Classic Twist
Cedar Old Fashioned
The first cocktail ever defined, aged in Yoshino cedar's shadow.
Glass Rocks
Garnish Orange peel
The Story
The Old Fashioned is the cocktail at its most elemental — spirit, sugar, bitters, water — a formula first defined in print in 1806. When later generations of bartenders began dressing drinks up, purists ordered theirs made "the old-fashioned way", and the name stuck for good.
Kamiki Intense, with its deeper cedar aging and warming spice, gives the old formula a Japanese inflection: sandalwood and incense where oak vanilla would usually sit. Build it slowly — dilution and temperature are the real recipe.
The Recipe
How to Make It
Ingredients
- 60ml Kamiki Intense
- 1 tsp Sugar syrup
- 2 dashes Aromatic bitters
Method
- 01 Add the syrup, bitters, and whisky to a mixing glass with ice.
- 02 Stir for 20–30 seconds until well chilled and slightly diluted.
- 03 Strain over one large clear ice cube in a rocks glass.
- 04 Express an orange peel over the surface and drop it in.
