consider the bacon-infused-bourbon-and-maple-syrup cocktail at the East Village gin joint PDT. Its inventor Don Lee uses robust Grade B syrup, which is made at the end of the season as winter ...

2 ounces bourbon ½ ounce maple syrup (grade A ... use the sweet elixir when we cook bacon. In a culinary twist of fate, the natural sweetener is a great cocktail ingredient too.

this Maple Manhattan has all the sweetness you could want out of a Christmastime cocktail, balancing spiced bourbon and rich maple syrup. Traditional recipes for Manhattan cocktails call for rye ...

In the morning, he strained out the gunk, and added bitters and maple syrup ... way to fat-wash your cocktails. You can follow Lee’s example and add bacon fat to your bourbon.

A nod to Ron Burgundy, this cocktail from Maple & Ash in Chicago triples down on brown spirits with a 10-year scotch, a bourbon and a Laphroaig float.