Rachel Maddow: How to make an old fashioned cocktail
Rachel Maddow: How to make an old fashioned cocktail If you love the vintage cocktails as much as MSNBCs Rachel Maddow does, heres one for you. The Old Fashioned—the real old fashioned. Rachel shows how its done, the Old Fashioned way, for a very modern cocktail. Keywords: old fashioned recipes old fashioned drink old fashioned cocktail
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November 15th, 2010 at 7:16 am
Everyone’s a fuckin’ critic…. Shut the fuck up. It’s a god damn Howto vid. You didn’t create the fucking drink.
November 15th, 2010 at 7:42 am
I love an old fashioned, but I DO NOT like rachael madcow…. luckily she did not make it correctly so I can still enjoy them. First, club soda in an old fashioned?? uhh no, should be spring water, like the stuff that real bourbon is made from, but just a little. Second, lemon?? also a no, should be garnished with an orange and a maraschino cherry. you can add orange zest if you want but lemons are for gin and vodka, not bourbon. at least the video was nice
November 15th, 2010 at 8:18 am
This is a better Old Fashioned than you would find in most bars, but it’s far from proper. First, leave the soda water out of it. Second, ice is a much more crucial ingredient than this particular video leads you to believe. I’d drink it, and I’d pay for it, but I would still be critical of this one, unfortunately. And no, this is not the “original” cocktail.
November 15th, 2010 at 8:41 am
Shame you’re so messy with the jigger :/
November 15th, 2010 at 9:09 am
This should have Peychaud’s bitters, not Angostura bitters. Also wouldn’t the sazerac cocktail be older than the old fashioned, as it was designed to simulate older drinks ?
November 15th, 2010 at 9:12 am
if you add less ice3 you dilute the drink more!!! silly woman
November 15th, 2010 at 9:52 am
Pretty good recipe, however, I use an orange zest. I don’t rim the glass with it, I muddle it before I add the sugar. Speaking of which, I use simple syrup instead of sugar cubes just to save time. I agree with the guy that said more ice is okay, too. Ideally, you would want one or two huge ice cubes.
November 15th, 2010 at 9:53 am
DON DRAPER ROCKS!
November 15th, 2010 at 9:56 am
seems like a strong drink
November 15th, 2010 at 10:33 am
@brickgaragedesign What is she doing with the Angostura, sugar and water??? Hint. It’s a syrup.
November 15th, 2010 at 11:08 am
@deathxe5 I wouldn’t say it sucks but you’re comparing a TV personality to one of the world’s great bartenders. I think she did a good job, even if she did use club soda. There’s a hundred recipes on youtube that are worse than this.
November 15th, 2010 at 11:38 am
wow. she was actually tolerable in that clip.
November 15th, 2010 at 12:34 pm
please go watch new orleans best cocktails version this sucks asshole
November 15th, 2010 at 12:50 pm
BUTCH!!!!!!!
November 15th, 2010 at 1:25 pm
@Paullee000 She makes it the original way expect for the club soda. The original old fashioned called for a splash of water, maybe a teaspoon if that much. I use water not club soda. but I think that small amount of soda would get lost in the rye and bitters. A cherry/orange were never in the original recipe. But I do think if you sub the lemon peel with the orange peel it would be great as well because orange goes great with the bourbon and bitters. Sub the water with a splash of bourbon.
November 15th, 2010 at 2:11 pm
Parks and Recreation brought me here.
Ron Swanson!
November 15th, 2010 at 2:16 pm
ugggggh! this drink smells like old lady carpet cleaner and aquarium water. keep your stinky pinky out of my drink, maddow!
November 15th, 2010 at 2:34 pm
@close2reality It’s not meant to affect the flavor: as Rachel said, it’s simply there to give you “mixability” and help you desolve the sugar before you put the rye in.
November 15th, 2010 at 3:31 pm
@smyce What do you consider a proper old fashioned?
November 15th, 2010 at 3:32 pm
Great recipe. Question: how is a minute amount of soda water -a flavourless liquid- going to effect the taste of a 100 proof rye that’s already being accentuated by bitters and sugar?
November 15th, 2010 at 4:00 pm
Excellent. Mad Men brought me here.
November 15th, 2010 at 4:46 pm
Praise and kudos! This is how the Old Fashioned was originally made, right down to the lemon. A real Old Fashioned, not the garbage with a cherry or muddled orange, or heaven forbid, topped up with soda o r… perish the blasphemous thought… Sprite.
November 15th, 2010 at 5:09 pm
I bet Rachel has had a lampshade or two on her head in her time.
November 15th, 2010 at 5:11 pm
Yeah I’m with BrittonBurdick and zoso8, soda was not apart of the traditional old fashioned, however, this is the best traditional old fashioned recipe I’ve seen on youtube!!! Good choice with the rye whiskey, but like Britton said, the soda would throw off the spicy notes of the rye, so just the ice cubes and a swizzle stick would do! <3
November 15th, 2010 at 5:34 pm
give your guest a spoon and let them stir it for you.. LAWL!!! garnish with orange and maraschino cherry…