- Grant's Whisky
Since it's officially fall, you'll start to see the comforting flavors of autumn on restaurant and bar menus. Maple is a flavor often associated with fall and it works as a great accompanying flavor to squash dishes and desserts. But maple also pairs very well with the warm, full-bodied flavors of bourbon and whiskey in fancy cocktails.
Take, for instance, the Maple Old Fashioned whiskey cocktail featured in the instructional video below — an updated version of the old school Old Fashioned. It mixes the sweet flavor of maple syrup with the woody, spicy, full-bodied flavors of bourbon and whiskey bitters (which aren't actually bitter at all).
This article appears in Sep 22-28, 2011.