Remember how we were all transforming into the chefs, artists and fitness coaches we never knew we could be (and perhaps still aren’t) just months ago? As we celebrate the nations' birthday this weekend, you can try your hand at making your own cocktails to accompany the food for the house party you're throwing. The good news is, you don’t need to cultivate bartending skills with this award-winning American single malt whisky. Brewed and distilled with locally malted Pacific Northwest barley and ale yeast, and mingled in small batches, you practically have your work cut out for you. Top that with accessible ingredients and no more than three steps in each process, and Bob’s your uncle.
OLD FASHIONED
Ingredients
50ml Westward
Half tablespoon sugar
Three dashes of bitters Orange peel
Instructions
Pour Westward, sugar and bitters into a rocks glass and stir. Garnish with orange peel and serve either neat or on the rocks.
IMPERIAL FIZZ
Ingredients
50ml Westward
25ml lemon juice
Half tablespoon sugar
100ml soda
Lemon wedge
Instructions
Pour Westward, lemon juice and sugar into a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake well and strain into a highball glass filled with ice. Top off with soda and garnish with a lemon wedge.
GOLD RUSH
Ingredients
45ml Westward
30ml honey
30ml lemon juice
Instructions
Pour Westward, honey and lemon juice into a cocktail shaker. Shake well and strain into a martini glass.
BLACK PANTHER
by Don Miranda, The Secret Mermaid
Ingredients
45ml Westward American single malt whisky
20ml freshly squeezed lemon juice
15ml maple syrup or honey
60ml black tea steeped in cinnamon, clove, star anise, nutmeg
Lemon wedge
Instructions
Make a pot of black tea, add one cinnamon stick, two cloves, half of a star anise and one nutmeg, and let it cool. Pour steeped tea with other ingredients into a highball glass, stir with ice and garnish with lemon wedge.
Westward Whiskey is available for purchase on Dyspatchr.
