Lynchburg Lemonade
A crowd-pleasing whiskey highball with a party spirit: Jack Daniel's, triple sec, sweet-and-sour, and a lemon-lime soda finish.
Base
whiskey
Glassware
Highball glass
Flavor Profile
sweetsourrefreshing
Ingredients
- 1.5 oz Jack Daniel's Tennessee whiskey
- 1 oz triple sec
- 1 oz fresh lemon juice
- 0.5 oz simple syrup
- Lemon-lime soda, to top
- Lemon wheel, to garnish
Instructions
- 1Add whiskey, triple sec, lemon juice, and simple syrup to a shaker with ice.
- 2Shake until well chilled.
- 3Strain into a highball glass over fresh ice, top with lemon-lime soda, and garnish with a lemon wheel.
Origin & Story
Lynchburg, Tennessee, 1980
Tony Mason, a bartender at a restaurant near the Jack Daniel's distillery in Lynchburg, Tennessee, claims to have created it around 1980. Jack Daniel's later incorporated the recipe into their marketing, helping turn it into one of the most-ordered whiskey cocktails at casual American bars through the 1980s and 1990s.
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