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4 Fall Cocktails To Toast The Holidays With
There’s just something comforting about a crisp October breeze and leaves bronzing to a reddish gold while we pull out our knits to cozy up fireside —preferably with a cocktail in hand.
With Thanksgiving only days away it means family, friends, good food and celebration. Each season has its own recipe staples and signature flavours — Fall is a time for apple, cinnamon, warm spices, and pumpkin galore.
This list of libations offers the classic flavours we’ve come to love, and a new pear twist that will quickly be added to next year’s list of seasonal favourites.
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Rumpkin Spice Latte
Directions:
- Mix coffee and pumpkin spice mix together and warm up
- Temper the milk
- Combine Mount Gay Eclipse Rum with the warmed cold brew coffee/Pumpkin Spice Mix in a large mug
- Top with tempered milk
- Torch a cinnamon stick and add to mug
Enjoy!
Kashmiri Chai Bourbon
Directions:
- Pour bourbon into a rocks glass over ice
- Add Chai simple syrup over bourbon
- Dash bitters into drink
- Lightly stir
- Garnish with orange zest and a cardamom pod
Enjoy!
Grey Goose La Poire Pear & Thyme
Directions:
- Fill shaker with ice
- Pour in vodka, nectar and lemon juice
- Shake
- Strain over fresh ice in a highball glass
- Garnish with fresh thyme sprig and slice of pear
Enjoy!
Bombay Sapphire’s Queen’s Toddy
Directions:
- In a large mug, add the Bombay Sapphire, lemon juice, honey syrup and apple cider.
- Bring the Pekoe tea to a rolling boil
- Slowly add it to the mug.
- Stir the cocktail gently to mix
- Garnish with cinnamon stick before serving
Enjoy!
Rumpkin Spice Latte
Ingredients:
- 1.5oz Mount Gay Eclipse Rum
- 4oz Cold brew coffee
- 4oz Pumpkin Spice Mix*
- 1oz 2% tempered milk
-Garnished with a torched cinnamon stick.
- Glassware: Mug – Cocktail Served Warm
*Pumpkin Spice Mix contains pumpkin puree, apple cider, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, clove, white sugar, brown sugar.
Kashmiri Chai Bourbon
Ingredients:
- 1/4 ounce DAVIDsTEA Kashmiri Chai-infused simple syrup
- 2 dashes of orange bitters
- 2 ounces bourbon
- Chunky ice
- Garnish with orange zest and a cardamom pod
Grey Goose® La Poire Pear & Thyme
Ingredients:
- 2 parts GREY GOOSE® La Poire Flavoured Vodka
- 1.5 parts Pear Nectar
- 1 part Fresh Lemon Juice
Garnish: Fresh thyme sprig and slice of pear
The Queen’s Toddy
Ingredients:
- 1 oz. Bombay Sapphire
- .5 ozs lemon juice
- .5 ozs honey syrup
- 1 oz. apple cider (unfiltered juice)
- 3 ozs. Orange Pekoe tea, boiling hot
- Garnish with a cinnamon stick
