re: So I ordered an old-fashioned last night, and bartender puts rock candy in it

LINK Old Fashioned

[quote]Old Fashioned Cocktail YIELD: 1 Highball Glass Ingredients
* 2 sugar cubes (see substitution below)
* Few dashes of angostura bitters
* 1 lemon slice (the long way like a wheel)
* 1 lime slice (the long way like a wheel)
* 1 maraschino cherry with a little juice
* 1 tsp grenadine (see a "maybe" substitution below)
* 1/4 cup good bourbon
* Club Soda
* Ginger Ale

You will find recipes that might sub lemon for orange or add ginger ale to the standard soda, but grenadine is ALWAYS an ingredient of an old fashioned. Grenadine is in the standard original recipe.

Eta - and I was bartending before many of you frickers were born.

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* 1 tsp grenadine (see a "maybe" substitution below)
* 1/4 cup good bourbon
* Club Soda
* Ginger Ale

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That's the furthest from a traditional old fashioned as you gone get....

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That's the furthest from a traditional old fashioned as you gone get....

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Sugar cubes AND lemon wheel AND lime whell (again, wtf) AND grenadine.

How sweet is that think gonna taste?

Gotta use that good bourbon though


ETA: And Ginger Ale

Rock candy in an old fashioned?

I wonder what is classified as "good bourbon" for that drink?

shite, why stop at ginger ale? Throw some apple juice in that fricker while ya at it.

Soda in an old fashion? Blasphemy.

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It's like a sugar cube, orange slice, cherry, bitters and bourbon

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And grenadine, some add cherry juice instead or with the grenadine. The original recipe uses soda, only, not Ginger ale.

Missy, just stick to making sig pics and stay away from old fashioneds

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And grenadine, some add cherry juice instead or with the grenadine. The original recipe uses soda, only, not Ginger ale.

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You keep referring to this original recipe. I don't think you understand.