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- A whiskey sour is a near perfect drink, and when you understand how it works you'll start inventing perfect variations to suit your own needs.
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00:00 - Whiskey Sours
00:22 - Basic whiskey sour
02:44 - The whiskey sour formula
04:13 - Boston Sour
08:09 - New York Sour
10:09 - Mezcal Sour
14:56 - Rye Gin Sour
19:31 - Passionfruit gin sour
22:24 - Cherry Sour
25:50 - See you again soon
Basic whiskey sour:
Build in shaker
1 oz. or 30 ml. Simple Syrup
1 oz. or 30 ml. Lemon Juice
2 oz. or 60 ml. Bourbon (Wild Turkey 101)
Add ice and shake
Strain into glass over ice cube
Boston Sour:
Build in shaker
1 oz. or 30 ml. Simple Syrup
1 oz. or 30 ml. Lemon Juice
2 oz. or 60 ml. Bourbon (Wild Turkey 101)
1 Egg White
Dry shake
Add ice and shake again
Strain into glass
Garnish with Angostura Bitters
New York Sour:
Build in shaker
1 oz. or 30 ml. Simple Syrup
1 oz. or 30 ml. Lemon Juice
2 oz. or 60 ml. Bourbon (Wild Turkey 101)
Add ice and shake
Strain into glass
Float of Red Wine
Mezcal Sour:
Build in shaker
1 oz. or 30 ml. Lemon Juice
.1 oz. or 30 ml. Ancho Reyes
.5 oz. or 15 ml. Dry Curaçao
.5 oz. or 15 ml. Simple Syrup
2 oz. or 60 ml. Mezcal
Add ice and shake
Garnish with flamed orange peel (optional)
Passionfruit gin sour:
Build in shaker
1 oz. or 30 ml. Lemon Juice
1 oz. or 30 ml. Passion Fruit Liqueur (Chinola)
2 oz. or 60 ml. Dry Rye Gin
.5 oz. or 15 ml. Demerara Simple Syrup
Add ice and shake
Strain in to glass
Garnish with orange peel
Cherry Sour:
Build in shaker
1 oz. or 30 ml. Lime Juice
1 oz. or 30 ml. Cherry Syrup
1 oz. or 60 ml. Bourbon (Wild Turkey 101)
Few dashes Angostura coco bitters
Add ice and shake
Strain into glass over ice
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I think the whiskey sour is the perfect drink to be your first drink, but it's also a formula that understanding will allow you to create all kinds of drinks of your own design. And they'll be great drinks!
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I like the Sesame Street style "Bourbon of the Day".
Since you didn't specify your simple ratio, I'll guess you're probably doing a 2:1 sugar to water with basic white table sugar. It would be helpful though if you said at the start of the video if it's a 1:1 or 2:1. It looks clear so we can easily assume you're not using demarara or any molasses.
Something to try would be to add about a 1/4 of an ounce of orgat
why were there no more egg sours? i think, that the first gin sour would have benefited from that. non the less: love your show
@@thomasbuberl4951 egg has gotten slightly less popular recently. A lot more vegan types. That being said, I'm very surprised he didn't make an aquafaba variant.
After 464 videos, this is a bold upload.
Especially since he didn't even mention one of the best drinks, the Early Grey marTEAni, which is basically a gin sour
@@mattia_carciolahe has made it before
@@mattia_carciolaI don't think the intent here was to name every single sour, because daiquiri in that case also got missed. He's doing what he did with the old fashioned one, where he shows how you can use that formula to come up with things of your own.
@@bombshellblonde544the comment was more jokingly on the fact that it is indeed bold as a title and ironically one of the best he mentioned in the long history of this channel was a sour
I think the title was perfectly appropriate
”Hey! That bottle is getting empty! That’s a bad sign for.. all of my brains” 😂😂💀💀
This is simply the universal Turk 101 experience.
Then he doesn't even really crush the second ice cube. Classic Turkey 101 Greg lol
@@mrdelirious8706 is he turkish? I don’t get it 🫣 haven’t been on this channel for soooo long. Maybe a year or so only and I don’t know a LOT about Greg I guess
@@mrdelirious8706 what have I missed? Turk experience? Why turk? 🫣😂
I'm really digging these "let's play with a formula" episodes. It's really opened my eyes to just how mixology works. Very cool.
