Episode #25: High-Proof Prohibition-Era Cocktails! Great Rants About Great Aunts

Round 1: Maker’s Sour – Maker’s Mark Cask Strength Bourbon (109.6), simple syrup, lemon juice, cherry, lemon peel

Round 1B: Bulleit Sour – Bulleit Bourbon Barrel Strength (125.4), less simple syrup, more lemon juice

Round 2: The Scofflaw – Knob Creek Cask Strength Rye (127), dry vermouth, grenadine, lemon juice, orange bitters, lemon peel

Round 3: Bourbon 76 – Old Ezra 7 Year Bourbon (117), Champagne, honey, lemon juice

Tangents: The history of the traditional Whiskey Sour • The ubiquitous and terrible Whiskey Sours everyone made in the 1970s • Ed’s Aunt Scottie: The Last of the Classy Dames • Dry vermouth is terrible by itself • Scott’s Aunt Oceana: Vodka Martini Aficionado • The history of the Scofflaw (the word and the drink) • Old Ezra’s distillery also produces Blood Oath • Murder hornets do not make honey • Bee is for belligerence • Scott stole his ex’s Champagne flutes (shhh) • New name for the Bourbon 76: The French Foreplay! • The history of the French 75 (the drink and the war cannon) • The terrible conditions of World War I • Spoiler Alert: We just had the first and last Bourbon 75s in our lives

Music Credits: Whiskey on the Mississippi by Kevin MacLeod | Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io | License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ • One Dime Blues by Blind Lemon Jefferson (1927, Public Domain) • Ragtime Annie by Charlie Poole and the North Carolina Ramblers Group (1926, Public Domain) • Deep Sea Blues by Clara Smith (1923, Public Domain) • Titanic Blues by Virginia Liston (1924, Public Domain)