Cocktail & Other Recipes By Spirit Bourbon Cocktails

Expense of Honesty

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Kelly Magyarics
Kelly Magyarics, DWS, is a wine, spirits, travel, food and lifestyle writer and wine educator.
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Kelly Magyarics
Published 01/10/18
Expense of Honesty
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Strategic Hospitality beverage director Matthew Tocco says he's noticed guests are less apt to order a cocktail if it has rum or brandy as a base, so he paired this drink at Nashville’s Pinewood Social with bourbon to make it more appealing to those drinkers.

This recipe originally appeared as part of “So You Love a Whiskey Old Fashioned. How About the Rise of the Rum Old Fashioned?”

Ingredients

  • 1 ounce Old Forester Signature bourbon
  • 1 ounce Brugal añejo rum
  • 1/2 ounce Arehucas Ron Miel Guanche rum
  • 1 tsp honey
  • 1 tsp demerara sugar
  • 1 dash Peychaud’s bitters
  • 1 dash Angostura bitters
  • Garnish: orange twist

Steps

  1. Add all the ingredients into a mixing glass with ice, and stir until well-chilled.

  2. Strain into a rocks glass over a large ice cube.

  3. Garnish with an expressed orange twist.