Three Easy Cocktails
Bursting With Fall Flavors

Three Easy Cocktails Bursting With Fall Flavors

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The days are getting shorter, the leaves are falling and the idea of drinking around a fire seems more and more appealing, doesn't it? When it comes to mixing up a drink, it seems that as the sky starts getting darker, so should your cocktails. We want fuller, deeper flavors and the easiest way to fall-ify your drink? Stirring in such seasonal flavors as apple, maple and vanilla-tinged coffee. We've rounded up three cocktails laced with autumnal ingredients that are easy to make at home (or around a bonfire at a tailgate).

1

Campfire Sling

 
Campfire Slings Cocktail Recipe

Kevin Felker of the Water Grill in Los Angeles crafted this seasonal version of an Old Fashioned sweetened with real maple syrup and finished with a flamed orange twist—one of the coolest techniques in a bartender's bag of tricks.

Campfire Slings Cocktail Recipe

Technique

  • Combine all ingredients in an Old Fashioned glass with a large piece of ice and stir.
  • Garnish by flaming the twist of orange and dropping the peel into your drink.
2

Applejack Mule

 
Applejack Mule Cocktail Recipe

If you want an autumnal drink that's still light and refreshing, then you want this take on a classic Moscow Mule with an Americana twist from barman Jamie Boudreau of Canon in Seattle.

Applejack Mule Cocktail Recipe

Ingredients

Technique

  • Combine all ingredients, except ginger beer, and shake with ice.
  • Strain into an ice-filled glass.
  • Top with ginger beer and garnish.
3

Kentucky Cold Brew

 
Kentucky Cold Brew Cocktail Recipe

The spice and smoky finish of bourbon provides an ample kick to your standard cold brew coffee. It's finished with a homemade syrup that complements the spirit's molassesy flavors.

Kentucky Cold Brew Cocktail Recipe

Ingredients

oz

Cold brew coffee

1

Vanilla brown sugar syrup*
(to taste)

1

Creamer of your choice
(to taste)

Technique

  • Combine cold brew and Bulleit Bourbon in a glass.
  • Add as much vanilla brown sugar syrup and creamer to suit your personal preference, and stir.

*

To make vanilla brown sugar syrup: Boil one cup of water. Stir in a cup of brown sugar until it fully dissolves. Add two teaspoons of vanilla extract. Let cool and store in the fridge.

Be a Master Home Bartender

We asked Elliott Clark, the Apartment Bartender, for some sound advice on what it takes to make delicious cocktails at home.