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An after-dinner cocktail with spirituous bourbon, sweetened and mellowed by rich cherry. (We previously had this cocktail served straight-up but it's better...
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!
Mea culpa. I used Cocktail Finder to pair "Whiskey--all styles" with both "Sour cherry liqueur" and "Cherry liqueur--Bittersweet cherry aperitivo," both of which yielded zero hits, which greatly surprised me. I apparently missed the "Cherry brandy liqueur" option, however, which is where all the recipes are. Anyway, two thumbs up here for the Hunter, esp. with a tad of bitter liqueur.