If you want a consistently good whiskey-based cocktail, get some whiskey and let Dr. Thacher handle the rest.
That’s the idea behind Dr. Thacher’s Cocktail Syrups, a new product that’s a joint venture of two Chattanooga businesses: Pure Sodaworks and the Tennessee Stillhouse, a micro-distillery opened by Chattanooga Whiskey.
Dr. Thacher’s comes in six flavors: old-fashioned, whiskey rickey, mint julep, Manhattan, Sazerac and pomegranate limeade. To make a cocktail, you fill the small side of a cocktail jigger with the syrup and then add whiskey from the jigger’s big cup.
Staff photo by Angela Lewis Foster/ Matt Rogers, co-owner of Everyday Eclectic and Pure Sodaworks, right, and Tim Piersant, CEO and co-founder of Chattanooga Whiskey, talk about Dr. Thacher’s Cocktail Syrups“The entire point of Dr. Thacher’s is it’s a two-bottle cocktail without having to mess with a whole bunch of different ingredients,” said Matt Rogers, who spent months devising the cocktail syrups in the test kitchen of Pure Sodaworks, the organic, artisan soda company he co-founded.
The cocktail syrups have been featured at the Tennessee Stillhouse since the micro-distillery opened in March at 1439 Market St. across from the landmark Chattanooga Choo Choo hotel.