Apple Cider
Apple cider, in the US sense, is unfiltered, non-alcoholic apple juice, often lightly spiced with cinnamon or clove and served warm in cooler months. It is distinct from hard cider despite the shared name. It brings a rounder, more rustic apple sweetness than clarified apple juice.
Common uses
- lengthens built cocktails with spiced apple flavour
- warmed as a base for autumnal cocktails
Buying & storage
A few days: Good for a few days refrigerated, then noticeably duller. Worth planning a second drink around rather than throwing away.
Storage: refrigerate and use within a week of opening
Before it goes
Use up apple cider
Ranked by how much of it each drink uses and how little else it needs — the ones at the top will not send you back to the shop.
- Hot Whiskey Cider
Uses 150ml. Also needs irish whiskey, whole cloves.
Recipes
Cocktails containing this ingredient
Stand-in
Where apple cider is a recommended substitute
Recipes that name it as a swap for something else, with what it replaces.
- Alcohol-Free Mulled Winein place of red grape juice (100%, unsweetened)
Swap it
Possible substitutions
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