Classics
Old Fashioned
The original spirit-forward cocktail: bourbon, a whisper of sugar, and bitters over one big cube.
Prep
4 min
Cook
1 min
Total
5 min
Serves
1
Ingredients
Difficulty: Easy
- 60ml bourbon or rye whiskey
- 7.5ml rich demerara syrup (2:1)
- 2 dashes Angostura bitters
- 1 dash orange bitters
- Orange peel, to express
- 1 large ice cube
Method
- 1
Add the whiskey, syrup, and both bitters to a mixing glass filled with ice.
- 2
Stir for 20 to 30 seconds until well chilled and lightly diluted.
- 3
Strain over one large cube in a chilled rocks glass.
- 4
Express the orange peel over the surface, rub it around the rim, and drop it in.