Old Fashioned
A classic cocktail featuring bourbon, sugar, and bitters, served over ice with an orange peel garnish.
Ingredients
- 45 ml bourbon
- 7.5 ml sugar syrup
- 2 dashes Angostura bitters
- 1 large cube
- No sugar syrup? Use 1 teaspoon of sugar per drink to sweeten.
| Details | Value |
|---|---|
| Glass | Rocks glass |
| Method | stirred |
| Ice | large cube |
| Garnish | Orange peel |
| ABV | 34.6% |
| UK units | 1.9 |
| Calories | 150 kcal |
| Sugar | 2 g |
per drink
Method
- Place sugar syrup and bitters in a mixing glass.
- Add bourbon and fill with ice.
- Stir gently until chilled.
- Strain into a rocks glass over fresh ice.
- Express orange peel over the glass and garnish.
The Origin of an Old Fashioned
By the 1880s, American bars were using this name for a whiskey drink made the older way: spirit, sugar, bitters, and ice. Newer cocktails were adding liqueurs and other modifiers, so asking for a cocktail the old-fashioned way meant going back to that simple mix. An orange peel, twisted over the glass, is the usual finish.
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