DIY Old Fashioned: an Airplane Mini-Bottle Cocktail

I don't drink much, so keeping bottles of liquor is not a cost-effective thing to do. They evaporate before I finish them. Therefore, I'm on a quest to find cocktail recipes that use those little airplane bottles of liquor.

What you need are:

1. An airplane mini-bottle of whiskey
2. A single-serving can of club soda
3. Something to stir with
4. There's no reason you couldn't use an iced-tea spoon; I just happen to have this cocktail spoon laying around from dreams since abandoned.
5. A 12-oz. glass
6. I'm using a 12-ounce Highball glass I bought on Amazon {no longer available}.

Empty the sugar packet into the glass. Pour in the club soda. Stir to dissolve.

Pour the whiskey into the glass and stir. You may now imbibe!

At $2 for all the ingredients, it isn't that expensive, especially when you think of what you pay at a bar.

Taste-wise, it is fairly bland. The packet of sugar didn't make it very sweet at all. I am getting a sugary aftertaste, however. Since I have never had a real Old Fashioned, I'm not sure how this is supposed to taste. Right now, though, this is tolerable. I liked the whiskey ginger MUCH better. I'm moving on the vodka soda recipe on the club soda can box.

I'm sipping my way through this, so it is taking some time to determine effect. At about 5 minutes with much less than half the glass drank, I am feeling a little tingling in my legs. At the rate I'm drinking this, I don't see things getting any dizzier. Again, try the whiskey ginger instead: Tastier and more potent. (I don't know why because it is the same amount of alcohol.)

Chow for now!

UPDATE: Okaqy, at 15 minutes, I'm definitely feeling it. I'm a bit wobbly and lightheaded. Still, I'd ragerher be drinking the siskey dinger.