How to Train Your Dragon… to Drink Whisky

Ingredients:

• 2 ounces Port Cask Finished Virginia-Highland Whisky
• ¾ ounce crushed red pepper honey syrup*
• ½ ounce lemon juice
• Black peppercorn, sugar and lemon juice to rim

Instructions:

1. Mix sugar and ground black peppercorn in a 2:1 ratio. Wet glass rim with lemon juice and roll in sugar and pepper mixture.

2. Combine whisky, syrup and lemon juice in rimmed rocks glass over ice.

*Recipe for red pepper honey syrup: 1 cup water, 1 cup honey, ½ tsp. crushed red pepper | Boil water, honey and red pepper. Strain and refrigerate to store.

Yields 1 ½ cups