Derivative · Rum
Rum Old Fashioned
An Old Fashioned built on rum, demarara, and allspice
Ingredients
- 2 ozDark Rum
- 1 tspallspice dram
- 1 tspdemarara syrup
- 2 dashesAngostura bitters
- 2 dashesOrange bitters
Method
- Place a large ice cube into an Old Fashioned glass
- Add rum, allspice, demarara, and bitters, stirring until well-chilled
- Garnish with orange peel and serve
History
Rum variants of the old fashioned began emerging as early as the 1940s although they remained highly niche and preferred far less than their whiskey originals. In the 1990s-2000s, craft cocktail interest began surging and bartenders began experimenting more liberally with the use of dark spirits in the classic cocktail formulas, giving rise to the rum old fashioneds.
Importantly, dark rum works best with dark sugars (e.g. demarara syrup) and therefore changes recipe proportions somewhat. Spices may be added and even alterations to bitters (e.g. chocolate or blackstrap bitters) can work.
Flavour
Details
- Glass
- Rocks glass
- Garnish
- orange peel
- Technique
- stirred
Family
Compared with Old Fashioned
What changes: dark rum as base and demarara as sugar.
Old Fashioned
- 2 ozBourbon or rye whiskey
- ¼ ozRich simple syrup (or 1 sugar cube)
- 2 dashesAngostura bitters
Rum Old Fashioned
- 2 ozDark Rum
- 1 tspallspice dram
- 1 tspdemarara syrup
- 2 dashesAngostura bitters
- 2 dashesOrange bitters
Green = new ingredient · Gold = different amount · Red = not used in Rum Old Fashioned