Drink · 5 min · 1 rocks glass
Coffee Old Fashioned
Cold coffee as the water. Maple instead of sugar. Don't make it a dessert.
The sheet · 1 rocks glass · 5 min
easyWhy tonight. Cold coffee as the water. Maple instead of sugar. Don't make it a dessert.
What it needs
Nothing confirmed on your shelf yet — this list is the whole ask.
- bourbon
- coffee
- maple
- angostura
Good if you have them, fine if you do not: orange.
Method
- Cold coffee or a cooled shot of espresso, never hot — hot coffee melts the ice and wrecks the dilution.
- Maple instead of sugar, which suits both the coffee and the barrel character of the bourbon.
- Stir over a single large cube for a full thirty seconds.
- An orange peel expressed over the top. Coffee, orange and whiskey are three barrel-and-roast flavors that stack neatly.
An educational pour, not a reprint of a licensed spec. No allergen or alcohol-safety claim.
Cook or pour it, then edit the shelf if you emptied a bottle or used the last of something.
Why each of these is on the list
What the ingredients are actually doing
- bourbon
- Corn-sweet and vanilla-heavy from new oak, so it takes bitterness and citrus without being flattened.
- coffee
- Bitterness and roast, which is why it turns up in savory rubs as often as in dessert.
- maple
- Sweetness with a mineral, slightly smoky edge that sugar does not have.
- angostura
- Bitters are seasoning for a drink — the salt of the bar.
Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.
Cooks from the same box
If you bought for this, you can already make these
Shares bourbon, maple, angostura
Maple Old Fashioned
Maple instead of sugar, which is sweeter and more assertive than honey. A little vinegar or extra bitters keeps it from cloying.
Shares bourbon, maple, angostura
Apple cider Old Fashioned
A little apple, not a mug of cider. Maple and bitters. It should still taste like whiskey.
Shares bourbon, maple, angostura
Smoked maple Old Fashioned
Maple instead of white sugar, a pinch of smoked salt, bitters. The smoke is seasoning, not a campfire. Orange peel. Don't over-salt it.
Shares bourbon, maple, angostura
Brown butter Old Fashioned
Brown the butter, infuse or rinse, don't make a soup. Maple instead of sugar.
Next
Cook it, then tell the shelf what you used.
The ranking is only as honest as the shelf behind it. Empty the cream, and everything that leaned on cream should stop being offered.