A Wisconsin old fashioned is made either sweet (with lemon-lime soda like Sprite or 7Up) or sour (with the bar's sour mix or a citrus-forward soda like Squirt).

A Wisconsin old fashioned is made either sweet (with lemon-lime soda like Sprite or 7Up) or sour (with the bar's sour mix or a citrus-forward soda like Squirt).

Thanks to its apocryphal beginnings and statewide brand loyalty, the brandy old-fashioned is the Badger State's go-to cocktail.

Lawmakers in Wisconsin have passed a resolution declaring the state's official cocktail: the brandy old fashioned.

A bipartisan resolution declaring the brandy old fashioned as the official Wisconsin state cocktail was up for approval Thursday in the state Assembly.

The old fashioned cocktail in just about every place other than Wisconsin is traditionally made with a whiskey, like bourbon, sugar and bitters.

Wisconsin Lawmakers weighed a bipartisan resolution Thursday to declare the brandy old fashioned as the state's official cocktail.

Thanks to its apocryphal beginnings and statewide brand loyalty, the brandy old-fashioned is the Badger State's go-to cocktail.

For the unfamiliar, the old fashioned cocktail in just about every place other than Wisconsin is traditionally made with a whiskey, like bourbon, sugar and bitters. But in Wisconsin, brandy ...