APPLE pie! Pumpkin spice! Buttered rum! This is how we embrace autumn at our home bar.
Despite the drop in temperatures, cocktails flavored for fall don’t need to taste deep, brooding or heavy. There are plenty of ways to harness the ingredients we associate with the season to craft cocktails that remain light and bright, yet also richly satisfying.
It’s also an excellent opportunity to explore liquors you might not normally be drawn to. One of the fascinating aspects of cocktails is the unexpected ways that liquors can be transformed depending on how and with what they are mixed.
These transformations give us the space to experiment and discover drinks we never knew we would enjoy. This is where “I don’t like rum” becomes “I like rum when…”
Consider the Pumpkin Spice Martini. Vodka can be harsh, but in this cocktail — flavored by apple cider, chocolate and orange bitters,
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