Ryan Burk – Passionate Head Cider Master at Angry Orchard

What cocktails with hard cider?

Anytime you see sparkling wine in a cocktail, you can replace it with cider. Take your favorite cocktail that has a sparkling white wine in it, take out the Prosecco and put in a dry sparkling cider, it's really going to compliment the drink.
There's a traditional cocktail in the US, maybe the first cocktail, called the Stone Fence. You would have cider, your choice of spirit, in most cases, rum or bourbon, a little bit of vermouth and some bitters. I’s very simple, equal parts and q dash of the bitters, and over a rock. I really liked that particular cocktail. It's hard to say which ciders. So, when I think about that kind of a drink, like a heavier, bigger, bolder drink, something that would have rum or bourbon in it, and some bitters, I suggest something that has bittersweet in it to kind of stand up to that. I probably pick, if I was looking at Angry Orchard’s line, that's available to everybody, our Unfiltered Cider. It is a really good cider to throw in the mix for that kind of a drink.