old fashioned

The old fashioned is a cocktail made by muddling sugar with bitters and water, adding whiskey or, less commonly, brandy, and garnishing with orange slice or zest and a cocktail cherry. It is traditionally served in an old fashioned glass (also known as rocks glass), which predated the cocktail.

Photo of old fashioned by Johann Trasch

Photo by Johann Trasch, licensed under the Unsplash License

Ingredients

  • 4.5 cl bourbon
  • 2 dashes angostura bitters
  • 1 sugar cube
  • 1 dash plain water

Garnish: orange slice or zest, and cocktail cherry

Recipe

  1. place sugar cube in old fashioned glass.

  2. saturate with bitters.

  3. add a dash of plain water.

  4. muddle until dissolved.

  5. fill the glass with ice cubes and add whiskey.

  6. garnish with lemon wedge.