The Gin, Apple Cider and Ginger Beer Cocktail from Hendrick’s Gin is fantastic. Combining gin, apple cider, lemon juice and ginger beer in an ice cold beverage garnished with nutmeg. Tis the Fall Season!
While I do love experimenting with cocktails I’m also not adverse to using a brand’s recipe; as a matter of fact I welcome them. If the result is a great cocktail like this Gin, Apple Cider and Ginger Beer Cocktail we all win.
My time investment is shortened and you get a tried and true cocktail that I post because I loved it too.
Who doesn’t love the combination of apple, lemon and ginger beer anyhow? Adding gin is unique but what a great result it was!
In case you’ve noticed I missed two whole weeks of Friday Cocktails. I don’t know that that has ever happened before but I find that like other humans I have my limits too.
It’s all about the yard and right now, it’s getting all of my attention.
When I moved to this house, the landscaping was included and I honestly thought I was ready for someone else to just put it in and let me maintain it. Until the realization hit me of what that meant.
No beautiful designs and layers of plants like the model homes, no, it meant a couple of plants scattered at random in the front that were just like most of the plants in everyone else yard and then nothing in the back but grass and rock.
My resolve to just maintain crumpled quickly and I’ve been hard at work for two years now with Spring and Fall being prime time for getting work done.
I finished the front (above) this Spring for the most part and had two big trees planted in the back where landscaping has really just been a dozen big pots filled with flowers, tomatoes and herbs.
Now that Fall is here I’m working on some shrubs and a perennial garden underneath one of those trees. I seem to be able to focus on either gardening or cooking/cocktail making for the blog but not both.
Enter this Gin, Apple Cider and Ginger Beer Cocktail!
I’ve got some great recipes and ideas so I really wanted to share this one with you. As much as I wrap my fingers around Summer and refuse to let go, I also have to admit I can tell that Fall is in the air.
Days in Colorado are still warm but not as warm. Nights are cooling off enough that I no longer need to keep windows open for the house to cool down.
Early morning coffee on the porch means a jacket might be required and I can see one of those trees is already starting to turn a beautiful color of red.
So, this Fall cocktail is in order. Adding gin to the mix really makes it a great transitional cocktail; not quite as heavy as it would be with bourbon and with a freshness from the herbal bouquet.
You know I’m a fan of Hendrick’s Gin so this one went down very easy.
The recipe calls for apple juice or cider which of course I had in the fridge…or so I thought. I honestly thought I could remember seeing the bottle of juice but in a pinch I punted and it worked great.
One apple, peeled and core removed, put into my blender with a bit of water and voila…apple cider! You don’t have to do that but I must say, it was sure good!
Here’s to a beautiful Fall weekend and my not killing myself with yard work and to this Gin, Apple Cider & Ginger Beer Cocktail being in my hand….Cheers!
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Gin, Apple Cider & Ginger Beer Cocktail
Gin is combined with apple cider, lemon juice, and ginger beer for a refreshing Fall inspiried cocktail.
Ingredients
- 1.5 ounces gin
- .75 ounces fresh squeezed lemon juice
- .75 ounce apple juice or cider
- Ginger Beer, chilled
Garnish
- Apple slices
- Nutmeg
Instructions
- Put glass into freezer to chill. Combine gin, lemon juice and apple cider in a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake well and pour into ice filled, chilled glass.
- Top with ginger beer, stir and garnish with an apple slice and fresh grated nutmeg.
Nutrition Information
Yield
1Amount Per Serving Calories 2153Total Fat 10gCarbohydrates 502gProtein 34g
This looks delicious and I’m thinking of making it for Thanksgiving. Would you be able to convert this to a punch bowl size?
Sure, no reason you can’t. Just multiply the ingredients by the number you want to serve, allowing that punch cups will be smaller than lowball glasses.
How much ginger beer do you add?
I just use it to top off the glass Lauren so didn’t specify how much but it’s probably between 1-2 ounces. A bottle is enough for a couple of cocktails.
I can’t wait to give this a try; I am a Hendricks lover for sure! I featured this recipe on my most recent post, “10 Must-Try Fall Cocktails”, with a link back to your site for the recipe. Thank you for the inspiration and please feel free to check it out :). Thank you!!
http://livelovedrinkwine.com/10-must-try-fall-cocktails/
Thanks so much Nicole…hope you get to actually try it one day; it’s become a big favorite in our home!
Apple juice with Gin sounds like a great pair and a delicious fall cocktail! Great recipe!
Oh I love this cocktail! thanks for sharing! :O
I loved it more than I expected to Mary; one of my favorite Fall cocktails is very similar but with bourbon and this was equally good. It was a bit lighter than it’s bourbon cousin and sometimes that’s exactly what I’m looking for!
Good garnish! I was playing with apple slices for garnish the other day, and they’re fun. Yours look terrific. As does this drink — nice combo of flavors. TGIF!
I love this garnish BUT truth is that it’s only possible with a couple of slices from the center. Great for a couple of cocktails but not a crowd!
Your garden shows it was time well spent. Hedrick’s, my favorite Gin. Imagine my glee when I see the first ingredient is 15 oz on Gin 🙂
Oh…that’s 1.5, alas, it was good while it lasted.