How To Drink Old Fashioned

Hi, I'm Greg, and this is how to drink. I've
never worked in a bar, held a position as a bar back, been a bar apprentice, been...
I've been in a bar, I've been in a lot of bars. This is How To Drink. A show about making
cocktails and drinking them, lets get going.

Today we're going to make an old fashioned.
I want to make it clear, there are a lot of different ways to make an old fashioned. We're
going to use bourbon. I'm going to take two ounces of bourbon, two ounces, right in there.
Normally, you would use simple syrup, and I do like simple syrup, but even better than
simple syrup... Is maple syrup.

A maple syrup old fashioned is a wonderful thing, they make
one, the Benton's Old Fashioned, they make down at P.D.T. Is just divine. They also have
some fancy Momofuku bourbon, four roses infused with bacon, I don't have that, because I don't
work at P.D.T. And then you need some bitters, the standard is to go with this angostura
bitters, and there is nothing wrong with angostura bitters, but lately I've been liking the Jerry
Thomas bitters from The Bitter Truth, you want like two, three dashes of that...

And
that is as they say, the whole enchilada. You're going to stir this, and already, it's
hitting my nostrils, and my mouth is watering, and I am ready for an old fashioned. Okay.
You can't do that professionally, you can't just stick your spoon in, like if I worked
in a bar, I'd lose my job, that'd be it. That's why I don't work in bars, I just drink them.
We're going to strain that guy right in there, just like that.

I happen to go with the orange,
it's an old standby, some people like a lemon. Some people flame the orange, we'll do something
with that. You want to squeeze out those oils and rub the rim of the glass with it and drop
that right in there. And then you want to drink it, because oh boy, this is a good one.
Oh fuck yes.

All night. How to drink. That's what I'm doing. Mmmm, god that's perfect.
Christmas in a glass! Old fashioned with maple syrup and Jerry Thomas bitters from the Bitter
Truth.

Okay, that's how to drink. See you next time..