I know this video is old now, but just for the record, David Wondrich has proven that the Old Fashioned was not created or named at the Pendennis Club. The Old Fashioned is attested to in print several years before the Pendennis Club opened. Although the Club still likes that story.
Another fine example of how to over complicate a simple cocktail. I love how he wiped the citrus oil all over the outside of the glass. You will enjoy that later when you rub it in your eye.
If making cocktails was a course in a good university. This guy would be the professor - he would definitely send kids out for using phones whilst the sermon was being delivered.
Watched this video at the start of the pandemic shutdown been making my old fashion this way ever since. The one exception is I just go with the orange peel. 🍊
i make demerera simple syrup, sometimes with just a hint of vanilla extract, otherwise pretty much the same. touch heavy on the ango, and absolutely rittenhouse. that all said, recently got a tip from a bar around here that makes a killer oldie, the bartender was clearly a biiiit sauced end of night... now using maple syrup + demerara blend. he does only maple but i like the mix. really a suuuuper nice touch. especially if you miss a bit of the bourbon sweet profile but still want the spice and bite of rye.
I would argue that the single greatest thing about cocktails is that there are no standard recipes and so wherever you go, each drink is a new experience
@@TheEducatedBarfly There's an old joke about a bartender unable to satisfy a regular who constantly complained that his old fashioned was too sweet. Night after night the barkeep reduced the sugar, the garnish... then the bitters and eventually even the water. After weeks of frustration the regular sat at his bar and ordered an old fashioned with the quip, "And not too sweet this time." The tender, at his wits end, slammed a tumbler on the counter, threw in an ice cube and dumped three fingers of his well rye over the top. The regular took a stiff pull from the glass and declared aloud: "Now THAT'S an old fashioned."
I pretty much only drink Old Fashioned and this point. After experimenting this is how I almost always drink them. 2 oz Basil Hayden’s Kentucky Straight Bourbon (not Rye just the regular) A teaspoon of Sugar or Cube (I have even used a single packet of Splenda and can't tell the difference) A few dashes of Angostura Orange Bitters Half to Full teaspoon of the syrup from the Luxardo Cherries Mix well in a mixing glass with ice. Pour over clear ice ball/cube Add a Luxardo Cherry (Really if you are using cherry this is the only one you should be using period) Add an Orange peel. (If I am lazy I'll just put in half an orange slice) Enjoy!
I found a better way... This is the best Old Fashioned I have made yet. 2 oz Basil Hayden’s Kentucky Straight Bourbon (not Rye just the regular) 3/4 Oz Proof Pecan Syrup. A few dashes of Angostura Orange Bitters Half to Full teaspoon of the syrup from the Luxardo Cherries Mix well in a mixing glass with ice. Pour over a clear ice ball/cube Add a Luxardo Cherry (Really if you are using cherry this is the only one you should be using period) Add an Orange peel twisted
@@josedelacruz1270 I try to estimate the same amount of sugar as a sugar cube, which as far as I can tell is somewhere around a quarter to half ounce. I tend to use rye but sometimes I go half rye half regular whiskey.
I will try one with your suggestion of rye. I have been using Four Roses, Buffalo Trace, or Elijah Craig. I like Ryes. I have some Dickle i can experiment with. I will look for the brand you are using. Cheers!
that this video only has 10k likes is astounding. Brother you are doing great work and ive seen it evolve on the gram. im finally bartending in a craft cocktail setting and you have helped tremendously
Just to correct the misinformation here. The OF was already in Jerry Thomas’ how to mix drinks, almost 25 years before the Pendennis club story. The OF first appeared in the May 6, 1806, issue of The Balance and Columbian Repository in Hudson, New York. By the time the 1880’s rolled around there were a slew of other cocktails using all sorts of liquors and vermouths and fresh ingredients, which is WHY the Cocktail came to be known as the old fashioned cocktail. Easy stuff to look up online. Hard to get this one wrong. And it’s the foundation for all mixed drinks so it’s definitely not the one to get wrong.
