Old Fashioned

THE OLD FASHIONED COCKTAIL: I am trying my hand at making cocktails and recently I read about the resurgence of the first American cocktail The Old Fashioned. This drink was changed significantly in Wisconsin to be a Brandy drink and dubbed by many at "The Official Drink of Wisconsin". If you look at the recipies from the 1800's you will find that the drink was originally made with burbon and that is how I made it here. There is some confusion about if it contains soda water or not. I put club soda in the recipie that you see here along with bitters and the fruit garnish. I did not muddle the cherry as some recipies call for. Somehow the muddled cherry became "the thing" to do with an Old Fashioned.