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Irish Buck

Elevenses/afternoon · Long drinks and highballs · Saint Patrick's Day

4.2 69 ratings

Ingredients

1 1/2 oz Irish whiskey
1/4 oz Lime juice
3 1/2 oz Ginger ale

How to make

Serve in a collins glass

Prepare

  1. 1 Select and pre-chill a COLLINS GLASS.
  2. 2 Prepare lime slice wheel for garnish.

Method

  1. 3 POUR all ingredients into ice-filled glass.
  2. 4 Briefly STIR.

Garnish

  1. 5 Garnish with lime wheel.

Flavour profile

9.0% alc./vol. · 1 standard drink · 139 calories

History

Simple yet surprisingly delicious and refreshing thanks to cleansing lime sourness.

Bucks are a category of cocktails that appeared during Prohibition and consistently include ginger ale or ginger beer. It's also the reason a ginger cat was named 'Buck'.