Name: Autumn Sweater
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 30 ml Rye whiskey 50% abv; 15 ml Amaro (e.g. Averna); 15 ml Amaro (e.g. Nonino); 15 ml Maple syrup; 1 dash Tobacco bitters; 1 dash Orange bitters

Ingredients

1 fl oz

Straight rye whiskey (100 proof /50% alc./vol.)

¹⁄₂ fl oz

Amaro (e.g. Averna)

¹⁄₂ fl oz

Amaro Nonino Quintessentia

¹⁄₂ fl oz

Maple syrup

1 dash

Fee Brothers Turkish Tobacco Bitters

1 dash

Orange Bitters by Angostura

How to make

Glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill an OLD-FASHIONED GLASS.

Prepare garnish of clove-studded orange zest twist.

Method

STIR all ingredients with ice.

STRAIN into ice-filled glass (preferably over a large cube or chunk of block ice).

Garnish

Garnish with a clove-studded orange zest twist.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Autumn Sweater contains 213 calories

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
25.71% alc./vol. (51.43° proof)
19.5 grams of pure alcohol

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Comments & Discussion

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Spencer McCandless 2w

I can't tell if this recipe is off or I'm just missing something basic about how you're supposed to dissolve viscous stuff like maple syrup. The other flavors are fine, but in addition to there being way too much maple syrup, I don't understand how anyone mixes this over ice without it just congealing at the bottom of the mixing glass. Doing this with half the maple syrup and doing a dry shake with no ice before straining it into the glass produced much better results for me.

Steve Hotopp 35w

Following the great advice to cut back on the maple syrup and subbing in Bittermans Xocolatl Mole bitters for the tobacco bitters made for one of my new favorites. I also sprinkled a little ground clove onto the orange peel garnish to give my nose the intended experience.

Rick Rosemont 39w

I followed some of the recommendations and cut the maple syrup to a bar spoon full. And used Aztec chocolate bitters with the orange bitters. That cut back on the sweetness and orange and chocolate go together. At least for me.

Mookie Premium Member 1y

I'm curious what an entire half ounce of maple syrup would do to the rest of the flavors in this cocktail, but not curious enough to try. I used a barspoon and it was fantastic.

John CARR Premium Member 1y

Based on the previous comments, probably a good thing that I didn’t dissolve the maple syrup properly and it solidified on the ice in the mixing glass (caveat emptor, much). Followed Justin’s lead i used chocolate bitters approx 7 drops. This is broadly a very successful flavour combo and will be forgiving of wide experimentation. I used Luxardo abano in place of Averna.

John CARR Premium Member 1y

Revisiting a few months later, went with 3 drops abbots bitters, 10ml maple, which was more than sufficiently sweet for me. Tv

Justin Aniello 1y

Halved the maple syrup, was a little too sweet the first time. Had to sub in chocolate bitters for the tobacco which worked very well to add a subtle earthiness.

Miguel Perales Premium Member 1y

This was overly sweet for me....and I cut back on the maple syrup to 1/4 oz/7.5 ml. Very unbalanced. Not a repeat for me.

Miguel Perales Premium Member 1y

PS. just noticed a minor misspelling on step 2 of How to make. It says clove "studied" orange zest. May have meant "studded"?

Simon Difford Verified User Premium Member 1y

Many thanks, Miguel. Now corrected.

Michael Cronin 1y

Very nice. I used Whistle Pig 10 Year Small Batch Rye and double the Nonino in absence of the Averna. I would also back off the maple syrup to 10 ml. Iam fortunate to have found tobacco bitters, but I do wonder how an extra step of smoking the cocktail would work; I plan to try it. This is a keeper.

Melissa Demian 1y

I was out of Averna so I subbed in Ramazzotti, which worked very well. Also, 15ml of maple syrup makes it *very* sweet; if that’s not your thing I would take it down to 10 or even 5ml.