Rum Old Fashioned

The Old Fashioned is about as classic a cocktail as you can find. It uses the same formula as the first recorded cocktail over 200 years ago, which is spirit, sugar, water, and bitters. Some people don't think the traditional Old Fashioned recipe should be tampered with, but you can really make an…

Category
Cocktails
Glassware
Rocks / Old Fashioned glass
ABV
28-32%
Flavour
Sweet, Toffee, Spiced

Key ingredients

How to make it

Place a demerara sugar cube in a rocks glass and saturate with 2-3 dashes Angostura and a splash of water; muddle until dissolved. Add 2 oz aged dark rum and one large ice cube, stir gently for 20 seconds, then express an orange peel over the surface and drop it in.

Flavour profile

Sweet, Toffee, Spiced

Origin & history

A rum-based riff on the 200-year-old Old Fashioned formula of spirit, sugar, water and bitters.

Serve it in

Rocks / Old Fashioned glass

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