Pickleback

Sometimes, when you are introduced to a new drink, you wonder if someone was highly inebriated when they invented it or just drunk it by accident, while pissed, and decided it was a good idea at the time. Case in point is the Pickleback, not even a cocktail in the true sense, just two shots, one of whiskey, originally bourbon, now often Jameson’s, followed by a shot of pickle juice.

Sazerac

Sazerac has its roots in 1850s New Orleans, home to Peychaud’s bitters. The original base was Sazerac de Forge et Fils, a cognac. However in the 1870s, when phylloxera struck French vineyards and it was in short supply, this was switched to local rye whiskey and it stuck although some bartenders have now reverted to cognac.