The Old Fashioned Cocktail
About the Old Fashioned Cocktail
The Old Fashioned cocktail is old-school but never out of fashion.
Ingredients in the Old Fashioned Cocktail
- 1 Brown sugar cube
- .5 tsp White sugar
- 3 dashes Angostura Bitters
- 1 dash Regans’ Orange Bitters No. 6
- .25 oz Cold water
- 2 oz George Dickel No. 12 Tennessee Whisky or other American whiskey
Garnish: Lemon and orange twists
Glass: Rocks
How to make the Old Fashioned Cocktail
Add all the ingredients to a mixing glass. Muddle to break down the sugar and stir briefly. Fill with ice, stir again and strain into a rocks glass filled with fresh ice. Twist slices of lemon and orange peel over the drink and drop them in.
Watch Liquor.com advisory board member Dushan Zaric make a classic Old Fashioned in our How to Cocktail video. And if you prefer muddled fruit in your Old Fashioned, try Zaric and Jason Kosmas’ contemporary recipe.
Many mixology bars prefer a lemon and orange peel garnish over the cherry. I’m curious which is more historically considered “classic.”
Both garnishes have a long history—the use of orange and cherry dates back to just after World War I—but a lemon peel was used even before that.