Drinks

How to Make a Whiskey Smash

This cross between a mint julep and a whiskey sour just might be your new favorite cocktail

Photo: Johnny Autry | Food Styling by Charlotte Autry


Ingredients

    • 4 mint sprigs

    • ¼ lemon cut into 3 or 4 pieces

    • ¾ oz. simple syrup (1:1 sugar and water, heated until dissolved)

    • 2 oz. rye whiskey


Preparation

  1. Save the top of one mint sprig for garnish. Place 10 to 12 mint leaves in cocktail shaker with lemon and muddle for 1 minute. Add simple syrup and rye. Fill with ice and shake for 20 to 30 seconds. Strain into old-fashioned glass filled with fresh ice. Garnish with mint sprig and serve. (Some pieces of mint will pass through a coil strainer; if desired, use a fine-mesh strainer to remove them.)


Wayne Curtis is the author of And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails and has written frequently about cocktails, spirits, travel, and history for many publications, including the Atlantic, the New York Times, Imbibe, Punch, the Daily Beast, Sunset, the Wall Street Journal, and Garden & Gun. He lives on the Gulf Coast.


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