Vroom! Vroom!
“Here he comes! The American Army Captain riding around France in the motorcycle sidecar. I’ve got just the cocktail!”
There is much controversy over this cocktail’s origin. Legend has it that the Sidecar was invented during World War I by an American Army Captain who rode the wartime streets of Europe in a motorcycle sidecar. In the 1920s, both the Ritz Hotel in Paris and the London Buck’s Club, a mysterious members-only gentleman’s club, laid claim to the recipe’s creation. The original cocktail was made with Brandy, but this has since been corrected and the Sidecar is now commonly enjoyed Bourbon-style!
INGREDIENTS
- 1.5 oz Two Bitch™ Bourbon
- .75 oz Orange Liqueur or Cointreau
- .75 oz freshly squeezed lemon juice
- rimmed sugar glass
- lemon or orange peel to garnish
DIRECTIONS
- Rim your cocktail glass with lemon and then dip in sugar for a rimmed sugar glass.
- To a shaker add ice, bourbon, orange liqueur, and lemon juice. Shake to frost.
- Strain into the sugar rimmed cocktail glass and garnish with orange or lemon peel. Enjoy!
Harley Sidecar WWI.