Gold Rush Cocktail

Name: Gold Rush Cocktail
Yield: 10
Cuisine: American

Recipe: T. J. Siegal , Milk & Honey , New York City

Photo: Colin Price

November 12, 2017

A simple mix of bourbon, lemon and honey.

It doesn’t get much more beautifully uncomplicated than this cocktail. A variation of the classic Whiskey Sour that’s made with honey instead of simple syrup, the drink is featured in Robert Simonson‘s 3-Ingredient Cocktails book, where he explains how the drink was a mainstay during Milk & Honey’s early years and has endured to this day. Simonson uses Henry McKenna bonded 10-year bourbon, but feel free to use your favorite whiskey.

Ingredients

2 oz. bourbon
3/4 oz. fresh lemon juice
3/4 oz. rich honey syrup

Tools:shaker, strainer
Glass:rocks

Preparation

Combine all the ingredients in a shaker filled with ice and shake until chilled, about 15 seconds. Strain into a rocks glass over one large cube of ice.

Rich Honey SyrupHeat 1 cup of honey and ⅓ cup water in a saucepan over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until the ingredients have integrated. Remove from the heat, let cool, then refrigerate. Stored in a tightly sealed container, the syrup keeps for 1 week.