{"id":7148,"date":"2020-03-27T09:07:37","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T07:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/?p=7148"},"modified":"2026-09-28T18:05:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T16:05:58","slug":"celebrate-international-whisky-day-with-monkey-shoulder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/celebrate-international-whisky-day-with-monkey-shoulder\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate International Whisky Day with Monkey Shoulder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We all know what to do when life gives us lemons, but what about when life gives you another citrus fruit? When life gives you oranges, we suggest you make something more than marmalade.<\/p>\n<p>Monkey Shoulder scotch blended malt whisky is made for mixing, and challenges you to put those oranges to good use by mixing things up with a refreshing Ginger Monkey or Lazy Old Fashioned cocktail, it is <strong>International Whisky Day<\/strong> after all!<\/p>\n<p>There really are no rules when it comes to drinking Monkey Shoulder, except to have the most fun possible&#8230;in isolation of course.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Engage with Monkey Shoulder today by tagging your creations with\u00a0 #monkeyshouldersa,\u00a0#homeboundbarman,\u00a0#gingermonkey,\u00a0#lazyoldfashioned and\/or\u00a0 @monkeyshoulderza<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><b>Let&#8217;s start mixing it up!<\/b><\/p>\n<h3><u>Ginger Monkey<\/u><\/h3>\n<p><strong><em>Ingredients<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>50ml Monkey Shoulder Whisky<\/li>\n<li>120ml Dry Dinger Ale<\/li>\n<li>One Orange Wedge<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><em>Preparation<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Fill a tall glass with Ice<\/li>\n<li>Pour the Monkey Shoulder and dry ginger ale<\/li>\n<li>Gently stir and garnish with an orange wedge<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/OMG-Ginger-Monkey.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-80241\" src=\"http:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/OMG-Ginger-Monkey.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1128\" height=\"1312\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><u>Lazy Old Fashioned<\/u><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Ingredients<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>50ml Monkey Shoulder Whisky<\/li>\n<li>10ml 1:1 Sugar Syrup<\/li>\n<li>2 dashes angostura bitters<\/li>\n<li>Orange zest<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><em>Preparation<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Add monkey shoulder, sugar syrup, angostura bitters and zest to a mixing glass<\/li>\n<li>Add cold dry ice and stir<\/li>\n<li>Once dilution is reached, strain into glass over fresh ice<\/li>\n<li>Twist orange peel over glass<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Lazy-Old-Fashioned.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-80240\" src=\"http:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Lazy-Old-Fashioned.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1086\" height=\"1218\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all know what to do when life gives us lemons, but what about when life gives you another citrus fruit? When life gives you oranges, we suggest you make something more than marmalade. Monkey Shoulder scotch blended malt whisky is made for mixing, and challenges you to put those oranges to good use by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recipes"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7150,"href":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7148\/revisions\/7150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}