Friday, December 7, 2007

Your Weekend Imbibing: The Rob Roy

Posted by Josh in cocktails, Liam Neeson, Rob Roy

This is a clip from the 1995 movie Rob Rob and features a pre-Jedi Liam Neeson pwning some British guy. Go to the 7:00 mark and watch it to the end. After a few of this week’s cocktails, you will be ready to do that.
Making a Rob Roy
Ingredients:
3 ounces Scotch whisky
1 ounce sweet vermouth
2 dashes Angostura bitters
5 or 6 ice cubes
Twist orange or lemon peel

Recipe:
Combine all ingredients except the peel in a mixing glass and stir gently to chill as well as dilute the drink. Strain into a cocktail glass. Twist the peel over the drink to release the oil and then drop it in. For a weaker drink, reduce the Scotch to 1 1/2 ounces and the vermouth to 1/2 ounce. In some recipes the bitters are omitted or replaced with orange bitters (editors note: Only chumps omit bitters).

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This drink is very similar to a Manhattan, another classic drink, except it uses scotch whiskey instead of rye whiskey. For those curious, for a whiskey to be called scotch it has to be made in Scotland. The drink and the movie are named after Scottish folk hero Robert Roy MacGregor.

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