So I was planning a Prinefest in my back yard last summer but it was cancelled for obvious reasons.
So all my John Prine loving friends and musicians will be joining me this year around the firepit for a tribute to John Prine on June 26.
I will also be grilling brats and mixing "Handsome Johnnys" for everyone who wants one.
How to Make John Prine’s Signature Cocktail – The Handsome Johnny
“I turned everybody on to my favorite cocktail it’s called a Handsome Johnny. I named it kind of after myself but I thought Handsome Johnny sounded like a Rob Roy or a Manhattan,” explained Prine in a SiriusXM Outlaw Country interview. “Now every bar you go to has a cocktail list but 20 years ago when I started drinking Handsome Johnny’s people wouldn’t make you a Rob Roy or a Manhattan they said that was old school. Now they’ve come back around again.
Now every bar you go to has a cocktail list but 20 years ago when I started drinking Handsome Johnny’s people wouldn’t make you a Rob Roy or a Manhattan they said that was old school. Now they’ve come back around again.”
“There’s actually a couple bars in Nashville that have Handsome Johnny’s that’ll be on your receipt. It’s Smirnoff Vodka, red Smirnoff not blue. If you get too good vodka it kills the bubbles in your ginger ale. I use diet ginger ale because the other kind is too sweet after a while, you don’t want to get diabetes from drinking it. And in the winter time I drop a lime in it, don’t squeeze it just drop it in from about six inches above. And in the summer time a lemon.”
Ingredients
So all my John Prine loving friends and musicians will be joining me this year around the firepit for a tribute to John Prine on June 26.
I will also be grilling brats and mixing "Handsome Johnnys" for everyone who wants one.
How to Make John Prine’s Signature Cocktail – The Handsome Johnny
“I turned everybody on to my favorite cocktail it’s called a Handsome Johnny. I named it kind of after myself but I thought Handsome Johnny sounded like a Rob Roy or a Manhattan,” explained Prine in a SiriusXM Outlaw Country interview. “Now every bar you go to has a cocktail list but 20 years ago when I started drinking Handsome Johnny’s people wouldn’t make you a Rob Roy or a Manhattan they said that was old school. Now they’ve come back around again.
Now every bar you go to has a cocktail list but 20 years ago when I started drinking Handsome Johnny’s people wouldn’t make you a Rob Roy or a Manhattan they said that was old school. Now they’ve come back around again.”
“There’s actually a couple bars in Nashville that have Handsome Johnny’s that’ll be on your receipt. It’s Smirnoff Vodka, red Smirnoff not blue. If you get too good vodka it kills the bubbles in your ginger ale. I use diet ginger ale because the other kind is too sweet after a while, you don’t want to get diabetes from drinking it. And in the winter time I drop a lime in it, don’t squeeze it just drop it in from about six inches above. And in the summer time a lemon.”
Ingredients
- 1 to 2 ozs. – Vodka. John recommend Red Smirnoff (not Blue)
- Ginger Ale – Enough to top off the glass. John recommends diet ginger ale, not regular. You don’t want it too sweet.
- Lemon – In the Summertime
- Lime – In the Wintertime
- Fill a cocktail glass with ice
- Pour in Vodka
- Pour in Diet Ginger Ale
- Stir and drop the lemon or lime in from approximately 6″ above. Do not squeeze it