Skip to content
Spirlix
Log in Sign up
All cocktails Kentucky Colonel

Log in to see whether your bar can pour this

Kentucky Colonel

Classic/vintage · Nightcap/sipping · Spirit-forward

4.0 86 ratings

Ingredients

2 oz Bourbon whiskey
1/2 oz Bénédictine D.O.M.

How to make

Serve in a old-fashioned glass

Prepare

  1. 1 Select and pre-chill an OLD-FASHIONED GLASS.
  2. 2 Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist.

Method

  1. 3 STIR all ingredients with ice.
  2. 4 STRAIN into ice-filled glass (preferably over a large cube or chunk of block ice).

Garnish

  1. 5 EXPRESS lemon zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Flavour profile

34.7% alc./vol. · 1.9 standard drinks

History

Appreciation for Old Fashioneds suggests you'll appreciate the Kentucky Colonel.

The Kentucky Colonel cocktail is first documented in Jacques Straub's 1914 Manual of Mixed Drinks. The presented recipe is an adaptation derived from a version found in Stanley M. Jones' 1977 Jones' Complete Barguide. Straub's initial recipe for the Kentucky Colonel Cocktail specifies: ¼ jigger benedictine. ¾ jigger bourbon. 1 piece of lemon peel. Stir well and serve in an old style glass. Conversely, the adaptation from Stanley M. Jones's text provides these instructions for the KENTUCKY COLONEL: Cocktail Glass Stir 1¾ Bourbon ¾ Benedictine Lemon twist