A local restaurant here has a bourbon drink I became obsessed with. So I decided to try to recreate it. All I had to go off was the description from the menu. I knew it was bourbon, had dried pears as a garnish, could taste/smell cinnamon and had some kind of pear liquor. Anyways tried all kinds of combinations but could not get it right. The only pear liquor I could find at the store was waaaaay off. Very clovery tasting with almost no cinnamon so I decided to make my own.
Put some cut up pears, with cinnamon stick in a jar with sugar and vodka for 24/hours. That stuff came out fantastic! I also it hard to find decent dried pears online and the ones that were decent were $$$$ so decided to make some dried pears also.
Anyways the final recipe I came up with with was equal parts bourbon and pear liquor (can go more or less depending how sweet you want it), dash of walnut bitters, 1/4 oz lemon juice, touch of maple syrup shaken well and served on the rocks with dried pears.
Sooooo good I had to force myself to stop drinking it.
