What Are Summer Bourbon Cocktails?

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Updated April 2026.

Summer is calendar English, not an IBA class. IBA Old Fashioned is 45 mL bourbon or rye. Whiskey Sour is 45/25/20. Moscow Mule is 45/120/10 vodka. Recovered 5-way Recovered 2 oz as IBA Recovered Kentucky mule as IBA Count the pour.

Keys: what are the 5 keys of bourbon. Simple: simple bourbon cocktails. Two-ingredient: 2-ingredient bourbon cocktails. Hot-weather: alcoholic drink for hot weather. Sour: Amaretto Sour vs Whiskey Sour. Mule: Mexican mule vs Moscow mule. Ginger: best ginger beer for Moscow mule. Jigger: what is a jigger. Shot: how many ml is a shot. Sour list: best sour cocktails.

Card vs recovered list

5.143 already: bourbon is a US class; coloring excepted; not KY-only. A season does not rewrite ≥40%. Maker’s already 90/45. BT already 90/45 NAS. Beam White already 80/40. Knob Creek 9yr

IBA Old Fashioned is 45 mL bourbon or rye — not 2 oz. Whiskey Sour already 45/25/20. John Collins already 45/30/15/60. Moscow Mule already 45/120/10 vodka — IBA Mint Julep already 60 mL bourbon. IBA Boulevardier is 45/30/30 bourbon or rye / Campari / sweet vermouth. Paloma already 50/5/pinch/100 tequila. Highball already House Summer Breeze / strawberry-tea riffs are not IBA.

Recovered 5-best ranking (Summer Breeze #1 through Bourbon Strawberry Iced Tea) Recovered 2 oz bourbon as IBA Recovered Kentucky Mule as IBA Recovered Forbidden Sour 1 oz as IBA Recovered Bourbon Rickey / Summer Breeze / strawberry iced tea as IBA Cosmo already

Lock What it is not
≥51% corn / new charred oak / ≥40% A summer-bourbon class
Old Fashioned 45 mL bourbon or rye A recovered 2 oz Summer Breeze
Whiskey Sour 45/25/20 A recovered 1 oz Forbidden Sour
Moscow Mule 45/120/10 vodka A Kentucky mule card
Boulevardier 45/30/30 A recovered 5-way crown
John Collins 45/30/15/60 A rickey statute
1.5 fl oz at 40% A recovered 2 oz house lock

Count the pour

1.5 fl oz at 40% is one US drink. IBA 45 mL at 40% is about 1.01. A recovered 2 oz (~60 mL) house riff matches Julep ounces and overshoots the Old Fashioned and Sour cards. Ginger beer and crushed ice do not erase the ethanol.

Sources

  • 27 CFR 5.143 — bourbon ≥40%, not KY-only. IBA Old Fashioned 45 mL; Boulevardier 45/30/30.
  • Sour 45/25/20. Mule 45/120/10 vodka. hot-weather . NIAAA Dec 2025.
  • 1.00 NIAAA drink

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