Thanks! I’ve gone over all this adinfinitum on the channel already but I appreciate the effort. Although it is wrong, I think the Pendennis club history is worth a telling. I corrected this history on another video :) oh and the old fashioned was not the foundation for all mixed drinks, people were making punch well before the creation of this drink. The Old Fashioned was an extension of the bittered sling, in actuality it is a bittered sling with the addition of ice and made with Whiskey (whereas slings were made with any spirit, often Gin). Thanks for the effort! :)
Some insight on the Rusty Nail- Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones says this was Bobby Keys 🎷 drink of choice and Keith would hang with Bobby as long as he could consuming them.
Give or take an old fashioned is relatively similar. What makes it a Great drink? Hearing stories like that Korean Vet while sipping that Concoction.......
Oh my god. Someone who talks about the grainy evolution of an old fashioned. I. Am. Impressed. I can tell you have enjoyed your fair share. Ive always used a bourbon, I guess Im getting a bottle of rye next!
Spirit, sugar, water, bitters is the original recipe, never defined as a whiskey or bourbon cocktail. I used aged rum, aged gin, brandy while also changing the sugar and bitters . Apple brandy, honey syrup, and walnut bitters w orange peel or aged gin, demerara , peychaud bitters w lemon peel.
Bartenders there are fanatics about their Old Fashioneds. Always made with brandy, usually with orange slice, maraschino cherry and Angustora bitters muddled. Sprite for sweet or Squirt for tart. One bartender brought the mix for his Old Fashioneds from home in gallon jugs so no one could find out what was in them. Yours is certainly a classic Old Fashioned, I've enjoyed more than my share like this. Digging your videos.
@@oldrustycars I think you're referring to the author of the video, I'm just your average closeted alcoholic, anyway I get what you're saying but I don't believe that that kind of attitude is positive for a comunity, not referring to your behaviour specifically, I'm talking about fanatic bartenders who have eccessivly strict preconceptions on what a drink is supposed to be. If it boils down to personal preference it should be treated as a suggestion more than a thightening of the circle of accepted recipies: if a client asks you for an old fashoned 95% of the time they are referring to a whiskey/sugar/bitters/water cocktail and you shouldn't assume they'll like it better the Wisconsin way, maybe just suggest them they try it with brandy? explain that It's your local tradition and it would make for a better thematic experience, I would feel more welcome that way and way more incline to try it rather than being told that the way i like things is wrong.
@@TheNem3sys I find in my travels different places take pride in how they do things. My friend in Boston says a Chicago style hot dog looks like someone spilled salad on a perfectly fine hot dog. We all insist our style of pizza is correct. Old Fashioneds in Wisconsin are just one of these things. One smart ass bartender near Chicago gave me grief for asking for a vodka martini, insisting it must be made with gin to be a martini. In any case, no offense intended and I hope none was taken. My first replay was sarcasm, but I will say if you just ask for an Old Fashioned in Wisconsin and you have a 30 year veteran New York bartender serving one like the video shows you will get questioned. Cheers.
@@oldrustycars yeah maybe I took your comment a bit too seriously, sorry if my answer came out as passive aggressive, sometimes I find social situations to be hard and really wouldn't like getting judged for my taste and extended that to a broad category
Let me preface this by saying that I'm not a fan of the practice of soaking a sugar cube with bitters and muddling it into a paste. Way back in the 19th century bartenders started opting for sugar syrup when sweetening drinks, so the whole sugar cube approach is a bit of hipster affectation in my opinion. *That said*, there's really no wrong way to make an Old Fashioned, and you raise some interesting points in favour of using a sugar cube (i.e. the grainy texture, etc.). I still prefer mine with 2:1 demerara syrup (or maple syrup if I'm feeling fancy), but yours looks tasty too :)
Is it frowned upon if I like to add 1oz of soda water instead of just a dash? I just prefer to sip a little longer than just a 2oz drink. I'm not going to stop doing it lol I was just wondering how many people do that.
