Name: Randy's Old Fashioned
Prep time: 4 min
Total time: 4 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 50 ml Canadian blended whisky; 10 ml Pink grapefruit juice (freshly squeezed); 7.5 ml Maple syrup; 1 Angostura or other aromatic bitters

Serve in

Old-fashioned glass

Photographed in

UB Koto Old Fashioned 30cl

Garnish:

Grapefruit zest twist

How to make:

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

1 2/3 fl oz	Canadian blended whisky
1/3 fl oz	Pink grapefruit juice (freshly squeezed)
1/4 fl oz	Maple syrup
1 dash	Angostura Aromatic Bitters
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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.

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:

146 calories

Alcohol content:

1.1 standard drinks
23.39% alc./vol. (46.78° proof)
15.9 grams of pure alcohol

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