I love the back to basics episodes! You’re like Professor Greg showing how mastery of the rules lets you dance on the edge and break the rules.
Something about this episode feels like a return to form. Casual Greg teaching us about tricks behind the bar. Throws in some history here and there. Good episode
I used the Dune Spice syrup you came up with and made a riff on a NY Sour and called it a Bene Gesserit-thanks for the inspiration!
If it was red, you should have called it the Honored Matres.
@@jeffredfern3744 it came out the colors of a traditional NY Sour but had a much more “spice” forward flavor profile
The dune syrup is so tasty!
How about “NY Sourdaukar”
It should be called "Greg Getting Fancy and having an epiphany on Sour-based Cocktails for 26 minutes and 44 seconds". But that title also worked too.
Finally, a How to Drink that I can watch while eating. It took me a few vids about awful drinks to learn my lesson.
🤣🤣🤣
20:15 The Gimlet is another gin sour that follows the formula and works really well
Some clain The Gimlet has no syrup. Also, Greg did Gimlets...take a look,
@@gregzywicki That's true, but a gimlet with no syrup is gross and way out of balance, in my humble and uncultured opinion.
i quit drinking awhile ago, but i watch for greg's personality and passion for making drinks. great show.
Same! Also, whiskey sours actually make a great non-alcoholic drink! Just swap the whiskey for either a non-alcoholic whiskey, sparkling water, or whatever other drink you can think of. Coconut water makes a surprisingly good “whiskey” sour!
Videos like this are aweeesome for someone just getting into mixology and bartending, covers learning a classic while also teaching how to be creative without a full extensive “How to create your own drinks!” video
I love a good maple whisky sour but that's what I get for being a Canadian 🍁
That sounds amazing
They're so fuckin good. I made one with the maple knob creek instead of maple syrup :)
Maple goes so well with whiskey. You can also make a maple old fashioned, put it with cherry bitters and Angostura.
If you haven’t already, swap in an acerum for the whisky. Just found Témiscouata last weekend as a replacement for Rail Dog (RIP) and it would work so well in a sour!
I personally use maple syrup in place of all simple syrup and have not looked back since.
I'm loving these formula breakdown videos, definitely my new favorites.
Loving these episodes where you focus on a single cocktail type/single ingredient and see what you can make from it! Very useful to those of us who don’t have a massive and thoroughly stocked collection for our home bar.
As much as I enjoy the “challenge” episodes, these were the types of videos that first got me into the channel. I’m glad to see Greg moving back into this type of content!
I really like seeing the ones that don't work. It gives extra depth to my understanding of the 'formula'. As well, it shows a bit of 'how the sausage is made'
For a great Gin Sour first off Bees Knees, but a variation i like is:
"An Arrow to the Knee"
2 oz Dry Gin
1 oz Sweet Mead
1 oz Lemon juice
I was a sober man, like you... Until I took an arrow to the knee.
I discovered this channel at the right time. Plenty in the archive but now a refined production of the basics.
My husband has paused video and gone to make a whiskey sour. Lol. I too am enjoying this series. We would love to see you incorporate hot honey into a cocktail. It seems like a fun ingredient and we’ve just started noticing it on cocktail menus in our area. Love to see where and how you’d use it. …my husband is finished making his whiskey sour. He put hot honey into it as the sweet component. He thought it gave a fun kick.
Boston sour with demerara syrup and rye whiskey is one of my favorite drinks ever
Greg, I love the devotion you give to your art, and how through experiment, you yield new and unexpected angles on an often well trodden path.
As someone just starting to try and get into cocktails/mixology, these episodes are very helpful. Keep it up!!
I'm loving the new series, Greg! Longtime fan (probably watched the ENTIRE back catalog by now...) and your perspective on mixology got me into the hobby -- I love the series a few years ago where you did something similar (around the Sazerac video), and I am stoked to hear how another few years have affected your perspective on things :) keep up the good work, man!!
