🍁🏒 Cottage Puck Weekend

There’s a very specific kind of weekend energy that lives at the intersection of Canadian cottage country, unresolved tension, and Heated Rivalry’s most infamous turning point. If you know, you know. Episode six energy. The kind where the chirping softens, the air goes quiet, and suddenly their hand lands on your inner thigh.

Cottage Puck Weekend is the drink you pour when the bags are dropped by the door, skates are metaphorically hung up, and the lake is glassy enough to reflect feelings no one’s ready to name. It’s smooth, maple-forward, and confident, like pretending this is casual when it absolutely is not.

The Vibe: Episode Six, But Make It a Cocktail

Episode six is where everything shifts. The rivalry is still there...sharp looks, competitive instincts, the need to win...but it’s threaded with something warmer. Domestic. Dangerous. Cottage-coded.

This drink mirrors that exact turn:

• Vodka stays clean and controlled, cool on the surface

• Maple syrup brings the unmistakable Canadian intimacy

• Pecan praline liqueur adds quiet indulgence...warm, nutty, and just a little decadent

• Orange bitters lift and brighten, like late-day sun cutting across the lake

It’s an old fashioned structure, softened and rounded at the edges, because rules are flexible off the ice.

🥃 The Cocktail:

• Start with a shaker full of ice

• 2.5oz vodka (smooth, no burn...we used Haku Japanese Rice Vodka)

• 0.75oz pure maple syrup (dark for depth)

• Tiny dash of pecan praline liqueur

• 1 dash orange bitters

• Shake and strain into a rocks glass full of shaved ice. Just what is needed to cool down Hollander and Rozanov.

Why This Drink Is Episode Six

Because episode six isn’t loud. It’s intentional.

It’s sitting a little closer than necessary on the couch. It’s the pause before someone says something that can’t be taken back. It’s knowing this weekend at the cottage is going to change the season.

Cottage Puck Weekend isn’t about chaos...it’s about consented escalation. A drink you sip slowly, pretending you’re relaxed, while everything underneath is heating up.