Jerry Thomas wrote in his bartender’s guide that the Whiskey Cocktail (the earlier iteration of the Old Fashioned) was shaken ...

The old-fashioned is one of the oldest mixed drinks in the cocktail canon. Muddle a sugar cube and bitters with one bar spoon of water at the bottom of a chilled rocks glass. (If using simple ...

This old-fashioned whisky cocktail is an out-and-out classic of ... Rub the peel around the insides of a whisky tumbler, then place into the glass. Add the cherry, sugar syrup and bitters, along ...