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Spirit-forward · Built in glass · Historical · complexity 3/5

Brandy Cocktail (Old-Fashioned)

The old-fashioned brandy cocktail is built in the serving glass over a crushed sugar base.

Served in Whiskey glass. Ice: Ice.

Variants (2)

Cocktails How to Make Them by Livermore & Knight Co. (1898, p.16) — Old-Fashioned

lemon peel — A small piece.acid
1 jiggerbrandy base
1 wholesugar — lump of sugarbase
2 dashbitters bitter
hot water — Just enough to cover the sugar.dilution
1 wholeice — One lump ice.other
  1. Crush the lump of sugar in a whiskey glass with sufficient hot water to cover it.
  2. Add one lump of ice, bitters, lemon peel, and brandy.
  3. Stir with a small bar spoon and serve, leaving the spoon in the glass.

Garnish: Lemon peel

Ice: Ice

The Old Waldorf-Astoria Bar Book by Albert Stevens Crockett (1935, p.123)

1 piecelemon peel acid
1 jiggerbrandy base
1 lumpsugar base
1 dashorange bitters bitter
water — aerated waterdilution
1 cubeice other
  1. Build and stir with spoon.

Ice: Ice

See also: Brandy Cocktail