Cider is the New Champagne: Holiday Cider Cocktails
By FBWorld Team

This year, take holiday cocktails up a notch. Sonoma Cider - the award-winning brand in the exploding hard cider category, rapidly gaining a reputation for its certified organic ingredients and distinctive flavors - has developed some festive cocktails using their unique ciders.

The Hatchet's Bounty

Ingredients:
1.5 oz St. George Botanivore Gin
.5 oz Gran Gala Orange Liqueur
.5 oz Cranberry Simple Syrup
small pinch of Cinnamon
a nickel sized piece of Ginger
3 oz The Hatchet
1 Egg White
Sprinkle Nutmeg
Orange Zest

Procedures:
1. Whip egg white with mixer until it forms peaks. Set egg white aside while you finish the cocktail (don't let sit for too long-after a few minutes the egg will "break".

2. Muddle first 5 ingredients and then shake with ice for 15 seconds.

3. Strain into rocks glass.

4. Top with cider and fill with ice but leave 1/2_ room at top of glass.

5. Spoon stiff egg white over the top and dab with spoon to form little peaks.

6. Sprinkle nutmeg and zest orange to garnish.

Cran Master Sage

Ingredients:
1.5oz St. George Botanivore Gin
.75 oz Cranberry Simple Syrup
4 sage leaves
.5 oz Honey Syrup
1/4 Lemon
4oz The Hatchet

Procedures:
1. Muddle sage with all ingredients but cider.

2. Shake with ice for 15 seconds and strain into glass.

3. Top with 4 oz cider and then fill glass with ice.

4. Garnish with sage leaf and cranberries on a pick.

Snow Apple Cap

Ingredients:
1.5oz St. George Botanivore Gin
4 Sage Leaves (plus more for garnish)
.75 oz Honey Syrup
.75 oz Sweet Vermouth
small sprinkle of Cinnamon
3 oz The Hatchet
1 Egg White
Sprinkle of Nutmeg

Procedures:
1. Muddle sage with gin in a mixing glass.

2. Add honey syrup, sweet vermouth and a small pinch of cinnamon and then shake with ice for 15 seconds.

3. Strain into glass, add cider and then fill with ice leaving 1/2_.

4. Top with stiff egg white, sprinkle with nutmeg and garnish with sage leaves.