Old Fashioned Recipe

Serves 1

Glass: Old Fashioned

Ice: Large Cube

Garnish:  Lemon Twist. You can use an orange twist, but the true Old Fashioned uses a lemon twist.

Ingredients

- Bar spoon sugar + bar spoon of water (or 1/2 ounce of simple syrup instead of sugar and water)

- Two good dashes Angostura Bitters

- 2 oz. Overproof Straight Whiskey (Bourbon or Rye)

Whiskey Preference

My friend just played this trick on me and made me an Old Fashioned with Lock, Stock & Barrel. It was fantastic, possibly the best Old Fashioned I ever had. If I didn’t have my hands on a bottle of Lock, Stock & Barrel, I would use Pappy Van Winkle 15 Year or George T. Stagg. I like drinking an Old Fashioned with George T. Stagg because it’s such a heavy hitting, baseball bat over the head spirit. Elijah Craig 12 Year is also really good.

Directions

1) In an Old Fashioned glass, add the sugar and wet with two good dashes of Angostura Bitters and the bar spoon of water.

2) Muddle the sugar, water and the bitters.

3) Rotate the glass to line the glass with sugar / bitters mixture.

4) Add a large ice cube.

5) Add the whiskey and stir.

6) Garnish with lemon twist.

7) Let it sit for a minute and serve.