<p>The Old Fashioned wasn’t always called the Old Fashioned, and why would it be, when all around it the mixed drinks of the era had startling names like The Morning Glory Fizz, The Flash of Lightning, and The Stars and Stripes?</p>
<p>Compared to these the prosaically-named Old Fashioned sounded a bit, well, old fashioned, and with good reason, because by 1888 when we find the earliest recipe for an Old Fashioned Cocktail, the drink itself was already something of a relic from the past.</p>

The Old Fashioned wasn’t always called the Old Fashioned, and why would it be, when all around it the mixed drinks of the era had startling names like The Morning Glory Fizz, The Flash of Lightning, and The Stars and Stripes? Compared to these the prosaically-named Old Fashioned sounded a bit, well, old fashioned, and with good reason, because by 1888 when we find the earliest recipe for an Old Fashioned Cocktail, the drink itself was already something of a relic from the past.

THE OLD FASHIONED

Jake Burger is a keen amateur cocktail historian, with a career in the drinks industry spanning four decades, as part of the team responsible for creating Jake’s Bar &amp; Grill in Leeds, The Portobello Star and The Distillery on London’s Portobello Road, and The Ginstitute, England’s preeminent educational gin experience. Jake has long sunk himself into the history of the cocktail and the mixed drink, and this
is his first book on the subject.

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Jake Burger is a keen amateur cocktail historian, with a career in the drinks industry spanning four decades, as part of the team responsible for creating Jake’s Bar & Grill in Leeds, The Portobello Star and The Distillery on London’s Portobello Road, and The Ginstitute, England’s preeminent educational gin experience. Jake has long sunk himself into the history of the cocktail and the mixed drink, and this is his first book on the subject.

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