• How to Make a True Wisconsin Old Fashioned

    June 21, 2018thetipsyhousewife

    I have an O-B-S-E-S-S-I-O-N with Wisconsin Supper Club Style Brandy Old Fashioned’s. My parents have a home in the Western Upper Peninsula of Michigan which is right over the border from Wisconsin, the home of The Brandy Old Fashioned. Last year I even did an Old Fashioned Crawl through the Northwoods and wrote a blog post about it called “A Waitress Named Diane”. It was fantastic. Since I cannot permanently live in the Northwoods (although I wish I could) I decided I needed to perfect the Brandy Old Fashioned at home. The drink itself does require more than a few…

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  • “A Waitress Named Diane,” AKA, The Old Fashioned Bar Crawl

    September 3, 2017thetipsyhousewife

    Travel Wisconsin ran a commercial a few years back about the Wisconsin Supper Club and The Old Fashioned Cocktail. In the commercial it teaches that an Old Fashioned is served in a ten ounce glass with a maraschino cherry and an orange slice but that a REAL Old Fashioned must be served in a room with a brick fireplace and deer head mounted on a wall by a waitress named Diane. As a lover of the Wisconsin Supper Club scene, and pretty much all things Wisconsin, this commercial gives me all the feels. From all of this, the idea of…

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