Name: Randy's Old Fashioned
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 50 ml Canadian whisky; 10 ml Pink grapefruit juice; 7.5 ml Maple syrup; 1 dash Aromatic bitters

Randy's Old Fashioned
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Photographed in an UB Koto Old Fashioned 30cl

Ingredients:
1 ²⁄₃ oz	Canadian blended whisky
¹⁄₃ oz	Pink grapefruit juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₄ oz	Maple syrup
1 dash	Angostura Aromatic Bitters

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill an Old-fashioned glass.
Prepare garnish of grapefruit zest twist.
STIR all ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into ice-filled glass (preferably over a large cube or chunk of block ice).
EXPRESS grapefruit zest twist over cocktail and use as garnish.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

Does the choice of whisky coupled with maple syrup suggest Randy, the drinker this cocktail was created for, was/is Canadian? Grapefruit freshens while maple syrup adds deep flavoursome richness.

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History:

Adapted from a cocktail on the menu of the Dragonfly Cocktail Bar in Edinburgh, Scotland circa 2015-18. Brought to my attention thanks to a comment by a fellow Discerning Drinker, Charl Engela on our Maple Old Fashioned page.

Nutrition:

One serving of Randy's Old Fashioned contains 145 calories

Alcohol content:

1.1 standard drinks
23.38% alc./vol. (23.38° proof)
15.9 grams of pure alcohol

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Graham Taylor

23rd May at 21:41

I suppose it is technically kind of a sour. Nice though.

John Hinojos

18th October 2023 at 03:54

Found this looking for a cocktail we could have after dinner that used grapefruit juice. Wow. Did dial back the maple syrup by 1/3, but the resulting cocktail was Outstanding. Everything plays together well and the hints of spice and maple add deeper layers of flavour. Will definitely have a gain. Drinks very easily.