Homemade Old Fashioned Versus Bottled And Barrel-Aged with Our Scotchy Bourbon Boy Mixoligist CT!

The Scotchy Bourbon Boys · Jun 5, 2026 · 1h 37m · transcript

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We put the Old Fashioned to the test by tasting bottled RTDs, pre-batched bar styles, and homemade builds to see where convenience truly holds up. We dig into history, ingredients, proof, and technique, then land on what we’d actually buy again and what we’d rather fix with our own bitters and syrup.

• why the Old Fashioned stays the gold standard cocktail

• whether higher proof RTDs taste closer to a true Old Fashioned

• bitters that change everything, especially black walnut bitters

• sweeteners that work best, from agave to barrel-aged maple syrup

• the Yellowstone…