Today I Learned

A longer look at the Old-Fashioned and how to make it 5 different ways, covering its evolution from 1850-2019. That’s right: FIVE DRINKS. ********************************** Shop for spirits online at: Very first Episode of HTD: You can Pre-Order Mid-Century Cocktail here: This week on How to Drink I’m doing a deep dive into the Old Fashioned tracing it’s evolution from the room-temperature “Cocktail“ of the 1850’s all the way up to today’s spirit forward speakeasy friendly drink in 2019. I make five drinks along the way, and truth be told there’s probably a lot more I could have done with this drink (the cocktail “schism“ that coined the name “Old-Fashioned“ was tied to reconstruction era politics and that’s a whole lot to unpack) but this episode was already twenty minutes long so I figured we save that for another day. The 1850’s Cocktail 1 sugar cube Soak with bitters ~ 2oz. -or- 60 ml. of spirit (I go with G