Looking for a refreshing Green Apple Mojito recipe to make at your next cocktail party?
Our quick & easy Apple Mojito is fun and refreshing. It’s best served on a hot day in the summer on a patio, backyard barbecue or cottage dock.
The homemade thirst-quenching drink features premium white rum, Calvados apple brandy, apple cider, lime, simple syrup, fresh mint leaves and green apples slices.
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Mojito History
Would you describe yourself as more of a traditional beer and wine drinker? Looking to get your feet wet in the homemade cocktail game?
The Mojito is a classic cocktail traditionally made with rum that originated in Cuba.
The traditional Cuban highball consists of 5 ingredients: white rum, cane sugar, lime juice, soda water and fresh mint.
The classic Caribbean cocktail offers a flavour profile featuring sweetness, citrus and herbaceousness. These flavours compliment the rum, making it one of the most popular refreshing summer drinks.
Havana is the birthplace of the Mojito, although its exact origins are up for debate. Cocktail historians often mention two potential origin stories for the drink.
Local South American Indians had remedies for various tropical illnesses, so a small boarding party went to Cuba and came back with ingredients for an effective medicine.
The ingredients were aguardiente de caña (translated as “burning water”, a crude form of rum made from sugar cane) mixed with local tropical ingredients: lime, sugarcane juice, and mint. The drink helped prevent scurvy.
Another theory is that it was invented by Sir Francis Drake. The “El Draque” cocktail was prepared with brandy. While this drink was not called a mojito at the time, it was the original combination of these ingredients.
The mojito has routinely been presented as a favourite drink of celebrated author Ernest Hemingway. It was also later popularized to a global audience in an award-winning James Bond film.
Creative mixologists at the word’s best cocktail bars have created their own takes on the classic mojito, adding additional flavours like berries and sliced green apple.
What Is A Green Apple Mojito?
The Granny Smith, also known as a green apple or sour apple, is an apple cultivar, which originated in Australia in 1868. It is named after Maria Ann Smith, who propagated the cultivar from a chance seedling.
The fruit is hard, firm and with a light green skin and crisp, juicy flesh. The flavour is tart and acidic. The US Apple Association reported in 2019 that the Granny Smith was the third most popular apple in the United States of America.
Granny Smith are also commonly eaten raw as table apples, and fresh slices offer a delicious crunch when added to homemade cocktails.
Our Apple Mojito recipe is the perfect rum drink to serve to Granny Smith fans!
We’ve packed each glass with loads of apple flavour, using apple cider, Calvados apple brandy and freshly sliced green apple slices.
These apple flavours are muddled with classic mojito ingredients like white rum, lime juice and mint to create a lip-smacking cocktail we know you’ll love!
Apple Mojito Cocktail Recipe Ingredients
This homemade Green Apple Mojito cocktail is made with fresh and quality ingredients:
- White Rum: we suggest using Bacardi Superior or another premium white rum.
- Fresh Apple Cider: purchase fresh apple cider from your local farmers market or grocery store.
- Lime Juice: only use freshly squeezed lime juice, you can taste the difference!
- Calvados: add additional apple flavour to your mojito by adding a few glugs of French apple brandy.
- Mint: you can purchase mint or harvest your own in an indoor edible garden.
- Simple Syrup: balances out the green apples tartness with desired sweetness.
- Green Apple: garnish the glass with slices of Granny Smith apple.
Green Apple Mojito Recipe Tips
This Green Apple Mojito recipe is easy to make at home, ready to serve in under 10 minutes.
We love serving this Apple Mojito on hot days in the summer at family barbecues, cottage happy hour and on a sun-soaked patio.
Before your guests arrive we suggest storing the rum bottle in your freezer so its ice cold when ready to stir up the drinks.
We’ve used fresh non-alcoholic cider in this mojito but you can substitute with British-style alcoholic cider like Strongbow for a strong drink that sparkles.
Our mojito recipe below is listed for one person. If you’re hosting a large gathering feel free to multiply the ingredients by the number of guests and muddle the drink in a punch bowl or jug rather than a cocktail shaker.
Serve the drink in a highball or collins glass with whole ice cubes. Garnish with a sprig of mint and Granny Smith apple slices.
Travel to Taste the World’s Best Rum
There’s no better way to declare yourself a Green Apple Mojito expert then by traveling the world to visit the best rum distilleries.
The world’s best rums are produced in the Caribbean and Latin America and can be divided into 3 styles based on the local language:
- English-Speaking: areas are known for darker rums with a fuller taste that retains a greater amount of molasses flavour and include Bahamas, Antigua, Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent & the Grenadines.
- French-Speaking: areas are best known for their agricultural rums, produced exclusively from sugar cane juice and include Haiti, Guadeloupe and Martinique.
- Spanish-Speaking: areas of the former Spanish Empire traditional produce añejo rums that are smooth in taste and include Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panama, the Philippines, Puerto Rico and Venezuela.
