Cocktails with Apple juice
Apple juice is a non-alcoholic fruit juice pressed from crushed apples.
Taste profile
Fresh apple aroma leads, over a moderately sweet body with a low, soft tartness.
How it's used
It serves as a base or lengthener where its apple character defines the drink, or as a small splash for gentle sweetness and dilution; cloudy versions lend more body and haze than clear filtered juice. Purchased juice is often already sweetened or from concentrate.
Substitutes for Apple juice
The defining apple aroma is only reproduced by another apple product such as unfermented apple cider or apple nectar; for a small splash used mainly for sweetness, another mild pale juice or a little sugar syrup can stand in, though it will not read as apple.
Often confused with
Apple cider (unfermented)
In North American usage, apple cider typically means unfiltered, cloudy pressed apple juice, while apple juice denotes the filtered, clarified and pasteurised product; both are non-alcoholic and made the same way, differing mainly in filtration and clarity. Note that in British usage 'cider' instead means the fermented alcoholic drink.
