Making A Classic Old-Fashioned
Old-fashioned cocktails, from sidecars to negronis, have been popular for over a decade. But until recently, the Old-Fashioned Cocktail proper was an all-but-forgotten artifact outside a few excellent bars in New York and San Francisco. Its major obstacle to success was that many bartenders — both professional and amateur — had taken to bastardizing the classic recipe with all manners of strange additions, from muddled oranges to splashes of Coca-Cola. While some of those tweaks may make for delicious drinks, they made it hard for a drinker to know what they would get when ordering an Old-Fashioned. Find out how to make the real thing here.
