Freezer Door Maple Old Fashioned V2
Smooth, rich, and perfect for holiday hosting — this Freezer Door Maple Old Fashioned is your set-and-forget version of a classic. Bourbon gives you warmth, maple syrup adds seasonal sweetness, walnut bitters bring depth, and a touch of water pre-dilutes it so it pours perfectly straight from the freezer. This one is built for easy entertaining.
Cheers, y'all!
ingredients:
750 ml Four Roses Small Batch
4 oz | 120 ml Grade A Maple Syrup
1 oz | 30 ml Walnut Bitters
3 oz | 90 ml Water
Bourbon-Soaked Pecan (garnish)
Orange Twist (garnish)
instructions:
Combine all ingredients in a 1L bottle and shake or stir to incorporate. Store in the freezer overnight before serving. To serve, pour 3-4 oz to a rocks glass over a large ice cube and garnish with a cinnamon stick and orange twist. Cheers and enjoy!
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I’m your huckleberry 🤠
I just got back from Montana with my friends at @traegergrills. It was strictly a grilling event but given what I do, of course I had to get behind the bar. I knew I wanted to incorporate local Montana ingredients like huckleberry, juniper (grown on site) and honey but also wanted to incorporate smoke from the grill. So I had the idea to make a bramble type cocktail.
For the smokey element, I smoked some local raw honey along with some juniper berries on the Traeger to just get a kiss of smoke. I then constructed the cocktail originally using gin like a traditional bramble, but the juniper botanicals overpowered the recipe so I switched to a reposado tequila and knew it was the perfect fit. They also had some locally made huckleberry liqueur which was the perfect last ingredient to top the cocktail and bring that sweet/sour/fruity element to the cocktail. Finally topped it with that smoked juniper berry branch to give it that botanical pop and tricking your brain into thinking you’re drinking a bramble when you’re actually drinking something closer to a margarita.
Given the ingredients and location, it was just fitting to call this the ‘Big Sky Bramble.’ Cheers y’all.
Big thanks to @i_drewcifer for the R&D help!
🎥: @tobojosh / @grillvaultbbq