This tiki-Christmas riff on the Old-Fashioned from Boilermaker’s Sam Gauthier swaps in Scotch for whiskey and pineapple gomme syrup for sweetener and adds a dash of absinthe for good measure.
“This drink had to have touch of smoke to it,” he says, in reference to the second half of the idiom referenced in the cocktail’s name, “and what better way than with Scotch?”