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Subject: Re: A few questions...
From: Thinking Bartender
Posted: Wed Dec 21. 2005, 08:50 UTC
Followup to: "A few questions..."  by Graphixaddict  (Thu Dec 8. 2005, 00:47 UTC)
> so first..
> in the no-no's thread, nidal says that its bad to muddle fruit in an 
> old fashioned but both dale degroff's book and the joy of mixology 
> call for you to muddle a orange and cherry. just curious about this.


Gary Regan (joy of mixology) accepted somewhere that muddled fruit in an 
old-fashioned is not authentic, but that that was the way he was shown how to 
make an old-fashioned when he arrived in the US (in the 70's?)

Dale DeGroff thinks that Old-Fashioneds which do not use muddled fruit are 
made for those people who just want sweetened whiskey

In my opinion Nidal is 100% correct that muddled fruit is a no-no in an 
Old-Fashioned. 

It is a shame that two such well-read and well-respected bar people as Regan 
and DeGroff are condoning such a bad/ unauthentic way of making "The" classic 
cocktail. 


Cheers!

George


 Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.
- Whatever is said in Latin sounds profound.


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