We’ve had the opportunity to visit rum distilleries on a road trip of Jamaica, on a tour of Havana and a museum experience in Puerto Rico with Bacardi.
Most rum distillery tours allow guests to see the raw sugar cane arrive into the production area, offer an explanation on the distilling process and finish with a tutored tasting. Some distilleries even have a cocktail bar where you can sip classic rum drinks like a daiquiri or Apple Mojito.
Best Selling Rum
Here are some of the world’s best selling rum brands, perfect for muddling into a refreshing Apple Mojito:
- Havana Club: is Cuba’s most famous rum brand, originally created in 1934. If you’re visiting Havana on holiday we highly suggest taking the Havana Club tour to learn more about the history of rum production on the island and evolution of the mojito.
- Bacardi: the world’s best selling rum was founded in 1862 in Cuba. The company moved to Puerto Rico due to the revolution and today tourists can visit the Cathedral of Rum in San Juan for the ultimate mojito experience.
- Appleton Estates: is a sugar estate and distillery in Jamaica that has been handcrafting rums since 1749. They produce a wide variety of aged rums, as well as standard gold and white rums.
- Captain Morgan: is a brand of flavoured rums named after the 17th-century Welsh privateer of the Caribbean, Sir Henry Morgan.
- Mount Gay: is a rum produced in Barbados, and dates back to 1703, making it the world’s oldest commercial rum distillery.
- Goslings: is a Bermuda-based brand famous for blending and distributing quality rum. Goslings Rum is famously the main ingredient in the Dark & Stormy cocktail.
- The Kraken: is a Caribbean black spiced rum named after the mythical squid-like sea monster. The premium rum product is produced in Trinidad and Tobago.
- Diplomatico: is a premium rum produced in the Andes Mountains in Venezuela.
- Lamb’s: first launched in 1849 and today is made with rums produced in Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana.
- El Dorado: is a premium rum produced in Guyana.
Best Bartender Tools & Cocktail Equipment
Before hosting a fun Green Apple Mojito soiree you’ll need to ensure you have the best bartender tools and cocktail equipment.
- Cocktail Kit: cocktail kits are the perfect gift for newbie mixology fans as they include basic bartender tools like a jigger, shaker and spoon.
- Cocktail Shaker: a bartender’s best friend. Purchase a premium cocktail shaker to muddle or shake up your favourite pink gin cocktails.
- Cocktail Glassware: make sure your bar is stocked with a selection of unique glassware to show off your favourite cocktail creations.
- Hawthorne Strainer: this unique strainer features tightly wound coils and perforated holes. It keeps ice and other large ingredients like lime wedges in your cocktail shaker rather than in the glass.
- Bar Spoons: slender and long bar spoons are a must-have when stirring drinks.
- Bottle Opener: easily open bottles of beer or cider with the flick of your wrist or purchase a corkscrew for fine wine.
- Pouring Spout: once you’ve opened a new bottle of gin insert these affordable pourers to make cocktail assembly a breeze.
- Cutting Board: purchase a petite cutting board for your bar to slice garnishes or citrus wedges like lime, orange, lemon or grapefruit.
- Ice Bucket: chill bottles of gin quickly in an ice bucket or keep by the bar when muddling gin mixers into cool creations.
- Ice Crusher: fans of the Mint Julep love an ice crusher.
- Ice Cube Kit: we suggest purchasing a selection of ice cube trays. Silicone styles are our favourite as they’re easy to clean and are available in various shapes and sizes.
- Jigger: use a jigger to accurately measure spirits, juices, syrups and shrubs.
- Juicer: invest in an electronic juicer or buy an affordable hand-held to easily juice fresh citrus like lemons and limes.
- Muddler: fans of the Mojito love a sturdy muddler to mix mint and lime. Muddler’s are handy for any cocktail featuring ingredients that need a pounding like fresh herbs or citrus wedges.
- Citrus Peeler & Zester: adorn your craft cocktails with a thick citrus peel or finer ribbons of lime or lemon zest.
- Rimmer: Bloody Mary and Caesar lovers should outfit their bar with a handy rimmer for salting and sugaring glassware.
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How To Make A Green Apple Mojito Cocktail
Green Apple Mojito Cocktail
Equipment
- Jigger
- Collins Glass
- Muddler
- Bar Spoon
Ingredients
- 10 Fresh Mint Leaves
- 1 oz Lime Juice
- 1 oz Simple Syrup
- 2 oz White Rum
- 1 oz Calvados Apple Brandy
- 2 oz Apple Cider Juice
- 1/4 Green Apple sliced
Instructions
- Place mint leaves and lime juice into a Collins glass. Use a muddler to crush and release mint oil into the lime juice.
- Add simple syrup, white rum, Calvados apple brandy and apple cider juice. Stir to combine with a bar spoon.
- Add apple slices, reserving one slice to garnish the glass. Fill glass with ice and stir with a bar spoon until combined.
- Garnish with a green apple slice and serve.
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