Four Horsemen

Jack Daniel's, Jim Beam, Johnnie Walker, and Jameson — four of the world's best-selling whiskeys 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 Jameson Irish Whiskey -- four distinct whiskey styles from 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. Jameson Irish Whiskey traces to a distillery founded on Bow Street in Dublin in 1780 by John Jameson -- himself a Scotsman by birth who moved to Dublin in the late 1770s -- and remains the world's best-selling Irish whiskey. A closely related variant swaps the Jameson for Jose Cuervo tequila and is more commonly known by a different name, the Three Wisemen and a Mexican, distinguishing it from the all-whiskey Four Horsemen. The shot's brand-name format makes it easy to order without recipe knowledge, and its combination of four distinct whiskey styles in a single shooter represents a tasting tour of the world's major whiskey categories in one glass.