Gin and Apple Juice: an easy sipper

Does Gin and apple juice work? The short answer is yes! Gin and apple juice is an easy sipper that’s perfect for any time of year.

What is a Gin and Apple Juice?

Gin and apple juice is a super easy cocktail to make. All you have to do is mix together apple juice and gin.

It’s a great cocktail with its refreshing taste for the summer. And, with its Apple flavor it’s also great for fall holidays.

Gin is a complex flavored liquor made from juniper berries. The juniper berries create a pine-like taste in the Gin. Other flavors that are afflicted in Gin tend to be a little bit of citrus a little bit of herbs and a little bitterness in the aftertaste.

Apple juice, of course, tastes well like apples. Some apple juice will have additional sugar added and some won’t but essentially it’s just a Sweet Apple flavor created from pressing the juice out of apples and removing their pulp.

When mixing gin and apple juice the resulting cocktail is crisp and sweet with a little bit of tang.

Apple juice actually makes a great mixer for other liquors as well. If you’re looking for similarly tasting apple juice cocktails you can check out a vodka and apple juice tequila apple juice, whiskey apple juice or a rum and apple juice.

How to make this drink:

This cocktail is super simple to make. It just takes a couple of minutes to throw your ingredients together.

Equipment:

• highball glass or Rocks/Scotch/Bourbon glass
• jigger
• bar spoon
• (optional) cocktail shaker
• (optional) Hawthorne strainer

Ingredients:

• 2 oz Gin
• 4 oz Apple Juice
• Cinnamon Stick
• Ice
• Lime Wedge

Instructions:

Step one

As you get started, you want to gather together your ingredients as well as your supplies.

Step two

Make sure that you have filled your highball glass completely to almost the top with ice.

Step three

There are a couple garnish choices for this cocktail. You can keep it simple with a lime wedge. Or you can add a few cinnamon sticks.

When doing cinnamon sticks all you have to do is simply place them in the side of your glass.

When doing a lime wedge you’ll need to create the wedges. To do this, cut slices from your lime.

Then create a little divot between the peel and the pulp. Finally place the lime on the rim of your glass using the cut divot to hold it in place.

Step four

You can mix this drink in a cocktail shaker or straight in your highball glass. The instructions were providing here will be for a highball glass.

However, if you wish to use a cocktail shaker you do the measuring the same and simply dump your ingredients in the Shaker instead of the glass. Shake it well in your Shaker and then pour it into your glass.

Step Five

Grab your jigger and measure 2 oz of gin. Then, for your gym over your ice in your highball glass.

Now do the same with your Apple juice. Only, this time measure 4 oz of apple juice with your jigger and then add that to your gin and ice in your highball glass.

Step Six

Take your bar spoon and insert it into your glass. Carefully and gently stir your liquid together until it is thoroughly mixed.

Your cocktail is ready to enjoy!

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