Whiskey Emoji 🥃

🥃 Tumbler Glass, U+1F943

That is the official name, and the closest Unicode comes to whiskey. It entered the standard in
Unicode 9.0 in 2016. There is no whiskey character, no bourbon character and no whiskey bottle – the
only spirits bottle in the set is the sake flask, U+1F376 – so the tumbler carries the whole
category.

The rocks pour is a two-character string: 🥃🧊, tumbler plus Ice Cube,
U+1F9CA, which arrived later in Unicode 12.0 in 2019. Build it that way rather than trusting
the artwork. Vendors disagree about whether the tumbler already holds ice – some draw cubes in the
amber liquid, some draw it clean – and the glass ranges from heavy cut crystal to a plain
straight-sided tumbler.

Whiskey or whisky

Both are correct. Ireland and the United States generally write whiskey; Scotland, Canada and
Japan generally write whisky. The Unicode name uses neither, so the spelling changes nothing but
your search results.

Old Fashioned

• 60 ml bourbon or rye
• 1 sugar cube
• 2 dashes Angostura bitters
• A splash of water
• Orange twist

1. Put the sugar cube in the glass, soak it with bitters, add a splash of water and crush it to a
   paste.
2. Add the whiskey and one large piece of ice. Stir until cold and slightly diluted.
3. Express an orange twist over the top.

The name is literal: it is the old-fashioned way of making a whiskey cocktail, spirit plus sugar
plus bitters plus water, at a point when newer drinks had grown more elaborate. The muddled orange
slice and maraschino cherry version is a later habit, not the original method.

Sazerac

• 60 ml rye
• 1 sugar cube or 5 ml sugar syrup
• 3 dashes Peychaud’s bitters
• Absinthe, for the rinse
• Lemon twist

1. Rinse a chilled rocks glass with absinthe and discard the excess. The rinse is the drink’s
   signature – it perfumes the glass rather than flavouring the liquid.
2. Stir rye, sugar and bitters with ice in a separate glass.
3. Strain into the rinsed glass, no ice. Express the lemon twist and, traditionally, discard it.

New Orleans made this one, and Peychaud’s bitters are still made there.

Whiskey Sour

• 60 ml bourbon
• 25 ml lemon juice
• 15 ml sugar syrup
• Egg white, optional

1. If using egg white, shake everything without ice first to build the foam.
2. Add ice and shake again, hard.
3. Strain into a chilled glass. A few drops of bitters on the foam if you used it.

Ward Eight

• 60 ml rye
• 20 ml lemon juice
• 10 ml orange juice
• 10 ml grenadine

1. Shake hard with ice.
2. Strain into a chilled glass.
3. A Boston rye sour named for a ward of the city. Several origin stories circulate and none of
   them can be confirmed.

Why this page sits on this domain

American Prohibition ran from January 1920, when the Volstead Act put the Eighteenth Amendment
into force, until the Twenty-first Amendment repealed it in December 1933. Whiskey never fully left:
pharmacies dispensed it on prescription throughout, which is why medicinal whiskey pints still turn
up in collections. Drinks like the Old Fashioned outlived the law that made them useful.

• Same character, different intent: shot emoji covers the shot-glass gap
  and short serves.
• For the V-bowl and its drinks, see martini emoji. To test whether you
  know these by sight, try guess the drink by emoji.