Old Fashioned

Old Fashioned

Ingredients:
50ml Maker's Mark Bourbon Whisky
2ml Angostura Aromatic Bitters
1cube White Sugar Cube
10ml Soda Water
Place the sugar cube in the glass and soak the sugar with the aromatic bitters. Add a splash of soda water (to cover the sugar cube). Crush the cube with the back of a bar spoon. Then add the bourbon whiskey and STIR. Garnish with an orange slice, a Maraschino cherry and a lemon zest twist.

Colonel James E. Pepper, a Kentucky-based distiller of bourbon, and the bartender of the Pendennis Club, Louiseville, are jointly recognised as the creators of this cocktail around 1900. The old-fashioned is a cocktail with a song in its honour, "Make it Another Old-Fashioned, Please" by Cole Porter. As the name it also associated with a glass type, the name "old-fashioned" is never far away from someone's lips.