Rum Old Fashioned

A Myatt’s Fields adaptation of the Old Fashioned, attributed to Jerry Thomas, 1862.

Rum, demerara, vanilla, cardamom and bitters ABV 35.2%

One 75ml serving of Rum Old Fashioned contains 197 calories

An Old Fashioned is the most reduced cocktail there is: spirit, sugar, water and bitters. That is the definition the word was given in 1806, in a newspaper in Hudson, New York, answering a reader who had no idea what one was. The discipline is in not adding anything else. The only real question is which spirit.

We use a dark Bajan rum with the depth to carry demerara sugar and bitters, with cardamom and vanilla threaded through it. Weeks of ageing take the rough edges off the rum and turn the sugar into something closer to depth than sweetness. No muddled fruit, no soda.

Over one big piece of ice, with a wide strip of lime peel. The ice is not only for the cold. As it goes, it is doing the third job on that 1806 list.

A Myatt’s Fields adaptation of the Old Fashioned, attributed to Jerry Thomas, 1862.

Rum, demerara, vanilla, cardamom and bitters ABV 35.2%

One 75ml serving of Rum Old Fashioned contains 197 calories

An Old Fashioned is the most reduced cocktail there is: spirit, sugar, water and bitters. That is the definition the word was given in 1806, in a newspaper in Hudson, New York, answering a reader who had no idea what one was. The discipline is in not adding anything else. The only real question is which spirit.

We use a dark Bajan rum with the depth to carry demerara sugar and bitters, with cardamom and vanilla threaded through it. Weeks of ageing take the rough edges off the rum and turn the sugar into something closer to depth than sweetness. No muddled fruit, no soda.

Over one big piece of ice, with a wide strip of lime peel. The ice is not only for the cold. As it goes, it is doing the third job on that 1806 list.

A Myatt’s Fields adaptation of the Old Fashioned, attributed to Jerry Thomas, 1862.

Rum, demerara, vanilla, cardamom and bitters ABV 35.2%

One 75ml serving of Rum Old Fashioned contains 197 calories

An Old Fashioned is the most reduced cocktail there is: spirit, sugar, water and bitters. That is the definition the word was given in 1806, in a newspaper in Hudson, New York, answering a reader who had no idea what one was. The discipline is in not adding anything else. The only real question is which spirit.

We use a dark Bajan rum with the depth to carry demerara sugar and bitters, with cardamom and vanilla threaded through it. Weeks of ageing take the rough edges off the rum and turn the sugar into something closer to depth than sweetness. No muddled fruit, no soda.

Over one big piece of ice, with a wide strip of lime peel. The ice is not only for the cold. As it goes, it is doing the third job on that 1806 list.

A Myatt’s Fields adaptation of the Old Fashioned, attributed to Jerry Thomas, 1862.

Rum, demerara, vanilla, cardamom and bitters ABV 35.2%

One 75ml serving of Rum Old Fashioned contains 197 calories

An Old Fashioned is the most reduced cocktail there is: spirit, sugar, water and bitters. That is the definition the word was given in 1806, in a newspaper in Hudson, New York, answering a reader who had no idea what one was. The discipline is in not adding anything else. The only real question is which spirit.

We use a dark Bajan rum with the depth to carry demerara sugar and bitters, with cardamom and vanilla threaded through it. Weeks of ageing take the rough edges off the rum and turn the sugar into something closer to depth than sweetness. No muddled fruit, no soda.

Over one big piece of ice, with a wide strip of lime peel. The ice is not only for the cold. As it goes, it is doing the third job on that 1806 list.

A Myatt’s Fields adaptation of the Old Fashioned, attributed to Jerry Thomas, 1862.

Rum, demerara, vanilla, cardamom and bitters ABV 35.2%

One 75ml serving of Rum Old Fashioned contains 197 calories

An Old Fashioned is the most reduced cocktail there is: spirit, sugar, water and bitters. That is the definition the word was given in 1806, in a newspaper in Hudson, New York, answering a reader who had no idea what one was. The discipline is in not adding anything else. The only real question is which spirit.

We use a dark Bajan rum with the depth to carry demerara sugar and bitters, with cardamom and vanilla threaded through it. Weeks of ageing take the rough edges off the rum and turn the sugar into something closer to depth than sweetness. No muddled fruit, no soda.

Over one big piece of ice, with a wide strip of lime peel. The ice is not only for the cold. As it goes, it is doing the third job on that 1806 list.