Old-Fashioned with Creole Bitters

Recipe courtesy of Rocky Yeh of NWVivant.

• 2 oz Vintage Rye, Rittenhouse 100 will be just fine, and Thomas Handy would rock
• 4 dashes of Bitter Truth Creole Bitters
• 1 barspoon rich simple syrup
• 2 lemon twists

Pulverize one lemon twist lightly in the bottom of your mixing glass and discard, add ice, and rye, simple, and bitters.  Stir, pour, garnish with the other twist.  Lean back and enjoy, a lot.

Old Fashioned Whiskey Cocktail

50 ml Rye or Bourbon Whiskey
10 ml Sugar Syrup (or 1 Sugar Cube)
2 dashes The Bitter Truth – Old Time Aromatic Bitters
Lemon Zest

Pour all ingredients in a tumbler & stir till it has the right dilution.

This cocktail was created by Ken Walker of Dos Hermanos for The Bitter Truth Cocktail Competition in Bristol, UK.

The Old Smokey

• 60 ml Ron Barcelo Gran Anejo
• 12 ml Home-smoked Maple Syrup
• 7 drops The Bitter Truth Orange Bitters

Glass: Hi Ball
Serve: Muddle, then stir
Garnish: Orange Zest