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Drinks & Cocktail Recipes

Ginger Apple Spritzer

Ingredients: 

4 oz hard sparkling cider
4 oz ginger beer
1 tsp VAIN Apple Brandy vanilla

Directions: 

Pour hard cider and ginger beer over a glass full of ice. As a final touch, add the teaspoon of VAIN vanilla. Don't stir!

VAIN Products Used: 
Mexican Vanilla in Apple Brandy

Ginger Apple Spritzer

Iced Coffee with Maple Vanilla

Ingredients: 

Iced Coffee Concentrate:

 

3 oz freshly ground (course grind) coffee beans

3-4 cups water

1 tsp VAIN Tahitian Vanilla Extracted in Cane Rum

2 tsp pure maple syrup

 

Directions: 

In a 1 quart glass jar, place the coffee grounds, vanilla, and maple syrup.  Add water to fill the jar.  Stir to combine.  Refrigerate the jar 18-24 hours.  Strain the liquid into another jar or bowl using a mesh strainer lined with cheese cloth.  press the grounds to release all the liquid and flavor.  

Dilute the concentrate over ice with water or milk for a latte to your desired strength.  A good starting place is 5 oz concentrate to 3 oz water or milk.  

VAIN Products Used: 
Tahitian Vanilla Extracted in Cane Rum

Iced Coffee with Maple Vanilla

Mint Julep

Ingredients: 

1 scant ounce minted simple syrup

2 cups crushed ice

2 ounces bourbon (such as Woodford Reserve)

1 tsp Mexican vanilla in Kentucky Bourbon

Fresh mint sprig, for garnish

Directions: 

To highball glass or silver Julep cup, add minted simple syrup, then 1 cup crushed ice, bourbon, VAIN vanilla, and splash of water. Add enough of remaining ice to almost fill glass. Stir well and garnish with mint sprig.

VAIN Products Used: 
Mexican Vanilla in Bourbon

Mint Julep

Spiced Rum and Cider Sangria

Ingredients: 

1/3 cup pure maple syrup

1/3 cup water

1 cinnamon stick

2 cloves

Pinch of grated nutmeg

1 Tbsp VAIN vanilla, Tanzanian vanilla in spiced rium

2½ cups chilled hard apple cider

1 cup chilled dark rum

1/2 cup pomegranate seeds

1/2 green apple, chopped

6 orange slices, halved

Directions: 

Bring the maple syrup and water to a boil in a small saucepan with the cinnamon stick, cloves, and nutmeg. Let cool; discard the cinnamon stick and cloves. Combine with hard apple cider, rum, pomegranate seeds, apple, VAIN vanilla and orange slices. Serve chilled.

Note: Can also use Sparkling Apple Cider for a refreshing less-alcoholic drink.

VAIN Products Used: 
Tanzanian Vanilla in Spiced Rum

Spiced Rum and Cider Sangria

VAIN & Stormy

Ingredients: 

2 oz dark rum

1/2 tsp VAIN Indonesian with Ginger Spirits OR Tahitian Rum Vanilla

wedge lime, squeeze

Ginger Beer, to rim

Directions: 

Add to glass in this order:

ice

liquor

lime and vanilla

beer

VAIN Products Used: 
Indonesian Vanilla Extracted in Ginger Spirits

VAIN & Stormy