Whiskey Ginger
Two-ingredient warm-up
Bourbon's vanilla and oak lengthened with crisp, lightly sweet ginger ale. Easygoing and endlessly drinkable — the low-stakes whiskey highball.
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 oz Bourbon
- 4-5 oz Ginger Ale
- squeeze Fresh Lemon Juice
Method
Fill a highball with ice. Pour bourbon. Top with ginger ale. Squeeze lemon wheel and drop in.
Whiskey and ginger ale were combined as early as 1895, documented in C.F. Lawlor's The Mixicologist as an "Irish Cocktail" (Irish whiskey, bitters, ginger ale). The 1930 Savoy Cocktail Book by Harry Craddock included the "Cablegram Cocktail" (whisky, lemon juice, sugar, ginger ale). A documented whiskey-ginger ale drink, the Irish Buck, appears on Difford's Guide as a classic highball. BN's bourbon version represents a variation within the established whiskey highball family documented in these early bartending guides, though the specific bourbon variant does not appear to be a canonical documented cocktail.