The Old Fashioned is basically the OG cocktail. The first reference to it—as well as the first published definition of the word "cocktail"—came in the May 13, 1806 edition of a newspaper called The Balance and Columbian Repository. It was there that the paper's editor referred to a cocktail as consisting of spirits, bitters, water, and sugar.
As for the name "Old Fashioned," that didn't come about until 1881, when a bartender at the Pendennis Club in Louisville, Kentucky, made the drink—this time with bourbon, bitters, club soda, muddled sugar, and ice—to honor Colonel James E. Pepper, a prominent bourbon distiller, who eventually brought it to the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel bar in New York City.
All of which is to say, it's a cocktail that's been around for a while. And for good reason. The sweetness makes it smoother than a lot of other whiskey-based drinks, though it remains a strong, square-jawed option with an aura of Rat Pack cool. Fortunately, with few ingredients, it's also an easy cocktail to make. Almost as easy as it is to drink.
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dashes Angostura bitters
- Place the sugar cube (or 1/2 teaspoon loose sugar) in an Old Fashioned glass.
- Wet it down with 2 or 3 dashes of Angostura bitters and a short splash of club soda.
- Crush the sugar with a wooden muddler, chopstick, strong spoon, lipstick, cartridge case, whatever.
- Rotate the glass so that the sugar grains and bitters give it a lining.
- Add a large ice cube.
- Pour in the rye (or bourbon).
- Serve with a stirring rod, and garnish with an orange slice if you're so inclined.
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