I use to love whiskey sours so much. It was my first cocktail I had at a bar. Bartender recommended it. Then I got introduced to a whiskey sour with egg by accident. I was at a bar and asked for a whiskey sour and when the bartender put it in front of my I wasnt going to drink it. The bartender said to try it and if I didnt like it then I could have what ever drink I wanted free. Wow I was so shocked and honestly cant drink a whiskey sour without the egg now. So much more complexity and flavor in the drink.
My wife absolutely adores a New York Sour, and often requests it for her evening cocktail. This video will help me make that drink even better!
I made New York Sours for a friend's vampire themed birthday party for the bloody aesthetic and they were a massive hit, even for people who aren't normally whiskey drinkers. The red wine really tempers the burn and creates such a tasty and unique combination.
Love this series, keep em coming
As a new bartender in a restaurant. I must say, I have learned a lot from you Greg. I personally do a 2oz spirit, 1oz lemon, .75oz simple. Nothing wrong with 1oz simple, .75 is just how I was taught
Loving this new series! Taking formula and seeing if it works is an awesome concept! We have had whiskey sours the past to days after dinner... Love the Boston and the New York!
The timing on this video is *impeccable*, as I just experimented with whiskey sours the other day! I think my wine wasn't the best choice for the New York Sour, but the version I made with umeshu was quite tasty. Thanks for the extra inspiration!
Love seeing this come out when I have a whole bag of lemons to get through!
Love formulas, they definitely help me be creative in my home bar.
Wild Turkey 101 has been my go to for bourbon cocktails for a while. Strong enough to not get overpowered but still very drinkable for an affordable bourbon.
I watch youre show at least almost all the episodes, and i have not touched any alcohol for over 20 years now, but taste and taste profiles intrest me a lot, and youre a great presenter
I really enjoy these formula episodes. Thanks Greg!
That last cherry one sounds amazing! This is a great series.
I’ve been watching a lot of your videos, Greg. And I am really excited to one day not too far off have my own in-home bar.
Love this new series!!
Wild Turkey 101 is my favorite bourbon to use in an Old Fashion, it, and the Angostura bitters work so well together, I swear I get a lot of cinnamon when using "101". Love the content and I always learn something here. Thanks, Greg!!
I really appreciate your videos, genuinely. I started playing around with cocktail recipes because of this channel, and I now (responsibly) enjoy doing so as one of my go-to ways to unwind. I have tweaked a few recipes here and there and have even earned a reputation among my friends and family as having a good taste in drinks with a solid ability to make them. I credit that to this channel and just wanted to leave a comment here in hopes you read it, Greg. Keep doin you!
I love the formula + variation format! Going to try the cherry limeade sour tonight!
Really enjoying this new series
At least one gin sour works and it's a gimlet. Also, how did you land at 6/16 instead of 3/8?
Oh, and when is the Mai Tai episode coming. I'm loving this format and that could be a really interesting one
Gimlets are delicious af
Thank you for this! I've always avoided Sours because they're usually too *sour*. Your observation to let it be what it wants gave me understanding and enthusiasm to explore these!
Much love 🥃 ✌️ 🍍
So that last drink reminds me of my favorite summertime drink- basically any fruity iced beverage from sonic plus whiskey.
Hell yeah, spiking a sonic drink was a go to move at OU back in the day
Sidenote, Chinola is my fav...Love that you brought it on the show.
Really enjoy these formula episodes!
Love this video series. Back to basics, in the best way! ❤🎉
I have loved these episodes! Thanks for the education on riffing on classic formulas. 8) I have really enjoyed the Boston Sour, with a Earl Gray infused Gin substitute for the Bourbon. Teavana has a n Earl Gray Cremé tea that adds an additional layer of smoothness to the egg white and citrus!
Whiskey sour has been my go to cocktail for a couple years now. I love introducing the drink to people, it’s so simple but delicious .
Love the formula Eps always give me new ideas for my next time behind the Bar
Cynar is a great Amaro. One of my favorite cocktails to make is a daiquiri, substituting 0.5 Oz of the rum with cynar.
2 bottles of Applejack later and this is exactly where I landed with my drinks. Lemon/Lime, Maple Syrup/Honey, and maybe an egg white or bitters. Simple to make, easy to drink. Really fun to play with ingredients around a single liquor, because even the difference between Honey/Lemon and Maple/Lime is stark and delightful.
