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Pepper, a prominent bourbon distiller, who brought it to the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel bar in New York City. The recipe was said to have been invented by a bartender at that club in honor of Colonel James E. The Pendennis Club, a gentlemen's club founded in 1881 in Louisville, Kentucky, claims the old-fashioned cocktail was invented there. The recipe he describes is a similar combination of spirits, bitters, water, and sugar of seventy-six years earlier. The most popular of the in-vogue "old-fashioned" cocktails were made with whiskey, according to a Chicago barman, quoted in the Chicago Daily Tribune in 1882, with rye being more popular than Bourbon. The original concoction, albeit in different proportions, came back into vogue, and was referred to as "old-fashioned". As cocktails became more complex, drinkers accustomed to simpler cocktails began to ask bartenders for something akin to the pre-1850s drinks. īy the 1860s, it was common for orange curaçao, absinthe, and other liqueurs to be added to the cocktail. Alexander describes the cocktail similarly in 1833, as he encountered it in New York City, as being rum, gin, or brandy, significant water, bitters, and sugar, though he includes a nutmeg garnish as well. In the, issue, the paper's editor wrote that it was a potent concoction of spirits, bitters, water, and sugar it was also referred to at the time as a bittered sling and is essentially the recipe for an old fashioned. The first documented definition of the word "cocktail" was in response to a reader's letter asking to define the word in the, issue of The Balance and Columbian Repository in Hudson, New York. As a favourite cocktail of Don Draper, it became a symbol of masculine coolness.An old fashioned was one of the simpler and earlier versions of cocktails, before the development of advanced bartending techniques and recipes in the later part of the 19th century. The American show Mad Men, set in the 1960s, helped to bring the Old Fashioned back into vogue. Pepper a bourbon distiller who then went on to promote the Old Fashioned in New York. The cocktail was supposedly a homage to Colonel James E. The most common theory regarding its invention is that it was first created at the Pendennis Club in Louisville in 1881. The original Old Fashioned was created in Kentucky, USA and was made with the local bourbon. Aromatic thanks to the base spirit, the bitters and through perfuming with orange zest. Strong but not too strong, slightly sweet, somewhat bitter, and nice and cold. The Old Fashioned's composition puts the base spirit in the spotlight and strengthens the flavour of the spirit by gradually stirring it with bitters, sugar and ice cubes until all the ingredients are perfectly mixed. These spirits range from a Barrel Aged Genever that has a similar malty taste to bourbon to an Añejo tequila or aged rum. But the Old Fashioned has become a category of cocktails in its own right with many differed aged spirits now used as the base spirit. The classic Old Fashioned is a cocktail of bourbon whiskey, sugar (cube or syrup), bitters and ice cubes. A balance of the right herbal and intense cocktail ingredients makes the perfect Aged Old Fashioned. One of the most famous, notorious, loved cocktail recipes in the world.