Bob’s Your Uncle Old Fashioned

Name: Bob’s Your Uncle Old Fashioned
Prep time: 5 min
Total time: 5 min
Ingredients: .5 fluid ounces Gran Gala Orange Liqueur; .5 fluid ounces Cherry liqueur I used DeKuyper, but for some reason it's no longer stocked in my area; 6-8 dashes Fee Brothers Old Fashion Aromatic Bitters Angostura is the standard go-to, so if you have that, use it - I just really like the Fee Bros products; 3 fluid ounces Bulleit bourbon; 1 large craft ice cube

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There’s no wrong way to mix a drink, right? I mean, people mix stuff together all the time – substituting gin for vodka, or vodka for gin, or rum for bourbon, and vice-versa. So this is my take on the classic Old Fashioned, and honestly, I can’t go out and drink a bar-made Old Fashioned anymore – it’s almost always disappointing. (There are exceptions – the LongLeaf restaurant inside the Atlanta Botanical Garden makes an incredible Old Fashioned.)

The trick here is going heavy on the bitters, cherry liqueur instead of a cherry (although sometimes I use a cherry and a little cherry juice from the jar if I’m out of cherry liqueur), and Gran Gala instead of an orange rind. Also, the sweetness of the liqueurs does away with the need for a sugar cube. This thing is 100% alcohol, and it’s gotten rave reviews from everyone for whom I’ve mixed one. Try it and let me know what you think!

Bob’s Your Uncle Old Fashioned

Preparation: 5 min
Ready in: 5 min

For: 1

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Ingredients

.5 fluid ounces Gran Gala Orange Liqueur
.5 fluid ounces Cherry liqueur (I used DeKuyper, but for some reason it's no longer stocked in my area)
6-8 dashes Fee Brothers Old Fashion Aromatic Bitters (Angostura is the standard go-to, so if you have that, use it – I just really like the Fee Bros products)
3 fluid ounces Bulleit bourbon
1 large craft ice cube

Instructions

Add all contents to a rocks glass.
Stir a couple times until mixed
Drop in a large craft ice cube. Easy, right?

Bob Sawyer

I’ve always (well, since I was of legal age to do so) enjoyed whiskeys of all stripes, but really became interested in creating my own concoctions, or learning/figuring out how to mix cocktails that I’d had elsewhere, when I helped a web design client build her own mixology/cocktail recipes site, mixnsip.com. In fact, I appear in a number of her videos sampling the results of her experiments. She even created a special scotch-based cocktail, “The Bob,” just for me. So now I’m sharing the wealth, so to speak. When I try a unique bourbon-based cocktail (really the only kind I drink), I then like to figure out how to make them at home. It’s easy when the bar or restaurant includes the ingredients on their menus — then it’s up to me to figure out the ratios, and let me tell you, half the fun is just getting there! Feel free to try any of these at home, and if you have one you’ve tried you’d like to share, send it to me and I’ll feature it on the site! Cheers!

November 22, 2022

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