Is apple juice good with whiskey? Absolutely yes! Whiskey and apple juice sometimes known as the Apple jack is a fruity, sweet and delicious cocktail.

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What is a Whiskey and Apple Juice?
Equipment
Ingredients
Variations
Instructions
Mixing Tips
Recipe

What is a Whiskey and Apple Juice?

A whiskey and apple juice sometimes called an Apple Jack when using Jack Daniels is a simple mixture of two ingredients. All you need, of course, is apple juice and whiskey. When mixing whiskey with apple juice the resulting taste is a very sweet and slightly fruity flavored drink.

Whiskey comes in several different versions. You’ve got rye whiskeys and bourbon whiskeys just to name a few. Whiskey tends to have a bit of a caramel and sweet flavor. However dependent on where the grains come from and how long it’s been aged will change the taste of your whiskey.

Any whiskey version is fine to mix with your Apple juice. We used wild turkey which is a bourbon and a favorite in our household. Another common whiskey to use is Tennessee with and makes an apple jack.

Other spicy flavor profile apple juice cocktails include: Rum and apple juice or gin and apple juice

Equipment

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

whiskey and apple juice in a glass with bottles of apple juice and whiskey in the background

Ingredients

2 oz Whiskey
4 oz Apple Juice
Cinnamon Stick and/or Lime Wedge
Ice

Variations

Try out a few of these variations to change up the flavor a little.

Serve it warm. Apple flavor makes for a great fall cocktail. And with fall comes chilly weather. Warm up the apple juice before serving.
Make an Apple Jack. Use Jack Daniels to make this an apple jack.
Use different whiskey. As mentioned above, there are many types of whiskeys. Try out Bourbon, Fireball or Jameson.

Instructions

Whipping this cocktail up is super easy to do. Toss your ingredients together and you’re ready to go.

Step one

Grab all of your ingredients and your supplies so that you have everything in one place as you get started.

Step two

Fill your rocks glass with ice. You want to make sure the ice comes almost all the way to the top.

Step three

Next, you want to measure your liquids. Take your jigger and measure 2 oz of whiskey and then pour it into your glass over the ice.

Step Four

Next, measure 4 oz of apple juice and pour that into your highball glass as well.

If you would like to have a stronger Apple flavor then whiskey flavor you can add a little additional apple juice if you desire.

Step Five

Using your bar spoon, mix your liquids together well. If adding a cinnamon stick garnish, you can use that to stir instead.

And with that, your drink is ready to enjoy!

Mixing Tips

Use a shaker instead. This is a really simple drink, so stirring it straight in the glass works well. But, if you want it pre-chilled you can pour everything in a shaker with ice and shake it up instead.
2:1 ratio. Having a 2:1 apple juice to whiskey ratio really makes the flavors well balanced. But, you can adjust if you prefer less whiskey flavor or more whiskey flavor.

Recipe