Don Draper
The lead character on Mad Men, played by Jon Hamm is Don Draper. As Head of Creative Services he is mysterious, a womanizer and a family man, feared and respected by his subordinates. Draper drinks with clients, drinks with dinner, and drinks alone. He prefers the darker spirits like scotch, bourbon, and rye. He prefers to order the Old Fashioned – simple, mysterious, and masculine like Don himself.
Ingredients
2 dashes aromatic bitters
½ tsp sugar dissolved with water and bitters
1½ oz of Makers Mark bourbon
1 cherry
1 orange slice
1 lemon wedge
Instructions
Fill glass with ice. Add cherry, orange slice and lemon wedge. Pour in bourbon. Serve in a rocks glass over ice.
Love this article; makes me want to try every single one of these cocktails while watching a Mad Men marathon!
A little surprised we do not see the Moscow Mule taking a supporting role. It was the drink that shifted America from Gin to Vodka (clear spirits only of course). Invented in the ’40s and popular by early ’50s it would fit in quite nicely since its popularity is traced back to a marketing idea – promotional glassware ie. Copper Mug.
Ingredients:
1 1/2 oz Smirnoff vodka
1/2 oz elixir g ginger mix
Fill with lemon lime soda
Garnish with lime wedge
Instructions
Pour vodka & elixir g into copper mug. Fill with lemon lime and garnish
Cheers.
Proper way to make an old-fashioned: http://www.brilliantcocktails.com/archives/19
i want coctail detials pls
Here are a few fun alternatives from Paper! http://www.papermag.com/blogs/2008/08/bar_of_the_week_special_the_co.php
That’s an *acceptable* Old-Fashioned, but Don Draper drinks his the top-shelf way. Rye, not bourbon.
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