Four Horsemen

Jack Daniel's, Jim Beam, Johnnie Walker, and José Cuervo — four of the world's best-selling spirits in one shot, named for the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

The Four Horsemen is an American bar shot combining equal parts Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey, Jim Beam bourbon, Johnnie Walker Scotch, and José Cuervo tequila — four of the world's most commercially recognized spirit brands — in a single glass whose provocative name references the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse described in the Book of Revelation (6:1-8) in the New Testament. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse represent four destructive forces identified through their horses' colors: white (conquest or pestilence), red (war), black (famine), and pale (death). Jack Daniel's, founded in Lynchburg, Tennessee in 1875 by Jasper Newton Daniel, is the best-selling American whiskey globally. Jim Beam bourbon, produced in Clermont, Kentucky by the Beam family whose distilling history traces to 1795, is the world's best-selling bourbon by volume. Johnnie Walker Scotch, produced by Diageo at their Scottish facilities using blended Scotch whiskies, is the world's best-selling Scotch whisky. José Cuervo tequila, produced by Casa Cuervo in Tequila, Jalisco under a brand history dating to 1795, is the world's best-selling tequila. The shot's brand-name format makes it easy to order without recipe knowledge, and its combination of four globally dominant spirits in a single shooter represents the maximum multi-spirit complexity achievable from a standard bar back.