I need help guys... why do some places place a napkin on the glass, but the sugar cube on it, than the bitters, wait for a sugar to absorb what it can, than the napkin is removed?
Do you mean placing the napkin first then the glass on top? That's just standard presentation/serving practice. Other reasons could be it will make cleanup easier if there's spillage when making a drink!
Tutorial starts: 3:01
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I know this video is old now, but just for the record, David Wondrich has proven that the Old Fashioned was not created or named at the Pendennis Club. The Old Fashioned is attested to in print several years before the Pendennis Club opened. Although the Club still likes that story.
Now I know why Gordon Ramsay is successful, the way he present a dish idea. Share the methods, and camera and cuts
The drink is also 100% wrong
John Irby: can you explain how the drink he made is wrong? I am just getting into different cocktails and would like to know.
Great video!
Your old fashioned looks great. I'm gonna try the dual-peel idea.
love the history. helps us all appreciate the beverages...
Such a superb old fashioned recipe 👏👏👏
Absolutely the correct method !
Great video... enjoy the history
Gosh this is do beautiful
Thanks for the great videos
Well done. I have a bar cart at home and I like Mixing drinks for my Fiancé. This looks dope. Thank you.
Perfection!!!
History is fascinating
Great video
I like the history part too!
I know this video is old (by Internet standards), but:
1. I love the history
2. Thank you for not muddling the cherry. I hate hate hate that
Great video. Looks tasty
I love the history
Very nice
Loved it!
First bartending shift today, I lied about my experience and I’m using you to supplement my lack of knowledge. Wish me luck lol
Great vid
6:08 Ever thought of using dried orange peel if you are out of oranges?
I make mine with prickly pear syrup. Add black walnut bitter extra and cherry wood smoke.
sounds great
Bring back this Leandro
I don’t got the hairline for it anymore 😂
I like the history
I tried the Old Fashioned. But I like the Improved better.
Good to know :-)
Another fine example of how to over complicate a simple cocktail. I love how he wiped the citrus oil all over the outside of the glass. You will enjoy that later when you rub it in your eye.
If making cocktails was a course in a good university. This guy would be the professor - he would definitely send kids out for using phones whilst the sermon was being delivered.
Exactly how I make mine minus the lemon peel, may have to try that
Try it with both lemon and orange! Makes for a great sip!
He stirred it at 132 revolutions.
Made this with a teaspoon of superfine and it wasn't grainy at all, gonna buy some sugar cubes tomorrow.
Watched this video at the start of the pandemic shutdown been making my old fashion this way ever since. The one exception is I just go with the orange peel. 🍊
Time is money. Let's go buddy!!!
Patience is a virtue
I like it! I need one now!!!
Dude got a fire name
i make demerera simple syrup, sometimes with just a hint of vanilla extract, otherwise pretty much the same. touch heavy on the ango, and absolutely rittenhouse. that all said, recently got a tip from a bar around here that makes a killer oldie, the bartender was clearly a biiiit sauced end of night... now using maple syrup + demerara blend. he does only maple but i like the mix. really a suuuuper nice touch. especially if you miss a bit of the bourbon sweet profile but still want the spice and bite of rye.
Yada Yada Yada 3:01 just make the fucking drink........
we love to add smoke cherry wood smoke to those bad boys. best beverage ever made.
Please keep the history portion, it elevates the show. 😊
*Your name is a **_revelation_*
This is the one an real old fashioned. No mistakes. Well done!
The ultimate irony of the name "Old Fashioned" is that no two humans in the world can agree on a standardized recipe.
