My drink of choice (and the Wisconsin recipe for it)

Brandy Old-Fashioned Sweet.

Fill an "old-fashioned" glass with ice.
Lace the bottom of the glass with an old-fashioned mix. (*see below for special recipe)
Add 1 shot of Brandy.
Fill the glass with 7-Up.
Add two cherries (fasten the cherries to the back of an orange wedge using a toothpick if you'd like)
*The easiest way to make the Old-Fashioned mix is to take an empty wine bottle, fill it half-way with sugar, add a regular bottle of Angostura Bitters, then fill up with hot water. Shake, making sure the sugar is fully-dissolved. Now you have enough mix for plenty of drinks for your friends and family.

Actually, the Brandy Old-Fashioned Sweet is found only in the drinking repertoire of native Wisconsinites (unless someone has been turned on to the drink by a Wisconsinite - which has been known to happen). If you look up the recipe in the Mr. Boston's Deluxe Official Bartending Guide, it's listed as, "Old-Fashioned". - and the Old-Fashioned that the world was/is accustomed to drinking was made with whiskey or bourbon. However, Wisconsin was once the King of Brandy Consumption in the U.S., which is why the folks there have naturally gravitated to brandy instead. (Only recently was the crown slightly taken over by the District of Colombia?, but 40% of Korbel's shipments still go to Wisconsin.)

When made improperly, which is more often the case, this drink is a disaster. This is very true if you're from Wisconsin but order the drink ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD - unless, of course, your bartender hails from the Badger State. I've tasted Old-Fashioned's in Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota, Ohio, Arizona, California and Ireland and had the bartender dump the drink after one sip.

Some claim the first use of the specific name "Old Fashioned" was for a Bourbon whiskey cocktail in the 1880s, at the Pendennis Club, a gentlemen’s club in Louisville, Kentucky. The recipe is said to have been invented by a bartender at that club, and popularized by a club member and bourbon distiller, Colonel James E. Pepper, who brought it to the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel bar in New York City.

Drink Boy concurs with me that there's great contention on the proper way to make an Old-Fashioned. He found the oldest recipe going by the name of "Old Fashioned", in "Modern American Drinks" by George J. Kappeler, and published in 1895:

Dissolve a small lump of sugar with a little water in a whiskey-glass; add two dashes Angostura bitters, a small piece ice, a piece lemon-peel, one jigger whiskey. Mix with small bar-spoon and serve, leaving spoon in glass.

This closely resembles the modern day version of the recipe as found in Mr. Boston's. Most modern recipes top off an Old-Fashioned cocktail with soda water; however, purists decry this practice insisting that soda water is never permitted in a true Old-Fashioned cocktail. Many respected sources (e.g. Maker's Mark) list an Old-Fashioned as containing soda water only, dispensing with the bitters altogether. From Drink Boy - "In some areas, notably Wisconsin, brandy is substituted for whisky." (what did Jeffy tell you?).

The Old-Fashioned is also the drink of choice of the urbane, sophisticated "Donald Draper", the star of AMC's series, "Mad Men." I've consumed hundreds of these little tummy warmers - as have my family and friends. It's especially popular at Christmas for us - possibly due to the fact that when we mainly imbibed in them when we were young and first able to drink. And I have to add - the ladies LOVE my Brandy Old-Fashioned Sweet's.

Cheers!