagued with injuries and never had a chance. Regardless, you need a drink. This variation on the whiskey sour adds Aperol for a bit of the bitter taste of defeat. Add in the baseball stitching effect and you’ve got one hell of a drink to enjoy while watching the Cardinals battle the Red Sox.

Baseball Sour Bourbon Cocktail

  • 2 oz bourbon
  • ¾ oz fresh squeezed lemon juice
  • ¾ oz honey syrup*
  • ½ oz Aperol
  • 1 egg white

Dry shake the ingredients together without ice for 30 seconds to emulsify the egg white and then add ice and shake until very cold. Strain into a cocktail glass. Drop aromatic bitters in the foam and drag a toothpick through the drops to make a stitching pattern.

*To make honey syrup mix equal parts of honey and hot water.  For more photos of how to make the Baseball Sour Bourbon Cocktail visit my Flickr page.