Amaretto Stone Sour Recipe

About the Amaretto Stone Sour

The Amaretto Stone Sour—not to be confused with the Amaretto Sour—is a sweet and fruit-forward cocktail made with almond-flavored amaretto liqueur, simple syrup, fresh lemon juice, fresh orange juice, and a maraschino cherry as garnish. The addition of orange juice to this sour recipe is what differentiates the drink from the Amaretto Sour and gives it the "stone" prefix.The traditional recipe calls for sweet and sour mix, but as our preference is for using fresh ingredients, we've replaced the sour mix with the one-two punch of fresh lemon juice and simple syrup for this version of the Amaretto Stone Sour recipe. Combine your ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice, give everything a vigorous rattle, and you're ready to enjoy this fun drink.For a slightly different take with a very similar flavor profile, you can make your own sour mix by combining equal parts lime juice and lemon juice with simple syrup. Make a quantity to accommodate several rounds, and you'll have a batch ready to go for amaretto cocktails and other drinks. Or, if you don't feel like batching anything up, just add a half ounce of each juice to the cocktail rather than a full ounce of lemon.We can credit the inspiration for the Amaretto Stone Sour to bartender Tom Bullock, who first published the Stone Sour recipe in 1917's "The Ideal Bartender." His drink contained Old Tom gin, so the amaretto version is a departure from the original, but it has become a great drink in its own right.