Our version of the Old Fashion Drink

• 1 orange
• 1/2 teaspoon sugar or two sugar cubes
• 4 dashes  or drops Angostura bitters
• 1 teaspoon water (if you want, we never use it
• 2 ounces bourbon (or more, whatever it takes to cover the round ice ball.  We recommend Bullet Rye whiskey.)
• 1 Cocktail Cherry
• 1 teaspoon of the juice from the cocktail cherry jar
• Garnish: orange peel (burnt with a mini torch)

Instructions

• Cut the orange into pieces about 1 inch wide.  So cut it in half and then 1 inch strips.  You should get 4 strips per half.
• Squeeze 1 orange section into a low ball glass
• Add the 1/2 teaspoon of sugar or 2 sugar cubes
• Remove the pulp from the orange peel.
• Using a mini torch burn or char the outside of the orange peel.  This releases the oils from the peel 
• Add 1 teaspoon of cocktail cherry juice to the glass
• Muddle or stir until all the sugar is dissolved
• Add ice to the glass (we like using the round ice cubes from a silicone tray
• Fill with with bourbon or whiskey until the ice cube is barely covered
• Gently stir to mix everything together
• Add the cocktail cherry
• Rub the orange peel around the rim of the glass, and then garnish