The Old Fashioned is one of the original cocktails and was created sometime in the 1700s... or 1830’s... Sometime between then. No one is really sure. What we do know about the Old Fashioned is that it was created by a guy or woman, who really likes whiskey, but just wanted to be fancy about it.
The ingredients to the Old Fashioned:
It’s basically a class of whisky, with a sugar cube... and some other shit..
Okay.. The ingredients to the old fashioned:
2 oz Bourbon whiskey
1 Demerara sugar cube. (Demerara sugar is basically unbleached sugar)
3-4 dashes of bitters.
Instructions:
Take a whiskey glass and place one Demerara sugar cube in the whiskey glass. Soak the sugar cube in 3 to 4 dashes of bitters. You can then add a splash of club soda or water, but most commonly club soda. I don’t usually do that. I used about 0.25 oz of lemon juice tonight... some bartenders don’t add a splash of anything at all... I’m getting sidetracked. Just fucking experiment and see what you like. Once the sugar cube is sufficiently soaked, muddle the sugar cube and bitters, and possibly club soda or lemon juice, maybe even both, into a grainy liquid.
Then add 2 ounces of bourbon whiskey. Stir until thoroughly mixed, then add one large rock of ice (I used a skull-shaped ice mold) and stir until the drink is sufficiently chilled.
Take the peel of an orange and lemon (usually just orange). Squeeze them over the top of the cocktail to express the oils. Rub the rim of the glass with both the lemon and orange peels (or just the orange) and it /them place them into the cocktail. Enjoy.
My review of the Old Fashioned:
Have you ever watched a whole bunch of people that you really care about completely fall apart mentally because of the stress of an AI taking their job, in this never-ending nightmare year? You may think to yourself, "I'm fine... I'm completely fine... no problems here!" as you completely lose your shit on a random guy in a parking lot while waiting for your curbside pickup of a USB-C Cable. The Old Fashioned might be the cocktail for you. Just follow the instructions above, sit back, and enjoy this masterpiece cocktail, or seven of them. Enjoy them until you wake up the next morning in the exact spot you started enjoying this magical cocktail, wondering to yourself, "What the fuck happened? Why am I in my neighbor's backyard? Where did I get this beef jerky? Whose dog is this?" All of your problems from before are no longer on your mind because we have new mysteries of life to figure out. Enjoy.
Rating: 5/5
I will not confirm or deny that the things above may or may not have happened to me.