First the Old Fashioned modification. I posted about the Old Fashioned back in October. Friday cocktail: The Old Fashioned - with bourbon Here's the Farandaville recipe with the modification, which of course I got off a youtube channel.
THE RECIPE
It's stirred, not shaken.
2 oz. (60 ml) bourbon - we use Jim Beam!
0.25 oz. (7.5 ml) rich Demerara syrup*
4 dashes Angostura bitters
*We use RAFT Demerara syrup - available on Amazon - instead of a sugar cube - and it's great.
The modification - add 1/4 oz. Grand Marnier - or any orange liqueur. Really, really good.
Bourbon Scam! Has to do with collectible bourbon which is not something we'd ever be into, since we'd immediately drink it. But still interesting... You need to hit the link to find out the "signs of a scam." I never heard of any of these bourbons.
"Bourbon scams leaving buyers out hundreds of dollars "
Bourbon is booming and collectors everywhere this time of year are looking for those hard-to-find labels.
The problem is that scammers are also trying to fool you with stolen photos and prices that are too good to be true. And this modern-day bootlegging can end with no bottle at all, but you are out hundreds of dollars in cash.
Brad Bonds owns the Revival Vintage Bottle Shop, selling hundreds of bottles of rare and old bourbons and other spirits, some over 100 years old. Every holiday season, though, Bonds hears from bourbon lovers who lost money to a bourbon website scam or ended up with a fake.
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He has seen fake $300 bottles of vintage Old Fitzgerald for sale, that someone simply refilled with cheap grocery store liquor.
Other counterfeited brands include Blanton's, and any of the hard-to-find Weller labels. It happens even more with Pappy Van Winkle, he says.
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