6 cocktail recipes to kick off pumpkin spice szn
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ingredients:
1½ oz | 45 ml Laphroaig
½ oz | 15 ml Apple Jack
¾ oz | 22.5 ml Banana Liqueur
¼ oz | 7.5 ml Honey Syrup
3 Dashes Black Walnut Bitters (optional)
Baked Pumpkin Spice Apple Slice
insTRUCTIONS:
Combine tequila, agave, amaro, coffee and bitters in a mixing glass with ice. Stir, strain and pour into a carafe - use a smoking gun to infuse the cocktail with maplewood smoke - Swirl for 10 seconds. Pour the cocktail into a chilled coupe and garnish with an orange twist. Serve and enjoy!
ingredients:
1 oz | 30 ml Mr. Black Coffee Liqueur
1½ oz | 45 ml Bourbon
½ oz | 15 ml Pumpkin Spice Syrup
1 oz | 30 ml Salted Maple Foam (Recipe Below)
Pumpkin Spice Powder
Coffee Beans (Garnish)
insTRUCTIONS:
Combine the all of the ingredients except the foam in a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake, double strain into a Negroni glass, top with salted maple foam. Garnish with coffee beans.
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MAPLE FOAM
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1 oz | 30 ml Maple Syrup
1½ oz | 45 ml Whole Milk
Smoked Sea Salt
3 Dashes Cocoa Bitters
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Combine all ingredients in a frothing pitcher and froth until light and fluffy.
ingredients:
4 oz | 120 ml or 5 oz | 150 ml Ginger Beer
1½ oz | 45 ml Black Seal Rum
3-5 Dashes Pumpkin Spice Tincture
Flamed Cinnamon Powder
Dehydrated Blood Orange Wheel (Optional)
Cinnamon Stick (Garnish)
instructions:
Fill a Collins glass with ice. Add Q mixers ginger beer, then add bitters, top with rum. Garnish with flamed cinnamon powder and dehydrated blood orange. Finally add a flamed cinnamon stick (optional).
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PUMPKIN SPICE TINCTURE
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151 Proof Rum
2 Cinnamon sticks
4 Cloves
4 Allspice berries
2 Star Anise
2 Cinnamon sticks
1 Slice Fresh Ginger
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Combine all ingredients in a mason jar and shake. Store in a cool/dry place for 2 weeks but shake every other 2 days. Strain into a dropper bottle or vessel of your choice. If you want more out of your spices, age for longer.
ingredients:
1½ oz | 45 ml Bourbon Cream
1 oz | 30 ml Bourbon Whiskey
½ oz | 15 ml Demerara
½ oz | 15 ml Heavy Cream
1 pinch of Pumpkin Spice
instructions:
Combine all ingredients in a shaking tin with ice and shake vigorously for 15 seconds. Pour and strain over a large ice cube. Garnish with a sprinkle of pumpkin spice.
ingredients:
1½ oz | 45 ml Fresh Espresso
½ oz | 15 ml Pumpkin Spice Agave Syrup
1 oz | 30 ml Licor 43
Pumpkin Spice Powder
Sea Salt
Fresh Orange Wedge (Garnish)
inSTRUCTIONS:
Combine the all of the ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake, double strain into a rocks glass over ice. Garnish with can orange wedge and pumpkin spice powder.
PUMPKIN SPICE AGAVE SYRUP
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200g Water
250g Agave Nectar
5 cinnamon sticks
1/2 tsp grated nutmeg
1/2 tsp ground ginger
5 whole cloves
ingredients:
1½ oz | 45 ml Rye
¾ oz | 22.5 ml Cocchi Americano
¾ oz | 22.5 ml Suze
4 Drops Pumpkin Spice Tincture
Maraschino Cherry
inSTRUCTIONs:
Combine rye, Cocchi, Suze and tincture in a mixing glass with ice. Stir for 20 seconds. Strain over a large ice sphere. Garnish with a cherry with extra syrup 🍒 Serve and enjoy.

Not all great bourbon comes from Kentucky, and this Old Fashioned proves it. I reach for an Old Fashioned whenever I want to know what a whiskey is really made of. Three ingredients, nothing to hide behind, so whatever is in the bottle comes through clean. First up is TINCUP 10 Year, made in Colorado on Rocky Mountain water. What sets it apart is the blend. There is Stranahan's single malt whiskey in there alongside the bourbon, so it drinks grain-forward and light at 84 proof, with cherry, pastry dough, and sweet fruit syrup carrying right through the sugar and bitters. Want a higher proof pour? Reach for Pendleton 1910 out of Hood River, Oregon at 90 proof. It brings more maple, clove, rye, and warm baking spice, with a longer oak finish on the back end. Same recipe, two very different drinks, and not a Kentucky zip code between them.