Mr. E Imbibes

Aeropress Old Fashioned

This is a fun and refreshing change of pace drink. Part coffee, part cocktail, but still appropriate for work!

Picture of a Coffee Old Fashioned

The Software

  • 30 grams coffee beans

  • 200 grams water at 203℉

  • 2 or 3 dashes agnostura bitters

  • orange peel

  • 3/4 oz simple syrup

The Hardware

  • Aeropress

  • Kettle

  • Grinder

  • Cocktail shaker

  • Low ball glass

Method

  1. Grind the coffee to a not quite espresso fineness. (on Baratza grinders it would be an 8/30)

  2. Brew the coffee in your inverted Aeropress.

  3. Cool the coffee at least to room temperature. You can let it set out or stick in the fridge if you’re patient, but I prefer to brew it right over some fake ice cubes. Just don’t use real ice made of water.

  4. Make the drink. In a cocktail shaker with real ice combine the coffee, simple syrup and bitters and SHAKE WITH ALL YOUR MIGHT for 20 seconds or so.

  5. Pour the drink through a fine mesh strainer into a low ball glass over ice.

  6. Serve the drink garnished with the orange peel. Roll the peel between your thumb finger over the glass to get all those essences out.