
Drop It Like It’s Hot
1 oz Rye Whiskey <Rittenhouse>
1 oz White Whiskey <Bully Boy>
3/4 oz Pimm’s No. 1
1/2 oz lemon juice
1/2 oz hot honey syrup*
Combine ingredients in a collins glass. Fill with crushed ice, swizzle until outside of the glass frosts over. Top off with a little more crushed ice, add a few dashes of Angostura bitters and a straw, garnish with lemon twist
* For the honey syrup, combine equal parts warm water and Mike’s Hot Honey and stir until dissolved
Hey, guess what? It’s Mixology Monday* time! This month Boston’s own Frederic Yarm of Cocktail Virgin Slut is hosting (you may recognize that site since I’ve been known to link to it from time to time). He’s chosen swizzles as the theme. “What are swizzles?” you might ask. Well, head over to Frederic’s announcement post for the full details. The tl;dr version is basically this one sentence from that post:

… swizzles are built in the glass, topped with crushed ice, and agitated with a rapidly spinning natural swizzle stick (or facsimile) to mix and chill.
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