Shake things up with a Cameron's Kick. Trust us when we say: It's the cocktail you didn't know you needed.
. MacElhone was a Scot who learned to tend bar in Paris, London, and New York. He was already famous by the time he wrote his first book and would become even more so , and along the way would take credit for the Sidecar and the Bloody Mary, but before all that, he invented the Cameron’s Kick. It’s one of just three Irishcocktails in his 300-plus-recipe volume and is made with equal parts Irish and Scotch whiskies, with lemon juice and orgeat syrup.
Everyone who writes about the Cameron’s Kick ruminates on how we don’t know who Cameron is, but that’s not the source of my problem. Who’s Cameron? Who kicked him?“There should be a law against creating great drinks with provocative titles and not including a story. This one is still shrouded in mystery.” Long story short, no one has any idea why he named it that, though we can speculate .
, mistranscribed orgeat as “orange bitters” in 1935, and the Mr. Boston Bartender’s Guides maintained this obvious mistake for like 70 years, but that’s not my problem either.and scotch? What specifically are we trying to achieve? Split bases in classics are super rare. They’re much more common these days, but either way, when you see them, it’s generally two ingredients that are, you know, different, designed to complement each other—rum and rye, say, or calvados and Cognac.
“A ha!” you might say, “it must be smoke!” Perhaps MacElhone meant for a smoky scotch to be tempered by the Irish whiskey, the way that tequila tempers the smoke of mezcal in an. That would make perfect sense, but then you try it, and realize no, smoke doesn’t fold into this drink very well—it doesn’t clash exactly, but it’s certainly not doing it any favors.
If you’ll permit me to speculate and offer a recommendation: My guess is this started as an Irish whiskey drink. MacElhone was from Scotland, and “Cameron” is a Scottish name, and it feels to me like kick from Cameron was kicking the Irish whiskey aside and including scotch in the first place . Perhaps it was higher proof, or perhaps it was smoky and he thought smoke worked better than I do.
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