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

Speyside Single Malt Old Fashioned
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Photographed in an UB Koto Old Fashioned 30cl

Ingredients:
2 oz	Speyside single malt Scotch whisky
¹⁄₄ oz	Monin Pure Cane Syrup (65.0°brix, equivalent to 2:1 rich syrup)
2 dash	Angostura Aromatic Bitters

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How to make:

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

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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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.

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Variant:

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

History:

History of the Old-Fashioned Whiskey Cocktail.

Nutrition:

One serving of Speyside Single Malt Old Fashioned contains 159 calories

Alcohol content:

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

Difford’s Guide remains free-to-use thanks to the support of the brands in green above. Values stated for alcohol and calorie content, and number of drinks an ingredient makes should be considered approximate.

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Peter McCarthy

29th May at 05:13

Very nice with Speyburn 10.

Graeme McPherson

3rd April at 00:29

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

23rd September 2023 at 04:26

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

16th October 2022 at 17:03

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.