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It's obvious that this Blood & Sand-like cocktail contains Fernet, it has an almost smoky herbal influence. Maple syrup is an inspired sweetener and flavour...
I was expecting this to be amazing - I particularly enjoy Fernet Branca (as well as all the other ingredients) - but was ultimately very disappointed. I tried with 1/3floz maple syrup and it seemed promising but much too sweet (drowning out the Fernet and even the whisky); with 1/6floz it was more balanced in terms of flavours but altogether not much there in it. I wonder whether it needs a peaty single malt instead of the generic Dewars 12 I keep for 'mixing' purposes.