Meet Your New Favourite Drink: The Aged Rum Old Fashioned

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If you took our advice and hunted down the best rare top-shelf spirits, you’d have a liquor cabinet to rival any collector’s by now. But where to go from there? This Very Old-Fashioned recipe is a perfect way to wet your whistle this weekend. Using Flor de Caña 25 Year Rum, this simple and timeless cocktail is a rich and complex sipper that will leave you wanting more.

The Old-Fashioned is one of the oldest and most widely loved cocktails around. By many accounts it’s the original cocktail, first codified in its simplest form as early as 1806. Since that time, many variations and serving conventions have shared the name of old-fashioned, but it remains a drink that centres the character of its base spirit—once made only with bourbon, now rye, rum and other dark spirits.

Accented by intense aromatic bitters, softened by a touch of sugar-sweetness, the old fashioned is a sweet, fragrant and boozy sipper, perfect for topping off any night.

This old-fashioned recipe is a great way to enjoy a drop of Flor de Caña 25 Year Rum. The rich, spiced chocolate and tobacco character along with its silky caramel texture pairs well with the traditional old-fashioned’s maraschino cherry and generous dash of bitters. For this, we recommend the timeless and classic Angostura Aromatic Bitters, but mixing things up with orange or even chocolate bitters can turn out exciting results.

Very Old Fashioned: Aged Rum Old Fashioned Recipe Using Flor de Caña 25 Year Rum

Ingredients

60 mL Flor de Cana 25 Year Rum
2-3 dashes Angostura Aromatic Bitters
1 teaspoon white sugar
1 maraschino cherry
Orange peel

Method

Combine Flor de Caña Rum, bitters and cane sugar in a mixing glass filled with ice.
Stir for ~ 20 seconds and sample. Stir a little more if flavours are too sharp.
Strain into a chilled rocks glass over a large ice cube.
Garnish with cherry and orange peel
Optional: flame the orange peel to add a smoky flavour.

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