steve mcqueen

2 oz Buffalo Trace Bourbon (Evan Williams Bonded)
1/2 oz Amaro Meletti
1/2 oz Averna
2 dash Fee's Old Fashioned Bitters (Fee's Whiskey Barrel-Aged)

Stir with ice, strain into a double old fashioned glass with ice, and garnish with a flamed orange twist (unflamed). The 2023 Instagram post lists the Bourbon as Old Forester 100°.Two Mondays ago, I was perusing online recipe flashcard sets when I found one for the Earnest Bar & Hideaway in Nashville that had a curious number called the Steve McQueen. The combination reminded me of the Automatic's Prince Royal but with bitters and without that the Aperol, and of course it reminded me of the Black Manhattan with the Averna split with Meletti. Yelp menu photos have this drink first appearing in 2017, and the bar posted a drink photo and description on their Instagram in 2023. Both provide the subtitle as "the spice rich, booze heavy anti-hero of your father's Manhattan". Once mixed, the Steve McQueen came forth with an orange, caramel, and cinnamon aroma. Next, a caramel-driven sip opened up into Bourbon, caramel, herbal, floral, and cinnamon flavors on the swallow.