Slice the cherry top to bottom five times around pit and soak in the amaretto. Muddle the cider, sage, saffron, brown sugar, orange peels, and orange zest in a cocktail shaker. Add the bourbon and ice, and stir. Double- strain into an ice-filled rocks glass. Garnish with the amaretto-soaked cherry.

• 1 ½ oz bourbon
• ¾ oz orange curaçao
• 3 dashes Angostura bitters
• 1 oz fizz water
• 2 orange wedges
• 2 sweet or sour cherries

Muddle the bitters, curaçao, one of the orange slices, and one of the cherries in a rocks glass. Remove the orange rind and add the bourbon, fizz water, and ice. Garnish with the remaining orange wedge and cherry.

• 1 ½ oz Maker's Mark bourbon
• ¾ oz Disaronno amaretto
• 2 dashes peach bitters
• 2 star anise pods

Shake the liquid ingredients and one of the star anise pods with a reasonable amount of fury and double-strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with a cherry and the remaining star anise pod.

• 1 ½ oz Wild Turkey bourbon
• ¾ oz Drambuie
• 1 ½ oz apple cider
• ½ oz lemon juice
• 1 dash Whiskey Barrel Aged bitters

Shake and strain into a cocktail glass.