Barrel-aged, oaky bourbon is the backbone of the quintessential cocktail. Smooth, spicy, or just well-balanced, bartenders ...

The first half of the name stuck ... the old fashioned evolved in only minor ways. The most prominent of these changes ...

it was this increasingly complex nature of the drink that eventually led to a revival of its more simple construction, along with the name “old fashioned.” The drink has been reliably with us ...

And 80 years later, the name “Old Fashioned” started getting tossed around in bars to describe said cocktail recipe. Yes, even the old-timers of the 1880s considered it to be an old-school drink.