Sweet Potato Old Fashioned
Rye infused with cinnamon-roasted sweet potato, then built like a sweet potato casserole — maple in place of sugar, cardamom in place of the usual bitters, and Luxardo for the cherry on top. Start the infusion five days out.
old fashioned
Spirit-forward by design: 2 oz of infused rye carries it, and everything else is seasoning.
The infusion
One batch, whatever you’re pouring. A 750 ml bottle gives you about a dozen drinks.
Ingredients
Steps
Working from a 375 ml bottle? Half a sweet potato, a pint jar, and about five drinks out the other side. Rye is the point here — the pepper pushes back against the potato and the maple. Bourbon works, but it lands sweeter and rounder. This recipe is nut-free on purpose: no walnut bitters, and do not swap in pecan bitters either.