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Hard apple cider sangria

By Layla Pujol 1 Comment

Fall apple cider sangria recipe made with hard apple cider, assorted fall/winter fruits (apples, pears, persimmon, figs, grapes, plums, oranges, pomegranate, and more), spiced ginger simple syrup, apple liqueur, sparkling wine and dry apple soda.

Hard apple cider sangria recipe

This hard apple cider sangria is a great pitcher drink for the upcoming holiday celebrations and for gatherings with friends. This cider sangria is made with an assortment of fall/winter fruits, from apples to persimmons, a spiced ginger simple syrup, Calvados or apple brandy, sparkling wine, and dry apple soda.

Fall fruit assortment

This sangria is a small tribute to Washington state, there’s been an increase in hard cider production in the state and I wanted to prepare a cocktail using local cider. Apples and pears are grown in Eastern Washington, and the pears I used for this recipe were a gift from a good friend’s family orchard in the Entiat Valley.

Hard apple cider sangria

 
I also recently discovered fruity dry sodas, which are sparkling soda like drinks made with few ingredients (including less sugar and using pure cane sugar), and it just happens that the company DRY Soda Co is a local Seattle company (no compensation has been provided to mention/use their product, I just really love it). They have an apple dry soda, which is perfect to top off this sparkling hard apple cider sangria. If you can’t find the apple dry soda, you can use sparkling apple juice or simply sparkling water if the sangria is sweet enough.

Preparing apple cider sangria

 
I made a very easy homemade ginger simple syrup to sweeten the sangria, if you don’t have time you can use regular simple syrup or honey. I used honey the first time I tested this drink and it works very well. You can add some cinnamon sticks and even some ginger if you like to the apple sangria mix while macerating the fruits – just make sure to remove the chunks of ginger before serving.

Hard cider sangria

I used a mix of apples, pears, persimmon, plums, figs, oranges, grapes, and pomegranate for this recipe, and you can use the assortment of fruits that you have available and that you like. I used tunas or prickly pears in my test version and I love the way they look in the drink, but they do have a lot of very hard seeds, so I left them out of the recipe. I also would have added cranberries, but they weren’t available when I made this back in October, but I will likely add some when I make this again for the holidays. Cheers!

Hard apple cider sangria preparation
Hard apple cider sangria

Hard apple cider sangria

Hard apple cider sangria recipe made with hard apple cider, assorted fall/winter fruits (apples, pears, persimmon, figs, grapes, plums, oranges, pomegranate, and more), spiced ginger simple syrup, apple liqueur, sparkling wine and dry apple soda.
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Course: Cocktails, Drinks
Cuisine: American, Fusion, Latin fusion, Spanish
Keyword: Apple cider, Calvados, Fall fruit sangria, Hard apple cider sangria, Sangria
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Macerating time: 30 minutes
Total Time: 45 minutes
Servings: 8 to 10

Ingredients

  • 2-3 cups of your choice of sliced assorted fall/winter fruit: apples pears, persimmon, fig, oranges, grapes, plums, pomegranate arils, cranberries, etc
  • ~½ cup of Calvados or apple liqueur/brandy adjust to taste
  • ½ cup ginger simple syrup – can also use regular simple syrup or honey, add more or less based on your preference
  • 3-4 cinnamon sticks – optional
  • 1 bottle 750-1000ml bottle of hard apple cider, chilled
  • 1 bottle 750 of sparkling wine, chilled
  • 10-15 ounces dry apple soda chilled – can also use sparkling water or sparkling apple juice

To garnish:

  • Fruit slices
  • Cinnamon sticks

Instructions

  • Place the sliced fruit in a large pitcher. Add the Calvados, ginger simple syrup, cinnamon sticks, and 1 cup of hard apple cider. Let the fruit, syrup and liqueur macerate for at least 30 minutes.
  • Add the rest of the apple cider and the sparkling wine, mix gently. Taste and adjust the amount of Calvados and sweet ginger syrup as needed.
  • Serve the sangria in individual glass and top with the sparkling apple soda.

Notes

For a non-alcoholic version, omit the Calvados and replace the hard cider with sparkling apple cider. The sparkling wine can be replaced with sparkling lemonade. Also, reduce the amount of simple syrup since those drinks are already quite sweet.
Apples, pears, persimmon, grapes, plums, pomegranates for cider sangria
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Fruit for hard apple cider sangria
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Step by step preparation photos for apple cider sangria

Fruit for sangria
Ingredients for hard apple cider sangria
Macerate the fruit with the Calvados or brandy, ginger simple syrup, and 1 cup of hard apple cider
Stir in the rest of the apple cider and sparkling wine right before serving.
Apple cider sangria
Hard apple cider sangria recipe
Apple cider sangria
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Filed Under: Apples, Christmas, Cocktails, Drinks, Europe, Fall, Fruits, Holidays, Latin America, Pacific Northwest, Pears, Pomegranate, Thanksgiving, Winter

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  1. Robyn says

    December 2, 2014 at 10:32 am

    Lovely, this is a must try. Looking forward to trying all your sangria recipes. Thank you!

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