Drink recipe: Rum Old Fashioned
Scottish bartender Leon Back shares this recipe for a twist on a traditional old fashioned cocktail.
Leon says: "This simple old fashioned recipe has been adapted with chocolate bitters and coconut sugar to give it a tropical edge and less refined sugar alternative."
Ingredients
- 1.5 oz Bacardí Reserva Ocho Rum
- 1 dash Chocolate Bitters
- 1 peel Orange
- 1 dash Orange Bitters
- 0.2 oz Coconut Syrup
Serves: 1 Difficulty: Medium Time to cook: N/A mins
Method
Add all ingredients for the rum old fashioned into frozen mixing glass.
Add good ice to the mixing glass.
Stir the cocktail in the mixing glass for 20-25 seconds.
Strain the old fashioned into a frozen rocks glass over a large block of ice.
Zest the glass with orange peel and twist it and place in glass.
Enjoy!
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