Just what you expect it to be. Perfect as is

Adopted recipe in ounces. Great cocktail

I like this, tasty, not OMG! But tasty. I didn’t have Cherry Heering on hand and used Luxardo Cherry Sangue Morlacco. Jeez what a name. So not sure how it would be with the Cherry Heering. I will add it to my favorites list.

Much improved by a dash of campari and a dash of syrup from the maraschino cherries, at least to my tastes.

Pleasant without being amazing. I was concerned it would be excessive with 20ml Cherry Heering but it is in fact balanced. Maker’s 46. Other bourbons or cherry liqueur could potentially work better. My favourite part was the aroma actually!

Ive tried the recipe and its very good, but why is it that in the video, and all the videos ive seen about this cocktail, they only use the bourbon or Rye and the cherry Heering ?

I'm in a stretch of trying to use up (just for the sake of freeing up shelf space) a Portuguese cherry liqueur a friend gave a couple years back, Mariquinhas. Great on its own, but not necessarily a sub for Heering. But I didn't have any Heering on hand either, just Sangue Morlacco... Vastly different drink going from the former to the latter. I prefer it with the Luxardo. But the big takeaway is how interesting this simple cocktail is (or could be), depending on the brands.

Three years later, I agree with Nathalie. This is going on my list of favorite after dinner drinks. I’ve seen a few Americans push back on Heering because the cherry flavor reminds us of a common childhood medicine. It’s not that I disagree, but that Cherry flavor is more of a candy like cherry flavor that is pervasive here. I taste the same flavor is old school cherry soda and homemade cherry candies. It’s one of my favorite flavors.

Made 2 changes. Didn’t understand the tiny amount of maraschino so just went with 3/4 oz (22.5 ml) of cherry liqueur. This was, surprisingly, not too desperately sweet with 1.5 oz Stranahan’s cask strength Rocky Mountain single malt whiskey, but it needed something else. That turned out to be 1 tsp (5 ml) of Italian red bitter liqueur; tried both Campari and Martini & Rossi Speciale Bitter with good results. Was unable to find any other whiskey-cherry liqueur drinks in Difford’s database!

A nice, Bourbon-forward cocktail. It pushed my envelope for sweetness but, as mentioned, would be a very nice after-dinner cocktail.

Tasty, but dear god it’s strong!

I agree with Nathalie, this is excellent. Perfect for an aperitif or after dinner. On my list also.

Although apparently not well known and not top rated, this one belongs to my little book of "recurring" cocktails, those that I make several times a year (3-4), in fact one of our favourites from the stirring cocktails sub-genre.