Maple Old Fashioned co*cktail Recipe – A Nerd Cooks (2024)

FAQs

What alcohol goes with maple syrup? ›

Real maple syrup is always delicious poured on a stack of pancakes, but come fall, we begin to feel the urge to include it in everything, including our drinks. Luckily, the stuff is great in co*cktails, whether paired with spicy bitters or rich bourbon, roasted fruit or apple brandy.

Some say that the drink actually originated in Louisville, Kentucky in 1880 at a private social club called The Pendennis Club. The recipe is linked to bartender and bourbon distillery, James E. Pepper.

Maple Syrup

Yes, the subtle bit of it can enhance bourbon in co*cktails and plays nice with anything fall flavor-inspired, but it's a good substitute for simple in more applications than you might think. Maple syrup's consistency doesn't need thinning for any type of drinks.

Some bartenders drop in a slice of orange or a cherry right before serving, and others will muddle the fruit into the drink; sometimes it's served with no fruit at all.

Made from distilled Quebec maple syrup with no additives, acerum is a fermented spirit that can resemble cognac or whiskey in the glass.

DISTILLATION (Maple eau-de-vie)

Eau-de-vie, otherwise known as brandy, may or may not be barrel-aged. The maceration of plants, fruits, flavourings, and sugars in maple brandy has given rise to a wide range of maple spirits. Acerum.

There are few drinks manlier than an Old Fashioned. But the simple syrup in this staple (as well as co*cktails like a Whiskey Sour) isn't so simple, nutritionally speaking. “Just 1-ounce packs in over 5 teaspoons of added sugar,” Holthaus says. “And a 6-ounce Old Fashioned will cost you around 260 calories.”

What was the first ever co*cktail? Accounts differ, but most experts agree that the first co*cktail was the Sazerac, a blend of whisky, absinthe, bitters and sugar. Created in New Orleans in the mid-1800s, this is one of the first co*cktails recognisable by name and remains a favourite to this day.

The short answer is yes. While pancake and maple syrup may look similar, the two vary when it comes to taste, cost, ingredients, and how they are made.

But true maple syrup is complex, nutty, and much more flavorful than those imposters. One taste and you'll never go back to the table syrups of yesteryear! Of course if you're out of real maple syrup but have pancake syrup on hand, it'll work in a pinch.

What's the difference between pure maple syrup and syrup? ›

THE SINGLE, most DEFINITIVE DIFFERENCE is that Pure Maple Syrup comes only from Maple trees. No other syrup does. ALL other attempts at sweet syrups are distilled sugar water without the true Maple sap.

“Dirty” because it involves the orange of an Old Fashioned as well as the cherry juice that is usually a ghost of a flavour from the cherry at the bottom of a Manhattan. These two elements combined add the sweetness of the drink and provide the “dirty” element, similar to the olive juice in a martini.

“The Old-Fashioned was an evolution of the Whiskey co*cktail which was simply whiskey, sugar, bitters, and water, and was served as early as 1800 or so.” It wasn't until the 1870s and 1880s that when bartenders “began adding embellishments to their Whiskey co*cktails, some customers rebelled against the innovations,” as ...

An Old Fashioned calls for two to three dashes of bitters—no more, no less—that are added to the glass once the sugar or simple syrup is in. While the amount seems small, having too many or too few dashes can dramatically change the taste makeup of the drink.

This co*cktail is a delicious mix of pure maple syrup, local apple cider (the best!!), spied or dark rum (your choice) and lime juice. You can actually taste the maple in it, which I love!