Sharkbait’s Cocktail of the Week: Bourble

Hello, welcome back, and happy Friday fellow degenerates. If you hang around this crew for an extended period of time (especially during the playoffs) you’ll see mentions of having bourble, or “being in bourble” Now you may think that that is slang for straight bourbon and being in trouble from said bourbon. I know that’s what I assumed for the longest time. On a whim, I decided to google bourble to see what kind of weird results came back. Lo and behold an actual cocktail exists with that name. Seeing as this may be the unofficial [DFO] drink because of the references here, it needed to be made. So courtesy of Epicurious, I present you Bourble:

2 oz. Bourbon
.5 oz. Triple Sec
.5 oz. Lemon juice
Ice
lemon twist

In a shaker half-filled with ice cubes, combine all of the ingredients. Shake well. Strain into an old fashioned or rocks glass.

So not much of a nose to this one. A hit of citrus is the only scent I get because of the lemon twist added at the end. As to the taste, well…it’s a cocktail. That’s about all I can say about this. It’s sweet, almost overly so. The half ounce of triple sec all but obscures the bourbon base, which is quite a feat for a mixer in that amount. The aforementioned lemon twist tries its best to cut through the triple sec, and it does a valiant job at that. But the sweetness ends up as the dominant taste all the way through. Which is a bit disappointing to me personally, as I really enjoy the taste of bourbon in a drink and I am really missing this here.

Is this bad? No, most definitely not. I would suggest this as a stepping stone into a bourbon based cocktails for someone who may not be a fan of bourbon.  For those of us who are more experienced in the ways of the whiskey, I would suggest holding the triple sec, and going neat with a twist.

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