You've inspired me to start trying more cocktails and the sours are now on my list. Thank you from this former non drinker.
Love that you’re using Derumbes! They are fantastic!! From an agave lover
I’ve had sours, I’ve made many sours - after watching this my husband wanted the cherry sour…so I whipped up some tart cherry syrup and this has evolved over several days to a preference for Rye in that over bourbon. Rye pulls out the cherry significantly better (Sagamore!). And just now I decided to try making a sour using the cherry syrup and some homemade creme de cacao I just finished up the other day. Hoooooollllyyyyyy fuuuu******** - absolutely amazing. (Tart Cherry syrup, creme de cacao, lime juice. Haven’t tried with lemon juice yet)
I have to try the cherry sour, lime and cherry are my favorite fruit flavors, and I love them together. Bourbon is my go-to spirit, so that sounds like the perfect drink for me.
I love this!! My favorite drink is a whiskey sour. Rhis gave me so many ideas 👀👀👀
Whiskey (Boston) sours are so good! I like to smoke mine after the pour. That foam holds the aroma perfectly. I find Cherry smoke is amazing on a sour!
You should do a crossover with Jesse's Teahouse. Proper tea brewing and a tea based cocktail. 👌
Holly shit another jesse's teahouse enjoyer. Hello fellow tea friend
Love this series. It kind of reminds me of the cocktail codex. 😊
Love to see 101 getting some love. It's my go-to budget bourbon for all uses.
My favorite take on a sour that I've made was a Disaronno Sour. Can cut back a little on the Simple because Diso is already sweet, maybe down to .5, but the cherry that's in it works really well with the lemon. It's my favorite chill out drink, and knocks the socks off every person I've made it for.
Love this move to go back and update the classics, OG HTD! I love the new recipes but I really enjoy the classics and the methodology behind them. You're singing my kinda song, Greg, please keep it up! :D
Ooo I like these. And I love that you're dipping your toes in cynar (chee-nar)! Your boy at educated barfly has some good vids on cynar if you're curious about it.
My favorite recipes with cynar are
The Night Train:
2 oz over proof rye
1/2 oz amaro ciocarro
1/2 oz cynar
And for bitters I do a dash of ango, barrel aged or cardamom
Nine Pound Hammer:
3 oz over proof bourbon
1/2 oz lemon juice
1/2 oz coffee infused cynar
1/3 oz vanilla syrup
1/3 oz cinnamon syrup
2 dashes barrel aged bitters
Menage-hattan (I'm sure it's been done, but I didn't see it anywhere and I thought the name was clever haha)
1 oz rye
1 oz sweet vermouth
1 oz cynar
2 dashes Orange bitters
orange twist
Bitter Giuseppe:
2 oz cynar
1 oz sweet vermouth
2 dashes Orange bitters
Meaty lemon peel With a bit of juice still on it
A good whiskey sour was my go-to drink back at uni. I fully agree that its a near perfect drink!
Loved this video, man. Whiskey sours are one of my personal favorite cocktails to both drink and make for customers. I loved your experiments, they even gave me a few ideas. Keep up the good work. I'd love to see some more videos going over classic cocktails.
The "reverse dry shake" made me laugh for a good minute straight.
Bee's Knees is a gin sour according to your formula theory and I think it's probably one of the only ways I can see it working with gin. Like you said, these drinks are classics for a reason! Gin is just a hard liquor to innovate with, in my opinion. Good on you for trying!
Gin is the most underrated "strong"
Gin works in the Sour formula, he just chose some interesting ingredients. Bees knees, Gimlet, Gin Daiquiri, the plethora of Shrubs all kind of fall into the sour formula and work great with gin.
My personal favourite is close to the Boston sour. 2 oz Lord Calvert (a lovely Canadian whisky) or a couple of Japanese whiskys, neither of which I can remember the name of right now. 1 oz lemon. Somewhere between a fat 3/4 oz and a skinny 1 oz of 2:1 simple. 2-3 dashes of ango right in the shaker, and an egg white. Garnish with 5-10 drops of ango on top of the foam.
Great episode.
More cocktail science with Greg! this was an awesome episode
Thanks!
