S2E1 // "The Old-Fashioned" [The Blueprint]

It was a no-brainer in selecting the “Old-Fashioned” as the first featured cocktail. It’s a classic cocktail that many people order as their default choice. What defines an old-fashioned? A cocktail primarily focused on the base spirit with a few modifiers such as a sweetening element and a flavoring element. In this first video, we will use the traditional method of making this popular drink, muddling sugar into bitters. I used Bogarts Bitters for this drink, though Angostura Bitters would be the most common choice for most. As for the garnish, both lemon and orange peels will be expressed over the drink, called “bunny ears”.

It was originally just called a whiskey cocktail during the early/mid 1800s. Over time, imported European liqueurs and fortified drinks hit the American market. Bartenders started playing with the construction of the whiskey cocktail, adding these new modifiers to their drink in hopes of creating their own signature concoction. Eventually, patrons moved away from these mixological experiments and craved the unadulterated original version of spirit, sugar, and bitters. They would ask for a whiskey cocktail, “the old-fashioned way.” Thus coined the term, the old-fashioned.

We will be exploring different versions of this popular drink over the next 4 weeks.

My video on the Improved Whiskey Cocktail, the “adulterated” version of this drink before it became an old-fashioned: https://youtu.be/1bg2ZFRr0Fo

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