Alton Brown's Go-To Drink Order That Reveals A Bartender's Skill - Chowhound

Paras Griffin/Getty Images A TV personality, food scientist, and author walks into a bar and orders an old fashioned. No, this isn't the start of a joke — we're describing what Alton Brown does when faced with an unfamiliar watering hole. An old fashioned is a cocktail with only a few ingredients — bourbon or rye, bitters, sugar, and an orange peel — but a storied history. And, to Brown's mind, the cocktail is a…