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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
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.
Ingredients
1
Orange peel
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
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.
Ingredients
½oz
Fresh lime juice
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
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.
Ingredients
2½oz
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.
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