Whisky · Stir · Coupe · 4 min
Rob Roy
A Manhattan made with Scotch. It is usually credited to the Waldorf-Astoria in New York in 1894, and named after an operetta about the Scottish outlaw.
What's in it
- 50ml (1⅔ oz) Scotch whisky
- 25ml (¾ oz) Sweet vermouth
- 1 dash Aromatic bitters
- 1 Cocktail cherry optional
How to make it
- Chill a coupe.
- Fill a mixing glass with ice and add the Scotch, sweet vermouth and bitters.
- Stir for twenty to thirty seconds, until the mixing glass frosts.
- Strain into the chilled coupe.
- Garnish with a cocktail cherry.
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What cocktail can I make?Where it came from
The Rob Roy shares its name with a Reginald De Koven operetta that opened on Broadway in October 1894, and the popular story has a nearby hotel bar swapping Scotch into a Manhattan for theatregoers. Its true birthplace and creator remain in question. Scotch Manhattans were printed in London as early as 1884, a Chicago book named a Scotch Rob Roy in 1900, and David Wondrich turned up a 1941 letter crediting Henry August Orphal, a bartender at the Duke’s House in New Jersey. Either way, it was drunk far and wide by the turn of the century.
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