Single Malt Cocktails?

My wife loves a Blood and Sand. I will usually make it with a blended scotch (Grant's or Teacher's). But when I want to impress I uses Laphroaig 10yo.

I make it equal parts (about an ounce) scotch and fresh Orange Juice. Slightly less (3/4 oz) Cherry Herring and Sweet Vermouth. Shake with ice and serve straight up.

I've also enjoyed a Stormy Blue Martini: 1.5 oz Gin with 1/2 oz of Ardbeg and a stuffed blue cheese olive. My wife bought me an olive stuffer just so I could experiment with the kind of blue cheese . . . love her.

I'm partial to the occasional Godfather, and thru extensive trialling found equal measures of macallan gold and disarrono to be the perfect marriage for this cocktail. And maraschino cherries, of course. I know it's sacrilege, but don't knock it til you've tried it..

Not sure what this cocktail is named... whiskey, lime and ginger beer is the mix.

Fill an old fasioned glass with ice. Add 1.5 to 2 oz. whisky, poured over the ice. Squeeze half a lime (or a 1 tbsp lime) into the glass. Add ginger beer or ginger ale to fill the glass.

I've had this with either Highland Park 12 or Macallan Fine Oak 10. My wife does not drink whisky, but she likes this cocktail. She prefers it with ginger ale, I like the extra spice from ginger beer.

This is a nice summer afternoon drink.

If you can't bring yourself to use a single malt, try using Compass Box Great King Street.

This chap (Chip Dykstra aka Arctic Wolf) comes up with cocktails for just about every spirit he reviews. Just take a peak at his single malt reviews and scotch cocktail recipes (link for scotch etc cocktails below). The website is quite informative as well.

therumhowlerblog.wordpress.com/cocktails/

I drink the Rob Roy cocktail quite often when I am out. It is just the same as a Manhattan but Scotch whisky instead of Bourbon/Rye. 2 parts Scotch whisky, 1 part sweet vermouth, a dash or two of angostura bitters. Up or on the rocks.

Great drink. I wouldn't use a very high quality whisky in that, but a standard blend works quite well.

Ardbeg Mojito!!!! Just replace the rum with 50ml of Ardbeg 10 and enjoy the ride haha. The combination between mint, peat and lime is crazy!

I think its quite 'old fashioned' to leave single malts out of the cocktailmix just because some purists think its not 'appropriate', But you have to know what you're doing before wasting good SM in a senseless mix. But ofcourse its possible to accentuate the flavors already present in the whisky. Why not use a Finlaggan old reserve for a Smoky Martini or a Smoky Rusty Nail?! For example, Glenmorangie 10 tastes a bit flowery, orangy, vanillish, woody and nutty. How about an OF with 40 ml Glen, 5ml Frangelico (nuts/flowers), 5ml 43(vanilla/spice), maple syrup(wood) and an orange peel? The possibilities are endless :)

There is a really good sm cocktail at the Sweet Hereafter in Portland. It has Ardbeg 10 along with some really exotic bitters and stuff. Frickin delicious and exotic tasting with a nice punch to it that sneaks up on ya after a few, but in a good way

My local whisky bar does a great whisky cocktail called the "Strong Man" - Lagavulin, white chocolate, tio pepe fino sherry, chocolate and orange bitters. Delicious.

I'm able to enjoy these drinks sometimes because I know what they are, and what they are not.

Sometimes it's good to just sip a drink, switch off, and not be a whisky "snob" - especially with a standard malt whisky you already know quite well. The purists probably need to lighten up a little and at least let the rest of us experiment and enjoy our whisky in whatever way we like on a given day. Just saying.

I used to go to a cocktail bar in Winston Salem, NC called Tate's. When I told them I liked scotch, they made an off menu drink for me called Shaddock and Smoke. I do not remember the proportions, but it contained Lagavulin 16 as the base spirit, an in house grapefruit pompelmocello (a limoncello made with grapefruit), maybe some simple syrup, and a bit of grapefruit peel, torched to release the oils. A very nice drink, and one that kept me coming back.

I gotta try some of these. @Onibubba, that's fantastic that they invented a cocktail just for you. Sounds like a good one.