We just don’t see enough cocktails with bourbon nowadays. Today’s drink is the Bourbon Bog, named as such because bogs are where cranberries (and many other kinds of berries) are grown, and cranberries and bourbon are the two main ingredients of this beverage.

Bourbon and Whiskeys in general are of those liquors that most people never really consider to be great cocktail ingredients. This, to me, is precisely the reason to post a recipe for a delicious Bourbon-based recipe. Also, I wanted to make sure that once I posted a recipe for Lemon Syrup, you’d have something to make with it.

Bourbon Bog - Recipe:

• 1 1/2 ounces bourbon
• 1 1/2 ounces cranberry juice
• 1 to 2 teaspoons lemon syrup, recipe follows
• 3 dashes orange bitters
• Fresh cranberries, lightly smashed and soaked in bourbon

Fill a cocktail shaker or small pitcher with ice. Add the bourbon, cranberry juice, lemon syrup, and bitters. Cover and shake vigorously until thoroughly mixed and chilled, about 30 seconds. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Drop 2 to 3 cranberries in the glass.