Rum Cider Cocktail

From WorldlyTreat.com:

Ingredients

Crushed ice

4 .Oz dark rum (I used aged rum)

8 .Oz apple cider

4 dashes orange bitters

2 .Oz triple sec simple syrup

ginger beer to top (I strongly advice using Fever-Tree brand. The ginger is intense)

Apple slices to garnish (from 1 apple)

Instructions

Combine the rum, apple cider, and orange bitters in a cocktail shaker over ice. Shake vigorously until frosted.

Fill the serving glasses with crushed ice (you can equally enjoy it without ice).

Strain the rum cider cocktail into the glasses halfway up (about 7.oz). Top with ginger beer. Garnish with apple slices or cinnamon sticks. Sip immediately.

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Smoky Harvest Apple Cider Margarita

Cinnamon sugar and flaky sea salt, for the rim

2 ounces mezcal or silver tequila

1/2 ounce orange liquor

4 ounces (1/2 cup) apple cider

juice from 1/2 a lime

1-2 teaspoons maple syrup use more or less to your taste

apple slices and cinnamon sticks, for serving

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Thanks, Wren!

Apple Cider Syrup

Now Drinking: Super Spiced

Mix this stuff with some of that apple cider the supermarkets sell this time of year...the ones that are spiced...and you have yourself something awesome.

Light Brown Goodness

Must.
Have.
Part  II.

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We found some of this today and it's insane.
A Halloween drink for sure.

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With apple cider glaze....

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I've never tried flavored vodka of any kind, though if they sell the green olive variety, I'm all over that (currently [and apparently] too lazy to check).

Pumpkin Cider

From Woodchuck...
Not bad.  VERY sweet.
I mix it with Zeigler's spiced apple cider and it's pretty noice.

Blissful

Tons of vintage Halloween photographs by Swapatorium2.

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We hit up the annual pumpkin festival at Nonesuch Farms today.
We ate frosted pumpkin and cider donuts, and drank hot apple cider served from a huge cauldron.

Scotia

I was looking for a neat cider recipe and ended up on a site for Scotia, New York. It featured a 2008 schedule for cider and donuts at the local firehouse. Pretty neat. Then I saw it - a blurb at the bottom of the schedule:

We are asking that all residents celebrate Halloween between the hours of 4 P.M. and 8 P.M. on Friday, October 31st, 2008.We would ask that children complete their "Trick or Treating" and that residents turn off their front porch lights at 8 P.M.

I'd be ruined in that town. Ruined.

Scotia, NY link.

A recipe for hot buttered cider.