I would argue that the single greatest thing about cocktails is that there are no standard recipes and so wherever you go, each drink is a new experience
@@TheEducatedBarfly There's an old joke about a bartender unable to satisfy a regular who constantly complained that his old fashioned was too sweet. Night after night the barkeep reduced the sugar, the garnish... then the bitters and eventually even the water. After weeks of frustration the regular sat at his bar and ordered an old fashioned with the quip, "And not too sweet this time."
The tender, at his wits end, slammed a tumbler on the counter, threw in an ice cube and dumped three fingers of his well rye over the top.
The regular took a stiff pull from the glass and declared aloud:
"Now THAT'S an old fashioned."
As someone from WI, I LOATHE the fact my state completely bastardized such a classic cocktail.
I pretty much only drink Old Fashioned and this point. After experimenting this is how I almost always drink them.
2 oz Basil Hayden’s Kentucky Straight Bourbon (not Rye just the regular)
A teaspoon of Sugar or Cube (I have even used a single packet of Splenda and can't tell the difference)
A few dashes of Angostura Orange Bitters
Half to Full teaspoon of the syrup from the Luxardo Cherries
Mix well in a mixing glass with ice.
Pour over clear ice ball/cube
Add a Luxardo Cherry (Really if you are using cherry this is the only one you should be using period)
Add an Orange peel. (If I am lazy I'll just put in half an orange slice)
Enjoy!
I found a better way... This is the best Old Fashioned I have made yet.
2 oz Basil Hayden’s Kentucky Straight Bourbon (not Rye just the regular)
3/4 Oz Proof Pecan Syrup.
A few dashes of Angostura Orange Bitters
Half to Full teaspoon of the syrup from the Luxardo Cherries
Mix well in a mixing glass with ice.
Pour over a clear ice ball/cube
Add a Luxardo Cherry (Really if you are using cherry this is the only one you should be using period)
Add an Orange peel twisted
I like how I get a history listen on each cocktail. Makes me feel more informed
Old Fashioneds are my no 1 I’m lazy and I want to make a quick drink at home cocktail. I personally love Genever and even Gin old fashioned’s
Nobody can make a simple thing like pouring a drink sound like atomic science like a barman can.
Hey buddy, I tried your style of Old Fashioned and Aha!.... I loved the lemon kick. Question though - how can I store left over orange/lemon? Cheers.
For what it's worth, I've found I enjoy maple syrup in place of sugar in my Old Fashions.
Ohhh interesting. How much do you add if you don’t mind me asking? Do you use rye?
@@josedelacruz1270 I try to estimate the same amount of sugar as a sugar cube, which as far as I can tell is somewhere around a quarter to half ounce. I tend to use rye but sometimes I go half rye half regular whiskey.
well done! i love a good old fashion and this video is superb! Thanks
Can we have a moment to appreciate the size of that fucking ice cube
Now that’s the quintessential “lump” of ice….
Any video on the Drunken Pecan cocktail? Tried one in Savannah and it was spectacular.
I will try one with your suggestion of rye. I have been using Four Roses, Buffalo Trace, or Elijah Craig. I like Ryes. I have some Dickle i can experiment with. I will look for the brand you are using. Cheers!
that this video only has 10k likes is astounding. Brother you are doing great work and ive seen it evolve on the gram. im finally bartending in a craft cocktail setting and you have helped tremendously
Thanks for the support! It’s much appreciated!
Please do an Añejo old fashioned.
Not wild about the dash of soda, but otherwise legit.
Try one with and try one without and tell me which you prefer
Where the fuck do I get an ice cube like that?
I make them in my freezer it's very easy!
Old fashions are my favorite cocktail. Never gets old.
Nothing better when you want a good, spirit forward cocktail!
Just like I like it. Used Wild Turkey 101.
Instead of sugar or simple syrup…would honey work?
I gots to follow a fellow Leandro
Haha! Yes!
Wisconsin old fashioned
We did a video on it
You have a gigantic head. Also, you're a fantastic mixologist.
