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3 Delicious autumnal drinks

BY Rachel Walker

1st Jan 2015 Drinks

3 Delicious autumnal drinks
These tasty autumnal flavoured cocktails will have you relishing the season of change. 
Apples, damsons, blackberries, sloes, plums, figs—the laden hedgerows are ripe for the picking.
This is the signal for cocktail enthusiasts to start rustling up flavoured syrups, purées and elaborate garnishes.
 

Three delicious autumn cocktails 

Damson cocktail


Image via The Telegraph
  • 25ml damson vodka
  • Prosecco 
Pour the damson vodka into a champagne flute and top up with cold prosecco. For a less alcoholic version, use a sweetened sloe or damson purée instead of damson vodka. 

Apple cocktail


Image via Healthy-Delicious
  • 40ml bourbon
  • 80ml apple cider, chilled
  • 80ml ginger beer, chilled
  • Garnish: rosemary and thin apple slices
Mix the bourbon, cider and ginger beer, and pour into a glass filled with ice cubes. Garnish with a sprig of rosemary and optional apple slices. 

Blackberry cocktail


Image via Honestly Yum
  • 4 blackberries
  • 4 mint leaves
  • 15ml sugar syrup
  • 60ml gin
  • Ice cubes
  • Tonic water
Use a wooden muddler to crush the blackberries, mint leaves and sugar syrup at the bottom of a glass. Add gin and ice cubes, then top up with tonic water.
 

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