folk hero

3/4 oz Laird's Bonded Apple Brandy
3/4 oz Wild Turkey 101° Rye (Rittenhouse)
1 tsp Linie Aquavit
1 tsp Amaro Nonino
1 tsp Benedictine
1 tsp Honey Syrup
1 dash Angostura Bitters

Stir with ice, strain into an old fashioned glass with a large ice cube, and garnish with a lemon twist.After making the Model Village, I still had the webpage for the Death & Co. market place open, and I found the Folk Hero there. They attributed the drink to bartender Jake Powell at their Denver location in 2024; Jake described how the rye-apple brandy duo often denoted by the word "harvest" such as in the Harvest Sour drew him in. Moreover, he let his obsession about folk heroes like Paul Bunyan and Evil Knievel come through in the name. The idea of a split base rye-apple brandy Old Fashioned with accents of aquavit seemed appealing especially recalling how well rye and apple brandy work with aquavit in the 2009-era Carra-Ryed Away and Norwegian Wood, respectively. Once mixed, the Folk Hero launched into a lemon, apple, caramel, caraway, and herbal bouquet. Next, caramel and honey notes on the sip wandered off into rye, apple, caraway, herbal, and allspice flavors on the swallow.