| Cocktail | |
|---|---|
| Type | Cocktail |
| Base spirit | |
| Served | On the rocks; poured over ice |
| Standard drinkware | .svg) |
| Commonly used ingredients |
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| Preparation | Fill a highball glass 3/4 with ice. Pour in ingredients and stir. |
A horsefeather is a whiskey cocktail. It was popularized in Lawrence, Kansas, in the 1990s. [1] It remains a regional drink in the Kansas City region. [2] The drink is an iteration of the classic horse's neck cocktail and is similar to a Moscow mule. [3]
A horsefeather is traditionally rye whiskey [4] or blended whiskey, ginger beer, three dashes of Angostura bitters, and a little lemon juice. [5] A highball glass is filled 3/4 with ice. [6] The ingredients are then poured into the glass and stirred. [7] There are many variations such as substituting ginger beer with ginger ale, [8] [9] adding cherries, [10] muddling the lemon, [11] replacing the lemon with lime, [12] or creating a frozen version. [13]
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- ^ Frechette, Chloe (March 31, 2017). "Three-Drink Minimum: Bartending with Ryan Maybee". Punch. Retrieved March 27, 2018.
- ^ "Horsefeather". J. Rieger & Co. Retrieved March 27, 2018.
- ^ Shepherd, Sara (November 25, 2012). "Lawrence Libations: Horsefeather at The Bourgeois Pig". Lawrence.com. Retrieved June 1, 2018.
- ^ "Q/A with Ryan Maybee of Paris of the Plains Cocktail Festival". Imbibe. August 11, 2014. Retrieved March 27, 2018.
- ^ Rathbun, A. J. (2009). Dark spirits : 200 classy concoctions starring bourbon, brandy, Scotch, whiskey, rum, and more. Boston, Mass.: Harvard Common Press. ISBN 9781558324275. OCLC 298670932.
- ^ "Rieger's Kansas City Whiskey Horsefeather". KC Magazine. May 2015. Archived from the original on September 7, 2017. Retrieved March 27, 2018.
- ^ Thomsen, Brian (2005). Ireland's most wanted : the top 10 book of Celtic pride, fantastic folklore, and oddities of the Emerald Isle (1st ed.). Washington, DC: Potomac Books. p. 48. ISBN 1574887270. OCLC 755592550.
- ^ Spacek, Nick (April 6, 2010). "Shawn Carney of Stull on the Horse Feather". Kansas City Pitch. Retrieved June 1, 2018.
- ^ "9 drink wonders of Lawrence". Lawrence Journal-World. November 19, 2014. Retrieved March 27, 2018.
- ^ Rust, Suzy (August 31, 2012). "BOOZE DOODLES: Printer and Painter Danielle Spradley's Horsefeathers Doodle". Feast Magazine. Retrieved March 27, 2018.
- ^ "Horsefeather Cocktail". CTM Magazine. March 16, 2018. Retrieved March 27, 2018.
- ^ Nevins, Jerry (2017). Sloshies : 102 boozy cocktails straight from the freezer. New York: Workman Publishing Company. p. 63. ISBN 9780761189466. OCLC 988900679.