How I Make an Old Fashioned | the ONE cocktail you must know

Hey everyone! I realize the E.H. Taylor is quite pricey - it's gone up significantly in recent days (I can't even find it anymore). Just a quick note that you do not have to use this; use your favorite bourbon/whiskey (Very Old Barton is an affordable higher proof alternative). You do want a relatively decent spirit as it is a simple cocktail, but use what works for you! Your drink, your bottle, your choice. Cheers 🥃😊✌️

EHT is my absolute favorite bourbon for am old fashioned as well

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best cocktail ever! can't live even a day without it

I've always used more classic recipes with sugar cubes, but since I added this recipe to the menu, I've managed to make the old one the best-selling cocktail at the restaurant I'm responsible for. Thanks

Just made this. Kiss❤ fantastic. Coming to you live from Middleton Wisconsin.

Whenever I need a solid classic recipe, Anders is where I go to get the dope. I make a ton of cocktails, but this damn drink I always struggle making. Thanks Anders!

This was the reminder to just keep things simple that I didn't know I needed -- after trying to reinvent a Manhattan without the vermouth (but with Amaro ? --- yeah, it only kind-of worked.) But just taking my 90 proof Rye and bitters and sugar and picked-outside-my-apartment Meyer Lemon peel, I got to remember that sometimes less is more.

I work in a brewery/cocktail lounge and get a lot of older men that love my old fashioned. I personally do 2oz of 3 chord bourbon, .5oz demarara syrup, 2 dashes orange bitters, 2 dashes walnut bitters. Express with orange peel & garnish. Always a hit!

Ok, great... but where is the water that you mentioned?

How do you keep the sugar in liquid form. My became solid. Do I just warm it up?

Don’t even have to read the comments to know they’re going to crucify you for using EH Taylor 😂😂😂😂

😂😂😂using eht small batch. Wish I could find an unlimited supply so I can make OF with it. Great video though. I love ango and demerara too.

Not even close.

Found an Aztec Old Fashioned - Replace the bourbon with equal parts tequila and mezcal. Replace the sugar with agave. Use chocolate bitters.

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I prefer a bourbon OF over rye. I always middle my orange with a cherry which I think I picked up from your Wisconsin OF vid. Just used the last of my bourbon on an OF while watching Mad Men but next one I make I'm switching simple for cinnamon syrup. Hopefully it's not too overpowering and more complementary to the orange.

keep it up good sir. i learn a lot with your videos

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I watch and enjoy your cocktail presentations. Question: What do you think about making your old fashion without ice and putting it in the freezer instead to chill the cocktail so as not to dilute it?

What is the most well known cocktail?

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The title of the video was cut off when I saw it originally on my phone and it said, "how I make an old fa..." I thought the video was going to teach how to make and old fart.. I was like, "I've never heard of that drink, if they served it as a shot you call it an old shart.😅 ...then I clicked on it and saw it was for an old fashioned. "Oh. Duh..."

You said you were showing an old fashion and then change the original contents. You are showing us your old fashion

I can understand that everyone uses what they have and some ingredients or processes are different. But An old fashioned does not have a big chunk of orange in it. It has the orange peel, which is specifically filitted. It doesn't go in the mix. It goes in the glass at the end and you rub the rim of the glass with the orange, then put it in the drinkm So it's the orange peel with the white flesh, or rind sliced off.

What do you think about the orange Ango bitters?

It’s a classic among cocktails, if you say you are into cocktails and don’t know about the old fashioned GTFO man

Talk normal.

From an old barkeep....
Well done bro🤙

This was the first cocktail I made myself and it never disappoints!

Omg! Hold the sugars the bitters the caramel all the sweetie treaty stuff. Pour my bourbon on the rocks with a splash of some thing. Yum! Why hide your delicious bourbon unless all you one drink sippers enjoy desert so much. I don’t know how I got here I’m a hard rock guitarist watching bids and this happened to pop up. Bye!

Just made this - it's extremely sweet dude. Are you sure you meant to say 1/4 oz of syrup with 2:1 ratio? The sugar is really overpowering.

The best Old Fashioned we have ever had was at the Ishnala supper Club in Wisconsin Dells. We started drinking Old Fashions at the Cyrus Hotel in Topeka.

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Went to the Four Queens in Las Vegas. Bartender had no clue what an Old Fashioned was

I’m sure someone will hate me, but I replace the sugar & water with coke. Or I add bitters to a bourbon & coke. It’s my house I can drink what I want.

My only problem with this is 'sipped over time'. 😉

Maple Syrup >

That looks really good !

The only challenger I've met to the Old Fashioned, is a properly made Manhattan.

I had a little party tonight and used this exact recipe. 100% of my guests who had the old fashioned said it was the best they'd ever had.

I once had an 80-year-old barfly yell at me for 20 min....because I muddled the cherry and didn't use Old Crow. It's my favorite bartending story.....

He said it had water, which I've never heard that, and then didn't add any? Frozen water?

Actually you can dissolve the sugars in bitters to form a solution if you do not get this right you can taste the sugar grains, (why its sweet at the end and not all through) next I add large ice cubes and this then forms a coating over the cubes of ice as it solidifies, then add the bourbon, zest of orange, cherry if you want. :)

Okaaaayyyyyy. Because everyone keeps that shit in a bar… if you don’t want a sugar cube old fashioned, order something else.

You're not the real James Hoffman!

I’ve tried the Old fashioneds out at bars & restaurants & have never cared for them. I like your instructions & recipe better. I don’t like to mess up good bourbon with a lot of other ingredients. My favorite drink when I’m in the mood for good bourbon. Cheers, Tony

Originally, historically they would have used Brandy or Holland Gin (Genever).
Whisky was stricly a poor man‘s drink in the early 19th century and would have been mostly unaged.
Only when the Phylloxera plague ruined french wineyards did Whisky gain reputation and was used by the middle and upper class.
Keep your facts straight ;)