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Horse's Neck with a Kick

Long drinks and highballs

3.5 49 ratings

Ingredients

1 1/2 oz Bourbon whiskey
2 dash Aromatic bitters
4 oz Ginger ale

How to make

Serve in a highball (max 10oz/300ml)

Method

  1. 1 Select and pre-chill a HIGHBALL (MAX 10OZ/300ML) GLASS.
  2. 2 Prepare garnish of lemon peel (whole).
  3. 3 POUR ingredients into ice-filled glass.
  4. 4 STIR.

9.8% alc./vol. · 1.2 standard drinks · 156 calories

History

Whiskey and ginger with added shrub.

A Horse's Neck without the addition of whiskey, or "kick," is essentially just ginger ale and bitters. This was how the drink was initially served, with the "Kick" component being introduced around 1910.