Door County Cherry Old Fashioned
While growing up in Wisconsin, the old fashioned — along with classics like manhattans, gimlets, and martinis — were the go-tos for the adults. Old fashioned cocktails and manhattans are almost always made with brandy in Wisconsin, a legacy of German and central European immigrant culture.
I make cherry bounce each year with bourbon, rye, brandy, or cognac. Cherries perfectly complement those spirits — they just go together. Then, of course, the next logical conclusion was to make an old fashioned with the cherries and cherry syrup we make.
Ingredients
2 oz Sacred Bond brandy
3/4 oz Montmorency cherry syrup
2–3 dashes Angostura bitters
Orange peel
Instructions
Add all liquid ingredients to a mixing glass filled with ice. Stir briskly to chill. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass or iced rocks glass. Express the orange peel over the cocktail glass and discard, or add to the rocks glass as a garnish. Serve with two cherries on a pick.
