17 Crown Royal Apple Drink Recipes + 30 Mixers

Love the warm apple flavor of Crown Apple and wonder what mixes well with it? Don't worry — we've got you. We, too, love Crown Royal Apple, and we've headed into our kitchens to mix up some delicious Crown Royal Apple drinks. And if you're more into making your own concoctions, we have that covered, too, with a long list of items that mix well with Crown Apple. 

Easy Crown Apple Drinks

If you want to make something fast and easy, these simple Crown Apple highballs only have a few ingredients and don't take a ton of technique, so they come together quickly.

Sparkling Cran-Apple

This light and fizzy drink is fast, easy, and super tasty.

Ingredients

• Ice
• 4 ounces cranberry juice
• 1½ ounces Crown Royal Apple
• Lemon-lime soda to top off

Instructions

1. Fill a highball glass with ice.
2. Add the cranberry juice and Crown Apple. Stir.
3. Top off with lemon-lime soda.

Apple Snap Highball

Part ginger snap, part apple juice, all delicious.

• Ice
• 2 ounces Crown Apple
• Ginger beer

Instructions

1. Fill a highball glass with ice.
2. Add the crown apple and ginger beer. Stir.

Apple Red-Hot

This one has a few more ingredients, but it's still easy (and yummy).

Ingredients

• Ice
• 1 ounce Crown Royal Apple
• 1 ounce Fireball
• Club soda

Instructions

1. Fill a highball glass with ice.
2. Add the Crown Royal Apple and Fireball. Stir.
3. Top off with club soda.

Apple Arnold Palmer

This is a refreshing twist on the traditional Arnold Palmer featuring Crown Royal Apple.

Ingredients

• Ice
• 2 ounces Crown Apple
• 3 ounces lemonade
• 3 ounces iced tea

Instructions

1. Fill a highball glass with ice.
2. Add the Crown Apple, lemonade, and iced tea.
3. Stir.

Crown Royal Apple Mixers for More Easy Drink Magic

Wondering what to mix with Crown Royal Apple? You can mix up so many tasty highballs using Crown Apple and one or more of these mixers. Just add ice and stir (or, in the case of hot drinks, just stir — skip the ice). 

• Cinnamon-flavored whiskey
• Apple cider or sparkling apple cider
• Flavored seltzer waters
• Pear cider
• Irish cream
• Cream soda
• Hard cider
• Caramel vodka
• Lemonade
• Limeade
• Pineapple juice
• Pomegranate juice
• Cola
• Schnapps
• Club soda
• Lemon-lime soda
• Ginger ale
• Ginger beer
• Sparkling wine
• Cranberry juice
• Port wine
• Sweet Madeira wine
• Sweet Oloroso Sherry
• RumChata
• Sangria
• Hot apple cider
• Mulled wine
• Iced tea
• Hot tea
• Coffee

Crown Apple Cocktails

If you have a little more time on your hands, a cocktail shaker, and a few more ingredients, these Crown Royal apple cocktails are full of apple-y goodness, we promise. 

Apple Pie Cocktail

Pie lovers, this is the drink for you. It's full of warm, spicy apple flavors that totally hit the spot when you have a pie craving.

Ingredients

• 1 ounce Apple Crown Royal
• ½ ounce RumChata
• ½ ounce cinnamon-flavored whiskey
• 1 ounce whipped cream-flavored vodka
• Ice
• Ground cinnamon and mint sprig for garnish

Instructions

1. In a cocktail shaker, add ice, Crown Royal, RumChata, cinnamon whiskey, and whipped cream vodka.
2. Shake to chill.
3. Strain into a rocks glass over fresh ice.
4. Garnish with cinnamon and mint sprig.

Related: 11 Alcoholic Apple Drink Recipes That Taste Like Fall

Apple Rosemary Julep

No need to wait for the Kentucky Derby to enjoy a julep — especially this one that's full of fresh fall flavors. Crown Apple and rosemary make such a good julep that you'll want to add them to your year-round rotation.

Ingredients

• 2 teaspoons superfine sugar
• 2 tablespoons fresh rosemary leaves
• 1½ ounces Crown Royal apple
• Ice
• 2 ounces soda water
• Apple slices and rosemary sprigs for garnish

Instructions

1. In a cocktail shaker, muddle sugar and rosemary.
2. Add ice and Crown Royal Apple.
3. Shake to chill.
4. Strain into a rocks glass over fresh ice.
5. Add soda water.
6. Stir lightly to mix.
7. Garnish with apple slices and rosemary sprigs.

Crown Canadian Appletini

Love a Washington red apple martini? Crown Apple makes an even apple-ier version, if you can believe it. If you can't? Tasting is believing.

Ingredients

• 2 ounces Crown Royal Apple
• 1 ounce red apple schnapps
• ½ ounce cranberry juice
• ¼ ounce freshly squeezed lemon juice
• Ice
• Lemon wedge for garnish

Instructions

1. Chill a martini glass or coupe.
2. In a cocktail shaker, add ice, Crown Royal Apple, red apple schnapps, cranberry juice, and lemon juice.
3. Shake to chill.
4. Strain into the chilled glass.
5. Garnish with a lemon wedge.

Apple Crown Old-Fashioned

We sure do love an old-fashioned. And we sure love this apple twist on one. 

Ingredients

• 1 teaspoon pure maple syrup
• 2 to 3 dashes cardamom bitters
• Splash of soda water
• 2 ounces Crown Royal Apple
• Ice
• Orange peel for garnish

Instructions

1. Combine the bitters and maple syrup in the bottom of a rocks glass.
2. Add ice and Crown Royal Apple.
3. Stir to mix.
4. Garnish with an apple slice.

