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Black Walnut Old Fashioned

From The Cocktail Notebook · Drinks · Old Fashioneds


Black Walnut Old Fashioned

Carl Amoth's Bar

Makes 2 cocktails

An Old Fashioned where nocino replaces the sugar—walnut, clove, and orange over whiskey.

Ingredients
  • 4 oz bourbon or rye whiskey (Bulleit 95)
  • 1 oz nocino (Nux Alpina)
  • 4 dashes Angostura bitters
  • 2 dashes orange bitters
Method
  1. Stir with ice about 30 seconds.
  2. Strain over a large cube in each rocks glass; express an orange peel.

Note. The established cocktail use of walnut liqueur: it replaces the sugar.

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