Morgan's Old Fashioned

Here's how to stir up an 'Old Fashioned'. The manliest drink to order, what grandma used to drink between shifts at the tank factory. Traditionally made with American Bourbon whiskey, sugar, ice, water, bitters, orange peel and cherry. You'll like this drink if you're into rap music, pointy shoes or breathing oxygen.

Fact: It's called on Old Fashioned because it's served in an old fashioned glass.

Get these things: 

• Whiskey (American Bourbon) or whatever you can find

• Sugar (I'm using maple syrup)

• Ice

• Bitters

• Orange 

If you don't keep a stock of poison and oranges, improvise and use whatever you can find - you'll probably get lucky and make your old fashioned even more awesome by using weird ingredients. I've replaced the sugar with maple syrup and the water with not water (more whiskey). The orange peel is important, it adds a delicate zesty aroma.

The better the whiskey - the less stuff you need to add. I've got a nice expensive one so I'm going to keep it minimal and let the whiskey do the talking.

Do this with the things:

• Muddle together ice and a mouse face sized amount of bitters and maple syrup in an old fashioned glass.

• Peel an orange from top to bottom and slice thin. For style points you can put your peel in a bowl of ice water which fixes your posing peel into a screw.

• Pour in whiskey, stir lots, stick in your orange peel and serve.

When you're done, you should smoke that cigar you've been saving for a special occasion and leave everything out because you'll be making yourself another one.

Morgan Musselle