September is National Bourbon Heritage Month, but honestly, whiskey is at its best in the colder months that follow. It has a comfort feel that warms you up on a cold, crisp day, and it goes great with harvest favorites like pumpkins, apples, and the berries that make it through the first few cold nights. These fall whiskey cocktails came in from distillers, bartenders, and brands, along with five riffs on the same classics that trade whiskey for rum, brandy, or gin.
Half of these recipes call for a flavored syrup, and a Sunday afternoon at the stove covers most of them. Keep them in labeled jars in the fridge and use them up within a few weeks. Most of these drinks need nothing more than a shaker or a mixing glass, which makes them easy to pour for a guys night by the fire pit or for work colleagues at a fall open house. Pour them slowly, and make sure everybody has a ride home. If you want the smoke from the grill in your glass, the Knob Creek BBQ Old Fashioned is my grill-side pick. And if the whiskey drinker in your life needs a better home bar, our gifts for the whiskey dad start with a cocktail smoker kit. This Old Fashioned splits the base between Wild Turkey 101 bourbon and Ancho Reyes Original, the chile liqueur made from ancho chiles in Puebla, Mexico. The result is spiced and a little smoky, built for sweater weather next to a campfire. The same liqueur shows up in a few of our spicy cocktail recipes. 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Promoted by FlowAds Ovide at Hotel Effie Sandestin, on Florida's Emerald Coast, builds its fall Old-Fashioned on Elijah Craig bourbon with green apple liqueur and cinnamon syrup. It's shaken rather than stirred, which makes it a little lighter and colder than a stirred version. Ingredients Method More at Ovide. Filmland Spirits sent this recipe with a movie-style backstory about a bartender saving the world from an army of robot mixologists. The drink itself is a rye highball with a torched green apple slice, half muddled into the whiskey and half left on top to eat. Ingredients Method More at Filmland Spirits. Jeptha Creed Distillery in Shelbyville, Kentucky, is an easy stop on a bourbon guys trip out of Louisville, and its wheated bourbon anchors this dessert in a glass. Pumpkin purée and egg white give it body, and a chocolate ganache and graham cracker rim stand in for the pie crust. Ingredients Method More at Jeptha Creed. The Balvenie's recipe keeps the Scotch in front. The Sweet Toast of American Oak 12 Year Old gets a half measure of Pineau des Charentes, a fortified wine from France's Cognac region, plus spiced honey and molasses bitters, so it drinks like a richer version of the whisky itself. Ingredients Method More at The Balvenie. The cobbler is an old sherry-and-crushed-ice drink, and Glenfiddich doubles down by pairing its 12 Year Old Sherry Cask with an equal pour of amontillado sherry. With half the base being sherry, it drinks lighter than an all-whisky cocktail. Ingredients Method More at Glenfiddich. Not every good fall stirred drink starts with whiskey. These five swap in aged rum, brandy, or gin, and each one sits a short step away from a whiskey classic you already know how to make. Distiller Ayisha Mares at New Mexico's Vara Winery & Distillery makes a textbook Old Fashioned with Vara's aged rum or brandy, with an optional dash of chocolate bitters. Ingredients Method More at Vara. Chef Laurent Tourondel's LT Steak & Seafood at The Betsy Hotel on Miami Beach's Ocean Drive pours this one for fall: Brugal 1888 rum from the Dominican Republic, chai syrup, and bitters, finished with star anise. Ingredients Method More at LT Steak & Seafood. Don Q Oak Barrel Spiced from Puerto Rico turns the summer daiquiri into a fall drink, with vanilla syrup and a couple of drops of bitters. It's the brightest drink in this section. Ingredients Method More at Don Q. Boatyard Distillery in Northern Ireland sent the standard equal-parts Negroni on its Double Gin. Swap the gin for bourbon and you've made a Boulevardier, the Negroni's whiskey cousin. Ingredients Method More at Boatyard Distillery. Devil's Grin takes its name from the mesquite tree's nickname, "the Devil with Roots," and its 14 botanicals put citrus ahead of juniper. That gives the gin enough character to stand up to Campari. Ingredients Method More at Devil's Grin. Fall is here and while most people look at it as the end of warm weather and summer fun, it's also a great time to start unwinding and relaxing and taking some precious moments to try something new while you wait for spring to arive. You've got an entire winter ahead of you to play around inside, so take this time to create something new. The drinks above are a starting point, and a few small changes will turn them into cocktails that are yours. It's tempting to dismiss apple cocktails and apple versions of spirits as overly sweet, but apples can be dry too. A tart Granny Smith or a splash of dry hard cider brings acid instead of sugar, which is exactly why the Filmland recipe calls for green apple. Try topping a rye highball with dry hard cider instead of club soda. Pumpkin gets all the attention, but acorn squash is nuttier and less watery. Halve one, roast it cut side down at 400 degrees for 40 to 45 minutes, scoop it out, and blend it smooth. Use it one-for-one in place of the pumpkin purée in the Pumpkin Pie Martini. Keep a base Old Fashioned you know by heart: 2 oz whiskey, 1/4 oz syrup, and 2 dashes of bitters. Each weekend, change only the syrup or only the bitters and write down what happened. By spring you'll have a house cocktail your buddies ask for by name. Whatever you choose to do, do it deliberately! Take the time to try something new and maybe you'll discover something new about yourself and what you like or that by trying an ingredient from a different part of the world that it opens you up to planning a trip there ... Ancho Reyes from Mexico to add a smoky sweet heat, some Orange Blossom Water from North Africa, Yuzu Juice from Japan or Guarana Syrup from Brazil to give your drink a sweet kick of energy. Try something new and enjoy experimenting with fall whiskey cocktails! Promoted by FlowAdsWhat Do You Call Your "Guys Trips"?
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Spiced Orchard Old-Fashioned by Ovide at Hotel Effie Sandestin
Caramelized Apple Rye Fest by Filmland Spirits
Pumpkin Pie Martini by Jeptha Creed Distillery
The Balvenie Harvest Honey by The Balvenie
Glenfiddich Speyside Cobbler by Glenfiddich
Old Fashioned And Negroni Riffs That Trade Whiskey For Rum, Brandy, Or Gin
Desert Night Old Fashioned by Vara
Festive Old-Fashioned by LT Steak and Seafood
Spiced Daiquiri by Don Q Rum
Boatyard Double Gin Negroni by Boatyard Distillery
Negroni by Devil's Grin Texas Gin
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Pick A Dry Apple Over A Sweet One
Roast Acorn Squash Instead Of Pumpkin
Change One Ingredient At A Time And Experiment
