December 3, 2020

Chocolate Orange Old Fashioned

Name: Terry's Chocolate Orange Old Fashioned
Prep time: 3 min
Total time: 3 min
Ingredients: 2 oz Whisk(e)y (Bourbon, Rye); 1 sugar (raw, cube); Angostura Bitters; Orange Bitters; Chocolate Bitters; 1 cup Ice Cubes; Orange Peel (Freshly-peeled); 1 Ice Sphere (or large ice cube)

Home Cooked Feast for all!

The oldest documented cocktail

The Old Fashioned cocktail, the oldest documented cocktail, contains only 3 ingredients and has made a sizeable resurgence in the last decade. A raw sugar cube, beautiful subtleties in whiskey and bitters for a dash of flavour, here’s a cool Christmas-y take on the greatest (oldest) cocktail: Terry’s Chocolate Orange Old Fashioned. Enjoy.

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Rebirth of the Old Fashioned

The resurgence of cocktailing has been a fairly grassroots movement over the last few years. (Hipsters did it!) Cocktailing is a great art form and great cocktailers deserve great reward. Unique syrups, vast knowledge of spirits, liqueurs and juices, I never previously gave enough credit to the art. Then, for one year of my life, I had the great pleasure and honour of managing, through Marriott, one of the premiere whisk(e)y bars in Calgary, ONE18 EMPIRE, the flagship restaurant for Marriott Hotels in Canada.

Meanwhile, a hugely popular show, Mad Men, was airing on AMC (heard of it? haha). Don Draper’s go-to, of course, the Old Fashioned, blew up from there in a grassroots/viral surge. This timed perfectly for the popularity of a cocktail bar in a cool part of downtown.

Through ONE18 EMPIRE, you have the freedom to create literally thousands of combinations between types of sugar, bitters and spirits. I had to keep up with the bar team, of course, so I loaded up – bitters, whiskies, equipment, you name it. One night playing around at home, so was born the Terry’s Chocolate Orange Old Fashioned.

Plus, Terry’s Chocolate Orange is for Christmas-time and they are super tasty.

Terry’s Chocolate Orange Old Fashioned

A Christmas-y twist on your Old Fashioned!

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Prep Time 3 mins

Total Time 3 mins

Course Drinks

Cuisine American

Servings 1

Calories 180 kcal

Equipment

Cocktail beaker
Strainer
Muddler
Cocktail spoon

Ingredients

2 oz Whisk(e)y Bourbon, Rye
1 sugar raw, cube
Angostura Bitters
Orange Bitters
Chocolate Bitters
1 cup Ice Cubes
Orange Peel Freshly-peeled
1 Ice Sphere or large ice cube

Instructions

In a cocktail beaker or shaker bottom, add one raw sugar cube and equal amount of water.
With your muddler, crush the sugar cube into the water (to basically make simple syrup)
Shake in 2 shakes of angostura bitters. 2 shakes orange bitters. 2 shakes chocolate bitters.
Add 2 oz whiskey. Toss in some ice (8-10 cubes).
Stir with bar spoon for 20-30 seconds until all sugar is fully dissolved and some light condensation collects on the beaker, cool to the touch.
Strain into Old Fashioned glass, add ice, squeeze-in oils from orange peel and garnish glass once complete.
Enjoy.