 Welcome back to Drinks Made Easy because cocktails don't have to be difficult. Today we're taking a look at four different ways to make the Wisconsin Old Fashion. Now some people view this as basically a variation on the modern old fashion with model fruit but with brandy. But the main thing to keep in mind is that the old fashion is based off of a punch recipe and for a long time great base distillates specifically cognacs, armoniacs and really any sort of brandy which would be any fruit distillate made up those punches. So before you lose your mind about why is there model fruit in this old fashion keep in mind that the old fashion is based on a punch. This is also a great time to take a look at the Uyeda Old Fashion which that's another version where it's all about choosing your own adventure of what you want your old fashion to taste like from sip to sip and round to round. But without any further ado let's make a cocktail and before we start please click on the subscribe button and the bell icon if you haven't already and if you have any suggestions for drinks leave them in the comments below. Build your Wisconsin Old Fashion you'll start with one sugar cube and two dashes of bitters. Now here you have a choice you can either model it first which I recommend before you add in your Luxardo cherry and your wheel of orange. Now you could have all the items in there together but it does get a little bit busy in the glass and you're gonna want to particularly muddle the pulpy bits of the fruit you can press the rind a little bit to express some of those oils but you don't want to match this to a degree where you have just a tremendous amount of orange rind floating around in the bottom of your glass. Next we're gonna add two ounces of brandy, add some ice give it a stir and now this is the part where you choose your own adventure whether you want to make it sweet or sprite you can go sour with squirt or press with a bit of seltzer and garnish with an expressed peel of orange and a Luxardo cherry. For the strain we're just following the same steps building it in the Yari glass two ounces of brandy just like the other stir to mix all the ingredients double strain it so you're catching any sort of particulate matter from the muddled fruit and if you so choose you can then add the soda of your choice or leave it as is and express a peel of orange and a Luxardo cherry and there you have four different ways to make the Wisconsin Old Fashion. Now before you write this cocktail off I highly recommend checking it out if you are looking for something a little bit sweeter than an old fashion but not as sweet as a muddled a big muddled fruit cocktail with like raspberries or or blackberries this is a great one or if you happen to have a bottle of brandy that isn't particularly sweet it'll fit right in with this cocktail so try it out and let us know what you think because remember life is short so have a drink that you enjoy cheers from drinks made easy