Brightest Young Things

Today President Obama will pardon a turkey from North Carolina, while most everyone else rushes out to the airport, train station, or highway. If you're sticking around for the holiday, and you've got some booze to use up, you can enjoy one of these cocktails. Given the nature of the holiday I wanted to do something using Wild Turkey, so here we go:

Wild Thanksgiving

• 1 oz apple jack (or Calvados)
• 1 oz Wild Turkey bourbon
• splashes of fresh lime juice (or Rose's)
• cranberry juice

Fill a highball glass with cranberry juice and add ingredients. Add ice and stir. Garnish with mint.

This cocktail has many flavors to it, apple, lime and cranberry. It's not exactly a complex drink, it's more like putting Thanksgiving in a blender and adding Wild Turkey. It gets the job done, though, and if you're the one cooking you should drink a few of these at the end of the day.

Happy Thanksgiving!