Absinthe Old Fashioned

 Doug Petry of Louisville’s Rye restaurant devised this absinthe-based old fashioned. It reads quite sweet but it rounds out nicely into a surprisingly delicious cocktail.

Ingredients:

• ½ oz Classic Gum Syrup
• 1 ½ oz absinthe
  
• ½ oz elderflower liqueur
  
• 4 dashes Peychaud's bitters

Instructions:

• Add all ingredients except bitters to a mixing glass with ice
• Stir 20 seconds and strain into a rocks glass filled with ice
  
• dash bitters on top to layer

Glass:

• rocks

Garnish:

• none
  

Photo:

 Scott Kallstrand