Rob Roy (cocktail)

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This drink is designated as an IBA Official Cocktail
Rob Roy
Rob Roy ingredients
Type:	Cocktail
Primary alcohol by volume:	Scotch whisky
Served:	"Straight up"; without ice
Standard garnish:	Maraschino cherry
Standard drinkware:	Cocktail glass
IBA specified ingredients^†:	45 ml (approx. 1½ oz) Scotch whisky 2.5 ml (approx ½ teaspoon) Sweet vermouth Dash Angostura bitters
Preparation:	Stirred over ice, strained into a chilled glass, garnished, and served straight up.

A Rob Roy is a cocktail similar to a Manhattan. The drink is named for the Scottish folk hero Robert Roy MacGregor. The Manhattan is made with rye whiskey, while the Rob Roy is made with Scotch whisky.

Variants of the drink include the Dry Rob Roy, which is made with dry vermouth and the Perfect Rob Roy, which is made with equal parts sweet and dry vermouth. The drink traditionally contains Angostura bitters, but this ingredient is commonly omitted. Adding the honey-flavored liqueur Drambuie to a Rob Roy makes a Bobbie Burns.

[edit] In popular culture

On the The Simpsons episode "One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish", Moe Syzlak answers the phone with, "Hello. Moe's Tavern, birthplace of the Rob Roy."
It is used in Blast from the Past as an example of something once popular now fallen into relative obscurity.
In the Friends episode "The One With the Candy Hearts," Chandler Bing orders a Rob Roy, explaining that "I've always wanted to know."
In the Venture Brothers episode "Mid-Life Chrysalis", Dr. Venture orders a Rob Roy at a strip club, indicating that he is old for the bar scene. Additionally, the bartender has to look up the drink on a cheat sheet.
In the Gilmore Girls episode "The Festival Of Living Art", Sookie says she wants a Rob Roy in her "I want booze" rant.
In the movie Awakenings, a woman awaking from a coma orders a Rob Roy after finding out that Prohibition has been repealed.
In the Kurt Vonnegut novel Hocus Pocus, the main character names his son after his favorite drink, the Rob Roy.
Radio legend Howard Stern recalls that a Rob Roy was the daily cocktail of his father, Ben.
In the King of Queens episode "Papa Pill" Arthur says he may have had a sip or two of a Rob Roy. In another episode "Arthur, Spooner" Doug asks Arthur to come out to dinner with him to "get a couple of Rob Roys and throw them back".
In an episode of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, a guest of Phil's asks for a Rob Roy with a Sidecar cocktail, something Phil ignores.
It is the drink of choice of Bishop Bickering in Caddyshack, most notably as he drinks away his sorrows once his perfect game of golf ends in his being struck by lightning.
Roger the alien in American Dad in the episode Office Spaceman mentions that after drinking 6 Rob Roy's things happen that he cannot be responsible for.