Whisky

Whisky Cocktails

With summer kicking in, cocktails - and cocktail parties - are inevitable. So when we were invited for a whisky tasting recently, we asked Indian master mixologists Shatbhi Basu to give us some smokin’ hot summer whisky cocktail recipes.

Twisted Whisky Sour: 45ml Tennessee Whisky, 20ml lime juice,15ml Sugar syrup, 30ml Orange juice, 2/3 drops of Aromatic Bitters. Method: Take a mixing tin filled 3/4th with ice, add whisky, lime juice, sugar syrup, orange juice, bitters. Shake. Serve in a champagne tulip. Garnish with a slice of orange or a cherry.

Bourbon Swizzle: 45 ml Tennessee Whisky, 15ml lime juice, 3oz club soda, 3ml superfine sugar, 1 dash Bitters. Method: Shake bourbon, lime juice, superfine sugar, and bitter in a shaker with ice and strain into a Collins glass over ice. Add club soda and stir. Serve with a swizzle stick.

Peach Smash: 45ml Tennessee Whisky, 4 mint leaves, ¼ lemon, sliced, 1 medium peach, 15ml water, 15ml simple syrup. Method: Mix all ingredients except whisky in cocktail shaker. Add whisky and shake the ingredients over ice. Strain into rocks glasses filled with ice. Garnish with fresh mint and a peach slice.

Choco Nut Madness: 45ml Tennessee Whisky, 1 bar spoon peanut butter, 1 scoop of Vanilla ice cream, 30ml chocolate sauce, 30ml fresh cream. Method: Fill the shaker to the half mark with crushed ice. Add all the ingredients and blend until it becomes a smoothie. Pour it in a wine glass and garnish with a chocolate stick.

Black Gold: 30ml Tennessee Whisky, 30ml Kahlua, splash of cola. Method: Take an old-fashioned glass and fill it ice. Pour whiskey, Kahlua and add a splash of cola, then stir. Garnish with a stick of Kit Kat chocolate.

Image and Recipe Credit: www.luxpresso.com