Max Makes a Sloppy Old-Fashioned (cocktail)

Max's favorite cocktail is the Old Fashioned.

Ingredients
1 teaspoon or so of brown sugar
3 dashes of Max's homemade bitters; review from Mark D back in June: "Hey man - I tried your bitters - I am blind now…."
1 teaspoon of soda water
2 ounces of Canadian Club whiskey
2 round ice cubes

The Old Fashioned is a cocktail served as an aperitif, made from sugar soaked in bitters (angostura type) to which whisky is added. It is traditionally served with a large ice cube in a tumbler-type whisky glass to which it has given its name: the old fashioned glass.

It is an official cocktail of the IBA, and one of the six basic drinks listed by David A. Embury in his book The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks.

History

The earliest definition of the word "cocktail" appears in 1806 in the weekly Balance and Columbian Repository: "A stimulating liquor, composed of any strong spirit, sugar, water and bitters. "

The "Whiskey Cocktail" was defined in 1862 by Jerry Thomas as consisting of two dashes of Boker's bitters, four dashes of gum syrup and the contents of a whisky wine glass; this mixture was then shaken with fine ice cubes and strained into a glass of red wine before being topped with a lemon peel.

In 2005, an article in the C-J placed the creation of Old Fashioned around 1880 in Louisville, KY in a private club. Its creator, Colonel James E. Pepper, is said to have later brought the recipe to the Waldorf-Astoria. In 2015, the mayor of Louisville recognized it as the city's official cocktail.

The Old Fashioned is the favorite drink of Don Draper's character from the series Mad Men. The appearance in this series coincided with the resurgence of consumer interest in this “forgotten” drink.

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