Friday cocktail: The Old Fashioned - with bourbon

One of the oldest and most popular - and easy to make. It can be made with rye whiskey or even rum but bourbon seems to be the most popular. This recipe - substituting demerara syrup for the sugar cube, is fabulous.

 

Here's the recipe - at Farandaville we tend to not bother with the orange or any garnish,or just do the cherry.

THE RECIPE

2 oz. (60 ml) Colonel E.H. Taylor Small Batch Bourbon (But we use Jim Beam! and it's fine)

0.25 oz. (7.5 ml) rich Demerara syrup*

4 dashes Angostura bitters

1 small piece of orange

Orange and cocktail cherry for garnish

We use RAFT Demerara syrup - available on Amazon and it's great. But if you want to be a super-purist  here's how to make your own -

*RICH DEMERARA SYRUP RECIPE In a small sauce pan, combine 2 parts Demerara sugar and 1 part water. Stir over heat until sugar is completely dissolved. Remove from heat and let cool.

Comments

[MR]

At our end we continue to find ways to simplify. We now do Jim Beam on ice; no syrup, no bitters, no orange, and no cherry. We have talked about the frivolous need for ice or glasses. Just draw the line; very Old Fashioned.

[tom faranda]

No that's not really simplified. You say you are using ice; you should be drinking from the bottle if you want simplicity. Come on, get with the program. You went to a Jesuit University for God's sake!