Thanksgiving is here! You are all probably busy with preparing, cooking, baking and everything else that goes along with your holiday feast. Don’t forget to include cocktails in your preparation! Choose one (or more) of these Thanksgiving-inspired libations below as your signature cocktail to serve along with your yummy meal. Cheers and Happy Thanksgiving!

Spiced Old Fashioned

Ingredients:

• 2 parts Jägermeister Spice
• 1/2 parts Bourbon Whiskey
• 1/4 part Simple Syrup
• 2 dashes Angostura or Aromatic Bitters

Preparation: Combine all ingredients in a rocks glass. Add ice and stir for 30 seconds. Garnish with the lemon or orange twist.

Dry Monkey Martini

Ingredients:

• 1 part Monkey 47 Schwarzwald Dry Gin
• 1 part Dry Vermouth

Preparation: Combine ingredients in a mixing glass filled with ice. Stir until well chilled and strain into a chilled martini glass.

Autumn Clouds

Ingredients:

• 2 parts Gekkeikan Nigori Sake
• 1 barspoon Orange Marmalade
• 1/2 part Cinnamon Syrup

Preparation: Combine all ingredients in a shaker filled with ice and shake well. Strain into a highball glass over fresh ice and garnish with a cinnamon stick.

Smashing Harvest

Ingredients:

• 2 parts American Harvest Organic Vodka
• 1 1/2 parts Leopold Brothers NY Sour Apple Cordial® (or other apple liqueur)
• 1/4 part Fresh Lemon Juice
• 1/4 part Agave Nectar
• 2 thin slices Ginger

Preparation: Muddle ginger with agave nectar in a shaker. Add remaining ingredients and add ice. Shake well and strain into a rocks glass filled with crushed ice. Garnish with a cinnamon stick.

Mapletini

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 parts Sortilège Liqueur (Canadian rye whisky and pure maple syrup)
• 1 1/2 parts Vanilla Vodka

Preparation: Combine ingredients and serve in a cinnamon sugar rimmed martini glass.

Honey Crisp

Ingredients:

• 3/4 parts Bärenjäger Honey Liqueur
• 1/2 parts Brandy (optional)
• 2 1/2 parts Hot Apple Cider

Preparation: Combine all ingredients in a footed mug. Garnish with a lemon wheel.

Ketel One Spiked Apple

Ingredients:

• 1 oz. Ketel One® Vodka
• 1/2 oz. Stirrings® Apple Liqueur
• 1 oz. Apple Cider
• 1/2 oz. Fresh Squeezed Lemon Juice

Preparation: Combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker and shake over ice. Pour contents into a rocks glass and garnish with an orange slice.

Ketel One Pumpkin King

Ingredients:

• 1 oz. Ketel One® Oranje
• 1/4 oz. Godiva® Caramel Liqueur
• 1/4 oz. Pumpkin Liqueur
• 1 tsp. Whipped Cream

Preparation: Combine first three ingredients in a cocktail shaker and shake over ice. Strain into a martini glass. Top with whipped cream and garnish with a dust of cinnamon powder.

Ketel One Fall Back Buck

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 oz. Ketel One Citroen® Flavored Vodka
• 1/2 oz. Fresh Lime Juice
• 1/4 oz. Simple Syrup
• 1 oz. Pineapple Juice
• 2 oz. Ginger Beer
• 1/4 oz. Aromatic Bitters

Preparation: Combine first four ingredients in a mixing glass. Shake with ice and strain into a collins glass filled with ice. Top with ginger beer and a heavy float of bitters.

Pomegranate Punch

Ingredients:

• 2 oz. Boodles Gin
• 3/4 oz. 100% Pomegranate Juice
• 1/4 oz. Fresh Lemon Juice
• 1/2 oz. Simple Syrup
• 1 dash Grapefruit Bitters

Preparation: Combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker over ice and shake vigorously. Pour over fresh ice in a rocks glass. Add a splash of club soda. Garnish with a long lemon peel.