I love these formula episodes ❤
Your mezcal sour reminded me of my favorite drink, which is just a bees knees with mezcal instead of gin and a light sprinkling of cayenne on top. The honey does a lot of work for spicy drinks by bringing that drying factor while still being sweet.
Ok just made my first Boston sour, WOW ! Love it 🎉
Wow, that cherry chocolate sour at the end sounds marvelous. I'm going to have to poke around and see if I can find the necessary ingredients.
I've had a mezcal sour with egg whites and it was really good.
I’ve made plenty of variations of gin sours and they are great! I think it might be the particular gin you were using that was a bit of a challenge.
LOVE these classic formula shows! Demystifies a lot of complex cocktail recipes; I realize they’re these simple formulas with strange substitutions and that’s it.
I don't drink much anymore and always think I'm gonna stop watching the show, but it's just so endlessly entertaining. Keeps me coming back, even if I'm not using the tips so much.
The New York sour is my favorite 😍
Sours are my favourite category of cocktail. My personal favourite is the Boston sour, but the bourbon replaced with a bold Rye whiskey. Also I've got a recipe that might help you out with finding a Gin based sour that works well. It's pretty simple:
2oz Gin
1oz simple
1oz Lime juice
0.25oz Chartreuse
Greg. That Cherry Sour is FIRE!!
I used Mexican Chocolate bitters and Luxardo cherries syrup… the spice on the ass end was out of this world!
I do the Boston with Peychaud's bitters and the red wine float. Best of all sours.
Whiskey sour has always been one of my favorites ❤
That was great. I going to make a Cherry Sour in the near future.
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That Derrumbes mezcal is the first liquor I ever bought entirely prompted by a RUclips video and it was your mezcal video. An incredibly unique mezcal and still unlike any other I've ever had. Considering the mezcal bubble we've had and bottles of weird artisanal stuff showing up for sale for like $600 or even $1000, this one was really reasonably priced for a small artisanal producer.
In the midst of this episode I remembered the previous Greg Formula: 1 part citrus, 1 part sweet liquor, 1 part herbal liquor, 1 part base. In the spirit of trust the formula I did: 1 part lemon, 1 part amaro de angostura, 1 part Benedictine, 1 part applejack 86 which is American calvados. It was too dry so I added a dash of limoncello. Then it was sweet and bland so I added a dash of bitters. Now it’s perfect.
I know a lot of people garnish with angostura, but most of the whiskey sours I make are for my wife, but she can't get down with the egg white, and I don't feel like popping open a can of garbanzos every time I make her a whiskey sour, so I've ended up just putting the angostura directly into the cocktail, which we both quite enjoy.
I had my first NY Sour a year ago and it changed how I drink. They are amazing if you pair the wine and whiskey correctly.
I keep wanting to try the Evan Williams Cherry Bourbon as a starter in making a whiskey sour. I need to try that properly sometime
I love the "back to the basics" concept and really appreciate these videos!
Here comes the "but", though: I rarely have cocktails unless I make them myself, because so many modern ones are so sweet they're revolting. It's like drinking 3-4 melted hard candies. That's not a "treat", that's a waste and highly unpleasant.
Love the whiskey sour. My earliest video I made was a Woodford Reserve (Boston) sour. Gin sour works well, (Bees Knees and Clover Club)
Amaretto sour is my personal all-time go-to.
The whiskey sour is one of my favorite drinks. I like it with the egg white and a few dashes of Angostura bitters and a couple dashes of orange bitters.
Although I'm not sure what to do with the egg yoke after I make the drink. I feel bad wasting it.
I do a 1-2-3, but same idea. I love your formula videos; they're always a source of fun ideas.
is the 1 the sour or the sweet?
@@aenamabag If it's the same as a 1-2-3 margarita, it is sour-sweet-spirit.
@@paulk5736 That's going to one sweet as hell drink.
@@aenamabag 1 sweet, 2 sour, 3 strong. I use the same ratio for my daiquiri and margarita, too, although I use agave instead of orange liqueur on the latter. Just a personal preference.
@@Terratops474 That makes more sense
great episode love me a new york sour
Created a sour a couple of days ago with the formula: cognac, Vecchio amaro, St. Germain, lemon juice, egg white.