i was gobsmacked to see that my all time favorite site on the web is no longer up and running.
thankfully we have archive.org to preserve such things.
if you don’t want to bother to click through, here is the tl;dr:
old fashioneds do not have fruit of any kind. it’s sugar, bitters, and the whiskey of your choice. if you must have ice (and why would you…dilution!) it should be one large cube that fills the entire glass.
https://web.archive.org/web/20150102001057/http://oldfashioned101.com/