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Summer is almost gone and as the days get shorter and the leaves begin to change, so do the cocktails we drink. Nothing goes better with warm knitted sweaters than fun fall-inspired cocktails, perfect for apple picking with friends or packing up for a boozy picnic with your significant other.

As the fall season begins, see below for a few of our favorite easy-to-make cocktail recipes featuring Smirnoff Ice Green Apple and Smirnoff Ice Raspberry that we guarantee you will enjoy.

Green Apple Smash (Serves 4)

Ingredients:

1 bottle Smirnoff Ice Green Apple

4 oz. ginger beer

4 oz. bourbon

Rosemary for garnish

Instructions:

In a cocktail mixer, combine Smirnoff Ice Green Apple, ginger beer and bourbon with Ice.

Shake

Fill a glass with crushed ice

Strain cocktail over ice

Garnish with a sprig of rosemary

Fall Sangria (Serves

Ingredients:

1 bottle Smirnoff Ice Raspberry

1/2 bottle crisp white wine

7 oz. Smirnoff No 21

18 oz. white grape juice

Apples, pears, oranges and raspberries for garnish

Instructions:

Pour Smirnoff Ice Raspberry, white wine, and Smirnoff No. 21 into a large pitcher

Stir

Stir in white grape juice

Top with slices of apples, pears, oranges and raspberries

Stir

Let sit in the fridge for 4-6 hours, stirring every hour

Football is back! To celebrate Crown Royal is launching its largest-ever responsible drinking campaign: The Water Break. The Water Break is a movement that encourages responsible game day consumption and reinforces the importance of drinking in moderation and hydrating between alcoholic beverages.

Crown Royal will support the fully integrated Water Break program with the following a nationally televised 30-second commercial set to air during the season opener that will continue to air during the first half of games throughout the entire season. This marks the second the second year Crown Royal will utilize football advertising to promote social responsibility.

There will be a full roster of football legends including Ed Reed, DeMarcus Ware and Brian Westbrook to support the program on social, through media interviews, and in-person deliveries of water to fans at select stadiums and bars. Westbrook kicks off the program tomorrow during the game in Philadelphia.

There will be distribution of tens of thousands of gallons of water in stadiums and bars and provide safe rides home to create a safer, more enjoyable game day. Integration of the movement into all team and stadium partnerships and its largest media investment to date dedicated to social responsibility, increasing its visibility from last season.

YES!!! You read that correctly! Celebrating the latest installment in the Predator film franchise, Reebok has partnered with 20th Century Fox and Extra Butter to produce a meticulously detailed cinematic collectible, dropping Friday, 9/14 on Reebok’s website.

Eerie iridescent soles conceal more than just Reebok’s patented DMX tech. Black out the lights to witness glow-in-the-dark graphics inspired by the film’s finale when water short-circuits the Predator’s operating system. A ghoulish ‘spine trophy’ souvenir hangs from the laces as a tribute to the original Predator film from 1987.

These shoes are legit and I am hoping I can cop a pair when they land in a few weeks.

This Labor Day weekend what are you bringing to the party? We at MANjr have some great ideas that your guests will love to try out. There is something for everybody. Please remember to enjoy responsibly! Which one will you make this weekend?

Maker’s 46 Pomegranate Smash

2 parts Maker’s 46 Bourbon

1 part POM Wonderful® Pomegranate Juice

½ part honey

½ part fresh squeezed lemon juice

Garnish with pomegranate seeds. Add all ingredients to a shaker filled with ice. Shake vigorously for 10 seconds. Pour over ice into a rocks glass.

Fancy Bourbon Punch

1 liter Maker’s Mark Bourbon

1 cup granulated sugar

Peels of 3 lemons and 1 orange

Juice of peeled fruit

1 liter of strong tea (preferably green tea)

250 ml champagne (club soda can be used for a less fancy version)

Freshly grated nutmeg*

Combine sugar and citrus peels in the bottom of a punch bowl. Muddle together until sugar starts to clump together. Let sit for about 2 hours, (while not necessary, this does add a little complexity). Brew the tea for about 30 minutes, remove loose tea or tea bags and allow to cool. Add the juice of the peeled fruit, tea and bourbon. Stir. Top with champagne just before serving and stir gently. Top with freshly grated nutmeg and serve.

*If you can’t grate fresh nutmeg, don’t use the prepackaged powdered stuff. It will turn your punch into a paste. If fresh isn’t possible, garnish with citrus wheels or fresh fruit.

Blueberry Cooler

2 parts Tres Agaves Blanco Tequila

1 part Tres Agaves Agave Nectar

12-15 blueberries

1 lime squeezed

1-2 parts filtered water

A couple sprigs of basil

Muddle blueberries and basil with Tres Agaves Tequila. Add remaining ingredients. Shake with ice and serve over fresh ice (Do not strain). Garnish with basil leaf float.

August Fling

1.5 parts Tres Agaves Reposado

5 parts Sangrita*

½ part Lime juice

Balance with grapefruit soda (squirt or Jarritos)

Build the drink in the glass by first putting the tequila in the glass, then add the sangrita mix and top off with grapefruit soda; stir ingredients together in highball glass and garnish with grapefruit wheel

Twisted Bocktail

1 ¼ parts Tres Agaves Reposado

¾ part Lemon

½ part Cointreau

½ part Simple Syrup

Hefeweisen

Combine all ingredients minus the beer; shake and strain into a highball. Top with beer and garnish with lemon.

Storm Chaser

2 parts espresso-infused Sugar Island Spiced Rum*

½ part ginger beer

½ part fresh lime juice

Candied ginger for garnish

Shake espresso or coffee-infused Sugar Island Spiced Rum and lime juice over ice and strain into a Collins glass. Top with ginger beer. Garnish with a lime wheel and candied ginger.

*Espresso-infused spiced rum: Mix ¼ cup of ground espresso or coffee with room temperature Sugar Island Spiced Rum. Let the mixture soak for 30 minutes. Strain and set aside.

Better-Than-A-Piña

2 parts Sugar Island Coconut Rum

1 part Coco Lopez

½ part fresh lime juice

Club soda

Shake coconut rum, coco lopez and lime juice; pour over crushed ice and top with club soda. Garnish with shaved coconut and lime twist in Collins glass.