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. 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”.