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Gold Rush
Gold Rush in a rocks glass, with a large ice cubeGold Rush in a rocks glass, with a large ice cube

Gold Rush

Ingredients

  • Bourbon60 ml
  • Lemon juice22.5 ml
  • Honey, as a syrup, 3 parts honey to 1 part hot water22.5 ml
  • Ice
  • Large ice cube

Flavor

Sweet, Citrusy

Method

  1. Make a syrup with 3 parts honey and 1 part hot water. Stir until dissolved, let it cool and measure 22.5 ml of the finished syrup.
  2. Shake the bourbon, the lemon juice and the honey syrup with ice.
  3. Strain into a rocks glass over one large cube.

About

It's a whiskey sour that swapped sugar for honey, and that was all it took to become one of Milk & Honey's most copied drinks. Turn the honey into syrup and let it cool before shaking. Straight honey mixes less readily once it touches ice.

Created by T.J. Siegal, at Milk & Honey

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