Sip Smart. Sip Green. Sip Delicious. This Old Fashioned Cocktail Tea Bag Changes Everything.

Meet the Old Fashioned cocktail tea bag that's changing how people drink at home, on the road, and everywhere in between.

Making a great Old Fashioned used to require a well-stocked bar, a skilled hand, and a serious commitment to ingredient quality. Most people settle for something far less. We decided to fix that.

Hail M Cocktails' Old Fashioned infusion kit is a cocktail tea bag — a pyramid-shaped bag packed with whole, natural ingredients that infuse directly into your bourbon to create a bar-quality Old Fashioned anywhere you pour one. At home. At a hotel. On a plane. Wherever.

But here's the thing: the format is only as good as what's inside. And what's inside is where Hail M refuses to compromise.

The Old Fashioned is one of the oldest cocktails in existence. It's three things: spirit, sweetness, and bitters. There's nowhere to hide. Which means the quality of every single ingredient lands directly in the glass.

That's why we built our Old Fashioned infusion around whole, natural ingredients you can actually see — and smell — before you even pour your bourbon.

• Air-dried Montgomery tart cherries — No chemical processing. No artificial treatment. Just whole tart cherries, slowly air-dried to concentrate their natural flavor.
• Full orange sections — Not just the peel. Whole orange sections delivering rounder, juicier citrus than zest alone ever could.
• Demerara sugar — Unrefined cane sugar with a deep molasses warmth that adds complexity and depth a standard sweetener simply can't match.
• Small-batch handmade bitters — Crafted in small runs for nuanced, layered bitterness — the backbone of every great Old Fashioned.

Montgomery tart cherries are a heritage variety prized for their bold acidity and concentrated fruit flavor. Air-drying — rather than chemical dehydration — preserves the fruit's natural oils and cellular structure. The result? When your bourbon draws through the whole ingredients inside our Old Fashioned cocktail tea bag, it picks up genuine cherry depth — not the synthetic cherry "flavor" you'd find in a mass-produced kit.

Most Old Fashioned kits use dried orange peel. You get a thin sliver of citrus from the zest and that's it. We use whole orange sections — flesh and all — so the infusion draws the full spectrum of citrus: bright top notes from the oils, rounded sweetness from the fruit itself. It tastes like orange. Because it is orange.

In a cocktail as simple as an Old Fashioned, the sweetener is a major flavor component. Demerara sugar is minimally processed, retaining natural molasses that gives it a warm, caramel depth. White sugar is sharp and flat. Demerara anchors the whole drink — adding a richness that makes every sip feel complete.

The pyramid shape of our cocktail tea bag isn't decorative. It's functional. The open geometry creates room for your bourbon to flow freely around and through the whole ingredients — maximizing contact, maximizing flavor, maximizing every drop. A flat bag compresses ingredients together and limits flow. Our pyramid bag lets everything breathe, bloom, and do its job.

And it looks genuinely beautiful. Which matters — because when ingredients are this good, they deserve to be seen.

Our cocktail tea bag is made from PLA — a corn fiber with zero plastic. No microplastics in your drink. No nylon mesh in a landfill. The outer packaging is fully recyclable. Sipping Hail M means sipping clean in every sense of the word.

Microplastics in conventional tea bags have become a documented concern — standard nylon or polypropylene mesh can shed millions of plastic particles into your drink. We chose PLA because what your cocktail draws its flavor from is just as important as the flavor itself. Clean ingredients deserve a clean vessel.

Making an Old Fashioned with our infusion kit is exactly as easy as it looks — and exactly as delicious as the ingredients promise.

Drop the cocktail tea bag into 2 oz of your favorite bourbon. Let it infuse for 3–5 minutes. Pull the bag. Add ice. That's it. Bar-quality Old Fashioned, whole natural ingredients, zero fuss — whether you're at your home bar or 30,000 feet in the air.

The first thing you'll notice is the smell when you open the kit. Real dried fruit. Real bitters. Real depth. It smells like the best cocktail bar you've ever walked into. That's not an accident. That's what whole, natural ingredients smell like when nobody's cut corners.

Earth Month is a good prompt to think about what we're putting into our bodies — and what we're leaving behind. At Hail M, the clean ingredient philosophy isn't seasonal. It's structural. Every kit we make — from our Old Fashioned to our Gin & Tonic to our Vodka Soda — is built on the same promise: whole ingredients, no shortcuts, nothing you can't pronounce.

Because a great Old Fashioned isn't complicated. It just requires actually caring about what goes into it.

Taste the difference whole, natural ingredients make. Perfect for gifting — or for finally making the Old Fashioned you deserve.

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• Hail M's Old Fashioned cocktail tea bag uses whole, natural ingredients — air-dried Montgomery tart cherries, full orange sections, demerara sugar, small-batch handmade bitters
• Air-drying preserves natural fruit oils for real flavor — not artificial cherry extract
• Whole orange sections deliver fuller citrus than peel alone
• Demerara sugar adds depth and warmth white sugar can't replicate
• Pyramid bag design maximizes bourbon flow through ingredients for a better Old Fashioned infusion
• PLA corn-fiber bag = zero microplastics in your drink
• Recyclable packaging — clean sipping, clean conscience
• Sip Smart. Sip Green. Sip Delicious.