This honey bear cocktail is the perfect cocktail to sip on during those chilly fall evenings with friends on your porch or for entertaining those guests as they walk in the front door of your Thanksgiving day festivities. Made with a simple syrup of honey, sage, and orange, then combined with southern bourbon over ice, you will be sipping on a fresh, mellow, slightly sweet cocktail that everyone {including those honey bears!} will find perfect all fall long.
Oh man! I have a boozy doozy for ya today! This honey bear cocktail is a simple and refreshing cocktail that’s perfect for fall evenings {I mean….sage and honey….and bourbon. Now that’s what I call fall flavors!}.
You need to be careful with this one. I know I mentioned that it’s refreshing…{cuz it is} but you need to make sure that these sips aren’t going down too easy and fast {I am sitting here typing this post with one of these in my paws and I just wrote “hiney bear cocktail”. I am pretty sure you don’t want to make or drink one of those….whatever it is}.
So if there is anything in this post that you don’t understand… it’s not me…. it’s the cocktail. #SorryNotSorry
Honey Bear Cocktail
Ingredients
- 1 cup water
- 1/3 cup honey
- 3 TBSP granulated sugar
- 8 leaves sage plus more for garnish
- 1 orange cut into 8 halves
- bourbon
- apple cider
Instructions
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On high heat, combine the water, honey, sugar, 8 sage leaves, and 2 orange slices in a medium skillet. Allow to boil and then simmer for 2 -3 minutes (or until the honey and sugar have dissolved).
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Remove from heat and allow to cool to room temperature.
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Fill glasses (or mason jars!) with ice, a shot of your favorite bourbon, and then evenly pour the simple syrup you just made equally into 4 glasses.
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Top the glasses off with more sage leaves, an orange slice, and a splash of apple cider. Enjoy!
A southern girl with a bourbon recipe? Shocker 🙂 Another good one J.
Real shocker huh? Thanks for the love Derek! 🙂
This looks delicious in every way! Perfect drink for fall!!!!
Thanks dear! It’s my favorite in the fall 🙂
This sounds really good. I am definitely going to try this out for thanksgiving dinner.
yay! Let me know what you think of it after the holidays!
Ummm, not only does this cocktail look AMAZING (I’ll be giving this a try immediately!), but the photography is perfect! XO
Anna
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Hi Anna! Thank so much for all the love and compliments dear! xoxo