![]() Top 15 three ingredient cocktails: another wonderful thing about this cocktail is that it’s only three ingredients and very easy to make. Top 10 Whiskey cocktail recipes: if that’s too much choice for you, perhaps it’s easier if we narrow it down to our favourite ten cocktails featuring Whiskey. You’ll sure to find something interesting. Adam Montgomerie’s Rob Roy Recipe Ingredients. Take a look below on where to find them all.Īll cocktail recipes with Scotch: Scotch isn’t always the most common ingredient in cocktails, but it exists! If you’re enjoying your Scotch cocktails, check out our other recipes.Īll Whiskey cocktail recipes: if you’re looking for Whiskey cocktail recipes in general, we have plenty. We have ore than a few Whiskey cocktails for you to enjoy. 3/4 ounce of sweet vermouth 1 1/2 ounces of Scotch whisky, your choice Maraschino cherry, to garnish A dash or two of bitters, as desired Recipe. If you like a Rob Roy, why not look at other Whiskey cocktails? If you’ve been saving up your premium whisky for the perfect drink, this is it. Or, possibly, the sweet sound of bagpipes off in the distance as you enjoy fresh Highland weather. We’re not talking extremely loud and blaring bagpipes (because of course bagpipes can be very loud), we’re talking more mellow bagpipes bagpipes as background music. We’ve already talked about enjoying this cocktail at a fancy Scottish party and, if you’re at a fancy Scottish party, perhaps there’s some bagpipes playing. If a Rob Roy was a type of music, what do you think it would be? As already mentioned, there’s an elegant Scottish-ness to this cocktail recipe, so we think we should stick with the Scottish element for the music as well. Is there a good type of music to pair with a Rob Roy? Cocktails are generally stronger than other drinks like wine or beer. Of course the Sweet Vermouth in this recipe adds a little bit more alcohol to the mix, but not too much compared to the Scotch! So we’re sticking with the Rob Roy being about medium strength, maybe a hair more than medium because of the Vermouth.ĭon’t take this as an invitation to drink ten of these and think you’ll be OK though. We usually say a cocktail is medium or moderate in strength if it has about 45-60 mL of spirit in it. Of course, a lot of Scots may get mad at you for doing something with Scotch other than drinking it neat, with a little bit of ice, or a little bit of water, but you’re welcome to drink your drink however you like! How strong a cocktail is a Rob Roy?Īs cocktails go it’s not too bad. And whether that be at a Scottish castle or somewhere else. We see this cocktail as ideal to drink at an elegant Scottish gathering, whether that be party or otherwise. Contrary to this though, Scotland has a number of beautiful castles to compliment it’s even more beautiful outdoors. Of course Scotland isn’t necessarily a rough place, but there’s an untamed element to it. We have a few things to say about it! When is the best time to drink a Rob Roy?Īlthough there’s a Scottish element to this cocktail, it’s not as rough and tumble as people think when they think Scotland. It’s great that he has such a wonderful cocktail named after him. Especially in ye olden days.This cocktail recipe gets its name from Rob Roy MacGregor, the famous Scottish outlaw who lived during the late 1600’s and early 1700’s. ![]() Anyways, my point is it’s quite common to change the name, but have virtually the same recipe when you change the base spirit. Yes, there are some modern-classic “Scotch Negroni” recipes like The Drunk Uncle, but they often exclude one, or both, of the traditional accompanying ingredients: Campari and sweet vermouth. No one ever said drinkers were consistent. ![]() Your classic Negroni has a base spirit of gin, but if you swap it out for bourbon it’s called a Boulevardier, tequila morphs it into a La Rosita and a Scotch Negroni goes by the name of… the Scotch Negroni. The Negroni is a perfect example of this. It might sound weird to change the name just because we changed the base spirit, but it’s quite common in the cocktail world. Created in 1894 at the Waldorf Astoria in NYC as a tribute to an opera of the same name, this cocktail is essentially a Manhattan made with Scotch instead of bourbon or rye. We’ve hit quite a few classic American Whiskey cocktails already, so I thought it would be nice if we turned our cocktail shakers towards classic Scotch cocktails for a bit and nothing is more classic than the Rob Roy. ![]()
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