Stirred · Rocks
GarnishOrange peel and cherry
Stirred · Rocks
Jim Meehan, Prairie School, Chicago
Tall Boxes cocktail recipe
What goes in it
- 2 oz
- 0.25 ozSimple syrup (1:1)
House prep · Recipe below ↓
- 3 dashesAngostura bitters
Bottle · Angostura Bitters
- 0.5Orange wheel
- 1Cherry
Method · Stirred
- 1Muddle the half orange wheel and cherry with the bitters and syrup in a mixing glass.
- 2Add the brandy and ice, stir until chilled and fine strain over one large cube in a chilled rocks glass.
- 3Garnish with a triangle of orange peel and a cherry on a pick.
- Glass
- Rocks
- Ice
- Large cube
- Garnish
- Orange peel and cherry
Prep ahead
House prep
Simple Syrup (1:1)
- Yield
- Example batch: 500 g sugar, 500 g water
- Keeps
- 1 month
- Storage
- Refrigerated
Ingredients
- 1 partwhite sugar (by weight)
- 1 partboiling water (by weight)
Method
- 1Weigh equal parts sugar and boiling water from the hot water kettle. Stir well until the sugar dissolves. Let cool down and bottle. Label the bottle. Refrigerate.
About the Tall Boxes
Tall Boxes is an Old Fashioned-style cocktail made with bonded brandy, simple syrup (1:1) and angostura bitters, created by Jim Meehan at Prairie School.
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