What is Rob Roy?

Scottish Robin Hood, also known as Robert Roy MacGregor or simply Rob Roy, was a folk hero from the 17th and 18th centuries, whose brave or ruthless act was told in many fictitious accounts, including the novel Daniel Defoe Rogue . MacGregor's stories also led to opera repetitions, and this was during the opening of Rob Roy Operetta, written by Reginald de Koven, in New York in 1894, that a drink named after Robin Hood, Scotland was invented. Initially, both operetta and drink were just as popular, but the cocktail has long crossed de Koven's operetta in fame.

Rob Roy's cocktail according to bartending legend was created at the Waldorf Hotel. However, the most popular recipe for him was printed in The Savoy Book , which was not published until 1930. This book was published by the Savoy Hotel and states that the drink was popular in Scotland, especially to celebrate the famous bandit.

As a cocktail is Rob Roy quite similar to Manhattan. By the basic and really significant difference of the METhe ZI with these two cocktails is the type of whiskey used. Manhattan uses Jewish whiskey, but Rob Roy evokes a Scottish hero using a Scottish whiskey. Otherwise, both recipes are quite similar, although whiskey lovers would probably point to many differences in the taste between rye and Scottish whiskey.

Basic recipe for drink is as follows:

three parts Scottish to one part (or in some recipes one half) vermouth
Dash of Bitters (in some recipes)
Cherry for decoration.

The drink can be served on ice or shaken in the ice and served directly up. There are some disagreements about the problem of what type of vermouth to use, because it can be either sweet or dry. Some mention another drink, the perfect Rob Roy, which uses half dry and half sweet vermouth. Most recipes indicate the use of sweet vermouth, but several of them indicate only the use of the dry inmash. Sweet version seems to be more common.

A non -alcoholic cocktail or mocktail that refers to Rob Roy, although the link is almost lost by Roy Rogers. It is a combination of cola and grenadine and is usually decorated with the icing. In fact, it is rare to hear a drink known as Roy Rogers in recent days. Instead, the drink can be called Grenadini and is also called Shirley Temple Black. The famous cowboy, which gives the mocktail name Roy Rogers, could be a trick to make young boys order a drink if they were hated to order the Shirley temple, made of lemon lime soda and grenadine, because the name was too "girl".