Bobby Burns (drink)

The Bobby Burns is a whisky cocktail composed of scotch, vermouth and Bénédictine liqueur. It is served in a 4.5 US fl oz cocktail glass.

Bobby Burns

Cocktail
A Bobby Burns cocktail
Type	Cocktail
Served	Straight up; without ice
Standard drinkware	Cocktail glass
Ingredients as listed at CocktailDB	4.5 cl Scotch whisky 4.5 cl red vermouth 3 dashes Bénédictine Lemon peel
Preparation	Put all liquid ingredients in cocktail shaker filled with ice. Squeeze lemon peel on top. Stir, strain into glass.
"Bobby Burns". CocktailDB. Archived from the original on September 9, 2015.

The drink is named for Robert Burns, the Scottish poet but it's not considered a national drink in the way the Rusty Nail is.

History

The original recipe comes from the 1900 edition of Fancy Drinks published by Bishop & Babcock where it is called the "Baby Burns". The "Robert Burns" name appears in the 1910 Jack's Manual and 1914 Drinks made with Irish whiskey, vermouth and absinthe. In later publications it starts to be called by the more informal "Bobby Burns" name, with the original Irish whiskey recipe appearing in Recipes for Mixed Drinks (1917). The 1948 recipe from The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks replaced the Bénédictine with Drambuie (Scotch whisky) and bitters.[1]

See also

• List of cocktails
•  Liquor portal

References

1. Meehan, Jim. Meehan's Bartender Manual.