12 Great whiskey cocktails to celebrate this Father’s Day

Ingredients:

• 2 parts Woodford Reserve Rye Whiskey
• 1 part Sweet Vermouth
• 3 Dashes Woodford Reserve Aromatic Bitters

Directions:

Fill mixing glass with ingredients, add ice, and stir gently for 10-15 seconds. Strain into cocktail glass. Garnish with a cherry.

Ingredients:

• 1.5oz Cutwater Bourbon
• 5oz Giffard peach liqueur
• 2oz iced black tea
• .75oz mint simple syrup
• .75oz lemon

Directions:

Add ingredients to a shaker tin with ice. Shake until well chilled and pour over fresh ice in a tall cocktail glass. Garnish with a mint bouquet and dehydrated lemon wheel Directions: Add ingredients to a shaker tin with ice. Shake until well chilled and pour over fresh ice in a tall cocktail glass. Garnish with a mint bouquet and dehydrated lemon wheel.

Ingredients:

• 1.5 oz Benriach The Original Ten
• 0.5 oz Benriach The Smoky Ten
• 0.5 oz Lemon Juice
• 2 Dashes Angostura Orange Bitters
• 1 Pinch Sea Salt

Directions:

Combine all ingredients in shaker tin, shake until proper dilution. Strain over fresh ice. Honey-Ginger-Blueberry Syrup 1. Peel ginger and chop into small, thin cubes. 2. In a small pot, combine 1 cup water, 1 cup honey, 3/4 cup peeled/cubed ginger and 3/4 cup frozen blueberries. 3. Cook over medium heat until blueberries puff up and are about to explode. Remove from heat, allow mixture to cool and sit for 2 hours. 4. Fine strain to remove all solids and store. Glass: Rocks Glass Garnish: Candied Ginger

Ingredients:

• 1½ parts Hudson Short Stack
• ¾ part blackberry liqueur
• ½ part fresh lemon juice
• Dash Angostura bitters

Directions:

Add all to cocktail shaker with ice and shake until chilled. Strain into rocks glass over new ice. Garnish with blackberries.

Ingredients:

• 2 parts Proper No. Twelve Irish Whiskey
• 1/2 part simple syrup
• 1 peach
• diced 3-4 mint leaves
• Soda water

Directions:

Muddle peaches, simple syrup & mint leaves in a shaker. Add Proper No. Twelve and fill shaker with ice. Strain into rocks glass over fresh ice. Top with a splash of soda water. Garnish with mint leaves and a peach slice

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 oz Baller Single Malt Whiskey
• 4 1/2 oz Q club soda
• lemon oil

Directions:

Baller in a highball glass with ice for five seconds, add club soda and give one full stir. Squeeze lemon peel over drink and discard. Recipe by: Chris Lane, Ramen Shop, Oakland 

Ingredients:

• 2 Parts The Glenlivet 14 Year Old
• 2 Dashes orange bitters
• 2 Dashes Angostura Bitters
• 1/4 Part simple syrup

Directions:

Add 2 dashes orange bitters to glass. Add 2 dashes Angostura Bitters. Add the rest of the ingredients and stir over large ice cube. Garnish with orange twist and rosemary sprig.

Ingredients:

• 1.5 oz Starward Two Fold Australian Whisky
• 1 oz Cherry Jam
• 1 oz Lime
• 1 oz Soda
• 2 Strawberries

Directions:

Shake ingredients over ice, then strain into a wine glass of ice. Garnish with 2 strawberries on a skewer, large mint tip and striped straw.

Ingredients:

• 2 oz. Templeton Rye 6 Year
• 1 Sugar Cube (or ½ tsp. of sugar or simple syrup)
• 3 Dashes Angostura Bitters
• Large Ice Rocks
• Orange Peel Garnished

Directions:

Add sugar and bitters to a chilled rocks glass. Muddle and stir until sugar is nearly dissolved. Fill glass with one large ice cube, add Templeton Rye, and gently stir until chilled. Express the oil of the orange peel over the glass and add as garnish.

Ingredients:

• 1.5 oz of Double Barrel Irish Whiskey
• 1 oz of Campari
• 1 oz of Sweet Vermouth
• Garnish: Orange Slice, Lemon Twist or Cherry

Directions: Stir all ingredients well with ice in a mixing glass and strain into a chilled coupe. Then garnish with an orange slice, lemon twist or fresh cherry.

Ingredients:

• 2 parts Jameson Black Barrel
• 0.75 parts Simple Syrup
• 2 dashes Orange Bitters
• 1 Dash Soda Water
• Orange Peel

Directions:

Fill a glass or jug with ice, add 2 parts Jameson Black Barrel, add 0.75 parts Simple Syrup, add 2 dashes Orange Bitters, stir until ice cold. Squeeze the oils from the orange peel over the glass and garnish with the orange peel.

Ingredients:

• 1.5 parts Jameson Orange
• 4 parts Ginger Beer
• 2 dashes Angostura bitters

Directions:

Combine over ice, garnish with an orange twist and serve in a mule mug