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Lion's Tail
A shaken bourbon sour with pimento (allspice) dram, lime and Angostura.
Go to the recipe ↓The Lion's Tail is 2 oz bourbon shaken with half an ounce each of lime juice and pimento dram, a little syrup and Angostura, then strained into a chilled glass. The real choice is between versions: Imbibe adds an egg white and sweetens with a barspoon of rich 2:1 syrup, while Punch omits the egg and uses a teaspoon of plain simple syrup with an extra dash of bitters.
Imbibe: with egg white
Contains alcohol
Ingredients
Original recipe quantities.
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Share of the measured liquid, before ice. Unmeasured additions and non-volume ingredients are excluded.
Method as published
- Chill a cocktail glass or coupe.
- Put the bourbon, pimento dram, lime juice, rich simple syrup, Angostura and egg white in a shaker.
- Add ice and shake.
- Strain into the chilled glass.
Garnish None specified by the source.
- Rich simple syrup is a 2:1 syrup; the source measures it by the barspoon, which the calculator flags for separate adjustment.
- The egg white is counted as one whole white; Imbibe says to use pasteurized if you like.
- The source does not call for a separate dry shake.
Recipe source: imbibemagazine.com ↗
Punch: no egg, two dashes
Contains alcohol
Ingredients
Original recipe quantities.
See the proportions
Share of the measured liquid, before ice. Unmeasured additions and non-volume ingredients are excluded.
Method as published
- Chill a coupe or cocktail glass.
- Combine the bourbon, lime juice, allspice dram, simple syrup and Angostura in a mixing tin.
- Add ice and shake.
- Strain into the chilled glass.
Garnish None specified by the source.
- Uses plain simple syrup measured by the teaspoon, not rich syrup.
- Bitters are measured in dashes, which the calculator flags for separate adjustment.
Recipe source: PUNCH ↗
Egg white, syrup and bitters
The bourbon, lime and dram measures are the same in both cards, so the differences sit in the small lines. Imbibe's egg white is the only change in texture-building ingredients, and its sweetener is a denser 2:1 syrup by the barspoon; Punch uses standard simple syrup by the teaspoon and doubles the Angostura to two dashes. Neither source gives a garnish, and both shake with ice and strain into a chilled glass rather than serving over ice.
Imbibe names the liqueur pimento dram and Punch calls it allspice dram. A third source, cocktailvirgin, follows the eggless pattern with one dash of bitters and allows gomme or simple syrup.