Old Fashioned
The cocktail that started everything.
Spirit, sugar, bitters, water — the original definition of the word 'cocktail'. No sour mix. No splash of anything. Just spirit doing the heavy lifting.
Ingredients
- 45 ml
- 1 cube
- 2 dashes
- splash
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Garnish
Orange peel, optional cherry
Method
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The lesson
This is the baseline for every spirit-forward drink. Get it right and you understand how sweetness cuts bitterness while the spirit stays in charge — 40% of the classics make sense automatically.
Twist
Break this classicBreak it in the Lab — the twists and directions on this classic.
