What is an Old Fashioned?
Old Fashioned: Spirit, sugar, bitters, a twist. The original cocktail. Also the short glass it's served in.
- Category
- Drink family
- Taste
- Spirit-forward, a little sweet, aromatic.
- Strength
- Strong
- Similar to
- a Sazerac
- Also called
- old-fashioned
The story
The first printed definition of a "cocktail," in 1806, was spirit, sugar, water and bitters. By the 1880s drinkers asked for their whiskey cocktail "the old-fashioned way," and the name stuck.