How to Make a Smoked Rye Old Fashioned - Liquor.com

Hey, my name is Adam Geisler, and I'm here today to make a bullet rye smoked old-fashioned using the smoking box technique where we're going to actually smoke some wood chips on your cocktail. Smoking cocktails is a fairly new technique. You saw this come out several years ago, but you're now starting to see this at home. All you need is a smoking gun and some oak chips. So to make this bullet rye smoked old-fashioned, we're going to start with our award-winning bullet rye whiskey. You're going to use two parts. Bullet rye is 95% rye, 5% malted barley, and it cuts right through the sugars and the bitters and makes an extremely balanced cocktail. Next, you're going to use one-eighth part demerara syrup. That's going to be two-to-one, two parts sugar, one part water, a few dashes of your aromatic bitters of choice. I'm just going to add ice and stir for 10 to 15 seconds to make sure you get the proper dilution. Strain in your double old-fashioned glass with fresh ice, garnish with an orange peel. Get those fresh oils all around the glass. For the fun part, we're going to add to the smoking box. We've got a smoking gun in the back, and we're going to turn on a light. Give it about five, 10 seconds. You're going to let the box fill up complete with the smoke. Once it gets nice and thick, we're going to open it up. Cheers. Bullet rye smoked old-fashioned.