Old Fashioned Recipe
Old Fashioned Ingredients
2 oz. / 60 ml Blackened American Whiskey (Metallica's Whiskey Brand)
1-2 demerara sugar cubes
1-2 dashes orange bitters
Luxardo cherries for garnish
How to make an Old Fashioned
Put the sugar cube(s) in your glass and soak with a couple dashes of orange bitters and a couple dashes of cherry bitters.
Muddle the sugar and bitters together.
Add whiskey and ice sphere, stir until chilled.
Garnish with Luxardo cherries.
The Old Fashioned is about as close to the original definition of "cocktail" as it gets — an 1806 newspaper described a cocktail as spirit, sugar, water, and bitters, which is essentially this drink. The name itself came later, coined at Louisville's Pendennis Club when patrons started asking bartenders to make their whiskey drink "the old-fashioned way," before fancier ingredients became trendy.
