The Broken Shaker: This Miami, Florida, bar features a different Old Fashioned variation on its menu each week. Bartender Gabriel Orta's signature move involves infusing whiskey with unlikely ingredients -- such as Reese's Pieces candy -- to offer unusual flavors when mixed in the glass.

Portland Penny Diner: Brandon Wise has taken the concept of the Old Fashioned and blown it wide open at this restaurant in Portland, Oregon. He lets guests choose from a buffet of multiple sweeteners, bitters and spirits to make their own bespoke version of the classic drink.

Jbird: At this New York City bar, the menu features an entire page of Old Fashioned twists. In one version, called the Honey Nut, bourbon is scented with the flavor of peanuts through a technique known as fat-washing, then mixed with honey and bitters.

At Cliff’s Edge Café in Los Angeles, bartender Matthew Biancaniello uses the Long Island Iced Tea as a template for the Montauk, a robust drink mixed with single-village mezcal, aquavit, coconut vanilla chai-infused vodka and funky Jamaican rum, along with fresh passion fruit juice and agave syrup.

Smuggler’s Cove bartender Steven Liles first mixed The Big, Long, Apple Tiki Island for a Hurricane Sandy fundraiser at this San Francisco tiki bar. This spring, the elaborately flavored Long Island variation--which uses apple-cider syrup and falernum in place of cola, and is spiced with tiki bitters--will appear on the bar’s specials menu.

At Anvil in Houston, owner Bobby Heugel added a Long Island Iced Tea variation to the bar’s “100 List” of must-try drinks. Anvil’s version is a cocktail geek’s dream, made with rhum agricole blanc, Old Tom gin and sweet vermouth infused with kola nuts.
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