Here’s a drink for you all to try from my homeland, The Old Fashioned,

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This may involve a few purchases, but it’s worth trying. It also requires a bit of work.

Step 1: In a highball (the glbum your x and y mixers come in) place an orange slice, a maraschino cherry, a cube of sugar, and 4-5 dashes of Angostura Bitters (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angostura_bitters) more or less depending on taste.

Step 2: With some large, blunt object (preferably a muddler) mash up the fruit and sugar cube. You can add a bit of booze at this point to aid the sugar dissolving. Keep mashing things up until most of the sugar is gone.

Step 3: Add ice. Ice is your best friend when making drinks. The ice should go near the top of the glbum.

Step 4: Add your favorite whiskey, brandy, bourbon, or even scotch (would not recommend single malts). Southern Comfort is also popular, but way too sweet for my taste. Fill the glbum, leaving a few ounces room for mixer.

Step 5: Add your mixer. An Old Fashioned “sweet” is mixed with 7-up. “Sour” is sour soda or 3/4 sour mix 1/4 seltzer water. “Press” (short for Presbyterian) is 1/2 7-up, 1/2 seltzer water. I believe the original Old Fashioned just called for straight water, but I like a little fizz.

Step 6: Do your best chemist impression and transfer the contents of the glbum back and forth into a martini shaker or other larger glbum a couple times. Just stirring the drink is sufficient, but you want to do things right, right?

Step 7: Drink. Mind ****ing blown.

The bitters can run like $4-5 for a little bottle, but you use so little of it that even if you drink these every day, you won’t buy more than a bottle every couple months. The best part about this drink is that it can be tailored to any level of drinking. I make them for my parents, and my dad likes about 8 times as much booze in his as my mom, but both are delicious.

Enjoy!