Giclee fine art print illustrated by Abi Overland.

The Old Fashioned is widely considered the original ‘cocktail’. The story of the OG cocktail is first documented in a New York newspaper in 1806 in response to a readers confusion about the reference to a “cock-tail” in the previous weeks edition. The response describing it was the first written record of the term:

“Cock-tail”, then is a stimulating liquor, composed of spirits of any kind, sugar, water and bitters. It is vulgarly called a bittered sling, and is supposed to be an excellent electioneering potion inasmuch as it renders the heart stout and bold, at the same time that it fuddles the head. It is said also, to be of great use to a democratic candidate: because, a person having swallowed a glass of it, is ready to swallow anything else.”

Requests for “Old Fashioned Cocktails” originally referred to a generalised style of cocktail before attaching itself to a particular recipe. It was a generalised term for the Whiskey Cocktail served as early as 1800 but didn’t become synonymous with its name until the 1870s and 1880s where bartenders began to add embellishments the drink that patrons would begin to refer to the traditional and original Whiskey Cocktail as the “Old Fashioned”.

The prints remain unsigned in order to maintain the vintage print ad aesthetic.

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