Pisco Sour

Peru's national cocktail: a silky, frothy sour of fragrant grape brandy, fresh lime, and sugar, lifted by a cap of egg-white foam and crowned with a few aromatic drops of bitters. American bartender Victor Vaughen Morris is credited with creating it at his Lima saloon in the early 1920s, and Peruvian bartender Mario Bruiget later folded in egg white and Angostura to define the modern build — though Chile lays its own claim to the drink.

ClassicContains Egg

Ingredients

  • 2 ozPisco
  • 1 ozLime Juice(fresh)
  • 0.75 ozSimple Syrup
  • 1 pieceEgg White

Garnish: Angostura Bitters

Preparation

Shaken · Goblet · None

  1. 1.

    add

    Combine the pisco, lime juice, simple syrup, and egg white in a shaker.

  2. 2.

    shake

    Dry-shake without ice for about 10 seconds to whip the egg white into a foam.

  3. 3.

    shake

    Add ice and shake again until well chilled.

  4. 4.

    strain

    Fine-strain into a chilled goblet.

  5. 5.

    garnish

    Dash a few drops of aromatic (Amargo/Angostura) bitters over the foam.

Flavor Profile

fruity
33%
dilution
28%
citrus
28%
floral
25%
sweet
21%
sour
20%