Old Fashioned cocktail with amber ale

Ingredients:

• Ice
• 0.5 cups bourbon
• 1 tbsp. sugar
• 0.5 tsp. bitters, such as Angostura
• 2 bottles of 0.33 l amber ale
• 4 strips orange zest (cut from the orange with a vegetable peeler)
• 4 maraschino cherries (optional)

Preparation:

1. Fill a shaker with ice. Add bourbon, sugar, and bitters and shake well. Pour the drink into four glasses filled with ice and top with half a bottle of ale. Rub the rim of the glass with orange zest and drop it into the cocktail along with the maraschino cherry.