Presbyterian

Name: Presbyterian
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Bourbon Whiskey; 60 ml Ginger Ale; 60 ml Soda Water; Lemon Twist

A pre-Prohibition American highball whose name is a joke about temperate Presbyterians ordering something that looked innocent.

Ingredients

Bourbon Whiskey60 ml

Ginger Ale60 ml

Soda Water60 ml

Lemon Twist

Glassware

Highball glass

Chilled.

Method

1
Fill a highball glass with ice.
2
Add the bourbon.
3
Top with equal parts cold ginger ale and soda water.
4
Stir once, gently.
5
Express a lemon twist over the surface and drop it in.

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.

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