Hey guys, it's Matt with me.
Church, normally you see me here smoking things like brisket
or pork butts,
but today I'm going to show you guys how to
make a smoked Old Fashioned.
This drink is very straightforward to make.
We're going to start out with our oversized piece of
ice,
and there's a couple ways that you can infuse a
smoke element into this drink.
So what we've done today is we've made a smoke
simple syrup.
We started with One Cup of bourbon sugar and 1
cup of water.
We simmered that until the sugar was dissolved and made
this simple syrup.
We're going to add about 1/2 ounce of that.
Can go quarter to half.
I like to go half.
And for our spirits, I'm going with a bourbon.
I work with Texas whiskey,
and I love their bourbon in this Old Fashioned.
Some people like to use a rye whiskey,
so, you know, feel free to make it your own.
But these guys out of Fort Worth,
great friends of ours, they introduced us to this cocktail.
So that's one reason I love it.
Couple dashes of bitters.
I'm going to go with a fancy Luxardo Cherry.
And maybe you know.
More to eat.
Another way to infuse some smoke.
We smoked these oranges because we're going to put a
piece of an orange peel in.
We smoked these for 25 minutes at 2:50,
and you just want to peel off a piece of
it.
I would do that for here on camera,
but I did a few minutes ago and sliced my
finger down to basically a nub.
So we're going to go with the one that I
sliced just a few minutes ago off camera.
So be careful folks. You'll only do that once.
Then you want to try to squeeze the oils of
this peeling over the drink.
Drop it in.
Sticking with the fancy meat church theme,
I'm going to mix it with a white plastic picnic
spoon.
Bandage pinkies out my friends.
Very good, subtle smoke taste,
amazing cocktail.
Ain't mad about that at all.
You guys have suggestions on cocktails that you want to
see?
I've got plenty of them up my sleeve,
but I'd love to hear in the comments below what
you guys want to see in future videos.
You guys get outside, cook something.
See you guys next time.