Ramblings · 14 May 2026 · 1 min read
Your ice is the problem
You bought the good bourbon. You measured carefully. Then you ruined it with freezer ice that tastes like a frozen pizza.
Ice is an ingredient. It is roughly a quarter of what ends up in the glass, and most people give it less thought than the napkin.
Freezer ice absorbs everything around it. If there is a bag of frozen peas in there, congratulations, your Old Fashioned has notes of frozen peas.
You do not need a fancy mould. You need fresh ice, made recently, kept away from food. That is the whole tip. You may now go back to arguing about vermouth.
Cheers, hegenderfer
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