Ingredients:

• 2 ounces good bourbon such as Four Roses, Heaven Hill bottled in bond Kentucky Straight whiskey, or Woodford Reserve
• 3 dashes Bitter Housewife aromatic bitters
• barspoon, or 1/4 ounce Simple Goodness Apple Pie syrup (see note on substitutions) *
• one 2 inch square ice cube, or the largest ice cubes you have
• apple smoking chips, smoking kit
• optional- 1 ounce club soda
• orange twist (an approximatly two inch section of peel, cut avoiding the bitter white pith)
• cocktail cherry

In a mixing glass or the glass that came with your smoking kit, combine the bitters and syrup, and stir these together. Next add the bourbon and a two inch square ice cube and stir, using a long handled barspoon, 10-15 times around. Put the top on your smoking kit onto the top of the glass. Add a small pinch of smoking chips to the screen, and light these with a butane tourch. When the chips form embers and begin to smoke, close the top so the smoke can collect into the glass below. Let the glass fill with smoke and infuse the drink with flavor for about 15 seconds. Then remove the top of the smoking kit from the glass and finish the cocktail. Optional- add 1 ounce of club soda to open up the drink and make a lighter cocktail, like we did here, since these drinks were served as an early supper event.  Finish the drink by rubbing a one inch ornage twist along the rim of the glass, then squeezing it over the top of the drink, to express the oils from the orange rind. Add a cocktail cherry, if desired.

* Note: if desired, substitute the Apple Pie syrup for one of our other Old Fashioned-friendly syrup flavors like Orange Vanilla or Rhubarb Vanilla and still have great results, if less seasonally intune.