Did you mean that I have a gigantic head because you think im full of myself or literally I have a gigantic head (in size?) 😂 truly intrigued
I want that….like ….right now.
try replacing the sugar with Decco Maraschino Cherry syrup (if you can get it)
Here to see what that blonde chick on Twitter got wrong since I don't drink
Just to correct the misinformation here. The OF was already in Jerry Thomas’ how to mix drinks, almost 25 years before the Pendennis club story. The OF first appeared in the May 6, 1806, issue of The Balance and Columbian Repository in Hudson, New York. By the time the 1880’s rolled around there were a slew of other cocktails using all sorts of liquors and vermouths and fresh ingredients, which is WHY the Cocktail came to be known as the old fashioned cocktail.
Easy stuff to look up online. Hard to get this one wrong. And it’s the foundation for all mixed drinks so it’s definitely not the one to get wrong.
Thanks! I’ve gone over all this adinfinitum on the channel already but I appreciate the effort. Although it is wrong, I think the Pendennis club history is worth a telling.
I corrected this history on another video :) oh and the old fashioned was not the foundation for all mixed drinks, people were making punch well before the creation of this drink. The Old Fashioned was an extension of the bittered sling, in actuality it is a bittered sling with the addition of ice and made with Whiskey (whereas slings were made with any spirit, often Gin). Thanks for the effort! :)
Can you use the same orange on multiple cocktails? Just wondered whether the orange turns bad if you let it be for multiple days without it's peel.
Joel Holmqvist you can use it but it will go bad faster without its peel but it’ll last a day or two
Over Christmas I learned hot to make a rusty nail. Very enjoyable.
Some insight on the Rusty Nail- Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones says this was Bobby Keys 🎷 drink of choice and Keith would hang with Bobby as long as he could consuming them.
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Try one. It's very enjoyable. 2 is my limit to make me comfortable.
@@michaelprosperity3420 oh I have and agree 2-3 and I’m good to go.
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Cheers.
I wonder when they will open the boarder between our countries. Do you guys have problems with Illegal Americans? LOL
@@michaelprosperity3420 don’t be fooled by my last name. I’ve been to Canada once - Toronto for SARS concert at Downsview Park concert.
What's the perfect glass size for old fashioned?
I've seen a few different ones... yet another one to try
Super 👌
Give or take an old fashioned is relatively similar. What makes it a Great drink? Hearing stories like that Korean Vet while sipping that Concoction.......
Oh my god. Someone who talks about the grainy evolution of an old fashioned. I. Am. Impressed. I can tell you have enjoyed your fair share. Ive always used a bourbon, I guess Im getting a bottle of rye next!
Nicely done. I love that Boos Block but Holy $chnoikies
Spirit, sugar, water, bitters is the original recipe, never defined as a whiskey or bourbon cocktail. I used aged rum, aged gin, brandy while also changing the sugar and bitters . Apple brandy, honey syrup, and walnut bitters w orange peel or aged gin, demerara , peychaud bitters w lemon peel.
sugar cube soda water < demarara syrup
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I like an old-fashioned with Woodford Reserve. That is my order.
Would brown sugar work?
My old fashioned involves using 3/4 oz simple syrup instead of sugar cube and the rest is same. Voila ! Delicious. Rye whiskey
One shot Woodford Reserve
1 tsp simple syrup
4 dashes orange bitters
I tsp elderflower liquor
1 large icecube
2 Bada Bing Cherries
Hi there, I would like to make it with Hennessy if it's ok ?
Cheers to you. Love the content and lemon and bourbon...but not in the old fashioned...straight orange for me. But cheers to those who do!!
Where do you get the bitter bottles, and the absinthe? I should of asked this question on the other video...
I really enjoy the history about the drinks.
Serve this Old Fashioned in a bar in Wisconsin and see what happens.
Can you elaborate?