Pumpkin Pie Old Fashioned

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 oz. Cutty Sark Prohibition Edition
• 1/2 oz. Grand Marnier
• 2 tbsp. Pumpkin Puree
• 1 oz. Maple Syrup
• Orange Peel (for garnish)

Preparation: Combine pumpkin puree, whisky, syrup and Grand Marnier in a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake well and strain through a fine mesh strainer into a chilled old fashioned glass filled with ice. Garnish with an orange peel.

Laphroaig® Fall Feast

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 parts Laphroaig® 10-Year-Old Scotch Whisky
• 1/2 part Sweet Vermouth
• 1/2 part Dry Vermouth
• 2-3 dashes Orange Bitters

Preparation: Stir all ingredients with ice and strain into a chilled rocks glass. Garnish with an orange peel.

Cruzan Peach Cobbler

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 parts Cruzan Peach Rum
• 1/4 part Turbinado Simple Syrup*
• 1/2 part Dark Sherry
• 1/4 part Blackberry Liqueur
• 1/2 part Fresh Lemon Juice
• Nutmeg
• Orange Peel

Preparation: Combine all ingredients over ice, shake and pour into an old fashioned glass. Garnish with fresh grated nutmeg & flamed orange peel.

Pumpkin Eater

Courtesy of Privateer’s In-house Mixologist, Kevin Martin

Ingredients:

• 2 oz. Privateer Silver Rum
• 1 oz. Orange Juice
• 1 oz. Honey
• 1 spoonful Pumpkin Puree
• 1 dash Angostura Bitters

Preparation: Combine ingredients in a cocktail shaker and give a shake. Serve on the rocks and garnish with grated cinnamon (optional).

Elevated Outcrop

Courtesy of John McCarthy at Cedar Local in New York

Ingredients:

• 2 oz. Snow Leopard Vodka
• 1/2 oz. Zirbenz Stone Pine Liqueur
• 1/4 oz. Suze Saveur d’ Autrefois
• 1/4 oz. Coriander & Green Peppercorn Syrup
• 1 dash Bitter Truth Celery Bitters
• 1 dash Angostura Bitters

Preparation: Serve stirred with a large ice cube in a rocks glass and garnish with a lemon wheel or peel and fresh cracked coriander and green peppercorn.

Tanqueray Old Tom Martinez

Ingredients:

• 1 oz. Tanqueray Old Tom
• 1/4 oz. Sweet Vermouth
• 2 dashes Maraschino Liqueur
• 1 dash Orange Bitters

Preparation: Add all ingredients to chilled stirring glass; add ice and stir. Strain into chilled coupe glass. Garnish with a maraschino cherry.

Stillhouse Double Moon Punch

Courtesy of Mixologist Josh Curtis

Ingredients:

• 1/2 oz. Stillhouse Original Moonshine
• 1 1/4 oz. Organic Apple Cider
• 2 oz. Blue Moon Pumpkin Ale
• 1/4 oz. Honey Syrup
• 1/4 oz. Lemon Juice
• Freshly Grated Nutmeg (for garnish)

Preparation: Mix ingredients, shake and strain and top with Blue Moon Pumpkin Ale.

PIAF

Courtesy of Mixologist Ferrari Watts

Ingredients:

• 2 oz. Fig Infused Rye Whiskey
• 1/2 oz. Averna Amaro
• 1/2 oz. Cynar
• 2 dashes Walnut Bitters

Preparation: Stir contents and stain over large square ice cubes and garnish with a fig infused in whiskey.

Fall For You

Ingredients:

• 1 oz. BELVEDERE Bloody Mary
• 1/2 oz. Pressed Apple Juice
• 1 dash Spiced Bitters
• Apple Cider
• Apple, Chili and Cucumber Slices (for garnish)

Preparation: Combine all ingredients and top with apple cider. Garnish with an apple, chili and cucumber slices.

Red Apple Tippler

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 oz. (BELVEDERE) RED
• 2 oz. Pressed Apple Juice
• 1/2 oz. Lemon Juice
• 1/2 oz. Orgeat (Almond Syrup)
• 1 dash of Cinnamon

Preparation: Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into a chilled martini glass. Garnish with an apple slice.