If you've made cocktails, then you surely
know that there's nothing
more classic than the Old Fashioned.
That's why this week we're going to be
making a fruit-filled variant,
the Monticello.
From Durham, North Carolina, you're
watching Cocktails Under Quarantine.
My name is Suzanne. This week we're going
to be making one of my favorite variants
of an Old Fashioned. An Old Fashioned is basically just
whiskey and something a little bit of some
sweetener
and then some bitters. It's delicious, spirit forward,
and real crowd pleaser. So let's get
started.
This drink is from our favorite
cocktail reference book, The 12 Bottle Bar.
We're going to start
by building it in the glass, and we're
going to start with a cube
of frozen cherry juice. The original
recipe actually calls for frozen
unsweetened pomegranate juice, but
I had cherry juice so that's what we're
using. So freeze it up. Just put it in
your glass to start, and that lets it
start melting and
and adding some of its flavor to the
drink.
Then, we're going to add a couple dashes of orange bitters. This is
aged orange bitters from TOPO
Distillery. They sent this to us.
They're wonderful. We love them, so thanks TOPO.
Just add a couple dashes right into the
glass.
Then we're going to add a teaspoon
of grenadine. This is homemade grenadine.
Either make your own grenadine. I will
include
instructions on how to do this
in the description. Either make your own
or buy the good stuff.
Don't buy the crappy stuff made with
corn syrup.
Corn syrup has never made a drink better!
Use good ingredients! Then we're
going to add a quarter teaspoon of dry
curacao from Pierre Ferrand. Gives it
this nice orange-y flavor. Add a little
bit more sweetness. It's going to go
really really well with our orange
bitters.
So we're just going to add a quarter
teaspoon. It's going to give us some
subtle sweetness. Beautiful.
And then we're going to also add TOPO Eight Oak Carolina Whiskey that
the kind folks at TOPO
Distillery sent to us. Thanks guys! We're
going to add an ounce and a half.
Just add that in there.
And then, we're just going to give it a nice stir
with our bar spoon just to get
everything chilled.
So, you just want to stir it
until you feel like the outside of your
glass is cool.
I feel like that's good. There you have
it: the Monticello,
an Old Fashioned variant.
I really like this. It's definitely
a more potent drink of the drinks we've
made on this
channel. It's more spirit forward.
The whiskey is really prominent.
The fruity flavors: the cherry and the
orange and the bitters.
They play really nicely. It's a little
sweet but not too much. I just love it.
I think it's delicious.
Make it at home let me know what you
think, guys!
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And as always, stay safe and drink
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It's really good, guys. If you have those
big
silicone ice molds those are great for
freezing
the pomegranate or cherry juice. Just
freeze them into those big old cubes, and
you can stick it in there. It
adds a nice subtle note of flavor, and it
keeps your drink cool. It's like a
multi-purpose ingredient, which
who doesn't love that?
Is that enough?
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