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Maple Rum Old-Fashioned
Well-aged rum mellowed and sweetened by maple syrup. A spirit-forward sipper that's rich and easy. (You may want to vary the amount of maple syrup according...
Toby James
28th July at 01:04
Best example of how there's sweetness and then there's sweetness. I typically drop sugar with cocktail recipes, but the maple flavour interacting with the rum sweetness is the star. Best balance for me is OFTD — enough Jamaica, Guyana, and ABV to structure without going full hogo, and gives the syrup something to push against. Sweetness is almost a side-effect.