Before the fancy free was a glimmer in a bartender's eye, the improved whiskey cocktail appeared in Jerry Thomas's 1876 ...

The Old Fashioned is considered the oldest American cocktail known. The word 'cocktail' wasn't even in the vernacular until 1806, when it described a drink of liquor, sugar, water, and bitters.

The Old Fashioned, a simple mixture of whiskey, sugar, aromatic bitters, and ice, is one of the world’s most iconic cocktails. The combination of spirit, sugar, bitters and water formed the ...