ORANGE PEEL, NOT ORANGE SLICE!
I'll meet you halfway with an orange and lemon peel.An old fashioned absolutely needs fruit. A cherry and an orange peel. Just no muddled fruit, or soda. Also always a good time for a sazarac or my favorite, a vieux carre.
You could invite some friends over... if you have any.I gotta be honest. Garnishes are the first thing to drop from my cocktails, logistically. Too hard to store twists, slices and such and not have them spoil.
I'm a big fan of Campari. The Italian Greyhound is among my favorite cocktails.Fee Brothers is good, small company down here called Bittermen’s has some interesting new varieties as well.
If y’all want a new direction to go, suggest picking up a bottle of Amaro and Campari or Aperol (or Peychaud’s makes a good aperitivo now too). Look up a Paper Plane- great cocktail, especially for those who have liked manhattans and/or Negronis (gin shoutout!). Opens up a whole new world of messing around with amaros (huge spectrum, from pretty tame to the other end, which can be like eating a physical pine tree), aperitivos, and the like. More depth and breadth to explore in my opinion than bitters.
I gotta be honest. Garnishes are the first thing to drop from my cocktails, logistically. Too hard to store twists, slices and such and not have them spoil.
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Sadly, my lemon tree died. Homemade Lemonchello, lemon flavored mixers and of course the fruit, gone.? Still have my lime tree so I focus on cocktails that can benefit from fresh lime. So it is fortunate I am a big gin fan.I gotta be honest. Garnishes are the first thing to drop from my cocktails, logistically. Too hard to store twists, slices and such and not have them spoil.
Sadly, my lemon tree died. Homemade Lemonchello, lemon flavored mixers and of course the fruit, gone.? Still have my lime tree so I focus on cocktails that can benefit from fresh lime. So it is fortunate I am a big gin fan.
Just call me old fashioned, I don't believe in mixing anything with my Bourbon.