Aged Rum, stirred
Rum Old Fashioned
Barline 2,1b,2,1,Ro
The code is the shorthand off my printed menu; the Key tab decodes every letter.
- 2 oz Aged rum
- 1 barspoon Demerara syrup
- 2 dashes Angostura bitters
- 1 dash Orange bitters
Stir with ice until cold, then strain.
Rocks, iced, orange twist.
Taste
Two ounces of aged rum, one barspoon of demerara, nothing more for sugar. The molasses of the syrup and the barrel of the rum are the same family, so the drink reads as rum first, then spice. Two dashes of Angostura and one of orange bitters keep clove and peel in the glass. Rocks, ice, and an orange twist: it sits.
History
The Old-Fashioned takes its name from drinkers in the 1870s who asked for an old-fashioned whiskey cocktail after bartenders began dressing the Whiskey Cocktail with absinthe, curacao, and other liqueurs. The formula itself is older: spirit, sugar, water, and bitters, the definition printed in The Balance and Columbian Repository in 1806. A rum Old-Fashioned is that template with the whiskey swapped out, a substitution that became common in craft bars in the 2000s as aged rum was treated as a sipping spirit. This menu pours two ounces of aged rum, one barspoon of demerara syrup, two dashes of Angostura, and one of orange bitters, over ice with an orange twist.
Same shape, other bottles
The Old-Fashioned family, with the bottle that changed.
- Old-Fashionedbourbon for aged rum
- Scotch Old-Fashionedscotch and simple syrup for aged rum and demerara syrup
- Torontorye for aged rum
- Cornerstonecachaça and grenadine for aged rum and demerara syrup
- Improved Coctailrye and simple syrup for aged rum and demerara syrup
- Sazeracrye and simple syrup for aged rum and demerara syrup
This is one drink on my home bar's menu. Tick the bottles you own and the menu lists which of all 185 drinks they pour.