maple drinks

[Finest Kind]

We tried these babies a couple of years ago. Excellent cocktail...

Noreaster


1 ½ ounces bourbon
½ ounce fresh lime juice
½ ounce pure maple syrup
1 ounce ginger beer or ginger ale
Lime wheel for garnish
Combine bourbon, lime juice and maple syrup in a mixing glass.
Add ice and shake vigorously.
Strain into a rocks glass filled with ice and top with ginger beer. Garnish with a lime wheel.

[Galena]

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There is a micro brewery here in Ottawa that does a special brew in the spring each year replacing the water with sap for a maple beer.

http://www.heritagebrewing.com/seasonal.html

Ooh thanks, want to go check it out!

A friend of mine works at Upper Canada Village, told me about a nice little Maple Fizz (non-alcoholic), which is maple syrup combined with soda water. Haven't tried it yet but now that I have lots of syrup, plan to put aside a 2l jar for experimentation purposes ;-)

[Butch]

We claim that we have found the WMDs (Whiskey Maple Drinks):

Equal parts Black Velvet (whatever) and "nearup" - the hotter the better and the "nearer" the better, but serve it in a nice glass!

[Mel]

Sortilege on the rocks is a great after dinner drink. Smooooth.

[Urban Sugarmaker]

I tried a Saranac Maple Porter a month or so ago. Not sure if real maple syrup was in them or not, and I did try four of them just to make sure I didn't like them but I would rather not have one ever again.

I don't care for it either. The Labatt Maple beer is worse. It seems like whenever brewers try to make a maple beer it always tastes like the artificial maple flavors used in fake maple syrup. I hate that flavor.

[littleTapper]

Not finding it mentioned yet, but I poured some maple syrup into my root beer float tonight and it was **** good. Will do that again.

[maple maniac65]

Not finding it mentioned yet, but I poured some maple syrup into my root beer float tonight and it was **** good. Will do that again.

try it in Coney Island Root beer (not for children)

[littleTapper]

Got addicted to my version of maplenog over the holidays. Sorry, boring cooked non-alcoholic version. You can not cook it and throw in 3oz bourbon at the end if you'd like I don't trust eggs when I don't own the chickens.

Ingredients:

4 egg yolks

1 pint whole milk

1 cup heavy cream

Somewhere between 1/3 and 1/2 cup maple syrup. Right in the middle is good.

1 teaspoon nutmeg

Directions:

In decent-sized bowl, beat egg yolks and mix in maple syrup.

In saucepan, heat milk, cream and nutmeg just to a boil. Remove from heat and slowly mix it into the the egg/maple syrup mixture. Return mix to pot and heat to 160 degrees.

Remove from heat. Pour into bowl. Chill. Consume way too rapidly.