Penicillin Cocktail Recipe

Penicillin is a Gold Rush variation that adds ginger syrup and a float of peated Scotch. Created by Sam Ross in New York in the early 2000s, featuring Scotch, honey, ginger, and lemon.

Ingredients

Method for creating a Penicillin cocktail

Shake scotch, honey-ginger syrup, and lemon juice with ice, strain into a lowball glass with ice. You can use fireball whiskey ( split with another scotch) for an extra cinnamon twist

Garnish

Candied ginger

Glassware

Lowball

Ice

Regular Ice

Nutrition Information for Penicillin

  • Calories: There are 184 kcal in Penicillin
  • ABV: Penicillin has an ABV of 23%

Calorie Breakdown for Penicillin

IngredientDoseCal/ozCalories
Scotch Whiskey2 oz70 cal/oz140 kcal
Lemon Juice0.75 oz6 cal/oz5 kcal
Honey Syrup0.375 oz55 cal/oz21 kcal
Ginger Syrup0.375 oz50 cal/oz19 kcal
Total184 kcal

ABV Breakdown for Penicillin

Cocktail booziness measures the amount of alcohol in a drink, expressed both as total alcohol volume (ml) and as a percentage of Alcohol By Volume (ABV) of the overall drink size.

IngredientDoseABV%Alcohol (ml)
Scotch Whiskey2 oz40%24.0 ml
Total alcohol24.0 ml
Cocktail size104 ml
ABV = 24 / 104 × 10023%

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