New Orleans Best Cocktails: The Old Fashioned
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- Опубликовано: 15 авг 2007
- Chris McMillian has opened “Revel Café & Bar,” located at 133 N. Carrollton Avenue in New Orleans. Chris encourages you to come visit him and hear these stories first hand.
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I don't know what it is, but this bartender has it. Cool, clear, confident and skilled. This guy is a boss.
Smooth Gentleman
Wisdom and skills
2019 I still come back and watch Chris McMillan be the bartender every 'Mixologist' aspires to be.
And I absolutely never add club soda to my Old Fashioned, afterall it has no place in the drink.
2023 but still gold 😉
This bartender is a damn hero!
+Nick Brown He is what every customer wants to experience, and what every bartender should aspire to be!
hear, hear...cheers!
I like the way he presented it with "for your pleasure today " I would have thrown my wallet at him . Good job sir
I love this guy! He is everything i'd want my barman to be!
So happy and privileged to have this man make me and my wife a few drinks in Nola many years ago. Btw a great historian too.
The best and only way to make an old fashioned!
this guy is a boss
The best I've seen , Thank you sir.
Chris, you have been so inspiring to me over the last decade.
Thank you Sir.
Fantastic videos as usual.
Thanks a lot Chris.
Chris Macmillian is a living legend. An artist, and a class act. One of my favourite things about NOLA is being able to sit at the bar and have a cocktail made by someone like Chris who takes great pride in his craft. You're the best, Happy Thanksgiving from Canada.
I made some Old Fashioned cocktails tonight using this recipe. It was AWESOME!! Thank you Mr. McMillan!!
Great information and explanation on how and why he makes the drink this way. Thank you!
I like you, Chris. I always liked you. You were always the best of 'em.
Best god-damn bartender from Timbuktu to Portland, Maine - or Portland,
Oregon, for that matter.
The best! What a professional! Thank you, Sir!
I’ve been watching your videos for years and I am happy I have been.
Enjoyed Chris' instructions on Sazarac and Old Fashioned, trying the Sazarac now! nice thanks Chris!
i found a new source for all things Cocktails.
Subscribed and Liked. Wonderful video and VERY informative(i love the history!).
Having lived in and waited tables for many years in the French Quarter, I appreciate all of this refreshing knowledge (especially as I try to import it to little East Glacier, MT)!
This is the only guy I need to watch when it comes to making drinks.!
Just made an Old Fashioned with this recipe and it was FANTASTIC. Thank you!
I've never been anywhere and asked for an Old Fashioned and had it served to me with sparkling water.
Thanks - great video
excellent video of a Gentleman preparing the ultimate Gentleman's drink! If I am ever in New Orleans, I would kill for a drink made by Chris.
There is no one better than Chris. He is a master and an artist. The only bartender on RUclips with the proper training and skills to muddle a sugar cube into solution, in seconds, without leaving so much as a single grain of sugar at the bottom of the glass.
You are an awesome bartender.
Cant wait for this
The eleven people who Thumbed Down are people who walk in my bar and say "Lemme get a Midori sour...and make it strong" SMH
Now there's a twelfth one. He ordered a grasshopper.
Keith Robertson
LOL!
Gentlemen, take note. This is class.
Picked up some of this. Good stuff. I'll be keeping my eye open for other Indian products when I'm in the liquor store, just to see how it compares to some others available.
Kudos to maintaining the authenticity
this guy is good! a true pro!
fantastic
classy bloke indeed! well done =)
Awesome whiskey cocktail. Damn, I'm thirsty now.
nice bar!
Need to use a Luxardo cherry in there...and actually in any drink that calls for a maraschino cherry for that matter.
The Most Interesting Man in the World has nothing on this guy.
Best old fashioned ever. Seriously!
Such a great guy! I personally feel that rye whiskey makes the best old fashioned.
Caleb Benoit
Shut up you fucking turd.
Then make your own video .
Zocko Valencia
Who shit in your cereal?
I hope you're still making them. 😉
the first time a drank with an adult, just like he said, was after wrestling my senior year with all my buddies. We had old fashions. It was good, and they were made near as to perfect as he did it. It made my mouth water and now i want one.
Very well done! I prefer simple syrup for the very reason he says - it's quicker. However, I make my own simple syrup, so I know the sugar content of it ahead of time. Good video.
The most sublime cocktail in existence
classiest bloke
true! if you like lemons, try making it with rye and using lemon peel
I've watched a couple of videos regarding The Old Fashioned and this is the only bartender I trust.
This is the correct way to prepare a proper old fashioned!
The cocktail bar I go to serves it with one very large chunk of ice in the glass, it's really classy looking, it serves to cool the drink a lot, but doesn't dilute it as much as crushed ice would due to the difference in surface area. Also for me a proper whisky (as in Scottish) seems to match the flavours much better than any bourbon. But thanks for the video, the techniques helped me a lot :)
Wow, wish I could be served by him.
i bet my life on that this Tender can make a good Irish coffee
Every future cocktail stirrer needs to binge watch this series. If you have ironic handlebar mustache and can't make a proper drink, you are a mixologist. THIS is a proper BARTENDER.
better than ANY of the other videos of the new style of "old fashioned"....