Crown Apple Sour

We're all about new twists on old classics. In this case, it's sort of a new-fangled whisky sour. Yum.

Ingredients

• ¾ ounce freshly squeezed lemon juice
• ¾ ounce simple syrup
• 1½ ounces Crown Royal Apple
• Crushed ice
• Cherry for garnish

Instructions

1. In a cocktail shaker, add lemon juice, simple syrup, and Crown Royal Apple.
2. Add ice and shake to chill.
3. Strain into a rocks glass over crushed ice.
4. Garnish with a cherry.

Crown Apple Mint Julep

If you prefer your julep a little more on the minty side, try this tasty twist on the classic mint julep.

Ingredients

• 10 mint leaves
• 1 ounce simple syrup
• 2½ ounces Crown Royal Apple
• Crushed ice
• Mint sprig for garnish

Instructions

1. In a highball glass or julep cup, muddle mint leaves with simple syrup.
2. Pack glass with crushed ice.
3. Add Crown Royal Apple.
4. Stir to chill and frost the cup.
5. Add additional crushed ice to the top.
6. Garnish with a mint sprig.

Crown Royal Apple Manhattan

Add some apple to the Big Apple with this tasty twist on a Manhattan.

Ingredients

• 2 ounces Crown Royal Apple
• 1 ounce sweet vermouth
• 2 to 3 dashes cardamom bitters
• Ice
• Orange twist for garnish

Instructions

1. Chill a martini glass or coupe.
2. In a mixing glass, add ice, Crown Royal Apple, vermouth, and bitters.
3. Stir to chill.
4. Strain into the chilled glass.
5. Garnish with an orange twist.

Portuguese Apple Cocktail

This cocktail is another twist on the classic Manhattan, this time using tawny port in place of the vermouth.

Ingredients

• 2 ounces Crown Royal Apple
• 1 ounce tawny port
• 2 to 3 dashes cinnamon bitters
• Ice
• Orange twist for garnish

Instructions

1. Chill a martini glass or coupe.
2. In a cocktail shaker, add ice, Crown Royal Apple, port, and bitters.
3. Shake to chill.
4. Strain into the chilled glass.
5. Squeeze an orange peel over the cocktail to add a hint of citrus oil, then drop it into the drink for garnish.

Sazerapple

A Sazerac is a whole new, smoother cocktail when you replace the rye whiskey in it with Crown Royal Apple whisky.

Ingredients

• 1 demerara sugar cube
• 3 dashes Peychaud's bitters
• Splash of soda water
• 2 ounces Crown Royal Apple
• Ice
• Splash of absinthe
• Orange peel for garnish

Instructions

1. Chill a rocks glass.
2. In another rocks glass, muddle the sugar with bitters and soda water.
3. Add ice and Crown Royal Apple.
4. Stir to mix.
5. Swirl absinthe around the chilled glass, coating, then discard excess absinthe.
6. Strain the drink into the prepared glass.
7. Garnish with an orange peel.

Apple Tart

Cranberry and apple? Yes, please! This drink has a real fall spin, but we won't tell if you sip it in the summer. 

Ingredients

• 1½ ounces Crown Royal Apple
• 2 ounces tart cranberry juice
• ¼ ounce freshly squeezed lime juice
• ¼ ounce allspice dram
• Ice
• Lime wedge for garnish

Instructions

1. In a cocktail shaker, add ice, Crown Royal Apple, cranberry juice, lime juice, and allspice dram.
2. Shake to chill.
3. Strain into a rocks glass over fresh ice.
4. Garnish with a lime wedge.

The Queen's Apple

Consider this cocktail a fizzy upgrade from the regular whiskey and ginger highballs.

Ingredients

• 2 ounces Crown Royal Apple
• ½ ounce freshly squeezed lemon juice
• Ice
• 2 ounces prosecco
• Apple slice for garnish

Instructions

1. In a rocks glass, add ice, Crown Royal Apple, and lemon juice.
2. Stir to mix.
3. Top off with prosecco.
4. Garnish with an apple slice.

Tropical Apple Orchard

Apple is often missing in tropical cocktails, but it finally has a place to shine among tropical flavors.

Ingredients

• 1½ ounces Crown Royal Apple
• 1 ounce pineapple juice
• ¾ ounce orange liqueur
• ½ ounce maraschino liqueur
• ¼ ounce freshly squeezed lime juice
• Ice
• Orange slice and cherry for garnish

Instructions

1. In a cocktail shaker, add ice, Crown Royal Apple, pineapple juice, orange liqueur, maraschino liqueur, and lime juice.
2. Shake to chill.
3. Strain into a rocks glass over fresh ice.
4. Garnish with an orange slice and a cherry.

Pomapple on High

Tart and juicy pomegranate flavors give apple whisky a fresh new flavor.

Ingredients

• 1½ ounces Crown Royal Apple
• ¾ ounce pomegranate liqueur
• Ice
• Ginger ale to top off
• Lemon slice for garnish

Instructions

1. In a wine glass, add ice, Crown Royal Apple, and pomegranate liqueur.
2. Stir to mix.
3. Top off with ginger ale.
4. Garnish with a lemon slice.

Apple Whisky Goodness

Crown Royal's apple whisky is a delicious, smooth-flavored Canadian whisky that goes well in many cocktails. Whether you like it neat or combined with mixers, you're sure to enjoy its tasty, smooth, sweet flavors.