Old Fashioned
Spirit, sugar, water, bitters. The definition of a cocktail, and still the best argument for one.
5ozRocks / Old-Fashioned holds 5 oz of liquidShort glass built over ice. Half its volume is ice, so liquid stays low.Build
| Bourbon or rye | 2 oz60 ml1 oz30 ml1 ½ oz45 ml2 ½ oz75 ml3 oz90 ml |
| Rich simple syrup | 1 bar spoon5 ml |
| Angostura bitters | 2 dashes |
| Orange bitters | 1 dash |
Rescaled to your 1 oz30 ml pour. Written around 2 oz60 ml.
Rescaled to your 1 ½ oz45 ml pour. Written around 2 oz60 ml.
Already built on your 2 oz60 ml pour.
Rescaled to your 2 ½ oz75 ml pour. Written around 2 oz60 ml.
Rescaled to your 3 oz90 ml pour. Written around 2 oz60 ml.
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Preparations
Rich Simple Syrup20 minutessee method
Place 2 cups sugar and 1 cup water in a saucepan and bring it to a boil, stirring to dissolve the sugar. Remove the pan from heat and let the syrup cool completely before using storing.
Method
- Add everything to a mixing glass with ice.
- Stir for 30 seconds.
- Strain over one large cube in a rocks glass.
- Express an orange peel, then add it with a cherry on a pick.
Variations on this
- Japanese Old Fashioned
- Oaxaca Old Fashioned
- Rum Old Fashioned
- Dark Rum Old Fashionedtwo rums on a sugar cube, with orange bitters alongside
- Midnight Noir Old Fashionedoverproof rye, chocolate and black walnut bitters
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