Presbyterian
CLASSIC · BOURBON WHISKEY

Presbyterian

Whiskey split between ginger ale and soda — the highball for people who find ginger ale alone too sweet and soda alone too plain.

Ingredients
Soda Water60 ml
Lemon Twist
Glassware
Highball glass
Chilled.
Flavor
BODYSWEETFRUITACIDHEATSMOKEEARTHBITTER

Black pepper · Caramel · Ginger · Lemon · Vanilla

Estimated profile

Method
  1. 1

    Fill a highball glass with ice.

  2. 2

    Add the bourbon.

  3. 3

    Top with equal parts cold ginger ale and soda water.

  4. 4

    Stir once, gently.

  5. 5

    Express a lemon twist over the surface and drop it in.

The kit for this drink
From the Bartender

A pre-Prohibition American highball whose name is a joke about temperate Presbyterians ordering something that looked innocent. Blended Scotch or Canadian whisky works as well as bourbon; the split mixer is the whole idea.

Rating
Be the first to log this drink.
Open the app → tap the cocktail → log a sip.
Try next

Cocktails like this one

Cablegram
Bourbon Whiskey

Cablegram

Lemon and sugar around a soft bourbon centre, then dry ginger stretching it out — a sour that keeps going instead of finishing in three sips.

Stone Fence
Bourbon Whiskey

Stone Fence

Tart pressed apple over corn sweetness and oak, the bitters adding a spiced edge that stops it drinking like a soft drink with whiskey in it.

Irish Buck
Irish Whiskey

Irish Buck

Soft orchard fruit and light grain from the whiskey with lime doing most of the structural work, the ginger ale sweeter and gentler than ginger beer would be.

Mamie Taylor
Blended Scotch Whisky

Mamie Taylor

Ginger heat over smoke and cereal, lime keeping the whole thing tight, and a dry, spicy finish that is more grown-up than any Mule.

Make this from your shelf

Scan your bottles, learn what you can pour right now.

My Bar Shelf reads your shelf and shows you every cocktail you can make from what you already own, including Presbyterian.

Get the app