FABLED POTION

The Colonel is a craft take on the dirty old-fashioned. It’s common to see the old-fashioned garnished with a cherry and orange wedge but fine restaurants and craft bars generally stick to the classic form, which is garnished with only a lemon peel. Any fruit in the drink makes an old-fashioned “dirty,” which is an analogy to the dirty martini. It’s a good idea to serve your basic old-fashioned with only a lemon or orange peel, unless you want to risk looking like you don’t know what you’re doing in the face of the incognito cocktail critic you may or or may not be serving. The Colonel, however, demonstrates that a dirty old-fashioned can be made with craft.

The only caveat here is not to pose this, or any old-fashioned with a cherry or orange wedge, as a classic old-fashioned.

The Colonel’s Dirty Old-Fashioned (AKA: The Colonel)

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Course Drinks

Equipment

• bar spoon
• Mixing glass
• paring knife
• cocktail pick
• Rock's glass

Ingredients

  

• ½ oz Luxardo cherry juice this is taken from a can or jar of Luxardo cherries.
• 4 dashes Angostura Cacoa Bitters
• 1 wedge orange
• 2 oz High Road Rye Whiskey
• 2-3 Luxardo cherries
• 1 twist of orange peel

Instructions

 

• In a mixing glass, muddle the 1 wedge orange with ½ oz Luxardo cherry juice and 4 dashes Angostura Cacoa Bitters.
• Add 2 oz High Road Rye Whiskey and ice to the mixing glass. Stir to chill.
• Strain into a rock's glass over fresh ice.
• Garnish with an orange peel and a cocktail pick with 2 or 3 Luxardo cherries.

Notes

This is a dirty old-fashioned. A classic old-fashioned does not have fruit in it. Nonetheless, this can be a fine cocktail in its own right. Use a single large cube or sphere of ice when possible.

 

 

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