National Whiskey Sour Day

Name: National Whiskey Sour Day
Start: 2026-08-25
End: 2026-08-25

Tuesday, August 25, 2026

The cocktail template that built American bartending: spirit, citrus, sugar.

National Whiskey Sour Day on August 25 celebrates one of the foundational American cocktails and the archetypal sour: whiskey (traditionally bourbon or rye), fresh lemon juice, and simple syrup, shaken with ice. The whiskey sour appears in Jerry Thomas's 1862 Bartenders Guide, one of the earliest Am