Such a good lookin drink!
Before I saw the rest of these comments I said this guy is pretty much the coolest bartender I have ever watched.. Sir, it would be a pleasure to get schmammered at your bar.
Are there more videos of this guy making drinks?
@Smeele Glad it worked out!
@Lovaelihn That's a good idea. I don't want to buy sugar cubes just for the rare occasion I want a drink. I've made it before but never really thought of altering the sugar content specifically for different drinks.
Great video. You misspelled the hotel name in the credits, however.
the donald draper
hey is maker mark a good bourbon to drink neat? im a scotch drinker, but would like to try bourbons... ive been told Wild Turkey 8 is a nice spicy one too? or what do you recommend?
This man cares about what he does.
@Smeele They're kinda integral to the drink. If you really think about it, the drink is Bourbon, Bitters, and Sugar, with a little orange in the background. If you remove the Bitters, you just have Orange flavored Bourbon (Which doesn't sound bad, but it's not an Old Fashioned). I'm surprised you can't get them in the Netherlands. I suppose you could get some whole nutmeg, cinnamon, clove, and allspice; crack them and try to infuse them in some vodka to make a bitters substitute.
This guy should play the bartender in every movie from here on out.
@Rantaku there are many versions, look em up
this guys makes a proper old fashion. its hard to find bartenders like this these days.
Tip that man well.
You might try Amrut Single Malt
I would seriously reconsider that comment. That's CHRIS MCMILLIAN. That is the master of mixology, a scholar of cocktail craftsmanship and history. If he makes a classic drink recipe, it's because THAT'S THE WAY IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE MADE. Everything else(including a soda water fill on this one, or whatever else you want to do to it) is a variation.
out of all the bars i've been to there hasn't been a better drink prepared than that one.
clear like a river
@faithnotneeded This is always a whiskey-heavy drink. The other flavors are very subtle.
Can't say I've ever heard of, or tried, an Indian whisk(e)y. Could you suggest one?
Great to know that Chris is still a working and important mixologist at the end of 2023!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_McMillian
To me straight up liquor tastes like gasoline, this is why a whisky sour is one of my favorite cocktails, and this guy knows what he's doing!
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Where did you get that muddler? I don't like any of the ones I've seen locally or online.
so the difference between that and the Sazerac is the absence of ice and different bitters are used and thats it?
i believe the sazerac in its current form is essentially a variant of the old fashioned. the sazerac really needs to follow a fairly strict recipe to remain a sazerac (only use rye!). also, the absinthe or herbsaint rinse in the glass makes a subtle but very important contribution to the sazerac.
Now THAT'S a professional Bartender!
where is the stiring part though?
I'm glad you put the disclaimer about variations...although I wish you had put more emphasis on the BOURBON...I've seen variations using rum and club soda- Hell, at that point it's a whole 'nother animal.
@Gegit05 Makers Mark the bourbon I'm referring to is spelled Whisky. Check the label. And that's American, a 1968 directive of the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms now specifies Whisky as the official U.S. spelling!
That's pretty close to how I make my Old Fashioned. About the only difference is I just twist the orange peel to express the oils rather than muddle it. So nice to see it without a bunch of fruit and soda added.
He is actually working at the Kingfish Bar and Restaraunt in the Quarter.
Where do you find bartender's like this guy? certainly not in any places around here. Hotel bars maybe?
The original had a lemon peel in the glass, no orange and no cherries. But like he said the orange goes a lot better with the bourbon than the lemon! So, I made some drinks and muddled the sugar cube with a little Rhum Clement Creole Shrubb Orange Liqueur and then flamed an orange peel(instead of muddling it) and added that the peel to the glass and OMG!! Heaven!
all i want in life is for this man to serve me a drink or two
@faithnotneeded try using a bourbon instead of whiskey, bourbon tend to be a little sweeter. Maker's mark is a good choice for this drink I think. Cheers!
@MegaBagera is it the drink he makes when he takes the girl to his house?
@MegaBagera : that's why I looked up this vid (Ryan Gosling in that movie) ... I've become more suave since, lol.
I wish I were still able to drink (arrhythmia) and could swing by his bar.
@ltigre2031 Oh I'm not doubting that, but that's like making a mojito without muddling mint. It's just NOT replaceable.
Real sugar is definitely the way to go. I like to just use orange bitters and garnish with a cherry
Very important to muddle the orange peel. Too many bartenders neglect this important step.
21st coming up! : D D
I adore a good Old Fashioned! It needs a strong spirit - I love overproofed bourbon or rye, so that the drink doesn't dilute too much while I sip the cocktail. I love Bulleit 10 year old Bourbon or Rittenhouse Rye!! Love the sugar cube and proper muddling! Great bartender!!
good taste in bourbons. 4 roses single barrel is worth checking out too
@@hurpaderpp Thanks so much!
thats alot of ice!