TBT Classic Cocktail #26: Our Top 5 Favorites!

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Happy Thursday, everyone!

So far on the blog we have released 25 TBT Classic Cocktail recipes, and so to celebrate passing the quarter-hundred mark, we decided to go back through the list we have cultivated thus far, and countdown our top five favorites–because there are some great ones in there, and we wouldn’t want anything to get lost in the shuffle!

Let the countdown begin!

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TBT Classic Cocktail #25: The Aviation Cocktail!

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Happy Thursday, readers!

Today’s classic cocktail comes to us straight from the nineteen-teens, and trust us that when you taste it you will feel like you are sitting in a horse and buggy, trotting down a dirt road in old New York.

Say hello to the Aviation Cocktail!

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TBT Classic Cocktail #24: The Whiskey Sour!

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Happy Throwback Thursday, everyone! 

We think it has been well established by now that we here at The Woman At The Bar love whiskey. Specifically, American whiskey — aka, bourbon and rye. One of the frist drinks that turned us on to this delectable stuff was the classic Whiskey Sour, so it’s probably time that we cover that on the blog, don’t you think? 

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TBT Classic Cocktail #21: Maiden’s Prayer Jitney!

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Happy Throwback Thursday, readers! 

This week’s classic cocktail is one most of you have probably never heard of, but it is high time we change that! 

This delicious gin concoction was inspired by a piano piece of the same name written by a young Polish girl in the 1850s, which quickly became a huge hit both in Europe and the United States. We would argue, however, that the drink is the better of the two. 

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TBT Classic Cocktail #20: White Lion!

 

 

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Happy Thursday, TWATB-ers!

For this week’s TBT Classic Cocktail we decided to pull out one of our old favorites: the White Lion! 

This is a drink that has been showing up in bartending manuals since the 1880s, and although it may be an old, old, old-y, it is definitely a goody. 

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TBT Classic Cocktail #18: The Kamikaze!

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Happy Thursday, readers!

Before we get started, some clarification: no, we are not about to make the deadly shot of the same name that is most often drunk by 20 year olds in Miami on spring break. This is the actual original cocktail — the shooters and the various brightly colored drinks you may be thinking of are all derivative.

Okay?

Great, so let’s get down to business.

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TBT Classic Cocktail #17: Strawberry Daiquiri!

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Hello and happy TBT Classic Cocktail day here on The Woman At The Bar!

The weather has been inspiring us to make a lot of frozen drinks lately, and when it comes to ice cold frozen deliciousness, it is pretty hard to find something better than a frozen strawberry daiquiri–so we decided to make some!

Come inside and let us preach to you the gospel of the fresh and fruity adult slushy to cure all your ills.

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