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Cocktail Recipe
Bourbon Country Reposado Old Fashioned
The structure of a classic Kentucky Old Fashioned, built on barrel-aged reposado tequila instead of bourbon.
- Prep time
- 5 min
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Servings
- 1
- Glass
- Rocks glass, one large cube
Ingredients
- 2 oz Lunazul Reposado Tequila
- 0.25 oz agave nectar (or rich demerara syrup)
- 2 dashes Angostura bitters
- 1 dash orange bitters
- Wide orange peel
Instructions
- 1
Add agave nectar and both bitters to a mixing glass.
- 2
Add the reposado and fill with ice.
- 3
Stir 30 seconds, until properly chilled and slightly diluted.
- 4
Strain over one large cube in a rocks glass.
- 5
Express the orange peel over the surface, then drop it in.
Glassware & Garnish
Serve in a rocks glass, one large cube, garnished with orange peel.
Editor's note: This is the drink we use to introduce bourbon drinkers to agave. Keep the sweetener low — a bourbon-barrel reposado already brings vanilla and oak, and over-sweetening buries the agave underneath it.
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