Cocktail Hacker

Tag: Old Fashioned

  • Review – Berentzen Bushel and Barrel

    For over 250 years Berentzen has been making distilled spirits and specifically apple and other fruit liqueurs.  Bushel and Barrel is the marriage of their long experience making apple liqueur with the years of tradition and flavor of Kentucky Bourbon.  The result is a apple bourbon liqueur clocking in at 30% ABV. The color is…

  • Old Fashioned – The Remixes

    So, when we covered the Old Fashioned some weeks ago there were a few variations that we didn’t end up trying.  There were various reasons that they got glossed over, but none the less I felt there was a hole in our investigations.  Bourbon Week to the rescue!  Revisiting Bourbon gave us a perfect chance…

  • Cocktail Hacking on the Road

    So, I arrived in Columbus, GA earlier today and spent the rest of the day exploring the city and generally goofing off.  At some point mid-afternoon I decided I should make myself a cocktail in my hotel room tonight.  Being a simple recipe I decided on an Old Fashioned.  Now comes the interesting part. I…

  • The Old Fashioned – A Drink of Simplicity

    This week’s experimentation with the Old Fashioned has been very rewarding.  This is a drink I first mixed up only a couple month’s ago and is now, without question, one of my favorites.  As I mentioned in yesterday’s post the drink is simplicity at its finest and truly sums up the classic definition of what…

  • The Old Fashioned – Embury’s Version

    I whipped up an Embury Old Fashioned on Monday evening.  Despite the variables in the recipe the drink turned out to be very good.  I chose to go with the following quantities: Embury’s Old Fashioned: 2 oz Eagle Rare Bourbon 1 tsp Simple Syrup 3 Dashes Angostura Bitters Twist of Lemon Embury got this one…