Perfect Manhattan Cocktail
Glass: Cocktail Glass, Chilled (or Rocks Glass, Ice)
Method: Shake and Strain
Ingredients:
1/8 oz.* Sweet Vermouth
1/8 oz.* Dry Vermouth
2 ½ oz. American Whiskey
*NOTE: Some recommendations on Vermouth amounts to use here are 4-5 Drops of Sweet Vermouth, and 4-5 Drops of Dry Vermouth. Don’t panic over which one is “right”, just commit ONE of the recipes to memory so when you make your adjustments to suit each customer’s individual preferences, you know where you’re adjusting FROM (the recipe you memorized).
Garnish: Lemon Twist
The Classic Way to make a Perfect Manhattan (proportions have changed, but these are the ingredients):
2 dashes of Angostura Bitters
1/8 oz. Sweet Vermouth
1/8 oz. Dry Vermouth
2 1/2 oz. Rye Whiskey1
Garnish: Lemon Twist
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Footnotes 👇
- Examples of Rye Whiskey are: Rittenhouse Rye, Dickel Rye (George Dickel Tennessee Whiskey), Templeton Rye, Bulleit 95 Rye, Woodford Reserve Straight Kentucky Rye Whiskey, Sazerac Rye Whiskey, (Ri)1, Redemption Rye, Michter’s, Old Overholt Rye Whiskey, and Russell’s Reserve Rye.[↩]
