{"id":1781,"date":"2015-02-18T18:15:24","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T00:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/?p=1781"},"modified":"2015-02-18T18:15:24","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T00:15:24","slug":"how-to-order-whiskey-in-a-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/how-to-order-whiskey-in-a-restaurant\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Order Whiskey in a Restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you order a nice Scotch or Irish whiskey, you know that ordering it “on the rocks” waters it down.<\/p>\n

What do you do, if you want your whiskey chilled?<\/p>\n

At home, I use whiskey stones, but most restaurant servers don’t really understand that you want your whiskey cold, but not watered down.<\/p>\n

Here is a good trick to use at restaurants:<\/p>\n

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  1. Order your whiskey neat (no ice), a second whiskey glass with ice in it, and some water<\/li>\n
  2. Drink some of your water<\/li>\n
  3. Empty the glass of ice in to the water (leaving an empty, cold glass)<\/li>\n
  4. Pour the whiskey in to the cold glass<\/li>\n
  5. Enjoy<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

     <\/p>\n

    A Note on Drinking Whiskey at a Bar<\/h3>\n

    Adding about a teaspoon of water to a standard 1.5 ounce serving of whiskey dilutes it just enough to bring out the complexity of its flavors.<\/p>\n

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    • Option 1<\/strong>:\u00a0 Order your whiskey neat, then add 1 to 2 ice cubes from your water glass.<\/li>\n
    • Option 2<\/strong>:\u00a0 If you have a really good bar tender, order your whiskey “shaken” (implying: “shaken over ice”).\u00a0 A small amount of the ice in the shaker will melt and mix with the whiskey, but only a really knowledgeable bar tender will know what you’re trying to accomplish.<\/li>\n
    • Option 3<\/strong>:\u00a0 If your bar tender walks on water, order your whiskey in a chilled whiskey glass<\/strong>, with two ice cubes.\u00a0 Only the most awesome of bar tenders will understand the complexities of whiskey, and have a chilled whiskey glass on hand.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      If you order a nice Scotch or Irish whiskey, you know that ordering it “on the rocks” waters it down. What do you do, if you want your whiskey chilled? At home, I use whiskey stones, but most restaurant servers don’t really understand that you want your whiskey cold, but not watered down. Here is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-light-side"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1781"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1787,"href":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781\/revisions\/1787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}