4 Fall Cocktails That Don’t Suck

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Fall cocktails don’t have to be overloaded with apple cider and pumpkin spice. These four fall cocktail recipes use apple, maple, almond, cinnamon, allspice, whiskey, rum, tequila, and rhum agricole to bring real fall flavors without requiring a bunch of one-off homemade ingredients.

We’re making an Apple Old Fashioned, a rum-spiked Toasted Almond, a Maple Whiskey Sour, and Paul McGee’s Stranger in Paradise—a modern tropical cocktail packed with warm spice from Lost Lake in Chicago. Four completely different cocktails that actually taste like fall.

📝 Recipe 📝
Apple Old Fashioned
2 dashes Angostura bitters
¼ oz demerara syrup (7.5 ml)
1 oz apple brandy or applejack (30 ml)
1 oz bourbon or rye whiskey (30 ml)

Rum Roasted Toasted Almond
¾ oz heavy cream (22.5 ml)
¾ oz coffee liqueur (22.5 ml)
¾ oz amaretto (22.5 ml)
1 oz Santa Teresa 1796 aged rum (30 ml)

Stranger in Paradise
by Paul McGee
2 dashes Angostura bitters
2 dashes absinthe
¼ tsp St. Elizabeth Allspice Dram
¾ oz lime juice (22.5 ml)
½ oz pineapple juice (15 ml)
½ oz cinnamon syrup (15 ml)
½ oz Velvet Falernum (15 ml)
1 oz Reposado Tequila (30 ml)
1 oz Rhum Agricole (30 ml)

Maple Whiskey Sour
2 dashes Angostura bitters
¾ oz lemon juice (22.5 ml)
½ oz pure maple syrup (15 ml)
½ oz egg white (15 ml)
2 oz bourbon (60 ml)