A lot of people ask me for recommendations for eating and drinking in Chicago. I scrounge up what I can, but the truth is, I am really not the person to ask. I haven’t spent a lot of my adult life in Chicago. Sure, I come home a few times a year, but I usually frequent my favorite spots and restaurants close to my parents’.
I left Chicago when I was 18 and moved to Milwaukee when I turned 21. My first drinks were served up in Wisconsin, and my formative drinking years were spent in the Milwaukee bar scene. Sure, my foundation is pure Chicago, but I’m kind of a Wisconsin girl at heart. I even cheer for the Bucks (I just love Giannis).
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So my very first old fashioned was made with cherries, oranges, brandy, and 7-up. I didn’t even know that that wasn’t a true old fashioned (or that it’s so hotly debated in the cocktail world) for several years. I just thought old fashioneds were.. awesome.
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Don’t get me wrong, at this point I’ve certainly had a normal old fashioned and I love them just as much — but I will never not love the cherry-packed highball that Wisconsin serves up in a rocks glass.
what is a wisconsin old fashioned?
To start, a regular old fashioned is bourbon, a sugar cube, and a few dashes of bitters. You’d typically garnish it with an orange peel and a cherry if you like it a little more citrusy-sweet. It’s really great for those who can’t just drink bourbon neat, and also a good treat for when you don’t want bourbon neat. Because sometimes you don’t.
A Wisconsin old fashioned follows a very similar blueprint but adds a few more controversial elements. Instead of just using the cherry and orange as garnish, it’s muddled with the sugar cube and bitters. Brandy is poured over top instead of bourbon, and — most controversially — the drink is topped with soda.
sweet, sour, or press
If you want to look like a local ordering an old fashioned in wisconsin, order it like this: “Can I have a brandy old fashioned sweet?”
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You’ll ask it like a question because you’re an uber-polite Wisconsinite, and you’ll indicate your soda preference right in the order by adding “sweet”. This means you’ll get your old fashioned with 7-up or Sprite.
Otherwise, you can elect to have an old fashioned sour or an old fashioned press. A “sour” will be made with Squirt or sour mix (or Jolly Good, if you can find it, but I hardly ever could) and a “press” will be either club soda or half club soda, half 7-up.
When I lived in Wisconsin I tried old fashioneds every which way. I thought the club soda was gross and the 7-up was perfect. The Jolly Good was a wildcard that I’d save for special occasions, just to switch it up.
If you do want a regular old fashioned, just say bourbon old fashioned. It’s unlikely a bartender would think you want soda in that, but if they’re not sure, they’ll just ask “sour or sweet?” and you can clarify from there.
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