From Last Call by Brad Thomas Parsons
2 oz bourbon (I used my favorite mixing bourbon, Evan Williams Bottled-in-Bond)
3/4 oz St. Germain
1/2 oz lime (I went a little heavy because I'm using canned ginger beer not homemade. Maybe 3/4 oz)
2 oz ginger beer
Shake the first 3 ingredients with ice, add the ginger beer, strain over a lot of ice. He floated it instead but combined tastes better to me.
I am a whiskey person but like a dark & stormy, this is like a platonic ideal of a drink for me. People use the word "balanced" a lot but this really is. It's not obviously fruity or boozy or spicy, it is a balanced combination of all that.
Will try it with homemade ginger beer when I home make some but fantastic use of a can, I used Reed's. Definitely use at least that level of ginger beer in this - sweet is fine but it needs the punch of real ginger
