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Speyside Single Malt Old Fashioned

Nightcap/sipping · Short and stirred · Spirit-forward

4.2 46 ratings

Ingredients

2 oz Single malt Scotch whisky
1/4 oz Sugar syrup 'rich' (2:1)
2 dash Aromatic bitters

How to make

Serve in a old-fashioned glass

Prepare

  1. 1 Select and pre-chill an OLD-FASHIONED GLASS.
  2. 2 Prepare garnish of orange zest twist.

Method

  1. 3 STIR all ingredients with ice.
  2. 4 STRAIN into ice-filled glass (preferably over a large cube or chunk of block ice).

Garnish

  1. 5 EXPRESS orange zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Flavour profile

28.1% alc./vol. · 1.4 standard drinks · 159 calories

History

Pure cane sugar delicately mellows the malt whisky without masking its flavour, indeed it amplifies character; a Demerara sugar syrup could be used.

The history of the Old-Fashioned Whiskey Cocktail.