Old Fashioned Cocktail

Ingredients

• 2 ounces bourbon or rye whiskey
• 1/4 ounce simple syrup
• 2 dashes Angostura bitters
• 1 sugar cube, or 1/2 teaspoon sugar
• Orange peel or Luxardo cherry, for garnish

Directions

• Place a sugar cube or sugar in an old-fashioned glass and saturate it with Angostura bitters. Muddle or stir to mix.
• Add the whiskey, fill the glass with ice, and stir well
• Express the orange peel over the drink before dropping it into the glass: Twist up the peel and give it a good squeeze (directed toward the glass, not your eyes) and bits of citrus oil will spray into the drink. Add a cherry if you like.

You cannot get more classic than a classic Old Fashioned. This humble concoction of four ingredients—whiskey, sugar, Angostura bitters, and water—is quite literally the cocktail that started it all. It was that particular (and rather unremarkable) recipe that appeared alongside the first-ever printed use of the word “cocktail” way back in 1806. 

Yes, even the old-timers of the 1880s considered it to be an old-school drink, our guess is human beings will be drinking Old Fashioned until end times because the damned drink will not be cool.

The sweetness makes it smoother than a lot of other whiskey-based drinks, though it remains a strong-jawed, spirit-forward option. Fortunately, with few ingredients, it’s also an easy cocktail to master. 

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