Cocktails

Chocolate Old Fashioned

Looking for a twist on an Old Fashioned? This recipe is for you!

What do you need

Ingredients

  • 2 Dashes Angostura Bitters
  • 2 Dashes Chocolate Bitters
  • 10 ml Honey Chocolate syrup
  • Ice Cubes
  • 40 ml Jameson Black Barrel
  • 2 Dashes Angostura Bitters
  • 2 Dashes Chocolate Bitters
  • ⅓ Parts Honey Chocolate syrup
  • Ice Cubes
  • 1⅓ Parts Jameson Black Barrel
Step-by-step

How to make

  1. Prepare the Honey Chocolate Syrup: In medium saucepan over medium heat, stir together 1 cup honey, 2 cups cocoa powder and 2 cups water until honey dissolves. Increase heat slightly, then simmer 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Refrigerate syrup until cold, about 2 hours.

  2. Prepare the Chocolate Old Fashioned: Add the Jameson Black Barrel, the honey chocolate syrup, 2 dashes of Angostura Bittters and 2 dashes of orange bitters into a mixing glass filled with ice.

  3. Stir well before straining into a rocks glass with ice.

  4. Garnish with an orange twist.

About this Cocktail

Although its origin is not certain, the Old-Fashioned would have been invented by the bartender Martin Cuneo at the “Pendennis Club” in Louisville, Kentucky in 1884. Almost 150 years after, the Old Fashioned is the #1 Cocktail in the World and a perfect way to drink your Jameson Black Barrel.