To celebrate American Independence, here is a red, white, and blue whiskey drink.

There is a simple yet overlooked cocktail called the whiskey & soda. This classic highball is often frowned upon by whiskey snobs. Ignore them and drink whiskey the way you want.

Drinking straight whiskey in the Texas heat can be brutal. Enter the whiskey sour, a classic drink mixing lemon juice, and simple syrup with whiskey. Well, let’s take it up a notch with the elderflower whiskey sour.

Like a musician riffing, we made up a whiskey drink of our own. In honor of Still Austin Whiskey Co. release of their straight Texas Bourbon, the musician we are calling it 3-Chords.

The clover club is a gin cocktail that pre-dates prohibition. Named for the Philadelphia men’s club of the same name. Which met in the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel on South Broad Street. It sounded interesting, so we decided to make it a whiskey drink.

The whiskey between the sheets is a class cognac cocktail. Since we don’t make cognac in Texas, it is now a whiskey drink. Now we call it whiskey between the sheets.

Batman is one of the most beloved and hated comic book characters of all time. While this household is team #marvel, I can not deny that I am a huge Batman fan. As I was surfing the interwebs, I stumbled upon the Bruce Wayne whiskey drink. So, of course, I had to make it.

Our friends at Oak & Eden gave us the Mr. Evans recipe they designed for their Bourbon & Vine release.

The millionaire is an old school whiskey drink. Not old fashioned old, but created sometime before 1925. Everyone can thank the top-shelf bar at the London Ritz for this cocktail.

There are thousands of variations to one of the most iconic whiskey cocktails the Old-Fashioned. We are not debating which is better than the other or that ours is the best. It is merely another variation on a great cocktail.

The Lone Elm Blueberry Smash follows an old school template. What is a smash? A smash is a cocktail template, that goes at least as far back as Jerry Thomas’ 1862 How to Mix Drinks. It is a concoction of spirits, sugar, and mint. Extra fruit, either in the form of juice or garnish.

The Earthquake cocktail is a variation of a cognac recipe we found on the Saveur website. We swapped the cognac for whiskey. The cocktail is not complicated, but quality ingredients are a necessity.

Kick up your hangover cure with the Mother Pepper Mary. It delivers a bold jolt from a spicy trio of fresh chile pequin, smoked serrano and aji amarillo peppers.

The Vieux Carre Cocktail embodies the city from which it was born. Potent with a charming smoothness to it. Vieux Carre is French for ‘Old Quarter,’ the original name of the French Quarter. The Big Easy is known for mixing up strong drinks, but the Vieux Carre Cocktail is a popular and classic staple.

The Whiskey Hurricane is a boozy sweet fruit bomb that will liven up any party. This cocktail is our take on the Hurricane Cocktail, made famous by the Pat O’ Briens bar in New Orleans.

The Totem Pole is a cocktail we made in partnership with Davin Topel at Real Spirits Distilling. We know it is not whiskey, but damn it is a damn good spirit. We wanted to do something to highlight the amazing flavors in the spirit.

It is the 1800s, and cocktails are a crude mixture of ingredients trying to hide bad tasting whiskey. A time when mixing bitters, sugar, and liqueur with your whiskey is an elegant drink. Today it is a simple everyday drink we call the fancy old-fashioned.

The whiskey fizz is a tasty variation of the classic whiskey soda.

We are borrowing this week’s whiskey drink from our friends at Spirits United. The Nellie is their cocktail of the month. For a cocktail that tastes like strawberry lemonade, it is perfect for hot summer months.

The pegu club cocktail is another gin-based drink. While there is nothing wrong with gin, we like whiskey better. The mixture is dated back to the early 1900s and was Burma’s Pegu Club’s signature drink on the Pegu River. Its members senior Briton government, military officials, and prominent businessmen.