You can make an old-fashioned from almost any kind of whiskey.
My favorites are a high rye whiskey like Bulliet Bourbon. Or use Bulliet Rye. Also EH Taylor Rye is good for an old-fashioned or the small batch EH Taylor bourbon. Or fall back to something like Buffalo trace.
Use a good size shaker.
Microwave in a rocks glass 11-15 secs
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 3 teaspoons water
Stir until sugar dissolves. Pour into the shaker. (Alternatively use 1/2 oz simple syrup)
Prepare 2 curls from an orange skin with a potato peeler. Avoid getting too much of the pith.
To the now empty rocks glass add
- 1 orange curl (above)
- 1 (or 2) Luxardo cocktail cherries
Smear the inner rim of the glass with the cherry juice and add
- 1 large ice cube (preferably clear or fancy in some way)
Set the glass aside for a moment
Add to the shaker
- Sugar water from above if you haven’t yet
- 5 dashes Angostura bitters
- 2 ounces bourbon (or rye whiskey, if preferred)
- 1/2 ounce Gran Marnier orange liqueur
- Juice from 1/4 to 1/8 of the orange
- Then pop the crushed orange into the shaker
Half fill the shaker with ice and shake vigorously
Strain from the shaker into the rocks glass
- Garnish with the other orange curl after twisting and running it along the rim of the glass
Enjoy
