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Speyside Single Malt Old Fashioned

Name: Speyside Single Malt Old Fashioned
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Single malt Scotch whisky; 7.5 ml Sugar syrup 'rich' (2:1); 2 dash Aromatic bitters

Difford’s Guide

Discerning Drinkers (46)

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Measurements in:

Serves:

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Ingredients
2 fl oz	Single malt Scotch whisky (Speyside)
¹⁄₄ fl oz	Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water) 65.0°Brix
2 dash	Angostura Aromatic Bitters

How to make

Glass

Photographed in an UB Koto Old Fashioned 30cl

Prepare

Select and pre-chill an OLD-FASHIONED GLASS.
Prepare garnish of orange zest twist.

Method

STIR all ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into ice-filled glass (preferably over a large cube or chunk of block ice).

Garnish

EXPRESS orange zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Speyside Single Malt Old Fashioned contains 159 calories

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
28.06% alc./vol. (56.13° proof)
19.2 grams of pure alcohol

History

History of the Old-Fashioned Whiskey Cocktail.

Review

Some may want to use a Demerara sugar syrup but pure cane sugar delicately mellows the malt whisky without masking its flavour, indeed it amplifies its character.

Variations/similar cocktails

Whiskey Old Fashioned (Difford's recipe); Islay Old Fashioned

Glenfiddich 12 Years Old 750ml - makes 12.5 cocktails
$46.99 $3.76 per cocktail Glenfiddich 12 Years Old image

Monin Pure Cane Syrup (US) 750ml - makes 100 cocktails
$14.99 $0.15 per cocktail Monin Pure Cane Syrup (US) image

Angostura Aromatic Bitters 120ml - makes 192 cocktails
$13.99 $0.07 per cocktail Angostura Aromatic Bitters image

$3.98 per cocktail*

Makes a minimum of 12.5 cocktails.
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Comments & Discussion

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Bocman 43w

I use Singleton 12, but it was too sweet for my taste. I add a splash of water to balance it out. 💧

Peter M Premium Member 1y

Very nice with Speyburn 10.

Graeme McPherson 1y

This might even beat a traditional Old Fashioned for my taste. I do think the recipe is just a tiny smidge too sweet even with my 1.5:1 syrup so I have started just doing a bar spoon of syrup.

John Hinojos Premium Member 2y

Was a perfect evening sipper. A little sweet, but the lovely flavour of the Scotch whisky comes through. The angostura add a slight hint of spice.

Tony Jones 3y

Maybe a bit of a diversion, but I made this with Glenfarclas 12, bitters and agave syrup.
Superb. Interesting which aspects of the spirit come to the fore.

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