Name: Rum Old Fashioned
Prep time: 2 min
Total time: 2 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 50 ml Caribbean blended rum aged 6-10 years; 10 ml Rum - Overproof white; 7.5 ml Falernum liqueur; 2.5 ml Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water, 65.0°Brix); 1 Angostura or other aromatic bitters

Serve in

Old-fashioned glass

Garnish:

Orange or lime zest twist

How to make:

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

1 2/3 fl oz	Caribbean blended rum aged 6-10 years
1/3 fl oz	White overproof rum
1/4 fl oz	Difford's Falernum liqueur
1/12 fl oz	Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water, 65.0°Brix)
1 dash	Angostura Aromatic Bitters
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Review:

The flavour of the overproof rum greatly adds to the character of this Old Fashioned. There are many rum Old Fashioned riffs but this is the recipe that made this cocktail both special and famous.

History:

Adapted from a recipe created in 2009 by Gonçalo de Sousa Monteiro in Berlin, Germany.
See: Old-Fashioned cocktail history and variations

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Nutrition:

197 calories

Alcohol content:

1.6 standard drinks
31.12% alc./vol. (62.24° proof)
21.9 grams of pure alcohol

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