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Today's Cocktail

Old Fashioned

Whiskey, sugar, bitters, patience.

Key ingredients Whiskey · Sugar · Bitters

Recipe details

Old Fashioned

A restrained whiskey classic with just enough sweetness and bitters to frame the spirit. It is simple on paper and exacting in the glass.

Flavor
Warm, oaky, gently sweet
Glass
Rocks glass
Garnish
Orange peel
Base Spirit
Whiskey
spirit-forwardclassicstirredwhiskey

Ingredients

  • 2 oz bourbon or rye
  • 1 tsp rich simple syrup
  • 2 dashes Angostura bitters
  • Orange peel

How to Make

  1. Add syrup and bitters to a rocks glass.
  2. Add whiskey and a large cube.
  3. Stir briefly until chilled and slightly diluted.
  4. Express an orange peel over the surface and garnish.