Trick or Treat

It's Halloween and yes, there are roughly seven hundred pumpkin beers in the world, but I've already said my piece on pumpkin spice beer (as seen here: Pumpkin Beer?). So in the spirit of Halloween here's a little trick or treat action for you guys.

The Trick: I'm writing about whiskey today, not beer.
The Treat: it is whiskey and whiskey is delicious too—just in a different way.

I was doing some shopping at my friendly neighborhood Meijer the other day when I strayed from the beer aisle into the land of the hard stuff. It's Halloween after all, and a flask of whiskey fits better in my costume than 6 bottles of beer. Plus, when I'm not drinking beer I'm a bourbon or whiskey kind of girl and Halloween is the perfect time to warm up with whiskey. As I was gawking at all the whiskey, a bottom shelf bottle of Maple Mist caught my eye. First, it was only $9.99. Second, it was a blend of Maple Liquor and Canadian Whiskey. I was excited and immediately placed it into my empty cart. I've learned to simply ignore the judgmental stares from the shoppers around me.

Whiskey for all of your breakfast needs

I may be late to the party, but maple whiskey is so hot right now. Last year the en vogue flavor for whiskey was honey. Years before, cinnamon whiskey and cherry whiskey all had their five minutes of fame. This is the year of the Maple (it's go time Canada). If you're not as poor as I am, feel free to jump up a shelf or two when buying your maple whiskey. Crown Royal, Knob Creek, Hudson Whiskey, and Sweet Sippin' (which comes in a maple leaf bottle by the way) all make presumably superior versions of this fall friendly blended alcohol.

The Maple Mist made by Canadian Mist that I bought is pretty good, but I'm sure it can get even better. The bottle says the whiskey has notes of maple, salted caramel, toasted oak, and finished with a rich molasses flavor. Not quite. Maple Mist owes its maple flavor less to the maple tree and more to the sticky high-fructose pancake topper—but it's still drinkable. Another minor problem is the astringent whiskey taste towards the middle of a sip. Nonetheless, I still want to put Maple Mist into a flask, or mix it with apple cider, or pour it over my pancakes for a drunken breakfast.

I know it's not craft beer but think of the possibilities. You can add maple whiskey to eggnog, hot toddies, root beer, cocoa, coffee—the seasonal recipes es are endless. I'll get back to beer related topics ASAP but in the meanwhile, warm up after trick-or-tre-treating with this sweet spin on whiskey. stweewitwwaenme in thwt me, bu, latedet et