Cider Cocktail Recipes
Not only is hard cider delicious on its own, it can be mixed into amazing cider cocktails. Below are a few examples. Please enjoy responsibly.
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Hard Cider Mimosa
Ingredients:
2/3 cup Sunken Paddle Heirloom Hard Cider
1/3 cup orange juice (normally pulp free, but you do you)
Pour cider and orange juice into a flute or champagne glass. Great with brunch.
Fun Fact: The mimosa is a variation of the ever-loved Buck’s Fizz cocktail, invented in 1921 at Buck’s Club in London. The ratio above is a nod to the original Buck’s Fizz cocktail.
(Source: www.atthetap.com/blog/history-mimosa)
Gin Gin Jenny
Ingredients:
2 ounces gin
5 ounces Lemongrass Ginger Hard Cider
¼ lime
ice
Pour the gin into an ice-filled glass. Add the Cider and give it a stir. Squeeze in the lime and stir again.
Credit: Cider Cocktails, Another Bite of the Apple by Darlene Hayes, 2015
Lemongrass Ginger Old Fashioned
Ingredients:
1 1/2 oz Bourbon or Brandy
Lemongrass Ginger Hard Cider
Few dashes of Orange Bitters
Lemon Wedge
Candied (or “crystalized”) Ginger
Ice
Muddle the lemon wedge with the orange bitters. Add ice and your choice of liquor. Top off with Sunken Paddle Lemongrass Ginger Hard Cider. Stir and garnish with a candied ginger.
Credit: Will Amacher (The man, the legend)
Hopped Up Paloma
Ingredients:
2 ounces tequila
½ ounce fresh lime juice
½ ounce simple syrup
1 ounce fresh grapefruit juice
2-3 ounces Hopped Cider
Garnish: wide grapefruit peel
Combine tequila, lime juice, simple syrup and grapefruit juice in a cocktail shaker. Fill with ice, cap and shake. Pour into a tall glass and top with Hopped Cider. Express grapefruit peel oil over the top of the drink, twist and garnish.
Credit: Cidercraft Magazine, Volume 7 (April 2017); Article: Desert Buzz (Author Kathy Casey)
Rhubarb Lavender Barberrian
Ingredients:
1 ounce vodka
½ ounce Cointreau®
¼ ounce lemon juice
4-5 ounces Rhubarb Lavender Agave Hard Cider
Fresh berries
Combine the 1st three ingredients in a shaker with some ice, shake to blend and chill, then pour into a martini glass. Add the hard cider and some fresh berries as a garnish.
Credit: Cider Cocktails, Another Bite of the Apple by Darlene Hayes, 2015
Hard Cider Bloody Mary
Ingredients (yields 4 + Cocktails):
32 ounces (4 cups) tomato juice
8 ounces (1 cup) vodka
1 teaspoon celery salt
1 tablespoon steak sauce
½ ounce lemon juice
¼ teaspoon garlic salt
1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
Four Pepper Hard Cider (amount based on your spice level goal)
Lemon wedges
Mix all together and serve with lemons in pint glasses and lots of ice.
Garnishes Options: Celery stalks, cherry tomatoes, dill pickle spears, green olives, cheese sticks or jerky sticks, etc.
Credit: Spencer Morse (Pro-tip: No one complains about the bloody Mary bar you packed in the camping gear, once they have a bloody Mary in their hand).