Old Fashioned

Is this a variation of the Old Fashioned?

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Is this a variation of the Old Fashioned?

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Fixed it

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soda water

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I absolutely can't stand soda water in an old fashioned. Apparently this is a new trend. I've been to two different restaurants that would be considered higher end fine dining recently that made theirs with soda water. Cut the soda.

Muddle a sugar cube, bitters, and a tiny bit of water until the sugar cube is mostly disolved. Add in and muddle a quarters-size worth of orange peel. Add ice, bourbon, maraschino cherry (with a little bit of the juice) and orange slice as garnish.

I was at a wedding recently and the bartender used Triple Sec instead of sugar/water/soda water/simple syrup. Pretty good, I bought a bottle of Triple Sec and made a few at home like this.

You mean a Ole Fashion?

Keep the soda water. Just a splash. It thins the sugar from the sugar, cherry and orange and the carbonation brightens the flavor of the cherry and orange.

I too find rye preferable to bourbon. I find it a better balance to the sweetness of the other components.

H. Harper Station in Atlanta used to make a tequila old fashioned.

Anejo tequila, grapefruit bitters, sugar, and a grapefruit peel

The following is the classic Old Fashioned. You want to drink something else, order something else.

2 oz. rye or bourbon whiskey
¼ oz. simple syrup
2 dashes Angostura bitters
Garnish: Lemon twist or orange twist
Pour rye or bourbon, syrup, and bitters into a cracked-ice-filled old-fashioned glass and stir. Add lemon or orange twist.

For my taste in this drink rye trumps bourbon, lemon trumps orange. Old Overholt, Angostura and lemon.

Want to change things up? Change the brand and type of liquor (ryes are spicier, bourbons tend sweeter), change the type of bitters, use alternate sweeteners like maple syrup, demerara syrup, honey syrup.