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Add all of the ingredients in a cocktail shaker, shake lightly with ice to chill, and strain into a smoked old fashioned glass, preferably with a single large ice cube. Smoking the glass adds a lot of depth to the flavor and is definitely worth the effort! Garnish with an orange peel and cherry. The overall sweetness of the drink will vary depending on what bourbon or whiskey you use, so if it’s too sweet, just add more booze to cut the sweetness.

Here’s how I smoke a glass…Use a small ceramic container with a few cherry or applewood wood chips in it, make sure that your glass will fit over the container upside down. Use a butane torch to ignite the wood chips and once they start to burn steadily, invert your highball glass over the flame and lightly smoke the glass. I prefer a lighter smoke, too much smoke will accumulate on the glass and overpower the drink. If you’re making multiple drinks just smoke each glass and leave them upside down to contain the smoke. If you don’t have a torch just use a set of tongs to hold a wood chip over a gas flame on the stove to ignite it, but using a  torch is much easier!

join me for a drink

I’d love to make you an old fashioned sometime so stop by the office and say hi, plus you can choose your own bourbon or whiskey from our bar!