Burns Night Cocktail Recipes from TINCUP Whiskey

Cat Byers | 23 Jan 2015

Because nothing helps beat the January blues more warming whiskey cocktail at home.

Although London is hosting everything from traditional haggis suppers to full-blown caelidhs for Burns Night this weekend, dragging yourself out into the cold again after a long day can be a bit too much to ask. Fortunately, TINCUP whiskey have provided us with three brilliant whiskey cocktail recipes so you can celebrate Robert 'Rabbie' Burns without leaving the house - and haggis is optional (phew).

TINCUP Old Fashioned

Ingredients:

50ml TINCUP whiskey
5-10ml sugar syrup
2 dashes of Angostura bitters,
Orange twist

Method: Stir 25ml of TINCUP whiskey, sugar & Angostura Bitters with 3 ice cubes to dilute, add another 25ml of TINCUP Whiskey & 3 more ice cubes, stir some more & add more ice cubes. Garnish with orange zest. The stirring & melting of the ice cubes is essential for this cocktail.

TINCUP Sazerac

Ingredients:

50ml TINCUP whiskey
10ml Absinthe,
5-10ml Sugar Syrup
2 dashes Peychaud bitters
lemon twist

Method:

Pour absinthe into ice-filled glass, top with water and leave to stand. Separately stir other ingredients in mixing glass with ice. Discard contents of glass (absinthe, water and ice) and strain stirred drink into absinthe-coated glass. Finish with lemon twist.