A Dry Rabbit original

Harvest Hare

Name: Harvest Hare
Yield: 1 drink
Ingredients: 1½ oz (45 ml) NA whiskey alternative; 1 tbsp pumpkin purée, canned; ¾ oz (22.5 ml) fresh lemon juice; 2 tsp maple syrup; 1 pinch pumpkin pie spice

Pumpkin pie in a coupe, if pumpkin pie had backbone: spiced pumpkin, maple and lemon over a whiskey-style base.

Alcohol-free. Made with alcohol-free bottles that may carry up to 0.5% ABV.

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Make it

You’ll need

1½ oz (45 ml) NA whiskey alternative
1 tbsp pumpkin purée, canned
¾ oz (22.5 ml) fresh lemon juice
2 tsp maple syrup
1 pinch pumpkin pie spice

Garnish: Freshly grated nutmeg.

Method

Shake everything very hard with ice for 15 seconds, so the pumpkin turns silky.
Pour through a fine tea strainer into a chilled coupe, so no pumpkin fibers get through.

Swap. No NA whiskey? Use 1½ oz of strong, cooled black tea instead. It's 0.0% that way, and a little lighter.

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Order something like it

None on the menus we’ve checked yet.

Allergens and caffeine

No major allergens.
No caffeine as written; the black-tea swap has some caffeine.

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The bottles

Spiritless Kentucky 74Amazon

The tools

Cocktail Kingdom Koriko Weighted Shaking TinsAmazon
Fine mesh strainerAmazon
Cocktail Kingdom Koriko Hawthorne StrainerAmazon
Cocktail Kingdom Leopold JiggerAmazon
Hand citrus pressAmazon
Fine graterAmazon

The pantry

Pure maple syrupAmazon
Canned pumpkin puréeAmazon
Pumpkin pie spiceAmazon

From the store

Fresh lemon juice.

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How we checked it

Dry Rabbit originals are developed and checked with AI, against the 42 tested recipes in The Dry Rabbit Cocktail Guide: sweetness and acidity per ounce, sweet to sour, dilution and the drink’s size against drinks made the same way, every ingredient’s alcohol, and whether you can buy it. One that falls outside the book’s range is reworked before it’s published.

The check’s notes on Harvest Hare

A sour in the shape of the book's Velveteen, with pumpkin purée for body in place of a foam. Maple is 60 percent sweeter than simple syrup, so it's 2 tsp, not ½ oz: sweetness per ounce comes to 0.16 and sweet to sour to 0.81, both inside the book's shaken drinks (½ oz of maple measured 0.21, too sweet, and was cut). The long, hard shake and double strain keep the purée from feeling grainy. Canned pumpkin and pumpkin pie spice are at every supermarket in October; the NA whiskey is on the Bottle Shelf. Under 0.5%.

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