![]() Rob Roy Cocktail Variations And Similar Drink Recipes: The aromatic, orange and Peychaud’s bitters sometimes called for also pair along with an equal number of garnishes cherry, lemon and orange. Proportions of whisk(e)y to vermouth aside, the Manhattan’s three possible base spirits and one bitter flavor is sort of a mirror image opposite to the Rob Roy’s one base spirit and three bitter flavor combinations. Garnish with a Maraschino cherry.Ī Bitter Twist Turns The Tide For Tipples Titles Stir together with ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Many of the early Rob Roy recipes called for equal parts whisky to vermouth, however proportions of 2 to 1 or greater have become preferred for these manhat-tini style recipes over the years and are recommended here as well. His response: “A Schlitz, straight up, no twist … as long as His Eminence is paying.”īehind The Bar - How To Mix A Rob Roy Cocktail In one scene after ordering at a restaurant, Monsignor Spellacy asks his brother Tommy (Robert Duvall) what he would like. Monsignor Des Spellacy (Robert DeNiro) loves to order Rob Roys straight up with a twist as his signature drink in the movie True Confessions (1981) along with his usual shrimp cocktail. It is unfortunately no longer included in any of the three new categories (the unforgettables, contemporary classics or new era drinks) listed by the IBA on their website as of this writing. Prior to 2008, the Rob Roy was an International Bartender’s Association official cocktail designated as a before dinner aperitif. The popularity of Scotland’s game of golf was beginning to spread over to America during the late 19th century as well. a few years later on a wide scale right around the same time the Rob Roy cocktail was being originally formulated. This led to their brand of whisky being imported and introduced to the U.S. Dewar’s distillery in Scotland received a bunch of free publicity and a subsequent flood of orders from America after steel magnate Andrew Carnegie of Scottish decent sent a barrel of Dewar’s Scotch to President Benjamin Harrison in 1891 as a gift. Thus the name.Īs a side note, this all happens to coincide around a bit of Scotch whisky history as well. This was to honor the opening of the theatrical musical Rob Roy composed by Reginald De Koven whose historical operetta was based on the life of the folk hero often referred to as the Scottish Robin Hood, Robert Roy MacGregor (MaDecember 28, 1734). Fitting for the Scotsman who inspired the drink.Ī bartender at the Waldorf Astoria hotel is said to have created the drink recipe in 1894 about two decades after its New York neighbor’s namesake. ![]() Unlike the Manhattan whose traditional rye often gets replaced with Canadian or bourbon whisk(e)ys, the Rob Roy cocktail is spirited solely with Scotch as its base. A perfect Rob Roy a.k.a the Affinity contains equal parts of both sweet and dry vermouth. Like its cocktail cousin, both drinks can be made sweet, dry or perfect depending on the type of vermouth(s) used. Especially in ye olden days.The Rob Roy cocktail, a.k.a the Scotch Manhattan, is a drink mixed with Scotch whisky, vermouth and bitters. ![]() 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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