Agave and Passion

Dialing in flavors has to be one of the most enjoyable and rewarding parts of cocktail creation for me. This is a riff on Phil Ward’s modern classic the Oaxaca Old Fashioned, with the spirit backbone in place but with a touch of passionfruit syrup bolstering the typical agave and subbing out Angostura bitters for a combo of Scrappy’s delicious celery bitters and El Guapo’s amazing tropical fruit offering. Instead of an orange twist, I switched to the much less common lime for the flamed zest and...