Pepper & Rye
50 ml Rye whiskey, 100 ml Dr Pepper, 10 ml Lime juice, 1 dash Angostura bitters, 1 Maraschino cherry
The rocks glass
Short, heavy and wide: the glass for a drink built over one big cube.
About 200 ml for an old fashioned glass, up to 400 ml for a double
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Where it comes from
Three names for one glass, and each says something different: old fashioned after the drink, rocks after what is in it, lowball because it is short. Some bars keep a smaller old fashioned glass apart from a roomier rocks glass and most do not, so the distinction is a matter of house style rather than of definition. The name to retire is tumbler, which is folklore dressed as etymology - the glass does not tumble, and nobody has shown that it ever did.
Nor is this the oldest glass a whiskey cocktail has been served in. Jerry Thomas, writing in 1862, asks for a fancy red-wine glass for his Whiskey Cocktail; the short glass is what the drink settled into later, when ice became ordinary.
What to look for
Weight is what matters: a thick base and heavy sides stay cold and do not skate across a table. Straight sides to the rim, and a mouth a little wider than the ice you use.
Served in a rocks glass
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