Official Drink of the 2013 Kentucky Bourbon Festival

Each year, during the Kentucky Bourbon Festival, a Mixed Drink Challenge determines the Official Drink of the next year's Bourbon Festival.  A number of area bars and restaurants compete for the drink that will hold the title.

Without further ado.

Kentucky Bourbon Festival 2013 Official Drink

"Oak" Fashioned

Ingredients:

2 ounces bourbon
1/2 ounce Apple Brandy
1/4 ounce Dry Curacao
1/2 teaspoon turbinado sugar
1/8 ounce blood orange bitters
Splash club soda

Directions:

Muddle sugar and bitters in rocks glass. Other ingredients are aged in charred white oak barrel and previously married. Fill glass with barrel aged spirits and stir to combine. Garnish with macerated apple balls.

Special instructions:
Bourbon, Apple Brandy and Dry Curacao are married and aged together in new charred white oak barrel for at least two weeks.