How to Batch Old Fashioned Cocktail: The Old Fashioned cocktail lends itself to pre-batching and makes a great choice for winter parties and social gatherings.
If you’re hosting a dinner party at home or planning a cocktail party, the Old Fashioned is one of the easiest drinks to batch, requiring a base spirit, simple syrup and bitters. Batching cocktails saves time, allowing you to mingle and for your guests to serve themselves. It’s delicious and warming on a chilly night and you can choose from a variety of dark spirits such as whisky, bourbon, rye whisky and rum.
When making an Old Fashioned, the drink is stirred with ice for chilling and dilution. Here, we’re adding water to the batched cocktail so that guests can just help themselves to a drink on the night. This method delivers consistency of flavour and saves the need for extra ice. Refer to how to calculate dilution here.
The following recipe uses one full 700ml bottle of dark spirit. You can learn how to make your own simple syrup. Here’s how to batch the old fashioned cocktail for a crowd.
How to Batch Old Fashioned Cocktail for a Crowd
For 12 people
Ingredients
- 700 ml bottle of bourbon (or rye whiskey, whisky, moonshine, gin, tequila or dark rum)
- 30 ml simple syrup (1:1 ratio)
- 12 dashes of Angostura bitters
- 110 ml water
Equipment: 1 litre glass bottle with a seal, funnel
Garnish: orange peel
Method
Using the funnel, add the spirit of your choice, simple syrup, bitters and water to a clean 1 litre bottle. Seal the bottle and give it a gentle swirl to mix all the ingredients. Keep in the fridge until ready to use.
For an individual serve, pour 60 ml into a rocks glass with a large block of ice. Express the orange peel over the drink and garnish.
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