evening in a sugar orchard

1 1/2 oz Bourbon (Evan Williams Bonded)
1 oz Aged Rum (Privateer New England Reserve)
1/4 oz Maple Syrup
1/4 oz Cinnamon Syrup
2 dash Angostura Bitters

Stir with ice, strain into an old fashioned glass with fresh ice, and garnish with an orange twist.Two Fridays ago, I did some recipe R&D for an article on maple syrup cocktails and came up with three drinks. The first was an Old Fashioned variation that I named Evening in a Sugar Orchard after a Robert Frost poem. I was influenced by the revised version of the American Trilogy (Michael McIlroy's original called for Demerara syrup instead of maple). And the cinnamon aspect came from my recent tinkerings that developed the Two Roads Diverged (also a Robert Frost allusion); the combination of cinnamon and maple also appeared in Death & Co.'s Ole Bull and Timothy Miner's Christmas in Prison. In the text, I describe how the "Bourbon is bolstered by rich flavors from an aged rum and complemented by maple, cinnamon, and bitters. While Bourbons are generally consistent due to the laws regulating the spirit, rums vary a lot. I developed this recipe with a local aged rum, Privateer New England Reserve, but I can see this recipe prospering with darker rums as well. Use what you have got and experiment over time." In the glass, the Evening in the Sugar Orchard floated orange oil over darker maple notes, allspice, and Bourbon aromas. Next, a maple-driven sip dawned upon Boubon, rum, cinnamon, maple, and clove flavors on the swallow.