Old Fashioned

The Old Fashioned is a cocktail made by combining sugar with bitters, adding whiskey or, less commonly, brandy, and garnishing with a twist of citrus rind.

Ingredients

  • 60ml of whiskey
  • 2 dashes of bitters
  • 1 Sugar cube
  • Club Soda

Instructions

  • Place the sugar cube in an old fashioned glass.
  • Wet it down with the bitters and short splash of club soda.
  • Crush the sugar with a wooden muddler, then rotate the glass so that the sugar grains and bitters give it a lining.
  • Add a large ice cube. Pour in the whiskey
  • Garnish with an orange twist, and serve with a stirring rod.