{"id":15486,"date":"2026-02-13T10:14:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T10:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=15486"},"modified":"2026-02-12T21:21:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T21:21:30","slug":"friday-cocktail-the-gold-rush-updated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=15486","title":{"rendered":"Friday cocktail &#8211; The Gold Rush &#8211; Updated!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I posted this cocktail back on November 21st. Here is the <a href=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=14771\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=14771\">original recipe as per the 21st and it is mighty good.<\/a> And the original 45 second video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How to make the Gold Rush cocktail\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zNFYQfvtwLc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>However &#8211; here&#8217;s the update, my personal preference:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2 oz. bourbon &#8211; Jim Beam is fine, but a slightly higher proof bourbon like Woodford Reserve or Old Forester is better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3\/4 oz. honey syrup<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3\/4 oz. lemon juice<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1\/4 oz. orange syrup or orange juice<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One dash orange bitters <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shaken and poured onto ice, or my lazy man method &#8211; put all the contents in an old fashioned glass with ice and stir vigorously!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted this cocktail back on November 21st. Here is the original recipe as per the 21st and it is mighty good. And the original 45 second video. However &#8211; here&#8217;s the update, my personal preference: 2 oz. bourbon &#8211; Jim Beam is fine, but a slightly higher proof bourbon like Woodford Reserve or Old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cocktails"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15486"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15490,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15486\/revisions\/15490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}