The Bourbon Old Fashioned Cocktail
About the Bourbon Old Fashioned Cocktail
Try this quintessential cocktail with your favorite bourbon.
Ingredients in the Bourbon Old Fashioned Cocktail
- 4 dashes Angostura Bitters
- 1 tsp Sugar (or 2 sugar cubes)
- 1 Orange wheel
- 1 Maraschino cherry
- Splash Club soda
- 2 oz Bourbon
Garnish: Fresh orange wheel and cherry
Glass: Old Fashioned
How to make the Bourbon Old Fashioned Cocktail
In an Old Fashioned glass, muddle the bitters, sugar, orange wheel, cherry and a splash of soda. Remove the orange rind, add the bourbon and fill with ice. Garnish with a fresh orange wheel and cherry.
Old Fashioned drinkers are divided on the question of muddling the fruit. Dale DeGroff likes the muddled version. To prepare the traditional version, muddle only the sugar, bitters and splash of soda but keep the fruit as garnishes.
Soda? Soda? Your entire website just lost all credibility.
I have to agree with mtl– no soda, please.
TWO sugar cubes? And muddle the fruit? Why not sugar the rim and add an umbrella while you’re busy ruining the drink.
Old Fashioned is easy: Sugar cube soaked with bitters, healthy slosh of Rye, Large ice cube. Done…