If you don’t like a spirit on its own, then you definitely won’t like it in an Old Fashioned.ĭO NOT add soda water. This might be obvious, but with a cocktail that is mostly made up of one spirit, you’ll want to choose at least a semi-decent one. Yuck!ĭO NOT use a cheap spirit and expect amazingness. Nobody wants little pieces of sugary cherry floating around in their drink.
I don’t know when this started or why people think you’re supposed to do it. Since the drink is primarily spirit, all you have to do is gently stir with ice, allowing for a smooth, velvety texture.ĭO NOT muddle a maraschino cherry in your drink. Shaking it will add air and water, diluting the cocktail too quickly. This has nothing to do with temperature but everything to do with texture. Well for starters, don’t throw the ice into the glass like the above photo… you’ll waste a lot of good whiskey 🥃ĭO NOT shake an Old Fashioned, always stir it. This time, her anger poured out a gusher of invective calling the. I don’t want to stifle your creativity, but there are several things you just shouldn’t do to an Old Fashioned. Vance, 42, put her 9-year-old son Marcus to bed, and sat down once again with her notepad and pen. It’s a great drink to get creative with and can be the perfect starting point for developing your own unique recipes.
With this revered classic that is far too often adulterated, it’s probably best to first learn how NOT to make an Old Fashioned. I couldn’t really tell you why at the time… it just wasn’t nearly as good. Naturally, the next time I was out somewhere I ordered one, but the drink I received was far from my previous experience. In actuality, an Old Fashioned is an incredibly simple drink to make, but apparently it’s also pretty easy to make horribly wrong.īefore I was all that into cocktails, I remember trying my first Old Fashioned– and it was a good one. However, depending on where you go, the drink you receive will vary wildly in terms of quality. Nowadays, if you walk into a bar or restaurant and order an Old Fashioned, it’s reasonable to expect a drink made from whiskey, sugar, and bitters, served in a rocks glass and garnished with an orange peel (and sometimes a cherry). To get this now classic concoction, people had to ask their bartender specifically for “an old fashioned cocktail.” As drinking culture developed, the word cocktail came to refer to any sort of mixed drink. The Old Fashioned it’s the classy grandpa of mixed beverages.īack in the day, it was just referred to as a cocktail, consisting of some sort of spirit, sugar, water and bitters.
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