Drinks

Southern 75

Inventive new cocktails for the craft brew age

Photo: Johnny Autry


Ingredients

    • 6 oz. India Pale Ale (Proof & Provision uses SweetWater)

    • 2 oz. Four Roses bourbon

    • ¾ oz. fresh-squeezed lemon juice

    • ½ oz. demerara syrup (or simple syrup)


Preparation

  1. Pour the beer into a chilled collins glass. In a cocktail shaker, combine the bourbon, lemon juice, and demerara syrup with ice, and shake vigorously. Strain the bourbon mixture into the beer and garnish with a lemon twist.

Cocktail recipe from Nate Shuman formerly of Proof & Provision in Atlanta, Georgia


Jonathan Miles, a Garden & Gun contributing editor, has been the magazine’s books columnist since 2012. He is the author of three novels, including Anatomy of a Miracle, which was a finalist for the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award in Fiction. A former resident of Oxford, Mississippi, he is currently Writer-in-Residence at the Solebury School in New Hope, Pennsylvania.


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