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Kentucky Buck

Kentucky Buck

Category: HighballMood: Beginner Friendly
Highball

Ingredients

  • 2 dashes Angostura bitters
  • 1 strawberry, hulled
  • 15ml simple syrup
  • 22.5ml lemon juice
  • 60ml bourbon
  • ginger beer, for topping off
No. of Servings:
1

Garnish

Lemon wheel

Instructions

  1. Add the bitters, strawberry, syrup and juice to a shaker.

  2. Muddle the strawberry.

  3. Add the bourbon and ice.

  4. Shake until chilled.

  5. Strain into a highball glass with ice.

  6. Top with ginger beer.

  7. Garnish with a lemon wheel.

Hints

  1. You can use ginger syrup and club soda instead of ginger beer and simple syrup.

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Trivia

  1. Created by Erick Castro in 2008 while he was working at Bourbon & Branch in San Francisco, USA.

  2. Per Castro, this was a drink that took him a long time to conceive, trying many variations in the process.

  3. Ironically, while the cocktail is now recognized as a modern classic, his manager at the time did not think it was good enough to feature in the bar's menu.

  4. Fortunately, Castro was also creating the menu for Rickhouse and decided to include the drink there, where it immediately became one of the bar's most popular drinks.

  5. Bucks are a style of drink that mix a spirit and ginger beer. Kentucky is a reference to the fact that the drink contains bourbon.

Tags

RefreshingModern classicEasy to drinkEasyCrowd pleaserBubbly2000sHighballAngostura bittersStrawberrySimple syrupLemon juiceWhisk(e)yBourbonGinger beer