Old Fashioned

The Old Fashioned has a spirit-forward, sweet, bitter, warming flavor profile. The Old Fashioned is the original cocktail, dating back to the early 1800s. It strips a drink down to its bare essentials: spirit, sugar, water, and bitters. Served over a large ice cube, it lets the warmth and complexity of bourbon take center stage.

A Old Fashioned requires 5 ingredients: Bourbon Whiskey, Simple Syrup, Angostura Bitters, Maraschino Cherry, Orange Peel.

A Old Fashioned takes about 5 minutes to prepare and is considered easy difficulty.

A Old Fashioned is traditionally served in a Rocks glass, garnished with Orange peel and maraschino cherry.

Yes, you can make a mocktail version of the Old Fashioned by substituting the spirits with non-alcoholic alternatives such as seedlip, non-alcoholic distilled spirits, or flavored syrups and juices that mimic the original flavor profile.

The Old Fashioned emerged in the 1880s as a rebellion against the increasingly elaborate cocktails of the Gilded Age. When bartenders began adding fruit juices, liqueurs, and exotic ingredients to their whiskey drinks, traditionalists pushed back, demanding their cocktails be made the 'old-fashioned way'—with just whiskey, sugar, bitters, and water. The Pendennis Club in Louisville, Kentucky, often gets credit for popularizing the drink, though variations appeared simultaneously across America. During Prohibition, the cocktail evolved to mask the harsh flavors of bootleg whiskey, often loaded with muddled fruit. Post-Prohibition saw the drink's resurrection in its purer form, though it wasn't until the craft cocktail renaissance of the 2000s that bartenders truly returned to its minimalist roots. The show 'Mad Men' cemented its cultural status, making Don Draper's preferred libation a symbol of sophisticated masculinity and timeless American taste.