Get a sneak peek into the lounge, which will open next month at Douglas and Broadway and will welcome members of the public.

(Plus, did you know the Old Fashioned cocktail was invented in Louisville at the famed Pendennis Club?) We stopped by the Brown Hotel in downtown Louisville to catch up with Chad and Sara.

The Old Fashioned is as classic a cocktail as exists in the American canon, yett over the generations, the core concept of combining spirit, sugar, and bitters has gotten muddled (sorry-not-sorry ...

If you were to poll bartenders and avid cocktail drinkers about the best cocktail of them all, a lot of people will respond with the old fashioned ... 10 oz. brown sugar, 6.5 oz.

A sweet, woodsy pop of spice helps to balance a luscious Old Fashioned and holds up with ... toast drizzled with honey meld with ripe plums, brown sugar, nougat, and brown butter.