Scotch Cocktails

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While we love our scotch neat, on the rocks or with a bit of water, there's a wide range of classic cocktail recipes and modern riffs. Get a whole new appreciation for scotch by mixing some of these great scotch drinks.
25th Hour cocktail
25th Hour
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Cunningham cocktail
Cunningham
Prophet in Plain Clothes cocktail
Prophet in Plain Clothes
Mint Green Old Fashioned
Mint Green Old Fashioned
Sin Cyn cocktail
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A short rocks glass sits in the corner of a wooden windowsill, a window just out of frame behind it. The glass is filled with ice and a red-orange drink, and is garnished with four thin slices of apple and a plastic red and black key.
Big Red Sun
Witches’ Brew
The History and Secrets of the Rob Roy
Blood and Sand in a cocktail glass with an orange peel garnish
Blood & Sand
Rob Roy cocktail
Rob Roy
scotch and soda cocktail in a highball glass with ice
Scotch & Soda
Hot Toddy cocktail in a glass mug with lemon wheel and cloves
Hot Toddy
whiskey mac cocktail on the rocks, served on a wooden bar
Whisky Mac
Penicillin cocktail
Penicillin
Godfather cocktail
Godfather
Set the New Year on Fire cocktail in a collins glass, garnished with a flaming lime shell
Set the New Year on Fire
A clear glass cocktail mug filled with light brown liquid and garnished with a lemon twist; a metal pitcher with flames coming from within it sits to the left of the mug.
Blue Blazer
A coupe rests on a round, lined surface against a solid black backdrop. The coupe is filled with a dark red cocktail, and a grapefruit peel is pinned to the rim with a miniature clothespin.
Drunk Uncle
South by Southwest
rusty nail cocktail served in a rocks glass over one large ice cube
Rusty Nail
A Collins glass filled with clear ice cubes and an amber-hued effervescent drink
Presbyterian
Frank Caiafa’s Rob Roy
red-hued Modern cocktail in a coupe glass with a skewered cherry balanced on the rim
The Modern
An elegant, chunky coupe rests on a marble counter with a gray wall behind it. The glass is filled with a golden drink with a thick foam head. Six flakes of edible gold rest on the foam in a line.
Pot of Gold
A faceted cocktail coupe sits on a marble surface. A beam of light illuminates a golden beverage within, and a thin slice of lemon peel. The rest of the photo is in shadow.
Bobby Burns
A short, unadorned coupe stands on a wooden surface. The glass holds a crimson cocktail and a thin slice of orange.
Rusty Compass
Smoky Martini with a lemon twist served on a metal tray
Smoky Martini
red-colored Tart ’n' Sand cocktail in a coupe with an orange wheel, set in a sunbeam on a dark granite counter
Tart ’n’ Sand
Royal Balmoral Punch
Royal Balmoral Punch
A rocks glass with a stirred brown cocktail on a large ice cube garnished with lemon zest
Whisky in Church
A clear glass mug filled just over halfway with a deep amber-colored hot cocktail
Whisky Skin
Corpse Reviver 212
Sin Cyn cocktail
Sin Cyn
Big Red cocktail in a Collins glass over ice with two red-and-white straws, served next to a bottle of Budweiser
Big Red
A textured highball glass containing a golden effervescent cocktail garnished with a lime wedge
Mamie Taylor
One-Two Punch
One-Two Punch
Hudson Highland Cup
Hudson Highland Cup
A hexagonal rocks glass sits on a dramatically lit white surface. It’s filled with ice cubes and an amber drink.
The Bottom Line
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Bee Sting
Bee Sting
Kiwi Bird
She’s No Gentleman Cocktail Recipe
She’s No Gentleman
A Boy Named Sue
dark brown Spanish Armada cocktail with curled, fanned-out orange peel garnish in Nick & Nora glass
Spanish Armada
Harvest Time cocktail
Harvest Time
Hebridean Shores
Whisky Contardo
My Golden Dram cocktail in a Champagne flute with a sugar cube at bottom and tiny bubbles floating upward, served on wooden surface
My Golden Dram
A thin cocktail glass with a knobbed stem rests on a wooden table. It’s filled with an amber drink, and behind it a mixing glass holds ice and more of the drink.
Campbeltown
A rocks glass is photographer in tight, shallow focus. The drink within is carrot-orange over a few ice cubes, garnished with a dry carrot ring and flaky salt.
Carrot Thing
From Jura to Java
Dramble
Long Zest
A beautifully etched cocktail glass holds a blood-red drink on a white backdrop.
Scottish Beats
Mama I'm Coming Home cocktail in a clear Irish coffee mug, garnished with a skewered piece of caramel candy
Mama, I’m Coming Home