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Stir or Shake? The Whiskey Truth Bartenders Know You're sitting at a decent bar, maybe a whiskey bar in Nashville or a classic joint in Chicago, and you watch the bartender go to work. One drink gets a slow, graceful stir in a mixing glass. The next one gets tossed into a shaker and rattled around

You've seen the bartender do it a hundred times. He's got your Old Fashioned halfway built — the whiskey, the sugar, the big ice cube — and then he grabs that little bottle, barely the size of a hot sauce bottle, and hits the glass with two, maybe three quick dashes. Done. He caps the bottle, gives