# A cocktail recipe challenge **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 29, 2020, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-cocktail-recipe-challenge/854688 "2020-05-29T18:09:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2020, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-cocktail-recipe-challenge/854688/1 "2020-05-29T18:09:28Z")
For reasons I’m sure we thought were good at the time, the wife and I find ourselves in possession of a bottle of George Dickle Tabasco Barrel Aged whiskey. I’m quite sure we read a cocktail recipe that used this and thought it sounded tasty. But for (reasons) we _can’t remember why_? A little help? I need recipes for this stuff. If it was vodka it’d make a killer Bloody Mary. If it was gin it would be disgusting. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2020, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-cocktail-recipe-challenge/854688/2 "2020-05-29T18:35:23Z")
There is such a thing as a [Bourbon Bloody Mary](https://www.makersmark.com/cocktails/bourbon-bloody-mary). I wouldn’t do such a thing to a good bourbon but I’m going to assume that your George Dickle didn’t make this very fine product for delicate sipping, so maybe it’ll be delightful…or something. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2020, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-cocktail-recipe-challenge/854688/3 "2020-05-29T19:07:40Z")
Google the search term, ‘barbecue sauce made with bourbon’. Find a recipe you like. Use till gone. ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2020, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-cocktail-recipe-challenge/854688/4 "2020-05-29T19:17:58Z")
Ginger beer? Making a Tabasco Mule. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2020, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-cocktail-recipe-challenge/854688/5 "2020-05-29T19:21:09Z")
I’d use it to make baked beans or to slow cook a pork shoulder roast, maybe flambe some steak or pork chops. Use it in a sauce. But in a cocktail… there’s a number of them on the interwebs, but none of them seem very appealing. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2020, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-cocktail-recipe-challenge/854688/6 "2020-05-29T19:38:31Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > Google the search term, ‘barbecue sauce made with bourbon’. Find a recipe you like. Use till gone. Bingo! I think this might be the reason I got it, because I almost always use bourbon in my BBQ sauce. But the addition to baked beans sounds good, too. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2020, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-cocktail-recipe-challenge/854688/7 "2020-05-29T19:39:37Z")
I would think any bourbon cocktail that you would find overly sweet normally, try using that and see if the tabasco helps make the sweet tolerable.