Old Fashioned Cocktail

 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