Bartenders there are fanatics about their Old Fashioneds. Always made with brandy, usually with orange slice, maraschino cherry and Angustora bitters muddled. Sprite for sweet or Squirt for tart. One bartender brought the mix for his Old Fashioneds from home in gallon jugs so no one could find out what was in them. Yours is certainly a classic Old Fashioned, I've enjoyed more than my share like this. Digging your videos.
@@oldrustycars I think you're referring to the author of the video, I'm just your average closeted alcoholic, anyway I get what you're saying but I don't believe that that kind of attitude is positive for a comunity, not referring to your behaviour specifically, I'm talking about fanatic bartenders who have eccessivly strict preconceptions on what a drink is supposed to be. If it boils down to personal preference it should be treated as a suggestion more than a thightening of the circle of accepted recipies: if a client asks you for an old fashoned 95% of the time they are referring to a whiskey/sugar/bitters/water cocktail and you shouldn't assume they'll like it better the Wisconsin way, maybe just suggest them they try it with brandy? explain that It's your local tradition and it would make for a better thematic experience, I would feel more welcome that way and way more incline to try it rather than being told that the way i like things is wrong.
@@TheNem3sys I find in my travels different places take pride in how they do things. My friend in Boston says a Chicago style hot dog looks like someone spilled salad on a perfectly fine hot dog. We all insist our style of pizza is correct. Old Fashioneds in Wisconsin are just one of these things. One smart ass bartender near Chicago gave me grief for asking for a vodka martini, insisting it must be made with gin to be a martini. In any case, no offense intended and I hope none was taken. My first replay was sarcasm, but I will say if you just ask for an Old Fashioned in Wisconsin and you have a 30 year veteran New York bartender serving one like the video shows you will get questioned. Cheers.
@@oldrustycars yeah maybe I took your comment a bit too seriously, sorry if my answer came out as passive aggressive, sometimes I find social situations to be hard and really wouldn't like getting judged for my taste and extended that to a broad category
Let me preface this by saying that I'm not a fan of the practice of soaking a sugar cube with bitters and muddling it into a paste. Way back in the 19th century bartenders started opting for sugar syrup when sweetening drinks, so the whole sugar cube approach is a bit of hipster affectation in my opinion. *That said*, there's really no wrong way to make an Old Fashioned, and you raise some interesting points in favour of using a sugar cube (i.e. the grainy texture, etc.). I still prefer mine with 2:1 demerara syrup (or maple syrup if I'm feeling fancy), but yours looks tasty too :)
Damn bro! Your def an inspiration to me! Ive followed you for about 3 years now and now i barely found out your fuckin name!
Is it frowned upon if I like to add 1oz of soda water instead of just a dash? I just prefer to sip a little longer than just a 2oz drink.
I'm not going to stop doing it lol I was just wondering how many people do that.
Hi sir , I have a question , Is there any substitute for bitters in this drink? because where I live you don't get any bitters
Love the history. Buy a muddler. 😊
If using simple syrup will the soda water be needed? Thanks in advance
No soda if using simple
Very close to a Sazerac..
Any help on cocktails to use up an unwanted bottle of Drambuie would be very gratefully received
make a Rusty Nail! Thats the iconic Drambuie drink.
2oz (60ml) Scotch
1oz (30ml) Drambuie
Stir, Rock Ice, Orange twist
@@TheEducatedBarfly Thanks that's absolutely great !!!!
I need help guys... why do some places place a napkin on the glass, but the sugar cube on it, than the bitters, wait for a sugar to absorb what it can, than the napkin is removed?
Do you mean placing the napkin first then the glass on top? That's just standard presentation/serving practice. Other reasons could be it will make cleanup easier if there's spillage when making a drink!
T-t-t-today junior!
This is actually also my favorite way to enjoy an old-fashioned 👍
Whenever I see this drink I kept thinking of Emma Stones seeing Ryan Goslings' abs and went like "FUCK! Serious!? It's like you're photoshopped!"