Apple Business Cocktail
Photo credit: Alice Gao for Liquor.com
Apple-picking season is upon us, and with it, the desire to fill your weeknights and weekends with something apple-y, something cinnamon-y, something warming—or maybe cooling. Your appetite becomes as tetchy as the weather itself: Do you want hot cider spiked with bourbon? A summery glass of sangria? Something in between?
Thank goodness, then, for this recipe, which straddles sweater and sundress weather as ably as a scarf. It’s light. It’s bright. And it comes from Theo Lieberman, whose drinks we’ve enjoyed both at Tales of the Cocktail and at Milk & Honey in New York City.
It’s as simple as it is swoon-worthy: gin, apple juice, lime , honey, a sliver of an apple—try a juicy one, such as a Ginger Gold, if you see it. Pretty as can be, it’s the ideal in-betweener cocktail… as satisfying as watching the leaves on the trees shifting hues.
Apple Business
from Theo Lieberman for Liquor.com
Makes one cocktail
2 oz. dry gin
1 oz. fresh-squeezed apple juice
1/2 oz. fresh lime juice
1/2 oz. honey
Apple slice (optional, for garnish)
Add all the ingredients to a shaker and fill with ice. Shake, and strain into a rocks glass filled with fresh ice. Garnish with an apple slice.
