Category: Recipes

5 December 2017 / History

Today is the anniversary of a magical day that many Americans thought would never come. The passing of the Twenty-first Amendment

25 June 2016 / Recipes
17 February 2016 / Recipes
21 July 2015 / Bar Reviews

"I wanted to try this new drink. That's all we do, isn't it—look at things and try new drinks?" —"Hills Like White Elephants," Men Without Women, 1927

4 April 2013 / History
27 February 2012 / History

There is much to support the Old Fashioned's claim to be the original cocktail. In fact if you take your definition of 'cocktail' from The Balance and Columbian Repository of Hudson, New York (and frankly, where else are you getting your definition of cocktail from?) it neatly fits the criteria: liquor (in this case whiskey), bitters, sugar and water (in this case frozen).