# Amaro Sour

Averna takes the lead over a small bourbon spine in Brad Thomas Parsons’s plush, egg-white sour, balancing dark citrus and caramel with fresh lemon.

Strength: 16% ABV before dilution

## Ingredients

- 45 ml [Averna](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/averna.md)
- 22.5 ml [Bourbon](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/bourbon.md)
- 30 ml [Fresh lemon juice](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/fresh-lemon-juice.md)
- 7.5 ml [Simple syrup](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/simple-syrup.md) — Use a one-to-one syrup by weight.
- 30 ml [Egg white](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/egg-white.md) — Use pasteurised egg white if preferred.

## Glassware

Double old fashioned glass

## Garnish

- Lemon twist — Express the peel oils over the drink and retain the twist.
- Cocktail cherry — Use one good-quality brandied cherry.

## Method

1. Dry-shake all ingredients vigorously without ice for at least ten seconds.
2. Add cubed ice and shake again until thoroughly chilled and aerated.
3. Fine-strain into a chilled double old fashioned glass over fresh cubed ice.

## Related drinks

- [Midnight Stinger](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/midnight-stinger.md): Bourbon and Fernet-Branca meet as equals in a lemon sour over crushed ice, turning the amaro's menthol force into something bracing, cooling, and unexpectedly easy to drink.
- [Enzoni](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/enzoni.md): A bittersweet gin sour that folds muddled green grapes into the structure of a Negroni.
- [Pisco Sour](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/pisco-sour.md): An aromatic grape-spirit sour balancing lemon and sugar beneath a silky egg-white foam seasoned with bitters.
- [Paper Plane](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/paper-plane.md): An equal-parts bourbon sour balancing Aperol, Amaro Nonino, and fresh lemon.
- [Too Soon?](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/too-soon.md): A regal shake with thin orange slices gives this gin-and-Cynar sour fragrant peel oils and soft fruit depth without muddling bitterness into the drink.
- [Green Fairy](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/green-fairy.md): Absinthe leads lemon, rich syrup, aromatic bitters, and egg white in Dick Bradsell’s poised, foaming 1990s London sour.
- [Whiskey Sour](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/whiskey-sour.md): Bourbon, lemon, and sugar with optional egg white for a soft, foamy texture.
- [Iron Ranger](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/iron-ranger.md): Erick Castro's bourbon-led tropical drink, bringing pineapple and lemon into focus with falernum, sugar, spice, and serious whiskey weight.

## References

- Canonical page: https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/amaro-sour
- Photograph: https://stirred.fyi/assets/cocktails/amaro-sour-23cccea2.webp
- Recipe source: https://www.cakenknife.com/amaro-sour/