Old Fashioned
The Old Fashioned is an old fashioned-style cocktail made with Bourbon, Angostura Bitters, Sugar Cube and Water. It is muddled and served in an old-fashioned glass, about 40% ABV before ice melts.
- Method
- Muddled
- Glass
- Old-fashioned glass
- Served
- On Rocks
- Strength
- About 40% ABV before ice melts
- Family
- Old Fashioned
- Listed in
- IBA official cocktail
Ingredients
- 45mlBourbon
- 2 dashesAngostura Bitters
- 1Sugar Cube
- Few dashesWater
How to make it
- Place sugar cube in glass, saturate with bitters, add splash of water.
- Muddle.
- Add whiskey and ice.
- Garnish with orange twist.
Tip: Press gently when you muddle. Crushing herbs too hard releases bitter flavours.
About the Old Fashioned
By the 1880s bartenders were adding liqueurs and absinthe to cocktails, so traditionalists started asking for a whiskey cocktail made 'the old-fashioned way': spirit, sugar, water and bitters.
Missing something?
- No Bourbon? Use Jim Beam Bourbon (Jim Beam is a bourbon)
- No Bourbon? Use Jack Daniels (Tennessee whiskey is made much like bourbon)
- No Angostura Bitters? Use Peychaud's Bitters (Lighter, with more anise)
- No Sugar Cube? Use Sugar (1 teaspoon per cube)
- No Sugar Cube? Use Simple Syrup (About 7.5 ml per cube)
All swaps for Bourbon, Angostura Bitters and Sugar Cube
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