The old fashioned glass, otherwise known as the rocks glass, whiskey glass, and lowball glass (or simply lowball), is a short
tumbler used for serving
spirits, such as
whisky
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,
neat
Neat may refer to:
* Neat (bartending), a single, unmixed liquor served in a rocks glass
* Neat, an old term for horned oxen
* Neat Records, a British record label
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or with
ice cubes
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on the rocks
Various unique terms are used in bartending.
Definitions and usage
Straight, up, and straight up
In bartending, the terms "straight up" and "up" ordinarily refer to an alcoholic drink that is shaken or stirred with ice and then strained and ...
"). It is also normally used to serve certain
cocktail
A cocktail is a mixed drink, usually alcoholic beverage, alcoholic. Most commonly, a cocktail is a combination of one or more liquor, spirits mixed with other ingredients, such as juices, flavored syrups, tonic water, Shrub (drink), shrubs, and ...
s, such as the
old fashioned
Old-fashioned, an idiom meaning something not modern, or may refer to:
* Old fashioned (cocktail), a whiskey cocktail
** Old fashioned glass, a type of drinking glass named after the cocktail
* Old Fashioned (film), ''Old Fashioned'' (film), a 201 ...
. The true old fashioned glass is decorated in the
cut glass
Cut glass or cut-glass is a technique and a style of decorating glass. For some time the style has often been produced by other techniques such as the use of Molding (process), moulding, but the original technique of cutting glass on an abrasiv ...
style, although most modern examples are
pressed glass
Pressed glass (or pattern glass)
, made using a mold. The form originated in the 17th and 18th centuries from the Scottish
quaich
A quaich , Archaism, archaically quaigh or quoich, is a special kind of shallow two-handled Drinking#Alcoholic beverages, drinking cup or Bowl (vessel), bowl of a type traditional in Scotland. It derives from the Scottish Gaelic (), meaning ...
, a shallow two-handled vessel made of materials such as wood, silver, and leather. Beginning in the 19th century, these ornately-decorated cups were slowly replaced by the glass tumbler, which had greater mass appeal and were cheaper to produce. Plain glass versions are lowball glasses.
Old fashioned glasses typically have a wide brim and a thick base, so that the non-liquid ingredients of a cocktail can be mashed using a
muddler
A muddler is a bartender's tool, used like a pestle to mash—or muddle—fruits, herbs and spices in the bottom of a glass to release their flavor.
Description
The tool is shaped like a small baseball bat and must be long enough to touch the ...
before the main liquid ingredients are added.
Old fashioned glasses usually hold .
A double old fashioned glass (sometimes referred to by retailers as a ''DOF'' glass) holds .
See also
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References
External links
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Drinking glasses
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