Nov
26

On the Rocks: Thanksgiving Edition.

Everyone needs a drink or ten to get through the holidays. Especially when it involves family!

Apple Harvest Collins

Ingredients:
- 1 Macintosh apple, peeled, cored and sliced
- 1 1/2 ounces Bulldog gin
- 1/3 ounce simple syrup
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1 1/2 ounces spiced apple cider (preferably Reed’s brand)

Muddle 2 slices of the apple in the bottom of a cocktail shaker. Combine the gin, simple syrup and lemon juice in the cocktail shaker with ice. Shake vigorously. Pour into a Collins glass over ice. Add spiced apple cider. Garnish with more apple slices. If you like, rim the glass with cinnamon and sugar before mixing the cocktail. Serves 1.

:: cocktail recipe and photo via NY Daily News

November Chill

Ingredients:
- 3 oz gin
- 1 1/2 oz apple cider syrup (see link)
- 1/4 oz pomegranate syrup (see link)
- 1/4 oz Tuaca

Shake gin and apple cider syrup together with ice and strain into a cinnamon-sugar rimmed cocktail glass. Stir Tuaca and pomegranate syrup together and pour into the center of the glass. Serves 1.

:: cocktail recipe and photo via rejiggered

Pumpkin Margarita

Ingredients:
- 2 oz Partida Reposado Tequila
- 1 oz fresh lime/lemon juice mix
- splash of pumpkin puree
- sesame seeds
- lime wedge

Rim a cocktail glass with lime juice and sesame seeds. Mix ingredients in a shaker with ice and shake well. Strain into cocktail glass. Garnish with a lime wedge. Serves 1.

:: cocktail recipe and photo via Talk Drinks