Transcript: Peach Old Fashioned

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Episode “Peach Old Fashioned”

Alberta: Greetings, hello and welcome aboard it is time to make the fresh Alberta Peach Old Fashioned and this is a super yummy summer drink. You’re sitting on your front porch and you drink it and you’re like oh, it is refreshing and it is good it is strong. Alright so it is super yummy and I’m going to tell you what to do.
First of all get some Alberta peaches to be honest with you I don’t really have Alberta peaches but when I was little my uncle called me Alberta peach so I like to call all peaches Alberta peaches, so that is why it is the fresh Alberta peach old fashioned.
So what I do first of all to start off with is I soak my Alberta peaches and my ginger cardamom sugar so watch a old episode to find out how to make it because what happens when you do this is your peaches get nice and soft and really flavorful, they’re easy to muddle and they taste super gingery and good and so that is what you need to do, try it. So first of all you pour in, I use raw sugar a real old fashion, a traditional old fashion is a cube of sugar I like to use raw sugar because it blends really, really nicely with the bourbon. So I’ll put in raw sugar it is a bout a bar spoon full.
Then I soak the sugar with Angostura bitters, OK and then we use a bar spoon and we’re going to stir it up a little bit to, you can kind of use the red side to muddle and stir. Now you’re not going too, the goal is when you make a traditional old fashioned you are trying to dissolve all of the sugar but you’re not doing that here. The thing is that this raw sugar blends really nice with the peaches and what you want to do is have a nice big straw. Typically at a lot of guys they don’t want to use a strong to drink their drink, but the straws an important part of the drink because you suck up the raw sugar granules with the bourbon in with the peaches and it just makes a really nice blend.
Just kind of do it, trust me do it the flighty way I know it is not very manly but what do you do. So you do not try to dissolve it all you are just stirring a little bit. It is looking kind of dissolved, do you guys see that? But not all of the way and then we are going to put in some oranges, some orange slices. I have a couple of orange slices here and these are from, these are cut pretty thin because I had them from making other drinks, you know you might want to have like a thicker or chunk year, some juice but this is a nice fresh orange and it has some juice coming.
Then you top it off with some of your ginger soaked peaches, Alberta peaches right? And then you’re ready to muddle, OK so let’s start in and muddle. The thing is the peaches, look at these they have been also soaked in the sugar in there so easy to muddle look at them you are mixing them you are muddling, super tasty. So there we go muddling, I have a little piece of ginger in there, let me get it nice and soft.
You’re never going to muddle it all the way; you’re not going to do when you’re trying to make a minty drink. You are trying to just break up the flavors a little bit and let them out. There we go OK, it is looking good. Then we add some crushed ice as you can see here I have an ice crusher and I have got some crushed ice in there, there we go top it off with crushed ice. And then we add some bourbon, about 2 ounces, more if you have a bigger glass that is up to you.
OK so we are going to do just a little bit more stirring. It smells good, I love you peach old fashioned. And then you do not have to do this but a little spray of seltzer on top, though there we go. OK and here is that straw I was talking about, you can just drink up the flavors and the raw sugar and orange and it is so delicious. Fresh Alberta Peach Old Fashioned, OK let me try it. It is good, cheers.
Fresh Peach Old Fashioned:
1. So peach slices and ginger sugar.
2. Add one bar spoon of raw sugar.
3. Soak the sugar in Angostura bitters.
4. Stirring until half dissolved.
5. Add two orange slices.
6. Four peach slices.
7. Muddle!
8. Add crushed ice.
9. 2 oz. of bourbon.
10. Top with seltzer.
11. Serve with a short thick straw.