Dill Pickle Sour

Cafe Society
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I finished off a bottle of dill pickles and, staring at a bottle of the pickle-juice left behind, googled and found recipe for dill pickle sours.

3 oz bourbon, 1 oz pickle juice from the dill pickle jar, juice of 1/2 lemon. Wet the rim of a glass with some of the lemon juice and dust it in Old Bay. Fill cocktail shaker with ice and add the bourbon, lemon juice, and pickle juice, shake until you go “MF hell that’s freaking COLD” then pour into the prepared glass.

I used Jack Daniels for the whiskey.

You should probably be a person who does like dill pickles but honestly the pickle taste doesn’t predominate—the lemon and whiskey tastes aren’t shy about asserting themselves at that concentration. Don’t skip the Old Bay. It adds a lot to the experience.

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That made me pucker to read. Wow!

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Back when you could drink in a bar, we did picklebacks. A pickleback is a type of shot wherein a shot of whiskey is chased by a shot of pickle brine.

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Sounds intriguing, but I don’t have any Old Bay in the house.

Would Mrs. Dash work?

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Maybe if you added some red pepper flakes and celery salt to it? There are a lot of spices in Old Bay.

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That sounds brilliant, thanks for the recipe!