If you love AMC’s hit drama “Mad Men,” then you can hardly wait for the premiere of the final season this Sunday night (Season 7). Maybe you’ll be enjoying the show with friends or perhaps you like to drink alone? Either way, here are five excellent whiskey and gin options to make sure you are in the proper mood for the show. Stir them up and enjoy.
Don Draper Old Fashioned
Ingredients:
1 ½ parts Jim Beam Black® Bourbon
2 dashes bitters
Water
Cherry
Orange slice
Lemon wedge
Sugar
Preparation:
In an old-fashioned glass, place 1/2 teaspoon sugar and 2 dashes bitters dissolved in water. Fill with ice. Pour 1-1/2 parts Jim Beam® Bourbon; add cherry, orange slice and lemon wedge.
Mad Men Manhattan
Ingredients:
2 parts Jim Beam Black® Bourbon
1 part Averna
1 dash Angostura Bitters
Preparation:
Garnish with a cherry.
Roger Sterling Smooth & Sour
Ingredients:
2 parts Jim Beam Black® Bourbon
1 part amaretto liqueur
1 part triple sec
2 parts sour mix
2 parts lemon-lime soda
Preparation:
Serve shaken in a tall glass with cracked ice. Garnish with a squeeze of lemon.
Tanqueray Extra Dry Martini
Ingredients:
1.25 oz Tanqueray No. Ten
2-4 dashes Dry French Vermouth
Preparation:
Pour vermouth over ice into mixing glass, roll around then strain out. Add Tanqueray No. Ten and stir. Strain into a martini glass. Garnish with a small pitted Spanish cocktail olive.
Tanqueray Fitty Fitty
Ingredients:
1 oz. Tanqueray No. Ten
1 oz. Noilly Prat Dry Vermouth
1 Dash Angostura Orange Bitters
Preparation:
Stir until very cold and strain into chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with a lemon twist.