Pumpkin Spiced Old Fashioned
SOURCE: Liquor.com
You don’t need a calendar or changing temperatures to tell you when fall has arrived. You just need to look around and note the pumpkin spice lattes on coffee shop menus and firmly clutched in the hands of everyone around you. At its worst, the unofficial drink of fall is a sickly sweet approximation of something resembling that orange gourd. At its best, it contains bourbon.
Ingredients
1/2 ounce pumpkin syrup*
2 dashes orange bitters
1 orange wedge
2 ounces Breckenridge bourbon
1 splash club soda (optional)
Garnish: cinnamon stick
Instructions
Add the pumpkin syrup, orange bitters and orange wedge into an Old Fashioned glass and muddle.
Add the bourbon, a large ice cube and a splash of club soda (optional), and stir gently with the cinnamon stick to combine.
Pumpkin Syrup
Ingredients
1 cup water
3/4 cup light brown sugar
3 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
1/3 cup pumpkin puree
1tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
Add water and light brown sugar to a saucepan and simmer until the sugar dissolves. Turn the heat to low and whisk in pumpkin pie spice and pumpkin puree. Simmer on low for 8 minutes, remove from heat, and allow to cool. Strain through a fine-mesh strainer, add vanilla extract, and store the syrup in the refrigerator in a container with a tightly fitting lid for up to 1 month.
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