Cocktail recipe
Old Fashioned
Old-fashioned glass · Cocktail · United States / Louisville, Kentucky
Pour Old Fashioned when you want something sweet and bitter: a cocktail centered on Bourbon.
Ingredients
- 4.5 cLBourbon
- 2 dashesAngostura bitters
- 1 cubeSugar
- dashWater
How to make it
- Place sugar cube in old fashioned glass and saturate with bitters, add a dash of plain water. Muddle until dissolved.
- Fill the glass with ice cubes and add whiskey.
- Garnish with orange twist, and a cocktail cherry.
Story
When ‘cocktail’ meant spirit, sugar, water, and bitters, patrons asked for it the ‘old-fashioned’ way—and Louisville still claims the cradle.
Best for
sophisticated · reflective · sweet · bitter