The Summer Side of Appleton Estate

It's the time of year when it is still warm to hot but with a hint of cooler weather to come. Appleton Estate Rum makes a refreshing drink for any season.

Here are a few Summer-into-Autumn cocktails to make while you wait for the Hot Buttered Rum Season. Remember? Snow? Cold? Freezing? Snow?

Appleton Reserve Fix                                                                                                                 

6-8 Mint leaves

½ oz Lemon juice (or 3 muddled lemon quarters)                                                                   

¼ oz Grand Marnier

¼ oz Simple syrup

½ oz Pomegranate grenadine

2 oz Appleton Estate Reserve

Garnish: Mint sprig

Glass: Dbl old fashioned

Ice: Crushed ice

Preparation:

Add all ingredients into your shaker by order of the recipe. Add one to two Kold Draft cubes and shake. Strain ingredients into your glass and top with crushed ice till over flowing. Garnish with fragrant beautiful mint sprigs

Shake Down Highball

Muddled fresh berries

.5 Lemon juice

.75 Ginger agave nectar

2oz Appleton Estate Reserve

Top with soda                                                                                                                         

Garnish: 2 raspberries & 1 blackberry on a pick

Glass: Highball

Ice: Kold Draft or cubed ice

The Jamaicanite

1/2oz Lemon juice

Pink grapefruit ½ wheel

3/4oz Honey syrup (2-1 honey to water)

2 Dashes of Angostura Bitters

2 oz Appleton Estate Reserve

Please drink and serve responsibly.

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Autumnal Cocktails

Caramel Apple

Sleepy Hollow

Two Cool-Season Cocktails from Kanon Organic Vodka

Sleepy Hollow: 

2 oz Kanon Organic Vodka

1 oz White Crème de Cacao

½ oz Half and Half

½ oz Dark Crème de Cacao

Pumpkin Spice Cocoa Powder (see recipe below)

simple syrup

In a plate with a diameter larger than a martini glass pour in enough simple syrup to coat the rim and dip the rim of the glass into the syrup.  Wipe the excess off the outside of the glass with a damp cloth.  Allow the syrup to drip down into the glass.  Put the cocoa powder mixture in a deep dish and coat the rim of the glass with the powder.  Add more powder to the center of the glass and rotate the glass so that all the syrup drippings get coated as well.  Dump out the excess cocoa powder mixture and set the glass aside.

 Add the Kanon Organic Vodka, half and half, and white crème de cacao to a mixing glass, add a few ice cubes and shake.  Strain the mixture into the martini glass allowing the cocoa powder to draw in from the sides along the surface of the cocktail.  Slowly drizzle in the dark crème de cacao so there is a layer on the bottom of the glass. 

Pumpkin Spice Cocoa Powder:  Add 1 tsp of dried pumpkin spice mix to ¼ cup of cocoa powder.

Caramel Apple: 

2 oz Kanon Organic Vodka

½ oz Fresh Lemon Juice

¾ oz Berentzen Apple Liqueur

¾ oz Caramel Syrup (see recipe below)

Cinnamon Sugar (see recipe below)

Put the caramel syrup in a plate with a diameter larger than the martini glass.  Lightly dip the rim of the glass in the simple syrup.  Wipe off any excess from the outside of the glass with a damp cloth.  Hold the glass upside down to allow any excess to drip off.  Then dip the rim into the cinnamon sugar (for a crystalline effect allow it to sit over night…it will look like rock candy).  Add all the other ingredients to a mixing glass add in a few ice cubes and shake vigorously.  Strain into the cinnamon sugar rimmed martini glass and garnish with an apple slice and cinnamon stick.

Cinnamon Sugar:  Add ½ tsp ground cinnamon to a ½ cup of granulated sugar.

Caramel Syrup:  Place 2 cups sugar in a heavy bottom saucepan; add enough water to make it look like wet sand.  Heat on medium heat until the mixture turns a medium amber color.  Remove from heat and add 2 cups of room temperature water and stir until all the sugar is dissolved.  Allow it to cool completely to room temperature.  Slice a green apple and soak the slices in the caramel syrup for at least one hour.

Enjoy and always drink and serve responsibly. 

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A Tropical Rum Wave

Summer is in full swing in the Northern Hemisphere and it's just about time for a tropical looking and tasting drink.

Peachy Keen--Tropical and chilled July Drink of the Month from Tommy Bahama:

1 part Tommy Bahama Golden Suns Rum

1 ½ part peach schnapps

½ parts passion fruit juice

1 part mango juice

1 part fresh orange juice

Pour all ingredients into a mixing glass with ice and shake 20 times and strain into a chilled martini glass.

Garnish with an orchid!