Cocktails with Green apple
Green apple is a tart, firm-fleshed apple variety, used for juice and muddled flesh.
Substitutes for Green apple
Any tart apple does the same job, and Granny Smith is simply the most consistent. Bottled apple juice with a squeeze of lemon covers the sweetness and gives up the sharpness. Sour apple liqueur brings the flavor, sugar and a green color that reads as candy.
Often confused with
Red eating apples
Sweeter, softer and much lower in acid, so they juice into something closer to sugar water; in a drink built on tartness they leave a hole.
Apple juice from a carton
Filtered, pasteurized and stable, tasting of cooked apple, and useful when the apple is structural, wrong when the drink wanted the sharp fresh press.
Storage
Refrigerated whole for a couple of weeks and firmer than a soft eating apple the whole time. Once cut, brush with lemon and use within the hour. A bag of apples ripens everything near it, so keep them away from herbs and leaves.
