October 2024 – Pear Bourbon Delight

A great drink the exudes everything about fall is a Pear Bourbon Delight.  This cocktail utilizes Pear Brandy and Bourbon and utilizes a simple syrup that not only makes your home smell like fall but also adds a complex and delightful flavor.  Simmering the honey water mixture with cinnamon, ginger and pears creates a wonderful scent and makes a simple syrup that has a wonderful flavor.  This is one drink where the garnish made from pear pieces strained from the syrup added to wonderful; cherries is almost as good as the cocktail itself.  Yes, you have to invest some time making the simple syrup, but the result is a drink worthy of praise on a cool fall evening.  The good news is once the simple syrup is made the rest of the drink is easy to construct and the slight addition of ginger beer gives it a soft effervescence that caps off this wonderful cocktail.  You can’t lose when you get a great smelling kitchen, a delightful drink and a fantastic edible garnish.  All I can say is yum.

Ingredients:

• Woodford Reserve Bourbon
• Pear Brandy (e.g., St. George)
• Fresh squeezed and strained lemon juice
• Simple Syrup (Pear, Honey, Cinnamon & Ginger)
• Ginger Beer
• Orange Bitters
• Pear squares from simple syrup & Copper & Kings or Luxardo Cherry for Garnish

Tools:

• Oxo two-sided shot glass/jigger
• Mixing Glass
• Drink Strainer
• Mixing spoon
• Rocks Glass
• Small Strainer (to strain simple syrup)
• Squeeze bottle
• Cocktail Pick

Directions:

• Make your Simple Syrup Mixture
  • Heat 1 cup water and ½ cup honey in saucepan and bring to boil
  • Add two diced pears (cut some pieces into squares to use as garnish)
  • Add two cinnamon sticks
  • Add ginger (one small piece peeled and diced into pieces)
  • Let simmer for 25 minutes
• Fill mixing glass with ice and add the following ingredients for one cocktail.
  • Bourbon – 2oz
  • Pear Brandy – 1oz  
  • Lemon Juice – ½ oz
  • Pear Simple Syrup – 1 oz
  • 2 dashes of Orange Bitters
• Stir Cocktail then strain into Rocks glass that is full of ice.
•  Add 1 ½ oz ginger beer and stir in (adding at this point keeps the fizz intact).   
• Garnish with pear squares and cherries on cocktail pick (two each – see pic)

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