These are a half-dozen fun facts to stir conversation and thoughtful sipping. Our advice: Invest a little time in coming up with a fun pun for your favorite drink, combine your names with your drinks (Justin-tinis and Rebecca-ritas, anyone? It's the name of your cocktail that makes it unique. ), or just peruse our ideas, below. You don't need a fancy mixologist to have a fun signature cocktail at your wedding. Itâs the Very Definition of Cocktail . 1. As cocktails go, you canât get more classic than the Old Fashioned, a simple concoction of bourbon (or rye), sugar, water and bitters.Good versions of the drink can be found all over the world. Spirit, sugar, water, bittersâthis is the technical definition of a cocktail. While a gin-based version of this famed cocktail was first published in 1862, the modern Old-Fashioned came later in 1880 when bartender James E. Pepper first mixed the drink in Louisville, Kentucky. But simple tweaksârum here, smoke there, tamarind elsewhereâcan easily change up the classic into a new favorite. No list of mixed alcoholic drinks would be complete without mentioning the Old-Fashioned. Luckily, the Old Fashioned is one cocktail that has never gone out of style. Old-Fashioned.